If you're getting thumb strain from trying to swipe your way to the perfect partner on Tinder, the latest update to the dating app could be the solution for you. Tinder is piloting a new feature, dubbed'Picks', that ditches the need to constantly swipe left or right to trawl through users' profiles on the dating service. Instead, Tinder Picks highlights a handful of fellow lonely hearts that it believes will be a good match, based on similar career, hobbies and interests. Although any Tinder user can see the profiles picked-out for them by the app, only those who subscribe to the Los Angeles-based dating company's £7.49 Tinder Picks will highlight a handful of dating app users who share similar interests, hobbies, and jobs.

The sudden takeover of voice assistants is another milestone of digital transformation and, for many, it is yet another wake-up call. Humans are not alone anymore in any game, so why would sales be any different? However, can robots replace your sales reps? Also, the next question: is it good or bad? Humans love to have their voices heard – you can see the proof in the ever-growing popularity of voice-enabled digital assistants or VEDAs.

Artificial intelligence has an unimaginable potential. Within the next couple of years, it will revolutionize every area of our life, including medicine. I am fully convinced that it will redesign healthcare completely – and for the better. Let's take a look at the promising solutions it offers. There are various thought leaders who believe that we are experiencing the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human.

How many times have you heard that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is humanity's biggest threat? Some people think that Google brought us a step closer to a dark future when Duplex was announced last month, a new capability of Google's digital Assistant that enables it to make phone calls on your behalf to book appointments with small businesses. Google Assistant will start making phone calls to small businesses to make appointments on you behalf. The root of the controversy lied on the fact that the Assistant successfully pretended to be a real human, never disclosing its true identity to the other side of the call. Many tech experts wondered if this is an ethical practice or if it's necessary to hide the digital nature of the voice.

Deck building is a crucial component in playing Collectible Card Games (CCGs). The goal of deck building is to choose a fixed-sized subset of cards from a large card pool, so that they work well together in-game against specific opponents. Existing methods either lack flexibility to adapt to different opponents or require large computational resources, still making them unsuitable for any real-time or large-scale application. We propose a new deck recommendation system, named Q-DeckRec, which learns a deck search policy during a training phase and uses it to solve deck building problem instances. Our experimental results demonstrate Q-DeckRec requires less computational resources to build winning-effective decks after a training phase compared to several baseline methods.

Should children be polite to virtual assistants? And for most parents and child development experts, the answer is simple, too: Yes, of course they should. Nobody wants to hear children rudely barking orders at, or verbally abusing, an adult voice. But teaching kids to say "please" and "thank you" to Alexa and Google Assistant may have unintended consequences and raise other questions that aren't so simple. Millions of parents have suddenly been forced to grapple with this new parental conundrum.

Google is probably one of the most active tech giants when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. In their most recent I/O, they probably demonstrated how to nail down a turing test. For those who missed it, here's a sneak peek: If such disruptive and moot evolution in Artificial Intelligence are not an effort towards enhancing mobile experiences then I don't know what is. With the change in consumer lifestyles and an escalating preference towards mobile devices, virtually all web applications are following the mobile first approach. Consumer behavior has evolved to an extent that more time is spent on mobile phones as compared to televisions or desktops.

Machine Learning (ML), along with the Internet of Things (IoT) seems to be the next big revolution in science and technology. AI experts are debating why machine learning is the most wondrous thing, today. They are trying to predict the way ML can affect the future and its evolution. The ability to feed the machine with big amounts of data, so that the machine can learn concepts and rules to focus on specific categories of problems and solutions, is a critical part of AI development. In 1959, the term'machine learning' was coined by Arthur Samuel, an AI professional.

I think most folks are best off with an Amazon Echo Dot or a Google Home Mini to start. Pick the Google product if you're on Android and are already used to the Google Assistant since it'll feel familiar. Both products, however, offer affordable ways to see what the whole "smart home assistant" experience is like. The Echo Dot and Home Mini offer almost all of the same functions as more expensive Echo and Google Homes (the exception is Amazon Echo products with touchscreens, which have more visual data). If you're invested in the Apple ecosystem, like Siri, and put a high value on audio quality, then the HomePod is a good choice.

SAN FRANCISCO -- California technology analyst Brian Solis was having a conversation with a friend while the two were driving through Texas. His friend was buying a ranch in Texas but was having trouble with the financing because it was considered a "barndominium." Solis had never heard the term before nor had he ever researched it online. But as soon as he hopped out of his friend's car and checked Facebook, up popped an ad for barndominiums in Texas. "How is that possible?" he wrote on Facebook.