Recent innovations around the autonomous car have shaken up the automotive industry. Manufacturers and their suppliers are all accelerating their work on the cars of the future, both regular human-operated cars as well as driverless or semi-autonomous vehicles. But beyond just issues of autonomy, these cars of the future are undergoing a fundamental shift in human-machine interaction. Consumers today crave more relational and conversational interactions with devices, as evidenced by the popularity of chatbots and virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa – and the automotive industry has taken notice. As such, next-generation cars are emerging as advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that will power an entirely new automotive experience in which cars will become conversational interfaces between the driver, passengers, the vehicle itself and its controls -- all connected to the IoT and mobile devices we use.

Babak Hodjat believes humans are too emotional for the stock market. So he's started one of the first hedge funds run completely by artificial intelligence. "Humans have bias and sensitivities, conscious and unconscious," says Hodjat, a computer scientist who helped lay the groundwork for Apple's Siri. "It's well documented we humans make mistakes. For me, it's scarier to be relying on those human-based intuitions and justifications than relying on purely what the data and statistics are telling you."

Computers have got much better at translation, voice recognition and speech synthesis, says Lane Greene. But they still don't understand the meaning of language I'm afraid I can't do that." With chilling calm, HAL 9000, the on-board computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey", refuses to open the doors to Dave Bowman, an astronaut who had ventured outside the ship. HAL's decision to turn on his human companion reflected a wave of fear about intelligent computers. When the film came out in 1968, computers that could have proper conversations with humans seemed nearly as far away as manned flight to Jupiter. Since then, humankind has progressed quite a lot farther with building machines that it can talk to, and that can respond with something resembling natural speech. Even so, communication remains difficult. If "2001" had been made to reflect the state of today's language technology, the conversation might have gone something like this: "Open the pod bay doors, Hal." "I'm sorry, Dave.

LG Electronics will put Amazon's Alexa voice-enabled virtual assistant in a new Smart InstaView refrigerator, allowing people to ask questions, play music, check calorie counts, and add items to their shopping lists by talking to their fridge. "I could just simply say, 'Alexa, add milk to my shopping list,' " explained David VanderWaal, LG vice president for home appliances and consumer electronics, unveiling the partnership at the company's news conference at CES this morning. "Or you could buy the milk if you wanted," added Mike George, vice president of Echo, Alexa and Appstore at Amazon, underscoring the tech giant's ambitions in the grocery business. The fridge, which runs the WebOS operating system, features a large touch-screen display and comes with a panoramic camera that can send an internal view of the refrigerator to the user's mobile phone, to check what's on hand when they're at the grocery store. It's the latest in a series of Amazon Alexa integrations expected to be announced at CES this week.

Today's artificial intelligence industry is not easy to quantify. Besides the lack of consensus on a coherent definition for "artificial intelligence" as a term, the field's nascent stage of development makes it difficult to carve out silos or hard barriers of where one industry or application ends, and another begins. In one of our more popular recent articles, we aimed to derive a valuation of the artificial intelligence market, based on current market research and our own insights. In this week's article, I've set out to determine more of a "lay of the land" of the AI industry, including it's various segments and application areas. If you're interested in how developments in machine learning and AI might impact your own company or business, then keeping an eye on trends in industry and application growth is pertinent.

People have always signified progress with their relentless endeavours to make life simpler and thanks to the co-operation of technology; the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen a number of advancements that revolutionised the functioning of our daily lives. Industries have, time and again, harnessed the advancements – the current one to lead the pack is'artificial intelligence'. Artificial intelligence is the most trending term in the business domain, with its major benefits catering to the decision-making process, according to Gartner analysts. The analysts' further predict that within the next five years, 50% of the analytical decisions will be made through AI: opting it over simple verbal interactions. Artificial intelligence is the process of transforming human predictions into a mechanical route with the help of parameters and algorithms, through performing tasks of decision-making, problem-solving and learning by encapsulating intelligent behaviour of computational process.

Major smartphone makers are following Apple and Google into the smartphone trend of 2017: artificial intelligence. LG's G6 could feature Google Assistant, Samsung said its Galaxy S8 will feature its own AI assistant, and Huawei's Mate 9 is the first phone with Amazon's Alexa. The Chinese conglomerate has been especially vocal about AI in their smartphones--unusual for top smartphone makers, who are normally secretive about their latest devices. Huawei said they will have an AI-focused "Superphone" in 2020--just a year before their goal to be the world's top smartphone maker. The Chinese tech giant has been sitting at No. 3 since last year, behind Samsung and Apple.

By now we have all heard the buzz. Siri has plenty of company. Alexa and Google have invaded the home. Tesla's artificial intelligence is, well, driving itself. Google's Deep Mind is running the company's multi-billion-dollar search business.

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is no longer the stuff of science fiction novels. From handheld phones with virtual assistants to the algorithms that tailor Netflix recommendations to viewers, Artificial Intelligence is working behind the scenes to improve people's lives in countless ways. AI can be a powerful tool that is useful not just in these familiar applications, but also for handling complex tasks like recruiting job candidates. Early AI, or Classic AI, worked by giving computers a series of rules to follow so those computers could perform functions the human brain could easily do, such as adding two numbers together. Artificial Intelligence has now evolved far beyond Classic AI into a new era of machine intelligence.

Bixby doesn't have the name recognition of Apple's Siri or the Google Assistant. That might change if rumors suggesting that a digital assistant called Bixby will be the new AI-infused helper inside Samsung's next big flagship phone prove correct. Samsung is expected to unveil the smartphone, presumably the Galaxy S8, in March, though the South Korean tech giant could tease its arrival later this month during the Mobile World Congress tech confab in Barcelona. One thing that's obvious: Samsung can't aim the spotlight on a new phone fast enough, not after the pricey and embarrassing battery-gate debacle that was the Galaxy Note 7. Samsung recently cited design and manufacturing flaws from two unnamed suppliers as the reason some lithium-ion batteries inside the phones caught fire. Whether it is called Bixby or something else, it appears a fresh voice-driven AI assistant will be one of the banner features inside Samsung's new phone, hardly surprising given the race to raise the IQs for such brainy digital assistants.