Accordingly, attendees at the upcoming 20th Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York, June 6-8, 2017, will find fresh new content in a new track called FinTech, which will incorporate machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and blockchain into one track. Financial enterprises in New York City, London, Singapore, and other world financial capitals are embracing a new generation of smart, automated FinTech that eliminates many cumbersome, slow, and expensive intermediate processes from their businesses. FinTech brings efficiency as well as the ability to deliver new services and a much improved customer experience throughout the global financial services industry. FinTech is a natural fit with cloud computing, as new services are quickly developed, deployed, and scaled on public, private, and hybrid clouds. More than US$20 billion in venture capital is being invested in FinTech this year.

There's a harsh reality we need to face--a robotic, AI-driven Shakespeare is nowhere in sight. No robot will write verse that influences English the way Bard's did anytime soon. You won't find an AI spitting rhymes like Rakim or Nas, either. But if your standards aren't too high, there is some AI-constructed poetry you can read today. Take an AI that uses the recurrent neural network language model technique, feed it thousands of romantic novels to learn language from, give it a starting sentence and an ending sentence, instruct it to fill the gap between them, and you'll get something like this: This AI, designed by Google, Stanford University, and the University of Massachusetts, isn't supposed to be the world's first artificial poet--it's just a side effect. But if you keep in mind that the AI generated all of the sentences except the first and last on its own, it's impressive that they all make sense and have a common theme.

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To learn to drive like a human, driverless cars will require massive amounts of data, programming, and computing power. According to a new report from KPMG, deep learning and other machine learning technologies could significantly change the automotive and transportation industries. By 2030, these advances could be worth $1 trillion. In the report, titled, "I see. To allow it to turn right after red? Except in New York where it is always illegal? Or where it is specifically forbidden? What if there is a pedestrian in the crossing? What if someone breaks the law and runs the red light in front of you? What if a bicycle comes speeding past you in the wrong direction?"

During Microsoft's Build Conference earlier this year, CEO Satya Nadella delivered the three-hour keynote address, in which he highlighted his belief that the future of technology lies in human language. In this new wave of technology, conversation is the new interface, and "bots are the new apps." While not as flashy as virtual reality nor as immediately practical as 3D printing, chatbots are nevertheless gaining major traction this year, with support coming from across the entire tech industry. The big tech enterprises are all entering the chatbot space, and many startups are too. The question is, why is so much attention being given to chatbots recently, and should your business be paying attention too?

From Google search results to Netflix recommendations and investment strategies, Bayes Theorem (also often called Bayes Rule or Bayes Formula) is used across countless industries to help calculate and assess probability. Bayesian statistics is taught in most first-year statistics classes across the nation, but there is one major problem that many students (and others who are interested in the theorem) face. The theorem is not intuitive for most people, and understanding how it works can be a challenge, especially because it is often taught without visual aids. In this guide, we unpack the various components of the theorem and provide a basic overview of how it works – and with illustrations to help. Three scenarios – the flu, breathalyzer tests, and peacekeeping – are used throughout the booklet to teach how problems involving Bayes Theorem can be approached and solved.

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