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Here's how to track Santa using Alexa this Christmas Eve
While we might not spot Santa on his sleigh this year, we'll know exactly where he is at any given moment. This Christmas Eve, starry-eyed kids can follow Kris Kringle's every stop by asking Amazon's Alexa to find him. Amazon is teaming with KAYAK for this holiday promotion. Alexa's AI is smart, but KAYAK has a connection that can't be beat by any type of smart tech. According to a press release, the travel aggregator will know Santa's location "using a combination of navigation software, algorithms and insider-elf intelligence from North Pole Central Command," in order to "pinpoint Kris Kringle's location during his holiday flight."
3 rules intelligent assistants must follow in the age of artificial intelligence
This has been the year of the chatbot. Siri opened up to developers recently. The Facebook Messenger bots arrived. The Slack App Store continues to evolve quickly with hundreds of bots. Chatbots have been in many ways disappointing to me, but they are an important step in the evolution of conversational technology.
Zuckerberg's home AI entertains toddler, dispenses grey t-shirts
Mark Zuckerberg has a new housemate: Jarvis, an artificial intelligence assistant he created this year that can control appliances, play music, recognise faces and, perhaps most impressively, entertain his toddler. The Facebook founder spent 100 hours putting together the virtual assistant -- named after the artificial intelligence system in Iron Man which understands spoken commands as well as text messages, he wrote in a 3000-word Facebook post Monday. The virtual assistant texts Zuckerberg images of visitors who stop by during the day, and opens the front door for those it recognises. It can also tell when Zuckerberg's 1-year-old daughter, Max, wakes up "so it can start playing music or a Mandarin lesson," he wrote. In a tongue-in-cheek video he posted on Facebook Tuesday, Zuckerberg offers an example of Jarvis at work: "Max woke up a few minutes ago. I'm entertaining her," the virtual assistant (voiced by Morgan Freeman) tells Zuckerberg, before turning his attention to the toddler.
iPhone 8, AI and Trump: Welcome to Apple in 2017
The TL;DR version is: pretty much what they did in 2016. Update popular hardware, expand services, steer clear of new product categories and make a boatload of money. However, buried inside those pat and rather obvious observations is a company that may be in search of its mojo. There is nothing wrong with Apple or its offerings, but the company that reinvented and reinvigorated numerous product categories has spent the last two years polishing its own Apples. In my totally anecdotal Twitter poll on which word best described Apple in in 2016 -- Aggressive, Innovative, Slipping, Successful -- Slipping won by a commanding margin.
Africa: What Are the Top 10 Tech Trends of 2017?
Data science, advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence will be centre stage technologies shaping business in 2017 and beyond. That's according to analyst firm, Gartner, which predicts that enterprise will see "intelligence everywhere" as new software-based systems, which are programmed to learn and adapt, permeate businesses within the next three to five years. As outlined by Gartner vice president and fellow, David Cearley, these intelligent trends will intertwine to form a'digital mesh', blurring physical and digital workspaces. Artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced machine learning (ML) are intelligent machines that can understand, learn and operate autonomously. "Applied AI and ML give rise to a spectrum of intelligent implementations, including physical devices such as robots, autonomous vehicles and apps and services such as virtual personal assistants and smart advisors," Cearley said.
This year, we learned to love AI assistants in our homes
This year, many of us let a stranger into our homes and ended up loving it. I am, of course, talking about voice-activated artificial-intelligence assistants. The success of Amazon's Alexa, the launch of Google's Home, and Mark Zuckerbrg's public quest to build his own digital butler all demonstrate that conversational interfaces, which we predicted would be a breakthrough technology in 2016, are here to stay. Amazon's Echo smart speaker, which is a conduit for the company's Alexa AI assistant, was officially available to all in the U.S. from 2015. But this year it also went on sale in the U.K. and Germany, and estimates suggest that it sold as many as two million units in the first nine months of 2016.
15 Game-Changing Artificial Intelligence Startups
You don't have to be a Go champion to have artificial intelligence change your game. You get in your car, and your Apple iPhone tells you what traffic looks like where you're going--before you ask. We're all on the road with Tesla's self-driving cars, which are redefining what driving means. The artificial intelligence calendar assistant Amy emails three of your friends to figure out a meeting time that works for everyone--and nails it. Thankfully, chatting with Amazon's Alexa is a lot more entertaining than, say, would be Hal, the fictional artificial intelligence from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Review: Apple's AirPod Wireless Earbuds Are Almost Perfect
The good: Easy setup, comfortable, Automatically pauses music when you remove a bud The bad: Expensive, Looks awkward when you're wearing them, Limited playback controls Who should buy: Apple fans willing to splurge on tangle-free earbuds When Apple launched the iPhone 7 this year, one controversial move stood out: The Cupertino, Calif.'s flagship smartphone no longer features a headphone jack. Instead, users connect older headphones to the phone's port via an adapter, use the included earbuds that connect the same way, or opt for wireless Bluetooth headphones. Using Bluetooth headphones, however, can be a pain. Pairing them can be a nightmare, and signals sometimes drop in the middle of a call or a song. Apple's attempt to fix those problems is now available in the form of AirPods, $159 wireless headphones that, thanks to the company's unique technology, instantly pair with a nearby iPhone. AirPods also have sensors allowing them to automatically mute a song when one bud is removed, while two taps on the side activate Siri, Apple's digital assistant.