The investment round is comprised of angel investors as well as full board and founder participation. The funding will allow DimensionalMechanics to accelerate platform development and expand its diverse team of AI experts, engineers, mathematicians, physicists and others. DimensionalMechanics is on track to release an MVP version of its core platform, NeoPulse, in the fourth quarter of 2016. Still in early stages of development, NeoPulse is an extensible cloud platform that will enable developers to build limitless applications. The agnostic platform will work across systems and devices, allowing users to integrate AI capabilities without restructuring existing software stacks and workflows.

A chatbot developed by Microsoft has gone rogue on Twitter, swearing and making racist remarks and inflammatory political statements. The experimental AI, which learns from conversations, was designed to interact with 18-24-year-olds. Just 24 hours after artificial intelligence Tay was unleashed, Microsoft appeared to be editing some of its more inflammatory comments. The software firm said it was "making some adjustments". "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. As it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it. We're making some adjustments to Tay," the firm said in a statement.

These 14 robots receive their train thanks to convolutional neural networks, and they share their knowledge with their fellows.

Tom Popomaronis is the founder and CEO of OpiaTalk. Have you tried the Quartz News app, yet? Imagine a text conversation with a bot that sends you a news topic. You're then presented with two choices: Either tap a string of relevant (and surprisingly entertaining) emojis, which is like pressing "learn more," or tap an "anything else?" button to have another topic served: If you opt for the emojis, the app sends 1-3 follow-on texts that provide a high-level summary of the story and link to the article. If you're lucky, you'll even see a pertinent and entertaining gif in the mix for added value. When it comes to news apps in general, I like to scroll through a daily aggregator feed I've personalized to my liking; I usually don't want someone else telling me which news stories to pay attention to -- especially not one at a time.

This is not Microsoft's first teen-girl chatbot either - they have already launched Xiaoice, a girly assistant or "girlfriend" reportedly used by 20m people, particularly men, on Chinese social networks WeChat and Weibo. Xiaoice is supposed to "banter" and gives dating advice to many lonely hearts. Microsoft has come under fire recently for sexism, when they hired women wearing very little clothing which was said to resemble'schoolgirl' outfits at the company's official game developer party, so they probably want to avoid another sexism scandal.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Online shopping and purchases are expected to rise by 78 percent this year as aggressive marketing of merchandise have risen higher than ever, a report says. "Unfazed by the slowdown, average online purchases are expected to increase by 78 percent in 2016 from 66 percent in 2015 due to attractive deals and aggressive marketing of an ever-expanding range of merchandise from clothes to jewellery, from electronics to books," said the Assocham-PwC report. With the growth of e-commerce sector, the possibilities and options for simplicity are what can bring multiple variations regardless of the prices floating in the online market. Searchub Inc., considering the prospect of the e-commerce and online shopping market developed a platform called Searchub that uses machine learning algorithms to offer users a truly personalized shopping experience. Connecting retailers with the customers through recommendation and big data, the platform performs search and displays result according to the user's taste, style and their social profile.

As major technology companies in the world are moving towards enhancing their research on machine learning and ramping up its application at various level increases, Google announced at a recent "GCPNEXT16," a Google Cloud Platform Global User Conference, that it is making a new machine learning platform available to developers. Google believes that the machine learning is "what's next," TechCrunch reported. The search giant uses Google Cloud Machine Learning in various applications, namely Photos (image search), the Google app (voice search), Translate, and Inbox (Smart Reply). It noted that the platform is available "as a cloud service to bring unmatched scale and speed" business applications, the company said on the product's official page. This Google platform will help developers "build accurate, large scale machine learning models in a short amount of time," the website noted.

Speaking at Google Cloud Platform in San Francisco, the chairman of Alphabet and former Google CEO highlighted artificial intelligence as the "next evolution" in computing. This will will spur the creation of new apps and services, he said. "Machine learning and crowdsourcing data will be the basis and fundamentals of every successful, huge IPO win in five years, in the same sense that the transition to [mobile] apps five years ago created the modern corporations of Uber, SnapChat and others." Schmidt highlighted Google AlphaGo - which defeated Go champion Lee Sedol last week - as an example of the power of artificial intelligence. See also: Google DeepMind: What is it, how does it work and should you be scared? He also cited Google's Photos image search software as a practical example of how machine learning can be applied to create new products and services when applied to large crowd-sourced datasets.

Following in the wake of the recent trouncing of humans by artificial intelligence platform AlphaGo, Google has announced the launch of a cloud-based machine learning platform. The search giant's new large-scale platform will be able to learn and make predictions'across a whole variety of scenarios', and is reminiscent of the fictional Skynet service from Terminator. A limited preview of the service is now available for users to build their own machine-learning models'that work on any type of data, of any size'. Following in the wake of the recent trouncing of humans by artificial intelligence platform AlphaGo, Google has announced the launch of a cloud-based machine learning platform. The search giant's new large-scale platform will be able to learn and make predictions'across a whole variety of scenarios' A limited preview of the service is now available for users to build their own machine-learning models'that work on any type of data, of any size'.