With all the talk surrounding AI it can be easy to forget that this is still a human driven endeavor. People are behind all of the progress that has been made and are still (for now) doing all of the leg work. So to get some idea of where it is going it is probably best to listen to those driving it forward. Here are some of the most influential figures in the field and their takes on where machine learning will go. For a long time Geoffrey Hinton toiled away in relative obscurity developing his machine learning algorithms.

Over the next four days, CES 2017 will be a gold mine for the hospitality industry, said Shawn DuBravac, chief economist of the Consumer Technology Association. "Hotels are one of the areas I think most ripe for innovation and for change," he said. "You have long-lived capital assets, hotels that last 50-60 years, but technology that's changing rapidly every single year." Wynn Las Vegas set the tone last month for the types of technology trends the industry might see going forward by announcing that all 4,748 guest rooms at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore will be equipped with Amazon Echo -- Amazon's artificial intelligence device -- by this summer. Speaking Wednesday on CES 2017 tech trends to a packed room of about 500 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, DuBravac said voice recognition and artificial intelligence will be a a recurring theme on the show floor.

Apple would be joining other technology companies in the group, including Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Although an announcement is expected as soon as this week, neither Apple nor the partnership has issued any official comment on the move. In some ways, joining the consortium would be a logical step for the company. Apple has become a major player in AI technology in recent years with the development of Siri, its natural language personal assistant. On the other hand, Apple is famous for the secrecy it maintains surrounding its major initiatives, including AI. Until recently, Apple researchers working on AI were even discouraged from publishing their findings.

Japanese scientists will use artificial intelligence to diagnose cancerous diseases and choose necessary treatment of cancer. Institute of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research in cooperation with FRONTEO Healthcare Company develop a system of precise treatment of cancer. The technology is said to be based on the structure of artificial intelligence. The technology is expected to work on the basis of genetic analysis of each patient. Artificial intelligence will be used to analyze symptoms, peculiarities and characteristics to select appropriate scientific works.

There was a time when every neighbourhood bank in North America and Europe was acquired by or merged with a larger institution. By 2000, global mega-banks offered fewer choices to consumers looking for competitive interest rates and other services. But the too big to fail banks are now facing competition in the form of a resurgence of customer-friendly, local banks. There is an even bigger challenge: Technology companies have been applying for financial licences that would allow them to enter the digital payments space. As traditional banks grapple with the challenges posed by fintech, legacy constraints and traditional operational models, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as the saviour.

Sky and Discovery have reached a last-minute deal to keep the likes of Animal Planet and Eurosport on Sky TV. However, they unexpectedly reached an agreement shortly before the 31 January deadline passed, meaning Sky customers still have access to Animal Planet, Discovery HD, Discovery History, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Science, Discovery Shed, Discovery Turbo, DMAX, Eurosport1, Eurosport2, Investigation Discovery, Quest and TLC. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London ...

Linear Regression is one of the oldest and the simplest technique that is still used heavily till date. Lets see what is linear regression? If you observe carefully it is an equation of a line with slope'W' and intercept'B'. In simple linear regression there is a single predictor variable and a response variable. In multiple linear regression the input has multiple predictor variables and a response variable.

Home Depot uses it to show which bathtubs in its huge inventory will fit someone's oddly shaped bathroom. Apple uses it to present customers with relevant apps from the app store. Intuit uses it to display the right help page when a user is filling out a particular tax form. And organizations are turning to it in droves to differentiate and innovate their offerings. In a recent interview, Gartner Fellow and Vice President Tom Austin noted that about half of large enterprises are experimenting with "smart computing" projects.

Countries around the world are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) for various purposes. Use of AI for gaming industry is one of them. Although use of botnet and AI are banned from websites providing online poker services, yet AI can be used to test its effectiveness and usage in poker and other games. It is obvious that use of botnet and AI would amount to taking undue and unfair advantage over others and it would amount to cheating. Thus, AI and botnet are prohibited from playing or using online poker websites and online fantasy sports. In one such incidence, AI has beaten four human players in a poker marathon match lasting 20 days, winning more than USD 1.5 millions worth of chips.

Companies looking to develop a full-fledged artificial intelligence solution have to focus on many different subfields. One of those fields is called deep learning, which is similar to machine learning up to a certain extend. However, deep learning is based on a set of algorithms which attempt to model abstractions found in data. A very complex part of developing AI, but one that is well worth exploring. The entire concept of machine learning is far more complex than people give it credit for.