File photo: Youtube logo is seen on an android mobile phone. YouTube is again claiming it'll tweak its recommendation system to promote fewer conspiracy videos. The Google-owned service announced the change after BuzzFeed published a report detailing how YouTube's recommendation systems can lead you down a "rabbit hole" of misinformation and politically charged content. "We'll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways--such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the Earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11," the company said in a Friday blog post. What will be different this time isn't clear.

Of all the ways IoT (Internet of Things) technologies promise to change lives and businesses in the next century, the idea that any and all machines could obtain human-esque intelligence through AI (artificial intelligence) is among the most exciting. No longer the realm of science fiction, AI powers many everyday processes and increasingly common devices and services--from Netflix's personalized content recommendations to smart speakers with voice-activated personal assistants. In 2019, innovative minds and companies will continue to push the envelope, enabling new and/or more advanced applications of AI in business and consumer realms. Drust, a French automotive-technology company founded in 2014, is one example of how a group of innovators can help drive AI-enabled solutions forward--pun intended. Drust designs, develops, and markets software and AI solutions that aim to enhance the value of data from connected vehicles.

A new trend emerges in every industry yearly. In the BPO industry, for instance, the artificial intelligence or AI got the center stage. Experts even believed that it is going to be the next big thing -- and it is quickly happening in the present. For this year, there are also trends in the call center industry. Most of them talk about the different ways to appease consumers and clients. What we are going to list down is more on the technology side.

We were trying to get in touch with our internet service provider. I can't remember the reason. But we contacted the company through its website chat system. My partner was typing, and I noticed his language was unusually clipped, devoid of the words "please", or "thank you". "You don't have to be so rude," I said.

Dreams spring from reality and are realized in it. IN 2017, with an almost imperceptible ripple, a story broke out in the French media reporting on the bizarre case of a young Danish proto-fascist who had become a kind of "alt-right" data miner. The misguided racist was using information harvested from one of IAC's biggest Match Group relationship websites, OkCupid, to support a fake-science argument in favor of an apparently new form of white supremacist eugenics. The story picked up little attention, and those who commented on it -- in the progressive media at least -- saw the attempt as a deliberate and gratuitous misuse of data to support a dangerous political agenda, which in some ways it was. Although part of a wider rise in dangerous right-wing "race science," which Jordan Peterson can be seen as the soft edge of, there is something particularly important about data drawn from the realm of love.

Hardly half a decade ago, digital marketing professionals were not interested to implement artificial intelligence tools in their strategies. But, in 2017 and 2018, they gained more confidence and are using AI tools to get the perfect results. The AI tools keep on improving day by day. In the future, Facebook ads and other digital marketing campaigns will be spearheaded by AI tools and algorithms. A survey by business experts has indicated that 51 percent of digital marketers are already making use of AI tools to generate reports.

Google might soon have an alternative to voice matching when you want to use Assistant to get personalized results. The latest beta for Android's Google app includes code references to a previously hinted-at Face Match feature that, as the name implies, would scan your visage to provide tailored commands on camera-equipped devices. While there isn't a detailed description, you'd have to both train the system and could add multiple devices. Your face profile wouldn't be limited to one gadget, which some companies do in the name of security. You could also invite other people to create profiles.

"Artificial intelligence has firmly entered our daily lives. AI used by adults, kids, teenagers, students in many parts of everyday tasks. It makes our lives easier and it's a fact." For decades, technology has been the centerpiece of invention and innovation, and would probably remain so even in the unforeseeable future. The fact that we can access information anywhere, and at any time, is not something to be taken for granted.

Soon wealth management could feel a lot more conversational. Underpinning Envestnet Yodlee's new conversational AI functionality is recently acquired Abe AI, a software provider that enables users and financial institutions to engage and interact with one another via mobile- and web-based voice and text. The service is now available for integration with retail banking solutions but will be built into Envestnet's wealth management offerings later this year. The service uses natural language processing to expand the voice-enabled offerings Envestnet already has, like its Intelligence for Financial Institutions offering or the analytics tool Envision IQ. Abe AI works on a variety of communications platforms, from Google Home and Amazon Alexa to Facebook Messenger and text messages.

How did you end up working in Information and Data Sciences at Microsoft Research? Paul Bennett: I started quite a while ago. Originally looking first at just philosophical problems of how we reason about things.