Just in time for the start of baseball season, Apple has beefed up Siri's knowledge of baseball stats, scores, and trivia. Siri can now do things like tell you Babe Ruth's career batting average, the lineup of the 2008 World Series winning Phillies, or even who won the World Series in 1934. Siri has also learned how to do league-level queries from 29 different baseball leagues, ranging from the Cape Cod League to Nippon Pro Baseball. While Siri won't support player-specific data from these leagues, she will return scores from all of them. While not necessarily an essential update, these new features are a fun way to get celebrate the return of baseball.

Just in time for the start of baseball season, Apple has beefed up Siri's knowledge of baseball stats, scores, and trivia. Siri can now do things like tell you Babe Ruth's career batting average, the lineup of the 2008 World Series winning Phillies, or even who won the World Series in 1934. Siri has also learned how to do league-level queries from 29 different baseball leagues, ranging from the Cape Cod League to Nippon Pro Baseball. While Siri won't support player-specific data from these leagues, she will return scores from all of them. While not necessarily an essential update, these new features are a fun way to get celebrate the return of baseball.

Cloud application vendor Apttus is launching a new version of its quote-to-cash suite of applications that applies artificial intelligence from the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning service to help guide sales people to achieve higher performance. Launched today at the Microsoft Envision conference, the full suite of products is also notable for being available native on Azure as well as on the Salesforce platform. There are many customers, especially in Europe, that have no Salesforce presence and that really need quote-to-cash. Called the Apttus Intelligent Cloud, the new product applies artificial intelligence and deep learning technologies to discover and dynamically recommend actions that will help sales people increase the size and speed of deals. Apttus currently has six customers live with the new capabilities. Krappe says one early adopter expects to add between 1 and 2 percentage points to its total sales as a result of them improving the overall performance of its sales team.

The transformative power of technology is increasingly impacting all other industries. The impact of these new technologies promises to usher in a future with endless possibilities and new opportunities. Disruptive technologies, including the rise of robots and artificial intelligence, will result in a net loss of 5.1 million jobs by 2020 in 15 leading countries according to the World Economic Forum's latest The Future of Jobs report. And while the report stresses that these job losses will be offset by the creation of 2 million new jobs, it also acknowledges that women will suffer the most as many of their jobs are concentrated in areas that can be automated relatively easily, such as sales, office, administrative roles etc. Within the tech industry itself there has been little movement in the last year despite vows to address issues of #gender #diversity and women representation in leadership.

Automated systems have already reshaped modern warfare, most notably with the widespread use of drones in conflict. Now, experts predict that advances in artificial intelligence could further change how we fight battles. The new frontiers of warfare are not without ethical questions. Many have already challenged whether the United States should use unmanned drones to kill terrorists. In this poll ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, TIME asks key questions about how readers think artificial intelligence will change warfare.

Schools are on the front lines in coping with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). More school-age kids are getting diagnosed with it each year (more than one in 10, according to the most recent National Survey of Children's Health) and the classroom is where kids often have their biggest problems with impulse control and an inability to sit still and focus. Some kids take medicine to control these symptoms, but many do not. And so principals and teachers are tremendously interested in non-medical therapies they can use at school to help children. Fortunately, it's an exciting time in ADHD research, thanks to developments in neuroscience, and psychologists hope they will find new tools for schools.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked a lot about machine learning during his keynote at Microsoft Build 2016, but neither he nor the executives on stage covered how machine learning can drive security applications. But don't let its absence onstage fool you, as several of Microsoft's latest security moves rely on the company's machine learning investments. Take the Intelligent Security Graph, which Nadella announced last fall. Based on the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning technology, it collects "trillions of signals from billions of sources" to provide IT teams with real-time insights they can use to detect and respond to threats. At Build, Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and Devices Group in Microsoft, said Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection relies on the intelligent security graph, behavioral sensors, cloud-based security analytics, and threat intelligence to protect Windows devices.

If you have seen "careers" and "artificial intelligence" in the same sentence, it's likely because there is yet another article wondering whether certain jobs will soon be done faster and more reliably by an intelligent algorithm. Employers who hire UX professionals needn't worry about their staff being replaced by programmed intelligence any time in the near future. UX jobs are anything but routine, and they involve a high level of creativity. Creativity plus the lack of routine is where UX job security lies. Even if UX jobs aren't disappearing, however, AI will very likely have an impact on UX careers – in fact, employers should expect to soon be adding artificial intelligence (AI) and bot-related skills and experiences to job reqs.

AI is a hot topic; speculation, theory and research on the potential future of machine learning and artificial intelligence is running wild. People's understanding of AI ranges from comfort and confidence to anxiety and even panic. The potential for a truly life changing and world changing future is within reach, and not just in an industrial context, where limited artificial intelligence is used more and more each day. Many mundane systems we use and see around us are equipped with machine intelligence of a limited function. Our cars optimally prevent the locking of our brakes better than we could.

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