Apple says their voice recognition app Siri is improved. USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham puts Siri through a few tests to find out. The Tap is similar to Echo, but requires you to press a button to speak to Alexa. AI is now mentioned and discussed at nearly every major tech company event these days, and it's incorporated into a rapidly growing percentage of the news these companies are generating. More importantly, the kind of "contextual intelligence" AI can enable is finally starting to become real for people.

Professor Christopher Bartneck never believed his research paper, written by Apple's iOS autocomplete, would be accepted for a nuclear physics conference An academic who jokingly wrote a research paper written entirely by Apple's iOS autocomplete - and was subsequently filled with nonsense - has been accepted to present his findings at a nuclear physics conference. Christopher Bartneck, an associate professor at the University of Canterbury's Human Interface Technology laboratory in New Zealand, was stunned to discover he had been successful in securing a place at the conference, which takes place in America next month. 'I started a sentence with'Atomic' or'Nuclear' and then randomly hit the autocomplete suggestions,' wrote Bartneck in a blog post on Thursday. 'The text really does not make any sense.' Bartneck's mischievous side was fired up after receiving an invitation from the International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics, which will be held in Atlanta in November.

Moore's law has driven silicon chip circuitry to the point where we are surrounded by devices equipped with microprocessors. The devices are frequently wonderful; communicating with them – not so much. Pressing buttons on smart devices or keyboards is often clumsy and never the method of choice when effective voice communication is possible. The keyword in the previous sentence is "effective". Technology has advanced to the point where we are in the early stages of being able to communicate with our devices using voice recognition.

"Too big to fail" strategy did not save banks from failing in financial crush in 2008. Recent news about content meets pipe by merging AT&T and Time warner or previous news Comcast was buying Timer warner that was not successful. Delta airlines almost bought southwest airlines that was blocked. It was not blocked when Delta bought northwest. JP Morgan Chase bought several Banks during financial crush and became one of the biggest financial institution ever. Continuous effort to grow bigger and making their stock price higher.

We like to drink here at Geek.com. It's not quantity that matters, but quality, and as such, we've held several fine whisky tastings in the lab over the years. And the world-renowned scotch distillery tried to get artificial intelligence in on the sophisticated fun by putting out a whisky tasting skill for Amazon Alexa. Yes, if you really want to enjoy your scotch with the power of technology, you can simply install the skill on your Amazon Echo and say, "Alexa, open Johnnie Walker." And the voice app will open and walk you through a primer to savoring fine whisky.

You've probably heard politicians make more than a few outlandish claims, and not just in the run-up to the US presidential election. Do you really want to swing by a fact-checking website every time a candidate stretches credibility? As of now, you don't have to lift a finger. Duke Reporters' Lab has introduced an Amazon Echo skill that lets you fact-check any politician scrutinized by PolitFact, FactCheck.org If you want to know if Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is telling it straight, you just have to ask your wireless speaker whether or not a claim is true.

A friend of mine has spent more than the value of his San Antonio home on Amazon Prime in the last five years. That is precisely why the next big battlefield for marketing and advertising lies with artificially intelligent digital agents like Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Facebook M, and Cortana. And it's why the company that cracks AI-powered agents will be the next trillion-dollar corporation. Every communications technology that has ever been invented has been seized by brands as a new way to connect with customers. A marketing manager sent the first spam email in 1978.

Artificial Intelligence or AI is promising to be the successor or the biggest paradigm shift post the Mobile/Apps Era.. Yes your smart phones are not going anywhere for the time being, it just that the way you interact with it all set to change. The Mobile era which had fueled Internet 2.0 primarily the rise of Social and Apps is now making way for the AI era. And its probably AI which would eventually lead us to the post mobile world where you could talk to your devices be it a watch, speaker or any device to achieve everyday tasks. And needless to say the biggest names in tech – Google, Apple, Amazon, FB & Microsoft are all bracing up for the next game changing opportunity. The AI Wars are currently being fought on two fronts: One is at the Voice Assistant Level which is frankly a three way face off between Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant.

I say: Connecting with your audience and improving brand awareness. I say: Revolutionizing B2B sales and lead generation. Siri and Cortana, meet Kylie. Like the virtual assistants that can remind you of your upcoming appointments or give you the score of the game, a company aiming to help automate the mundane parts of the sales process has created an autonomous, machine learning-powered sales rep named Kylie. She can reportedly understand the meaning of sales conversations, performing many of the same functions as an entry-level sales person--except she's not a person.

Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. The one way Amazon can win over Google in the long run given Google's AI superiority in this space is by partnering better with device manufacturers. To start off, I don't think the battle between Amazon Echo and Google Home is as important as the one between Amazon Alexa, which is their voice assistance service, and the Google (Voice) Assistant. Both Amazon Echo and Google Home are speakers with voice assistance built into them. The speakers are fairly standard, as speakers go. The real magic happens in the voice assistants that sit in the cloud and do the heavy lifting on behalf of these devices.