Facebook will one day have a conversational agent with human-like intelligence. Siri, Google Now, and Cortana all currently attempt to do this, but go off script and they fail. That's just one reason why Mark Zuckerberg famously built his own AI for home use in 2016; the existing landscape didn't quite meet his needs. Of course, his company has started to build its AI platform, too--it's called Project M. M will not have human-like intelligence, but it will have intelligence in narrow domains and will learn by observing humans. And M is just one of many research projects and production AI systems being engineered to make AI the next big Facebook platform.

Adobe Sensei is a new framework launched in November last year. It uses machine learning technology and a set of artificial intelligence services built into the Adobe Cloud Platform to provided enhance user experience to applications and tools.

After the close of last year's holiday shopping season, sales of dollhouses mysteriously surged on Amazon.com. After a local news report about a six-year old who ordered a dollhouse using her parents' Amazon Echo, the anchorman said ""I love that little girl saying'Alexa ordered me a dollhouse.'" And mistakenly, Echo speakers that heard the news started making orders themselves. Enabled on every Amazon Alexa app by default, voice purchasing mines your previous Amazon purchases and other products available through the Amazon Prime subscription shopping service to let you easily order items without having to browse the company's website. So the best way to ensure something like this doesn't happen to you is to disable or restrict the feature.

These women are not metaphors, but Hustvedt casts them as little more than phantoms in her reverie. Likewise, there is a lot of performative contemplation here, during which the occasion for and specifics of the chin stroking seem to matter less than the fact that the author is stroking her chin. Take the essay "Much Ado About Hairdos." "All mammals have hair," Hustvedt begins in a characteristic rehearsal of the obvious, making a show of seeing the familiar anew. "Hair is not a body part so much as a lifeless extension of a body. Although the bulb of the follicle is alive, the hair shaft is dead and insensible."

HBO's The Young Pope has not yet premiered in the U.S., but we just feel like we know him, you know? Despite disturbing reports that Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) is not as cool as our memes had hoped, one big thing we feel like we know about him is that he might have sex. The show is on HBO, after all -- there's gotta be a temptation plot line, right? So we thought we'd go ahead and make this younger-than-average pope an online dating profile. SEE ALSO: 'The Young Pope' has awakened something beautiful in the internet

Mashable kicked off the year by doing what we always do: Flying to Las Vegas and scouring CES, the year's largest tech show, for the latest gadgets and tech trends. As expected, AI, dominated the show, with tons of new products adding Amazon Alexa support. The weirdest one might have been LG's Smart InstaView refrigerator. Do you really need Alexa in your fridge? We also saw a boatload of self-driving smart cars and futuristic car technology. Noteworthy appearances came from Faraday Future, which finally showed off its high-tech FF 91 and Toyota's Concept-i UX car with built-in Yui digital assistant.

Microsoft has showed off more of what's coming in the Creators update in April. The latest "Fast Ring" Insider Preview, released just days after the last one, notably makes it easier to work across multiple computers. Cortana now shows quick links for Edge browser websites, cloud-based documents and other recent work when you switch to a different PC. "For example, if you were working on a PowerPoint deck on your laptop, when you later return to your desktop, a link to that deck appears in the Action Center," Microsoft wrote in a lengthy blog. Edge users can now also share tabs with other apps, making it easy to switch from one browser to the next and keep your tabs intact.

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There are apps that let users keep tabs on smartphone use, especially for parents wanting keep an eye on their kids. Q: I am really worried about my teenage daughter. She is on her phone all the time. Is there a free app to see what she is doing? A: Cell phones are a blessing and a curse.

Yariella Coello, head of consultancy at data science and intelligent marketing company Profusion, discusses how tech companies can describe complex subjects like artificial intelligence to everyday consumers. Amazon has been making headlines again with the opening of concept store Amazon Go in Seattle. This follows hot on the heels of Google unveiling Google Home and Pixel, with Google Assistant as one of its selling points. Meanwhile, we've all got used to having the likes of Siri and Cortana in our pockets and on our laptops. What links all these entities is artificial intelligence (AI), but ask any average Joe on the street about this and they're more likely to bring up Humans or Westworld as a reference point. Ask them what they understand about machine learning and they're likely to draw a blank.