Apple is creating a new AI/ML team that brings together its Core ML and Siri teams under one leader in John Giannandrea. Apple confirmed this morning that the combined Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team, which houses Siri, will be led by the recent hire, who came to Apple this year after an eight-year stint at Google, where he led the Machine Intelligence, Research and Search teams. Before that he founded Metaweb Technologies and Tellme. The internal structures of the Siri and Core ML teams will remain the same, but they will now answer to Giannandrea. Apple's internal structure means that the teams will likely remain integrated across the org as they're wedded to various projects, including developer tools, mapping, Core OS and more.

Apple has selected former Google executive John Giannandrea to lead a new artificial intelligence and machine learning team, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

AI continues to evolve and pervade business functions and applications across industries. In retail, AI's use has moved well beyond warehouse management and e-commerce algorithms. Companies are now deploying it to help solve far more complex problems and facilitate functions across their businesses. In this report, our second in the Artificial Intelligence in Retail series, we outline some of the key areas in which 30 global retailers are using AI across business functions. We also examine in detail how two of the largest global technology-led retailers, Amazon and Alibaba Group, are using AI in alignment with our proprietary CORE framework.

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When talking about Artificial Intelligence, some people think about the destruction of the world and killer robots, but Artificial Intelligence is already playing a major role in our lives, non-destructively. We all are familiar with programs such as Siri and Google Now, which are improving our way of life. Similarly, you must have played chess against the computer, in which most people get beat atrociously. These programs are nothing but artificial intelligence, which is designed to assist us with a set of protocols. Similar programs are self-driving cars, or motion and reflex detecting video games, which evolve as time goes along.

This is new territory for families. For the first time, children who are too young to distinguish fantasy from reality are engaging with devices powered by artificial intelligence. Many see smart speakers as magical, imbue them with human traits and boss them around like a Marine drill sergeant, according to several new studies in the past year. Hunter Walk, a San Francisco venture capitalist, worried that his family's Amazon Echo "is turning our daughter into a raging asshole," he wrote in a blog post in 2016, because of the 4-year-old's tendency to boss it around. He has since set rules around how to talk to the device and said he hasn't noticed any rude behavior by his daughter, who is now 6. "I still have concerns," Mr. Walk says.

Recruit these AI assistants to help you escape from pointless work. Future you will thank you. For many of us, an unfortunate amount of our time is spent on a thousand little tasks that support the truly meaningful work we do, but those thousand menial tasks aren't meaningful themselves. Hours wasted sending emails, replying to emails, booking meetings, attending meetings, reporting on meetings, sending project updates, submitting tickets…you get the idea. Often these tasks are referred to as metawork, or in other words, work about work (just like metadata is data about data).

A recent college grad living in rural Connecticut, they'd been subject to the swipe-and-ghost thing a few too many times. Then, this spring, Juniper submitted an ad to @_personals_, an Instagram for lesbian, queer, transgender, and non-binary people looking for love (and other stuff). The post, titled "TenderQueer Butch4Butch," took Juniper two weeks to craft, but the care paid off: the ad ultimately garnered well over 1,000 likes--and more than 200 messages. Tinder's Days as a Hookup App May Be Over "I was so used to the Tinder culture of nobody wanting to text back," Juniper says. "All of the sudden I had hundreds of queers flooding my inbox trying to hang out."

Amazon's Prime Day sale launched the evening of Monday, July 16 and will run through July 17, 2018. SAN FRANCISCO – As with all sales, the trick during Amazon's Prime Day is knowing what's really a deal and what's just hype. One market research firm found that only half the items it tracked during the week of the sale were cheaper. Ahead of Amazon's fourth Prime Day on July 16, USA TODAY reviewed pricing analyses from at least four market-tracking firms to determine whether criticism of the 36-hour sales event -- that some sellers use it to clear out undesirable stock before the holidays -- was valid. Or whether shoppers could find deals on items they really wanted.

From The Terminator to Blade Runner, pop culture has always leaned towards a chilling depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) and our future with AI at the helm. Recent headlines about Facebook panicking because their AI bots developed a language of their own have us hitting the alarm button once again. Should we really feel unsettled with an AI future? News flash: that future is here. If you ask Siri, the helpful assistant who magically lives inside your phone, to read text messages and emails to you, find the nearest pizza place or call your mother for you, then you've made AI a part of your everyday life.