In a conversation at the Structured Data conference in San Francisco (see the video below), senior fellow Jeff Dean says that his Google Brain team is trying to apply research from a 2014 paper to the real world. "We're working with translation team to see if we can scale this up to the production Translate product," he says. "I think we'll have some good results coming down the pipe there." He later told VentureBeat that the app may be updated to lean more on neural networks rather than the statistical translation and crowd-sourcing algorithms currently used. Expect to see other product categories enhanced or completely changed by artificial intelligence in the near future.

It is in line with the company's ambitions, as its President Zhang Yaqin has said artificial intelligence is the foundation to empower traditional industries and make them smart. He told China Daily, "Baidu has made some world-class achievements in the key subfields of artificial intelligence, such as image recognition, voice recognition, machine translation and self-driving cars."

Artificial intelligence is getting bigger and smarter right here in Seattle. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a sister company to Paul Allen's Institute for Brain Science, plans to hire 25 people in the next year as it prepares to take its Aristo technology to the eighth grade, moving on from teaching it fourth-grade science. The company plans to take over about 6,000 additional square feet of space in its headquarters on North Northlake Way near Gas Works Park and grow its employee ranks, said CEO Oren Etzioni. Etzioni leads the small team of 50 with Chief Operating Officer James Allard, and the executives are preparing for a hiring binge. Artificial intelligence has been all over the news lately, and this time not solely over fears that machines may eliminate people's jobs.

On Thursday, Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash revealed what he calls Wealthfront 3.0, the latest version of the automated investment advisor built for increased artificial intelligence and the integration of modern application program interfaces (APIs). Nash believes AI could have an even bigger impact on the financial services industry than automated advice. On the Wealthfront blog, Nash said the "entire fabric of the financial system will be rethought, redefined and rewired," and he says the time to start preparing for that future is now. "We are entering the realm of building our platform for the future," Nash told WealthManagement.com. "[We have] a huge opportunity to deliver financial advice that's deeply personalized and relevant while getting a platform in place for AI's increasing role."

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Microsoft unveiled a slew of new products at its Build 2016 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. They offered cues about the emerging technologies healthcare CIOs and IT professionals should be keeping an eye on right now: artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and what CEO Satya Nadella called conversational intelligence. "Conversations as-a-platform is a simple concept yet very powerful in impact," Nadella said. The unveiling of Microsoft's new conversational intelligence tool comes close on the heels of Google's GCP Next confab this past week, where the search giant revealed its Cloud Machine Learning family of hosted applications. The software giant rechristened its Cortana Analytics Suite as the Cortana Intelligence Suite to deliver "the power of Big Data, Cloud and Intelligence to build the next generation of intelligent solutions, whether it is to reinvent healthcare, transform transportation or revolutionize retail," Microsoft's data group's corporate vice president Joseph Sirosh wrote on the company's site.

In February, Microsoft Corp. Vice President Derrick Connell visited the Bing search team in Hyderabad, India, to oversee a Monday morning hackathon. The goal was to build bots--artificial intelligence programs that chat with users to automate things like shopping and customer service. Connell's boss, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, thinks they're the next big thing, a successor to apps. The Bing team was so excited they showed up Sunday night to throw a party and brought their spouses and kids. There was even the Indian version of a piñata.

It isn't often that Microsoft is the company that beats Apple and Google to the punch, especially when it comes to something as cool and sophisticated as virtual assistants but, with Cortana, Redmond has done just that. The presentation that Microsoft gave at Build 2016, the company's annual conference in which it explains where it's at and what it's doing, focused on'bots', artificial intelligence, and improving services like Cortana. Siri, the virtual assistant that Apple launched alongside the iPhone 4S, and Google Now, the assistant embedded in most new Android phones, are rapidly being outpaced by Microsoft's assistant, which is available on smartphones, tablets, and PCs. This may not seem like a radical difference, but it does mean that Cortana is well-placed to dominate in an area that Microsoft thrives in – the enterprise. Embedding Cortana into the mindset of businesses is important and, thanks to the rapid uptake of Windows 10, possible.

When we launched Wealthfront in December 2011, the idea behind our first generation service was simple: take the best practices of investment management like diversification, rebalancing, dividend reinvestment and tax-loss harvesting, and automate them so investors could get these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of the traditional industry. The advent of low-cost ETFs and the relentlessly improving economics of consumer software made Wealthfront 1.0 possible. In December 2013, we launched Wealthfront 2.0. Our second generation service built a series of high value-added services that previously were only available to the wealthy, and layered them on top of our basic service. These innovative services include our Direct Indexing Platform, Single-Stock Diversification Service, and Automated Tax-Minimized Brokerage Transfers.

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