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Digital dials are great and all, but why not turn things up a notch? That's exactly what Acura is doing with its Precision Cockpit, unveiled at the LA Auto Show today. More than just an in-car infotainment system, the concept includes cabin elements borrowed from the NSX (such as the seats and the steering wheel), which show us just how future Acura motors will look and feel inside, along with how we'll interact with them. Acura's calling it a "choreographed in-car experience" (of course) and it appears that experience includes some clever technology. The centerpiece of the cockpit, for gadget fans, are the two 12.3-inch display panels.

Microsoft has recently released Beta of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, a new open source version to further advance the learning system in the areas of speech and image recognition, but not only. Previously known as CNTK, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit was originally developed by Microsoft scientists who needed a toolkit that would make their research faster and more effective. "It quickly moved beyond speech and morphed into an offering that customers including a leading international appliance maker and Microsoft's flagship product groups depend on for a wide variety of deep learning tasks," according to Microsoft. "We've taken it from a research tool to something that works in a production setting," according to Frank Seide, a principal researcher at Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research and a key architect of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit. Nowadays a lot of giant companies, as well as small startup companies are in need for a deep learning of speech understanding and image recognition. This new toolkit will democratize Artificial Intelligence and its tools, will provide more flexible and sophisticated work, and avoid food waste and live a healthier life.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 16, 2016) - TechCode, a global network of startup incubators and entrepreneur ecosystems, today announces the first cohort for its new accelerator program named the Global AI Accelerator. The accelerator will help startups build their product, streamline their supply chain, find and hire the right talent, syndicate and close funding rounds, strengthen their IP portfolio and gain access to global distribution channels. The cohort comprises fifty startups from ten countries, including the United States, China, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Israel, Korea, Mexico and Spain, who are integrating artificial intelligence in their technology, such as voice recognition, machine learning, natural language processing and more. Calibrate Education, Inc. creates tools that will allow students to learn in new ways and develop a deeper understanding of the subject matter Eggcyte builds personal cloud devices that let users store, search and privately share photos and videos Jasper is an AI-powered bot which is an evolution from a freelance marketplace into an on-demand recruiting service Sereneti Kitchen uses its robotic chef, Cooki, and food ecosystem, Foodi, to help users cook fresh, modern cuisine Slick is a motorized 3-axis stabilizer for GoPros, allowing action sports lovers to better capture their experiences Smartypans, a 2017 CES Innovation Award honoree, is a pan that computes nutrition, teaches users how to cook and documents recipes via an accompanying mobile app Solidface enables teams to create 3D designs, edit and collaborate in real time through its 3D CAD solution Sutro monitors water quality in pools or spas and allows users to administer chemicals or connect with a pool technician via a mobile app Titanium Falcon is a smart ring that uses motion or gestures to control apps on smart devices Yono is the first in-ear basal body temperature thermometer to collect data comfortably and accurately Calibrate Education, Inc. creates tools that will allow students to learn in new ways and develop a deeper understanding of the subject matter "International expansion is becoming more of a priority for today's startups, especially within the artificial intelligence field as the technology grows rapidly across the globe," said Luke Tang, Head of the TechCode Global AI Accelerator Program. "Our first-of-its-kind accelerator program enables our startups, who are from all over the world, to tap into our global resources to quickly commercialize their technologies and scale up their business. In doing so, we hope to further advance the artificial intelligence industry and help these promising startups find new ways to solve existing problems."

Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and perhaps some of the other major names too, are now pushing for artificial intelligence (AI) as one of the mainstays of the technology world for the future. Now it seems, AI is changing the service landscape for the advertising industry, by allowing the customers of the industry, to avail many more immersive, more engaging, and more pragmatic buying of services for even the customers, which works cohesively for the benefit of the business. Even other innovations like smarter information search is becoming a reality with AI. To break down what AI really does, one needs to pay attention to Dave Meeker, the Vice-President of Isobar's U.S operations, who explained that, you can have a one-on-one conversation with another person, but AI can talk to 500 people at the same time and make decisions based on real-time data to learn what's going on in each conversation. As per details with Digiday, MEC from Group M, and IBM worked together on a campaign based on cognitive computing, for the client Campbell's Soup. In this activity, they created personalized recipes for the target audience, to be displayed as per their personal preference of ingredients and the weather they witness in their local environment.

Software's immersion within businesses, process and objects has expanded the scope of what could be automated. When you add in rapid advances in artificial intelligence, you start seeing a lot more interest in technologies that are increasing how well machine sense, learn and act. Investors are taking notice--investments in artificial intelligence start-ups by venture capitalists have increased roughly 20x in the last four years. What's your Intelligent Automation play?

Editors at the MIT Technology Review recently weighed in with their annual review of the world's 50 Smartest Companies. This list celebrates the most effective pairing of innovation and business across the globe. For the first time, more than 20% of MIT's picks rely on artificial intelligence to support their business at a fundamental level, somewhat redefining what it means to be a truly "smart" company today. How many of these 13 artificial intelligence leaders are you already using? It's working on speech recognition intelligence called Deep Speech 2. This reduces the chance of accidents on autopilot by 50% relative to the safety record of human drivers, according to CEO Elon Musk.

Google unleashed a new group of online artificial-intelligence experiments and one in particular stands out as both an addictive game and a fascinating window on machine learning. Quick, Draw challenges you to create a series of drawings in under 20 seconds apiece. The neural network tries to figure out what you're drawing as you go. It learns from its mistakes and seeks to improve its recognition skills. I'm no great visual artist, but the AI racked up an impressive 5-out-of-6 score on my first round, correctly identifying grass, a helicopter, a penguin, a remote control and scissors.

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Recently we wrote about how the'popular' Watson of Jeopardy fame still lingers in the memories of our non-data scientist colleagues and perhaps misleads them about the capabilities of AI. It's time we got in tune with the modern Watson, or more correctly IBM's Watson Group and its Watson platform and took a look at all there is to offer. There are three broad capabilities in today's AI and they are: Image and video processing: Largely driven by Convolutional Neural Nets (CNNs) this field has been getting most of the press with capabilities like facial and object recognition. Text and speech processing: This is generally known as Natural Language Processing (NLP), the capability to not only intake speech and text but to understand the nuanced context of strings of words, to perform search or translation on them, and output words and blocks of text and speech. Siri, Alexa, and Cortana represent examples of this field that used to be the butt of jokes but are now more than commercially acceptable. This field has been largely driven by Recurrent Neural Nets (RNNs).