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Cerego Launches Cerego Insights and Skill for Amazon Alexa

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Cerego, an AI-driven platform that optimizes how people learn, today announced the launch of Cerego Insights, as well as a Cerego skill for Amazon Alexa, onstage at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Summit 2018. Cerego Insights uses machine learning models to objectively understand learners' cognitive and behavioral strengths, and predict future performance. The new Cerego Insights offering goes beyond the company's core competency of knowledge acquisition and memory management. Instructors and managers can now instantly access each individual and group's cognitive and behavioral profile. These attributes include specific, validated scores for Agility, Diligence, and Knowledge.


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Medtronic, IBM Watson launch Sugar.IQ diabetes assistant

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Two years after originally announcing it, Medtronic and IBM Watson have launched their joint platform the Sugar.IQ, a digital diabetes assistant. "It is designed for people who are currently using Guardian Connect; so made for people on multiple daily injections. It is a personal assistant a little bit like Alexa or Siri," Huzefa Neemuchwala, global head of digital health solutions and AI at Medtronic, said in a Facebook live informational session. "It is an intelligent assistant that keeps track of all of your information and has all of your information in one place. Then through Watson technology we use this information to power insights so we can better manage your diabetes so that you can spend more time in range."


The Art of Drafting: A Team-Oriented Hero Recommendation System for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games have received increasing popularity recently. In a match of such games, players compete in two teams of five, each controlling an in-game avatars, known as heroes, selected from a roster of more than 100. The selection of heroes, also known as pick or draft, takes place before the match starts and alternates between the two teams until each player has selected one hero. Heroes are designed with different strengths and weaknesses to promote team cooperation in a game. Intuitively, heroes in a strong team should complement each other's strengths and suppressing those of opponents. Hero drafting is therefore a challenging problem due to the complex hero-to-hero relationships to consider. In this paper, we propose a novel hero recommendation system that suggests heroes to add to an existing team while maximizing the team's prospect for victory. To that end, we model the drafting between two teams as a combinatorial game and use Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) for estimating the values of hero combinations. Our empirical evaluation shows that hero teams drafted by our recommendation algorithm have significantly higher win rate against teams constructed by other baseline and state-of-the-art strategies.


Alexa for Hospitality: A clear example of IoT benefits for end user and business

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Amazon recently unveiled Alexa for Hospitality, a specialized version of its digital assistant designed for hotel rooms and concierge tasks. With Alexa for Hospitality, users can call the front desk, order room service, or find a local business, according to the product page. For business travelers, Alexa for Hospitality could eventually provide a more personal stay. According to the product page, users will eventually be able to link their personal Amazon account to the in-room Alexa, granting them the ability to listen to their audiobooks or call personal contacts. This could make it easier for business professionals to stay connected with their team while on the road.


32 Of The Best WhatsApp Tips And Tricks For 2018

Forbes - Tech

WhatsApp, the popular messaging apps acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014, has been adding new features on a regular basis. As of January 2018, WhatsApp was hitting 1.5 billion monthly users who are sending 60 billion messages per day. While WhatsApp seems like a basic and simple instant message application, it has a number of interesting and sophisticated features. WhatsApp allows you to back up your chat conversations and media using a cloud storage service so that you can restore the content again when you switch devices. You can set this up so it backs up automatically every day, every week or every month. This feature can be found under Settings Chats Chat Backup Auto Backup. WhatsApp backs up with iCloud on iOS and Google Drive on Android.


Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance

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While teachers may always be the best line of defense for students falling behind, busy schedules don't always permit the special attention and feedback that students need. That's where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. "These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student's ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them," states an eSchool News report released earlier this year. "These tools also gather actionable insights and information about a student's progress and report the data back to the teacher." Understandably, there is still some hesitation at the idea of using this technology, as education professionals fear the day robots will replace teachers.


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - A TOPIC MUCH MORE THAN A DISCUSSION FOR THE INNOVATORS TODAY

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Some more examples are used commonly in our everyday routines. Virtual personal assistants like Siri or Amazon's Alexa or Google's personal assistant help make routine tasks even simpler. You simply ask, 'What is my schedule for the day?' and it bombards you with your plan. News generation or purchase prediction, it can do it all and serve millions every single day. You must have noticed the chat option which comes on many websites when you're browsing, what is it?


Tinder Is Big in India---at Least With Men

WSJ.com: WSJD - Technology

Yet like a handful of local dating apps in this traditionally conservative country, Tinder's biggest challenge appears to be getting enough women to sign on. In many parts of India, arranged marriages--as opposed to what Indians call "love marriages"--remain the norm, and dating in any form still carries a stigma, particularly for women. Indian women who have dabbled with dating apps complain they get overwhelmed by all the attention that comes with the surplus of men. "The barrage of messages that hits your inbox is like a swarm of locusts," said Anushree Majumdar, age 33, in Mumbai. She uses dating apps only occasionally, she said, and can understand why women are intimidated by them.


How to Secure Smart Home Devices in 5 Steps

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Are you among the millions of consumers across the world who have an Amazon Echo or a Google Home? Or are you creeped out by'always connected' smart home devices that are'watching' and'listening' to you always? A Cisco survey in December 2017 found that only 9 percent of consumers fully trusted IoT devices. Surprisingly, despite the vote of no confidence for connected devices, the survey found that the majority of people who use IoT devices were not willing to give them up. Smart home devices are enhancing people's lives and while it might be too much of a good thing for some, many consumers are in no mood to unplug them anytime soon.