The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 have a new camera with Super Slow-mo video, low light capability and AR Emoji for a more personalized way to express yourself. Samsung Galaxy S9 comes in three colors in the U.S. This one is lilac purple. BARCELONA--Put it this way, Samsung left the radical changes to Apple. The Galaxy S9 and S9 smartphones that Samsung introduced at a crowded press gathering here in Barcelona don't look a whole lot different than last year's S8 and S8 handsets.

Price: £89.99Amazon's second-generation Echo is a revamped version of the device that invented the whole category of smart speakers in 2014. The new Echo is smaller, better sounding and better looking, in a choice of fabric or wood finishes. What makes the Echo great is Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa. A ring of seven microphones in the top listens out for your choice of wake word – the default is simply "Alexa" – before sending what you say to Amazon's servers for interpretation. Alexa can almost always hear you including over music noise as loud as an extractor fan and from pretty far away.

It is predicted that the AI market will reach $153 billion in coming years. AI is slowly but surely making its presence felt in our daily lives. There are many applications of AI we are using today, from voice based personal assistant like Siri, Google Voice, Facebook bots, and Alexa, to more major advancements, like behavioural algorithms, suggestive searches, and self-controlled, self-driven vehicles boasting intense predictive capabilities. There are bots that can work as your personal assistant and help you order your food or clothes or even can book movie or flight tickets for you. However, artificial intelligence is still in its early stage.

We examine two main types of recommender systems: Content based and Collaborative filtering. Both have their pros and cons depending upon the context in which you want to use them.

Bots are the new black, everyone wants to build one. If you want to do it too, unless you have a Natural Language Processing expert on your team, public APIs are your safest bet. For building an app that has to understand a single command (ex. Siri), current APIs may solve your problem. If you want to build a conversational agent, things get more complicated.

Practical use cases for AI are delivering concrete, powerful business results, from reducing customer service costs to reliably helping deliver what a customer wants, when they want it and where. It's time to get AI-savvy to keep your competitive edge. Join Kayak's chief scientist and others at this VB Live event to learn how. "Data science is the core of Kayak," says Matthias Keller, chief scientist at travel booking giant Kayak. Since its inception, Kayak has used machine learning to improve the experience on their sites behind the scenes.

The dawn of the artificial intelligence age is upon us and the speed of technological development threatens to leave regulatory control in its wake. Those concerns were one of the key themes to emerge from the World Government Summit staged in Dubai this week. From agriculture and transport to healthcare and education, technology that was once considered science fiction is edging closer to reality. How that is managed in the decades to come is providing an imminent conundrum for governments and policy makers, and proved a common topic of discussion in forums during the three-day summit. "I believe we are right at the start of this revolution happening right now and I imagine more natural ways of communication so it will become seamless," said Carol Riley, president of Drive – AI. "This means non-verbal communication and machines start to understand what we are thinking."

Digital assistants like Alexa and Google home have made sci-fi a reality. At CES 2018, we check out the next generation of products that will make our lives easier and more connected.

We spend a lot of time talking to Alexa and Siri. Imagine if such artificial personalities were put inside a cute, adorable robot. That's what Alexander Reben has done. The artist created what he saw as the perfect interview machine to see how much he could get people to reveal to the robot. Reben's experiments with human robot interactions began when he was working on his Ph.D. in robotics at MIT.

But have you met Sara? Sure, she can do basic tasks, like help you find a movie that you might like to watch, or match you with someone you should meet at an event. But behind the scenes, she's also watching your expressions, assessing your emotions, determining the strength of your budding relationship, and adjusting her approach to form a lasting bond. Sara is actually "SARA," the Socially Aware Robot Assistant, a prototype virtual assistant created by Carnegie Mellon University researchers in a larger quest to use machine learning to better understand human behavior and personalize user experiences. The idea is "to build systems that remind us of what we care most about -- that sustain and scaffold and protect those aspects of being human that are really important, like relationships," said professor Justine Cassell, an associate dean in CMU's School of Computer Science and a specialist in human-computer interaction. It's one piece of an initiative called "Project InMind."