Large IoT systems usually have more than one job and need to work with other systems to be effective. Simplifying all this is one of the main things enterprise IoT platforms are designed to do. But it's a moving target, so vendors need to keep adding new capabilities to their platforms. On Tuesday, Nokia announced updates to its Impact software platform to cover IoT applications including lighting, video analytics and parking management. There are also updates to accommodate new low-power networks.

Every day for the last 20 days, between the hours of 11am and about 10pm, four of the world's top poker players have been sitting in a Pittsburgh casino playing against a software robot called Libratus. With only a few hours of the Brains vs Artifical Intelligence competition left, Libratus has won more than $1.5m worth of chips from the humans. It would take a miracle for the human players, Dong Kim, Jason Les, Jimmy Chou and Daniel McCauley – all specialists in no-limit Texas Hold'em, a two-player unlimited bid form of poker – to make a comeback. Machines have already become smart enough to beat humans at other games such as chess and Go, but poker is more difficult because it's a game with imperfect information. With chess and Go, each player can see the entire board, but with poker, players don't get to see each other's hands.

Natural language processing technologies, which are the basis for sentiment analysis of social media platforms and are deployed in some search engine results, can recognize the intended meanings of terms despite different spellings, diction, connotations, and languages, making integration and analytics efforts more comprehensive. These cognitive computing capabilities are responsible for the parsing of unparalleled quantities of big data in integration and analytics efforts in the healthcare space, facilitating advancements in research and treatment options and testing optimization and enhancing master data management. These capabilities can also incorporate real-time geospatial, weather, news, and industry-specific data to influence marketing, sales, and investment opportunities in any number of verticals. Significantly, natural language processing can also provide explanations for analytics results and recommendations, effectively qualifying quantitative facts.

NeuroCAP will be cheaper and more convenient for doctors, as well as more comfortable for their patients. We also just released a child-themed EEG cap, so young patients see a silly hat instead of a scary brain-scanning machine.) We do not compete with other EEG manufacturers, and don't plan to. Older-generation EEG-devices are ill-adapted for these markets; they also require trained neurologists to interpret the results and reach a diagnosis. But now, the advent of cloud storage, big data, microelectronics and wireless technology allows us to expand EEG's horizons.

With the advent of photography, a tiny fraction of 19th-century scientists believed they could develop methods of accurately identifying criminals by their facial features. While their hypotheses were eventually discredited, new artificial intelligence technology suggests their claims might've been valid after all. Xiaolin Wu and Xi Zhang from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have resurrected this facial recognition tradition and built a neural network that can supposedly pick out criminals by simply looking at their faces. Gary Vaynerchuk was so impressed with TNW Conference 2016 he paused mid-talk to applaud us. To accomplish this, the researchers used an array of machine-vision algorithms to examine a series of facial juxtapositions between photos of criminals and non-criminals with the goal of finding out whether a neural network can reliably tell them apart.

We are hardwired for judgment. Our paths up from the primordial soup have imbued in us the spirit of quick conclusions, especially when it comes to one another. As Harvard Business School psychologist Amy Cuddy puts it, we size each other up along two key questions: Can I respect this person? Can I trust this person? And the old adage about first impressions checks out -- we're prone to answer these two questions quickly upon first meeting, and our initial answers can prove hard to shake.

"Investment in AI to grow by 300 per cent in 2017, from an estimated $8 billion last year." The technology -- Artificial Intelligence has long been aiming at imitating human intelligence, which now seems to be paying heed to human patterns and behaviours. Last year, Artificial Intelligence broke loose from the restrictions of research labs to alter the way we live, communicate and run our businesses. By employing predictive and prescriptive methods, AI can detect loopholes and suggest relevant solutions to issues. Last year, we saw the spirit of accepting the growing influence of smart & intelligent machines by various major companies, thought leaders and academicians while this year would be the year of integration in real-time.

We pick the cell size to be bounded by (r)/( (n)), so that each grid cell will contain at most one sample, and thus the grid can be implemented as a simple n-dimensional array of integers: the default 1 indicates no sample, a non-negative integer gives the index of the sample located in a cell. Step 1. Select the initial sample, x0, randomly chosen uniformly from the domain.

Whilst we may trust Netflix to serve us the content we want, or for Google Maps to predict our routes, or for Spotify to recommend us some songs we may like, when we get to work we revert to manual processes and guesswork." They've been using their crowdsourced – but anonymized – data to provide predictive analytics on their AI platform for more than a decade. I'm not that impressed with predictive at darlings Netflix and Spotify. Meanwhile, some enterprises are getting better at predictive. But what Elkinson says rings true. Consumer tech is forcing the issue (miss you, Alexa, I'll be home soon!). Elkington's got a terrific BS detector for AI blowharding. Barb takes AI in a different but equally exposed direction in The value AI brings to marketing. She argues that AI is set to transform marketing – and marketing isn't ready. Demandware's survey found a monster gap between the impact of AI on marketing and what marketers are skilled to handle. Barb talked to Demandware about the story behind the numbers. One key point: the ability to differentiate on the data science and/or algorithms looks to be fleeting – and will last only until tools either commoditize or become mature. The real differentiator, says Barb, will be the data itself – and that data is hard to come by. As she says: "Whoever can get the most and right data is going to win." Yup – I would only add: "Whoever gets the most opt-in data…" It's about your community willingly sharing data for value. If you get that data at the flea market, or through terms of service smoke/mirrors, you're going to lose that edge – as soon as customers figure out you're just another data panhandler shilling their vitals. Jon's grab bag – Stuart wants to know if the UK government is leaving it to Microsoft to handle the digital skllls crisis. When you see "We have painted ourselves into a corner," and "We are what we are," you know Stuart isn't exactly thrilled. Michelle Swan makes her diginomica debut writing about a professional services firm (in the Salesforce ecosystem) that keeps employee turnover to five percent using the weirdest, wackiest metric you could ever think of: employee happiness. It's also about using data to intervene – in a good way – before things go too far down the ol' crudder. Get your media fix with Stuart's The BBC – wanting to be Netflix? I'm with Stuart: don't try too hard to be Netflix. Netflix isn't exactly the master of great original programming either – from that standpoint they are a sub-par HBO. Finally, welcome ServiceNow to diginomica – good timing given the "servitization" of darned near everything. More somber, Ryan Avent's The Wealth of Humans describes the current era of automation and it's threat to human-labor, kicking up a vision of future thick with a jobless miasma."

All businesses need to have a tracking & feedback mechanism to measure their progress and make iterations when and where required. Now when firms are investing in digital marketing, analytics is one of the first steps they focus on, to measure the ROI. At the same time, Digital Marketing Stats 2015 by research firm Smartinsights mentions that "63% of companies did not agree with the statement'we have a good infrastructure in place to collect the data we need'". The right analytics tracking set up can help you gather meaningful data. When we think of analytics softwares, it is less likely that our minds would give Google Analytics a skip, given its unbeatable popularity.