Facebook, which emerged from the ashes of a website that allowed users to decide which of their peers were hot or not, has come full circle and announced its entrée into the dating space. "There are 200 million people on Facebook who list themselves as single," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's annual F8 conference on Tuesday, with shades of your relatives who are always trying to fix you up: "So clearly there's something to do here." When Facebook's competitors in online dating heard tell of their new rival, they naturally had thoughts. Just like you can't help but have an opinion on your ex's new relationship, the Tinders of the world felt compelled to weigh in on this new whatever, and their reactions ran the full gamut of things people say about their exes. "Your new boyfriend/girlfriend is totally my clone!"

When it comes to any kind of Artificial Intelligence device, swear words are usually off the menu. But one Reddit user has revealed a way to get Apple's Siri to say the F word. Taking to the r/Apple subreddit, user thatwasabaddecision wrote: 'Ask Siri to define the word "mother". When she asks you: "Do you wanna hear the next one?" F bomb: A Reddit user has taken to the r/Apple subreddit to reveal a way to get Apple's Siri to say the F word Mother's the word: Using the Oxford English dictionary, which offers several interpretations of the word'mother', Siri also includes the'vulger slang' word'motherf*cker' Redditor Hahahahahaimsofunny was the first to respond with the answer, and wrote: 'Motherf**ker!' Apple appears to have programmed Siri using the Oxford English dictionary, which offers several interpretations of the word'mother'.

Chatbots are becoming crucial for customer service -- but how they interact with customers matters, and AI is one key point to creating "natural" interactions. How do you interact with your customers? Given the predominance of mobile devices and messaging apps, many experts believe the next era of customer interaction will belong to "the conversational layer" -- both text- and voice-driven -- that will use chat, messaging, or natural language interfaces to interact with people, brands, services, and bots. Join Babson College's Bala Iyer, author of the MIT SMR article "Do You Have a Conversational Interface?," as he discusses his work around customer data and user experience. Using industry examples and findings from his research, he'll offer strategies for capitalizing on conversational interfaces to capture customer loyalty.

I'm struggling to think of another profession where'things' is a suitable description of a product, service or problem. Everything from a light bulb and a fridge to a car or a plane is now a'thing'. Because we haven't been vague enough already, we throw into the Internet of Things (IoT) quagmire some real esotericism in the form of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to deliver Smart solutions. Is IoT really an entirely new set of technologies? Industry rhetoric suggests a'sophistication of attack', whenever the latest botnet commandeers thousands of'things', but I'm not so sure what is sophisticated about hunting for default creds on a collection of cameras.

Over the past few years, the buzz about how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact the future of marketing has reached a fever pitch. But what will AI's role in marketing look like, and how can marketers start to prepare now for the future? AI is part of a larger wave of digital transformation that's impacting businesses and consumers around the globe. This transformation can be characterized in three ways. Firstly, technological interactions are becoming multi-device, multi-sensory experiences, with voice and facial recognition-based interactions.

Pac-Man might never have left the public eye, but with Wreck-it Ralph, Pixels and Ready Player One, the iconic elder statesman of gaming is now in front of people that may have never touched an arcade joystick. To that extent, Pac-Man's latest'game' makes sense -- it's arriving on Amazon's Alexa as a skill today. Pac-Man Stories is more bed-time tale than arcade throwback, and will encompass several stories aimed at the family. 'Pac-Man and the Ghastly Garbage' is the first title, and as Lee Kirton, Chief Pac-Man Officer (real title), explained to me, it's a "choose your own adventure" kind of experience. It'll combine moral decisions, interactions with characters and lightweight, kid-friendly puzzles.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are emerging as the most defining tech-marvel in this new wave of financial services. The technology, along with the abundance of data, has given way to several innovative FinTech business models. Several promising players now use AI to solve some of the major problems for customers in the banking and financial services industry – think chatbots, PFM, robo-advisors, and so on. Banks are never the ones to be left behind when it comes to tech adoption. With digital transformation and customer experience as the top most priority, banks are now banking on AI to deliver the next-gen service to their customers.

It's tempting to equate the analogy to a loss of revenue. I was fortunate to have been part of what I consider the definitive take on how BlackBerry lost its lead in mobile. Yet Apple is already deeply invested in sequential inference and digital assistants, having acquired, integrated, and re-shipped Siri half a decade ago, there no signs of existing businesses being put on hold or major external system transition being underway. And they've got billions in the bank. It's better to equate the analogy to a loss of relevance.

Thank God Facebook is finally offering a dating app. Who better to entrust with the most intimate parts of our lives than Mark Zuckerberg, the king of privacy? I assume Zuck will be building it off of one of the early projects that established him as a wunderkind: FaceMash. You may remember it – it's the one where he hacked into campus websites, collecting pictures that allowed Harvard students to rank each other by hotness. With Facebook dating, the FaceMash dream is at last becoming reality.

Speaking in San Jose, California at Facebook's F8 gathering of tech folks, startups and others, Zuckerberg said that 2018 has been an "intense year" just four months in. Attendees grab their seats at the Facebook F8 2018 developer conference held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on May 1, 2018. Facebook is mulling a plan to sell its upcoming smart speakers internationally before launching them in the U.S., as American users and politicians have increased their focus on Facebook and user privacy, according to two people who have had discussions with the company about the devices. The two devices, which Facebook had intended on announcing at its F8 Developer Conference on Tuesday, are the company's answer to Amazon's Echo and Alphabet's Google Home products. The speakers, one of which will come with a camera and a touch screen, will connect directly to Facebook Messenger to make chatting with friends and family through the service much easier.