You can now choose from six new voices for your Google Assistant. With AI and WaveNet technology, we can better mimic the subtleties of the human voice--the pitch, pace and, um, the pauses. And the Google Assistant will be able to understand when you're talking to it versus someone else, and respond accordingly. For example, you can create a Custom Routine for family dinner, and kick it off by saying "Hey Google, dinner's ready" and the Assistant can turn on your favorite music, turn off the TV, and broadcast "dinner time!" to everyone in the house. Smart Display devices will be available this summer, bringing the simplicity of voice and the Google Assistant together with a rich visual experience.

Technology nerds and enthusiasts have always dreamed of having a conversation with an artificial intelligence or AI. The living embodiment of the perfect AI would be JARVIS from the Iron Man movies. Just your voice, to have a conversation with your virtual personal assistant to do work for you. But that is science fiction. AI is still in its infancy and it has a long way to go to reach maturity to beat the Turing test.

Google gives the Assistant six new voices. Google announced the addition of six new voices for their Assistant at last week's I/O Developer's Conference. The voices are generated by Wavenet, a neural network built by DeepMind, the company that created AlphaGo. The new voices – three male and three female – are now available. Here's how to give your Assistant a new voice.

In this March 2, 2016, file photo, David Limp, Amazon Senior Vice President of Devices, pushes down on an Echo Dot in San Francisco. Forbes is your trusted source for money matters, business news and the next big trends - and now you'll be able to listen to us daily on your voice assistant. Today, we're launching a new audio briefing for Amazon Alexa and Google Home called "Forbes." We're bringing you top headlines and the career advice you need to make the cover. Expect to hear our leading business stories and a round-up of the top headlines during the weekdays.

Machine learning is enabling computers to tackle tasks that have, until now, only been carried out by people. The next wave of IT innovation will be powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. We look at the ways companies can take advantage of it and how to get started. From driving cars to translating speech, machine learning is driving an explosion in the capabilities of artificial intelligence -- helping software make sense of the messy and unpredictable real world. But what exactly is machine learning and what is making the current boom in machine learning possible? At a very high level, machine learning is the process of teaching a computer system how to make accurate predictions when fed data.

A lot of people are worried that voice assistants like Amazon (AMZN)'s Alexa, Apple (AAPL)'s Siri or the Google (GOOGL) Assistant are spying on us at home. All three companies have said the assistants are not listening all the time, but only listen for a wake word -- or perhaps hidden commands humans can't hear. So I asked all three voice assistants if they're spying on us, just for kicks. Here's what each one said. Here's what Amazon Alexa said: "I only send audio back to Amazon when you activate me. For more information, and to view Amazon's privacy notice, visit the help section of your Alexa app or alexa.amazon.com."

The business has been lucrative for the biggest player, InterActiveCorp and its listed subsidiary, Match Group, which owns Tinder, OkCupid and Match.com. That explains why shares of IAC and Match nose-dived 20% and 25%, respectively, when Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook would enter the dating scene. IAC and Match just offered a strong retort, posting first-quarter earnings that beat analysts' expectations. IAC, which owns 22% of Match and brands including ANGI Homeservices and Vimeo, reported revenue of $995 million, topping estimates for $922 million. Match Group, its largest subsidiary, grew 36% year-over-year to $407 million, notching the highest quarterly revenue growth since it went public in November 2015.

The idea of an artificial mind that can think by itself has always loomed large in the human imagination – the ancient Greeks told myths of mechanical men. As an academic discipline, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been studied since the 1950s, after computer scientist Alan Turing first asked, "can machines do what we, as thinking entities, do?" But in 2018, AI is firmly out of the realms of science fiction or academic theory. Last week UK prime minister Theresa May stood up in her keynote address to the World Economic Forum and announced her ambition to establish the UK as a "world leader" in AI, alongside plans for its ethical oversight. These days, voice assistants like Google Now and Microsoft's Cortana are in every smart device and computer, and smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and Google Home are selling in their tens of millions.

As tech giants like Google, Amazon and Apple integrate their voice-enabled digital assistants into more devices, Samsung, led by its R&D Institute in India, is busy infusing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its virtual assistant Bixby for a harmonised Internet of Things (IoT) experience at home. After smartphones, Samsung aims to make all its home appliance products "smart" by 2020 -- a year which, according to Gartner, will see nearly 20 billion connected devices. Bixby is the next frontier in AI that will help users speak to their refrigerators, TVs, washing machines, dishwashers, ovens and what not. "We are already doing 30-40 per cent of AI-based activities -- training deep neural networks for vision, voice and text -- at our place. "Voice is the next enabler.

Being a niche field, user experience will always be in demand. With each and every task getting digitized, people have started taking interest in technology-related concepts such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. I am pretty sure that day-in-day-out, you encounter a few topics related to artificial intelligence (AI). After all, it has gained so much popularity in such little time. Not being exclusive to desktop and laptops, the technology is also available and often deployed in smartphones (e.g.