Apple's hiring of Google's former head of search technology and artificial intelligence is the latest sign that AI is becoming a major battleground for tech companies. Artificial intelligence and machine learning have become "a top 10 spending priority" for corporate chief information officers, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty said in a note to clients Friday. Apple's recent hiring of AI expert John Giannandrea "reinforces this view," she said. "With the hiring of Mr. Giannandrea, who will report directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple is telling the world they are aiming to become a more serious player in the AI/machine learning industry," she said. Deployment and evaluations of AI and machine learning systems have steadily increased over the last year, Huberty said.

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. In the Lucinda Williams song "Changed the Locks"--first released in 1988, then again in 1996 by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as "Change the Locks"--the singer describes a number of things you have to change to insulate yourself from an ex: There's nary a mention of one of the most obvious things you have to change after a messy breakup today: a password. Malicious exes now have access to a world of tech-facilitated stalking methods, and it's important to lock them out of your accounts. Your Netflix, alas, is the least of the worries here. While "passwords" may have once meant simply banking PINs and social media passwords--which can do an awful lot of danger on their own--we now also have to remember to update access information for all sorts of apps and devices.

The key message from a new policy report from the University of Manchester is that future-state artificial intelligence needs to be socially responsible. This is because the current path of development of new artificial intelligence technology has been shown, through experimentation, to contain bias. For example, Joy Buolamwini has challenged inherent ethnic and female bias in many facial recognition systems. This issue of bias becomes serious when used in the business setting and by governments, such as when assessing welfare claims. Here many developed systems can be discriminatory.

"The thing that caught me is she was into the Cure, one of my top three bands, she has blue hair, she was posing in a DeLorean in her Facebook picture," recalls Mr. Jennings. She was a scientist, Rachel Truscon, living more than a thousand miles away. They now live together in Michigan. "We laugh about how crazy it is that we met," he says, especially given that his own experiment with online-dating sites lasted just an hour, because "it felt so unnatural." The couple now jokes about starting a Spotify-based dating site.

Want to up your SEO game and be more successful in 2018? Good! You've come to the right place. Below, you'll find tips from some of the top SEO professionals. They will tell you just about everything you need to know to succeed in 2018. However, before we get to our main event, I must note that after our 2017 edition of SEO trends launched last year on Search Engine Journal, we heard a couple of complaints about how long it was. Well, you'll be happy to know that this year's SEO trends post is a mere 13,014 words, down from 13,839 last year. As an added bonus, this year we've added this helpful TL;DR section for those of you with extremely short-attention spans who care not about context or details but simply want to know what the most important SEO trends tricks will be in 2018. So go focus on all those things and I'm sure you'll be just fine. For those of you who plan to read on, we've got some amazing insights in store for you about why all these things (and many others) will ...

"Smart" gizmos are something that excites millennials. This year's data from GfK Research suggests that 64% own at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device and 27% of surveyed millennials own more than three smart gadgets. On the other hand, there are definitely some things getting in the way of full adoption. As the same report indicates, there is a mistaken belief among 70% of millennials that all IoT devices seamlessly interoperate with one another even if they are manufactured by different vendors. Yet, this is far from truth as lack of interoperability and unified standards are among the top industry hurdles.

This time in AI for Business we are looking at the secret to mass personalization & Personalized content with AI. We know that mass personalization and personalized content is a powerful way of influencing consumer behaviour. The increased availability of artificial intelligence for business combined with marketing automation made Mass Personalization, Personalized Content and sophisticated segmentation less costly and faster to implement. So let's get into depth and see how AI can improve your mass personalization strategy… First of all, computers are now able to perform profiling and classification of consumers, based on the data they actively or passively provide, the so-called digital footprints. How do we make these things in a way that we do not interfere with their privacy and deteriorate trust?

We tested Alexa, Siri and Google Home to see which digital assistant knows most about the Royal Wedding. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. We tested Alexa, Siri and Google Home to see which digital assistant knows most about the Royal Wedding.

Before you get back to constructing your underground chamber to protect humanity from the hordes of death-dealing AI robots, we have a more optimistic view of the future for you. Artificial intelligence won't lead to the demise of the human race but may in fact help us deal with the massive scaling up of communication that the internet has made possible and – gasp – actually help humans understand one another a little better. Speaking at the Intel Capital conference in Palm Desert last week, three AI experts took an altogether more pragmatic and positive view of where we are going. "An artificial intelligence machine won't want to become a person," argued Reza Zadeh, the CEO of Matroid. "It will be content to serve customers."

SAN FRANCISCO – Alexa's been studying up on the royal wedding. So go ahead, ask the Amazon assistant everything your heart desires about the upcoming marriage of American actress Meghan Markle to Britain's Prince Harry. Amazon's artificial intelligence-infused Alexa digital assistant routinely gears up for blockbuster occasions, which the May 19 union of British and Hollywood royalty promises to be. Since November, the Amazon group that preps Alexa for news and cultural events has been adding answers and information so that no one gets the dreaded "Here's what I found on the web" answer in a response to questions ranging from "Who's going to walk Meghan Markle down the aisle?" to "What time is the royal wedding?" Google Assistant, with its Google Home rival to Alexa, isn't far behind when thrown the same types of questions. In our tests, Apple's Siri drew blanks on most of them, in terms of reading the answers aloud.