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.

Professor Pascal Poupart is a senior researcher at Borealis AI, an RBC research institute, and a professor of computing science at the University of Waterloo. My parents thought I was crazy when I announced my intention to study artificial intelligence. Back then, in 1998, AI was considered a fringe group within the academic community, even though we knew the field had the potential to transform lives. Today, AI is among the hottest fields in academia, attracting the focus of every major university and the courtship of the world's biggest companies as they try to apply cognitive machine learning to just about every challenge in the marketplace. Thanks to this commercial interest and the academic pursuit of AI, we now have personal assistants in our smartphones, intelligent cybersecurity to protect our credit cards, and even recommendation engines in our favourite movie and music streaming services.

Senator Mark Warner of Virginia warns of'optimising for outrageous, salacious, and often fraudulent content' amid 2016 election concerns Mon 5 Feb 2018 07.00 EST Last modified on Mon 5 Feb 2018 07.02 EST The top-ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee has warned that YouTube's powerful recommendation algorithm may be "optimising for outrageous, salacious, and often fraudulent content" or susceptible to "manipulation by bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities". Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, made the stark warning after an investigation by the Guardian found that the Google-owned video platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 election. "Companies like YouTube have immense power and influence in shaping the media and content that users see," Warner said. "I've been increasingly concerned that the recommendation engine algorithms behind platforms like YouTube are, at best, intrinsically flawed in optimising for outrageous, salacious, and often fraudulent content." He added: "At worst, they can be highly susceptible to gaming and manipulation by bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities." YouTube's recommendation algorithm is a closely guarded formula that determines which videos are promoted in the "Up next" column beside the video player.

Google currently doesn't have a horse in this race. Several third-party manufacturers announced Google Assistant-powered smart displays at CES, but none are available right now. That leaves the Amazon Echo Show as the default winner. The Echo Show's best feature is its ability to make video calls to people on your contact list (it can also function as a video intercom within your home). But having a digital assistant that can also show you things has plenty of other useful applications, too: displaying album art (and lyrics, with Amazon's service) when you play music; shopping and to-do lists that you edit on the screen; illustrations that accompany your weather forecast; slideshows from your personal photo library; still photos from Wikipedia entries; and a whole lot more.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. Possibility is that you are using it in one way or the other and you don't even know about it. One of the popular applications of AI is Machine Learning (ML), in which computers, software, and devices perform via cognition (very similar to human brain). Herein, we share few examples of machine learning that we use everyday and perhaps have no idea that they are driven by ML. Siri, Alexa, Google Now are some of the popular examples of virtual personal assistants.

The firm's latest Alexa-powered addition to its Echo range adds a clock and touchscreen interface to the mix Mon 5 Feb 2018 04.00 EST Last modified on Mon 5 Feb 2018 04.02 EST Amazon's new Echo Spot is one of the most novel takes on a smart speaker yet, and while it is certainly more than just a smart clock, that's what it's best at – an attractive voice-assisted smart desk or bedside-table accessory. The Echo Spot is to the Echo Show what the Echo Dot is to the original Amazon Echo. That is to say, it can do everything the Echo Show can just in a smaller, cheaper ball-shaped device with a circular screen. That includes playing music, answering questions and showing the weather, video from cameras and the like. The Echo Spot is the first of Amazon's small army of voice-assistant speakers that can really be considered cute-looking. The 91mm-tall little black or white ball looks incredibly modern with just three buttons on the top and a crisp-looking 2.5in circular screen on the front.