What if you could hire Google as an employee--or even your Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)? Though artificial intelligence (AI) is in its early phases, the real allure is not that it could, someday, be just like a human being, but that it could be more than a human. After all, even the smartest person in your company doesn't have the wealth of information that Google does, all available in a microsecond. While humankind will likely never reach the speed or accuracy of AI in performing certain tasks, employees of the future will need to function in similar ways. They will need to pull from a broad range of knowledge to find the right answers, deliver results quickly, offer a variety of solutions to a single problem, be adaptable, consider the whole market or subject before offering a suggestion, and be consistent in their performance. Is this too much to ask?

WiFi company Zenreach is used to winning at least 60% of the time when it goes head to head with competitors. But when the 150-person startup went back and studied the conversations its sales reps were having with prospects, CEO Jack Abraham was confronted with a challenger beating his team 3 times out of 4. "We hadn't even considered them a competitor," says Abraham. "But when you can scan through all the instances a competitor is mentioned, it's easy to scan through what you're missing." The Zenreach sales team got that wakeup call courtesy of a new technology that launched on Tuesday called TalkIQ. Incubated out of Abraham's venture fund Atomic, TalkIQ is coming out of the gate with $7 million in initial funding from name-brand investors and speech recognition software for sales, customer service and onboarding that the startup claims is 2x better than IBM Watson and 3x better than Google. TalkIQ formed more than a year ago along the premise that if someone (or a machine) were to study every call made in a company, she (or it) could uncover patterns and insights to make the business run better--especially if you accept, as TalkIQ did, research that suggests that as much as 68% of customer interactions with company contact centers still happen by phone.

This year, before the doors of the the Los Angeles Auto Show open to the public, the show held Automobility, an automotive tech showcase. As our cars become more like two-ton devices that we drive, auto shows are having to adjust their focus to include apps, AI, connected cars, and more. Here are a few of the most innovative tech stories from LA. Hyundai offered Blue Link, an app that allowed owners to unlock and start their cars via smartphone, in 2011. The second generation of Blue Link rolled out in 2014, adding smart watches to the app's repertoire. Now the service works with Amazon's Alexa in-home AI device.

It will not, if there is any certainty left in the world, top the charts this Christmas. But what it lacks in party hit potential, it more than makes up for with its unique, if vaguely unsettling, brand of festive cheer. To be fair, humans had very little hand in penning the song. Instead, scientists fed a Christmassy photograph into a computer and let it do its thing. A program analysed the image, whipped up some relevant lyrics, and then sang them to music it had composed along the way.

This summer, Riva-Melissa Tez was searching online for research that might help her father. He'd gone into a coma after suffering a stroke, and she wondered what the latest recommendations said--whether playing music to him in his native language could keep him connected to this world, or if giving him Prozac could boost his chances of recovery as it had done for mice in a study last year. Doctors are so busy saving lives, she thought, that they couldn't possibly keep up with all the papers published every day. Her concern is shared by doctors, who wonder what they could be missing in the 2.5 million scientific papers published every year. Popular sites like MedCalc and UptoDate are useful tools for doctors to consult diagnostic criteria and double check on treatment guidelines.

Ask the Google search app "What is the fastest bird on Earth?," and it will tell you. "Peregrine falcon," the phone says. "According to YouTube, the peregrine falcon has a maximum recorded airspeed of 389 kilometers per hour." That's the right answer, but it doesn't come from some master database inside Google. When you ask the question, Google's search engine pinpoints a YouTube video describing the five fastest birds on the planet and then extracts just the information you're looking for.

Britain's intelligence services have officially been given the "most extreme spying powers ever seen". The Investigatory Powers Act has now been given royal assent, meaning that those surveillance rules will pass into law. The bill was officially unveiled a year ago and passed through the House of Lords earleir this month, but the act of being signed off means that those powers now go into effect. It adds new surveillance powers including rules that force internet providers to keep completely records of every website that all of their customers visit. Those will be available to a wide range of agencies, which includes the Department for Work and Pensions as well as the Food Standards Agency.

Farming is the oldest industry out there, but it's one that's far from being perfect. Some parts of the world suffer from major cases of over-farming, whereas other places can't get enough. It's tricky trying to get the right balance between supply and demand when it comes to food, but with thanks to machine learning techniques, we may just be one step closer to achieving this. The world's population is steadily increasing, and in order to continue to feed everyone, farming techniques need to become more efficient and farmers smarter. One new technique that has been developed to tackle this problem is vertical farming.

The AtlaSense team has been working hard on our machine learning and AI modules, and we are pleased to present you with our newest features: data categorization, topic modeling, and document linking across your enterprise data. These new features are meant to provide greater insight into your data and improve the way teams and organizations classify information. Data Categorization Using our document categorization workflow, you can identify responsive documents, find semantically similar documents, and build a classifier to make predictions on the data found in a project. Topic Modeling With our topic modeling workflow, you can learn about the prevalent and abstract topics in a particular project or collection of information. Document Linking Our document-to-document linking workflow allows you link related files and also suggests similar documents on the file viewer.

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