I recently found a great new service on Product Hunt. My new PA is an artificial intelligence (AI) application – Amy – and she's insanely clever. Let me show you how to save hours on scheduling using this service, and then I'll ask you a question about how AI should be applied to planning. I would love to hear your feedback. Below is the test email exchange between my new AI personal assistant (Amy) and myself, as well as a couple of my internal colleagues (Nick and Brett), to set up a meeting that is good for the three of us.

Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) is set on dominating markets that are bound to become massive cash mines in the future. There is significant growth expected from its Data Center business. The company recently announced it would dedicate $250 million to the development of self-driving car systems. The chip maker is also gunning to secure a stronghold in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Analysts are confident about Intel's capacity to rake in the IoT segment in the process.

Mention artificial intelligence and a discussion about the robot wipeout of humankind is sure to follow. It's a technology as strongly associated with creation as it is with destruction. It's also a technology that businesses will increasingly trust in decision-making, Gartner analysts said Monday at the research firm's annual Symposium/ITxpo here. In the next three to five years, Gartner predicts that 50 percent of all analytical interactions will be delivered via artificial intelligence, and many of the insights will be gleaned through verbal interactions. People already know and interact with A.I. systems through IBM's Watson, IPSoft's Amelia, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Assistant.

Nintendo Reports Second Quarter Losses But 3DS Sales Are Up Thanks To'Pokmon GO' Increasingly, the world is becoming an intelligent, digitally enabled mesh of people, things and services. Technology will be embedded in everything in the digital business of the future, and ordinary people will experience a digitally-enabled world where the lines between what is real and what is digital blur. Rich digital services will be delivered to everything, and intelligence will be embedded in everything behind the scenes. We call this mesh of people, devices, content and services the intelligent digital mesh, and this forms the basis for our Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning have reached a critical tipping point and will increasingly augment and extend virtually every technology enabled service, thing or application.

Google Keep is probably the best Google service that most people don't use. Services like Keep, Evernote and Microsoft OneNote are often called "note-taking apps." They've grown beyond their roots, now offering collaborative workflow, reminders, checklists, geofencing, optical character recognition, voice transcription, sketching and more. A few years ago, I would have recommended Evernote. But over the summer, Evernote took a wrong turn.

However, smartphone AI has gone above and beyond Siri's initial features. Cortana from Windows can let us know the weather and remind us of important dates that are coming up, while Google's personal assistant will integrate with Google Home and Apollo so you have a one-stop assistant for all your personal and business needs. The Yahoo Tech journalists compared Siri vs Cortana, Google Now, and Alexa to find out which voice assistant is better. They found out that Siri (iPhone) and Google Now (Android) are the only assistants that flawlessly handle requests like "Remind me to pick up my dry cleaning when I leave home" or "Remind me to wear red on Valentine's Day". And only Siri executes such spoken instructions as "Make the screen brighter" or "Learn how to pronounce "Jacquee."

The above sector map organizes the Artificial Intelligence sector into 13 categories and shows a sampling of companies in each category. Deep Learning/Machine Learning (Platforms): Companies that build computer algorithms that operate based on their learnings from existing data. Examples include predictive data models and software platforms that analyze behavioral data. Deep Learning/Machine Learning (Applications): Companies that utilize computer algorithms that operate based on existing data in vertically specific use cases. Examples include using machine learning technology to detect banking fraud or to identify the top retail leads.

In the TV show --Westworld,-- artificially intelligent (AI) robots built to look and act exactly like humans take guests through different narratives of an old-west-styled amusement park in order to help them live out their fantasies -- whether promiscuous, adventurous, or deadly. In episode two of the show, one robot--s glitch gives --Westworld-- employees pause, causing them to decommission it. A scientist in the programming division suggests this glitch may be contagious, --so to speak,-- and could infect other robots, or --hosts-- as they call them in the show. This theory is denied by her superior, but later in the episode, the daughter of the decommissioned robot is shown seemingly infecting another host with "consciousness" by repeating what could--be a trigger phrase:--"These violent delights have violent ends." All of this seems like an eerie (and perhaps, impossible) peek into the future, but Christopher Atkeson, a professor at the Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, told INSIDER that simulated consciousness already exists in products such as Amazon Echo and the iPhone--s Siri, and that AI systems infecting other AI systems is not a hypothetical scenario.

If there's a new gadget released, odds are Peter Pham has bought it. The co-founder of tech incubator Science, Inc., Pham is obsessed with the latest new devices, and lives in a home surrounded by the newest in virtual reality, communication gear and bluetooth headphones. With new devices, "we live in a world where we smile a little more and enjoy our lives a little more," says Pham, whose company has helped firms like Dollar Shave Club and DogVacay get off the ground. For our extended weekend edition of the #TalkingTech podcast, we sat down with Pham to go over his top 10 favorite items of the year, a roster that for includes some obvious ones--Google's new PhotoScan app for snapping pictures of photos with your smartphone camera--minus glare, and Eero, the device for improving the home internet signal. He loves Google Home, Google's $129 answer to Amazon's Echo, a personalized digital assistant for the home to answer Google queries.

Can you tell us a bit about MindMeld? MindMeld is a leading Conversational AI company, now offering Deep-Domain Conversational AI. The company has pioneered the AI technology behind the emerging generation of intelligent voice and chat assistants and currently powers advanced conversational experiences used by some of the world's largest media companies, government agencies, automotive manufacturers, and global retailers. MindMeld's customers and investors include Google, Samsung, Intel, Telefonica, Liberty Global, IDG, USAA, Uniqlo, Spotify, In-Q-Tel and others. What does Deep-Domain Conversational AI mean?