The recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2018, has revealed the latest innovations and tech trends. The world's largest tech event was held from January 9 – 12 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Nevada, US. The annual tech show witnessed some awesome tech novelties that will become part of our lives in the coming years. Keeping a tab on some of these tech trends will help you stay smart in this super digital world. Have a look at some of the dominant technology advances that rocked the CES floors. The CES trade show has revealed a number of highly automated AI-driven products and gadgets.

For the majority of people, it wasn't long ago that Artificial Intelligence was synonymous with digital personal assistants like Siri and Cortana. AI research was kept largely under the radar, and confined to big technology companies. AI is now a business necessity when it comes to understanding and analysing valuable data. Aside from dealing with data, AI is now used by companies across the spectrum to automate processes, detect fraud, respond to customer queries and carry out menial, but important, administrative tasks. Artificial Intelligence is only improving.

Collaborative Filtering, on the other hand, does not require any information about the items or the users themselves. It recommends items based on users' past behavior. I will elaborate more on Collaborative Filtering in the following paragraphs. As mentioned above, Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a mean of recommendation based on users' past behavior. The key idea behind CF is that similar users share the same interest and that similar items are liked by a user.

When Alexa loses her voice, celebrities--including Rebel Wilson, Cardi B, and Anthony Hopkins--help her get it back. Amazon's Alexa Super Bowl ad was a hit during the big game. With guest spots from Gordon Ramsey, Cardi B, Rebel Wilson, Sir Anthony Hopkins and even founder Jeff Bezos, the ad impres...

If you ask my kids how they search for information on the Internet, they'll look at you like you're from outer space. "Why use the Internet when you can just ask Alexa?!?" Just like that, Generation Z is moving away from Googling what they want to know--and asking AI-powered assistants to find out for them. It's a shift that's been made possible due to huge recent leaps in machine learning and natural language processing (NLP), the technology powering conversational devices like Amazon's Echo and Google Home. Perhaps the coolest part: advancements in conversational AI are just now hitting the tip of the iceberg. It may not be long before Generation Z is turning to its bot assistants for talk therapy and dating advice.

When Alexa loses her voice, Cardi B and several other celebrities, including Gordon Ramsay, Rebel Wilson, and Sir Anthony Hopkins, help her get it back. Amazon's Alexa Super Bowl ad was a hit during the big game. With guest spots from Gordon Ramsey, Cardi B, Rebel Wilson, Sir Anthony Hopkins and even founder Jeff Bezos, the ad impressed fans and critics alike, even winning USA TODAY's Ad Meter poll as the highest rated ad. When Alexa loses her voice, celebrities--including Rebel Wilson, Cardi B, and Anthony Hopkins--help her get it back. But did the spot, which poked fun at the idea of Alexa losing her "voice," actually include a hint at the future location of Amazon's second headquarters?

Kurt the'CyberGuy' comments on new services and apps that do. YouTube's powerful recommendation algorithm may be "optimizing for outrageous, salacious and often fraudulent content" or easily manipulated by "bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities," a top-ranking Democrat on the Senate's intelligence committee said. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner made the statement after a Guardian investigation reported that the Google-owned video platform was consistently promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign before the 2016 election. "Companies like YouTube have immense power and influence in shaping the media and content that users see," Warner told the Guardian. "I've been increasingly concerned that the recommendation engine algorithms behind platforms like YouTube are, at best, intrinsically flawed in optimizing for outrageous, salacious, and often fraudulent content."

A new research on Artificial Intelligence has shown that U.S tech giant Google is on top on their game when it comes to the AI market. Google's AI was compared with those of co-travellers in the AI market like Apple, Baidu, and Microsoft but they all fail to match the brainpower displayed by Google's AI. The report interestingly shows that Google's AI is almost at the same level as the level of intelligent a normal six-year-old child would display. The study seems to have been conducted last with Google's AI having an IQ score of 47.28 points. This is just some figures lower than the IQ of a 6-year-old child whose IQ score is 55.5 points.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Daimler's new Mercedes A-Class, unveiled on Friday, includes the German automaker's own machine-learning and voice recognition technology in one of the industry's boldest attempts so far to take on Silicon Valley's finest. The Mercedes "MBUX" dashboard system to be rolled out across the lineup is about as capable at understanding what you say - and more importantly what you mean - as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri or Alphabet's Google Assistant. Its debut comes as carmakers are embroiled in a tech arms race, raising questions about the ultimate profitability of new services that often duplicate those available on smartphones. Daimler itself warned on Thursday that 2018 profit growth would be dampened by technology investment. Carmakers, especially premium manufacturers, are resisting the encroachment of tech giants on several fronts including autonomous driving and connected services - whose commercial potential multiplies with voice recognition and assistance.

Thanks to user-generated content (UGC), our use of video and photography has dramatically increased, resulting in a more challenging task of tracking and categorizing all this unstructured data. Image and video recognition, or computer vision, has become a broad category encompassing many different use cases. Imagine if you were looking for a particular type of shoe or piece of furniture, but you just couldn't find the right words to express it in a text search box. As an alternative to typing in your search criteria, we are now getting accustomed to voice search via Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Google Home, etc. However, at the end of the prompt, the voice is really just fulfilling a text query.