It's a fair question in light of attempts by authorities investigating the slaying of an Arkansas man to obtain voice recordings collected by an Amazon Echo speaker and its Alexa digital assistant. Yet the popularity and capabilities of voice-enabled products such as the Echo continue to grow. At the CES gadget show in Las Vegas, which opened Thursday, Whirlpool, Samsung and other manufacturers are unveiling new ways to use voice services to control laundry machines, refrigerators and other home systems. John Herrington, senior vice president of Samsung Electronics America, unveils new refrigerators with Family Hub 2.0 during a Samsung news conference before CES International, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Family Hub 2.0 features an interface on the refrigerator with apps that can be controlled by voice recognition.

If 2016 seemed politically tumultuous, 2017 promises to be equally tumultuous on the technology front. The pace of change is accelerating at a dizzying rate, with profound implications for the way we we work, play and communicate. So what are the big technology trends to watch out for in 2017? Cybersecurity will undoubtedly be the dominant theme of 2017, as all tech innovations could be undermined by data thefts, fraud and cyber propaganda. Forget Kim Kardashian, it's hacking that could break the internet - and much more besides.

First there was Alexa, Siri, Cortana and the Google Assistant. Now you can repare to add Aristotle to that growing list of voice-enabled assistants. Mattel's cheerful AI companion differs from the competition by focusing on children, first and foremost. It's been packaged inside a smart speaker (what else?) and promises to understand your little one's vocal ramblings, all the way from toddler to middle school. That's a bold promise, given most of the current offerings struggle with even the most eloquent adults.

Invoxia attended CES this year to showcase its successor to its Triby connected speaker. The new device, called Triby IO, is said to be a powerful hub for third-party smart home devices. The new Triby looks exactly the same as its portable predecessor, but it supports a wider range of smart devices compared to the latter. Invoxia said that its new smart portable speaker is basically "aimed at tech enthusiasts." It can be noted that when the company introduced the original Triby, it emphasized how it was a connected speaker for the kitchen, "where family life happens."

CES has turned into the first car show of the year, with major automakers choosing to show off upcoming features in Las Vegas. Microsoft wants to help make cars more intelligent, and it unveiled a new suite of services Thursday to do so. The Connected Vehicle Platform brings together a smorgasbord of services from Microsoft, including Azure IoT Hub, Cortana Intelligence Suite, Microsoft Dynamics and many others. In addition, Office 365, Skype for Business and Cortana can be integrated with the platform. Microsoft frequently packages cloud services as suites, then markets them for kick-starting particular applications.

Home appliances may not be the most exciting side of CES, but every year massive companies like LG and Samsung show off weird additions to the vast range of refrigerators, washing machines and other exciting devices. Take Samsung's "Family Hub 2.0" refrigerator, for example: this massive monolith has a 21.5-inch touchscreen built into it for playing video and audio, leaving your family notes and to-dos, ordering groceries, looking up recipes and much, much more. However, if Alexa and Google Home have taught us anything, the days of having to physically interact with our devices are coming to a close. Samsung is right on that curve: you can talk to the Family Hub 2.0 fridge and ask it to do a handful of tasks for you. You can add items to a grocery list or shopping cart in InstaCart and even check out using your voice, have it launch apps like Pandora, and have the fridge read back recipes to you.

Although CES formally opens today, press and analysts have already endured a day and a half of press conferences and mini-exhibitions. While CES will include almost every consumer product under the sun, there are themes and trends that emerge every year as the industry shifts around new technologies, business models, and consumer trends. As a result, these "press days" provide us a preview of what to expect at CES and some clear trends are quickly emerging. The first trend is the maturation of the IoT market with more complete smart home solutions. As an example, smoke detector company First Alert is demonstrating a complete line of smart home products that include a baby monitor that can detect respiration, a smoke/carbon monoxide detector that is Alexa enabled, a home health monitor, and a thermostat that is on the Google platform.

Artificial intelligence had a big year in 2016, with massive strides forward in deep learning and intuitive interfaces. On the consumer level, digital assistants like Siri and Cortana significantly improved, and in higher circles, AlphaGo definitively beat a human master Go player for the first time in history. As with most technology, AI capabilities have been evolving at an astounding rate, far surpassing expectations and setting us up for a landmark year in 2017. So how exactly will AI grow in 2017, and how should business owners and marketers prepare accordingly? First off, there's the Internet-of-Things (IoT), which has been on the verge of taking off for a few years now.

We are writing this blog to motivate all developer towards artificial intelligence and while reading this blog removes the complex that A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) is tough, difficult and blah, blah, blah. So now, we will explore the whole new world of artificial intelligence. So, what is artificial intelligence? Again, as we said we don't make things complicated, so, A.I. is just a piece of code which solves your real-life problem without getting any humans involved in it, or to be specific we can say that a software which is like a small child which needs some training and after that it is capable of solving your real-life problems. And if you want a specific definition by Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is usually defined as the science of making computers do things that require intelligence when done by humans.