Geosocial apps are having a bit of a moment. Tinder, Bumble, and a host of other services have emerged in recent years, promising to foster connections with real people, nearby. But online dating paved the way for these apps -- and even supposedly platonic services like Bumble BFF have struggled to shrug off the romantic connotation. So where does that leave people who aren't looking for love, but do want to use new technology to make friends? That question -- or "shower thought," as he puts it -- motivated Antoine Daher to create Patook, an app that connects people based on common interests.

The app won't require any sort of authentication, allowing anyone -- with or without a cable subscription -- to watch CBSN. It takes advantage of the 4th generation Apple TV's Siri integration, letting viewers launch the live stream by telling Apple's personal assistant they want to "Watch CBS News." While the stream is playing on the top left-hand corner of your screen, users can also browse and bookmark related videos.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an umbrella terminology of various technologies, statistical models, algorithms, and approaches aiming to emulate human like intelligence with machines or software. It learns from environment and take action accordingly. Widely popular AI technologies include Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image Recognition, Voice Recognition, Artificial Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, and many more. Machine Learning (ML) is sub-field of computer science and a special type of AI technology that involves in the development of self-learning algorithms to solve problem intelligently. All ML is AI but all AI is not ML, for example, symbolic logic, Baysian statistics, evolutionary algorithm etc. are AI but not machine learning (ML).

Google's recent victory against top-ranked Go player Lee Sedol marks another milestone in artificial intelligence development, and though this might be considered "old" news by today's standard, it's still a fresh achievement for the AI world. As much as this gameboard conflict between man and machine has encouraged conversation about competition, it has also sparked increasing conversation around the potential collaborative possibilities. "I think the main reaction from the Go community will be, as indeed happened after IBM computer Deep Blue achieved grandmaster status in chess, is that people want to get hold of the software and use it in their own games to work out where they went wrong." This kind of industry-specific technology has the potential to be used to further thinking, strategy, and goals within the game; however, Google's Go algorithm still can't manage a daycare or compose a nostalgic sonnet--and there are still many tasks best done by human beings. By utilizing and combining the individual strengths of both humans and AI, the collaborative possibilities are limitless, and are quickly becoming applicable in much more than board games.

However, the new Microsoft is directed towards building more intelligent apps and services, where the company's future seems bright once again. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has expressed his fascination with HoloLens, the company's most exciting product in years. Even though it will take some time until we see the full potential of this platform, we can already see what it's capable of. After all, HoloLens is highly futuristic, innovative, and intelligent – and this is exactly what the new Microsoft hopes to become. What is important to consider is how different tech giants are trying to implement the next-generation technology into their products and services.

Recently, we have seen artificial intelligence triumph over humans in Jeopardy and chess. And there is a growing presence of virtual assistants like Alexa, Cortana, and Siri that populate our computers, phones, and homes. It's only a matter of time before A.I.-powered assistants play a significant role in the workplace, experts say. In fact, the global intelligent virtual assistant market is forecast to be worth 5.1 billion by 2022, up from – 600 million in 2014, according to Transparency Market Research. What are the potential benefits and challenges of giving smart virtual assistants a home in the enterprise?

THE WINOGRAD Schema Challenge is a competition intended to reward technologists who can build a system that understands the kind of ambiguous sentences humans come out with all the time, but which are simple for other humans, even stupid ones, to understand. Get it right 90 per cent of the time and 25,000 is up for grabs. And with things like Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Assistant, the Winograd Schema Challenge must surely be as good as obsolete by now. The best two entrants at the event this week achieved correct scores only 48 per cent of the time, little better than randomly guessing the meaning of the sentences they were supposed to crack. This is despite a decade of advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), which has barely shifted since the late 1950s, according to some.

Apple's biggest move was to open up the talking iPhone assistant to third-party developers for inclusion in their apps, paving the way for users to hail a ride from Uber or send a message with Tencent's WeChat using voice commands. Experts in artificial intelligence applauded the move as an important step forward, in part because the more people use an artificial intelligence system, the better it becomes. But some wondered why Apple had not made Siri an open platform much sooner, noting that competing products including Amazon.com's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana and the Google app are already open to developers. "Is it too little too late?" "Siri is five years old and still trying to learn how to play well with others."

It was a worrying refusal that does not bode well for the future of humanity. In New York to help Mastercard launch its rebrand and a new mobile payment service, the machine answered several questions - but refused to reveal its ultimate ambitions, simply flashing its eyes. 'I was named Pepper as I'm here to spice up your life, and my nickname is Pepperoni,' the robot then told us. Pepper also revealed it knows the three laws of robots, which include not harming humans, adding'I think robots should love humans.' However, it also refused to answer whether is was looking to take our reporter's job, simply waving and saying goodbye at that point, cutting the interview short. Betty DeVita of Mastercard reveal the Pepper unit normally works in a Pizza restaurant.

Up until recently, artificial Intelligence (AI) was regularly associated with sci-fi films and dystopian futures -- but a shift has occurred and it already plays a much more commonplace and integral role in our everyday lives. From betting on the Kentucky Derby, to helping us interact with our banks, emails, and families through AI assistants such as Alexa and Siri, AI is becoming ever more important. It is also becoming more integral to businesses. The 2016 Accenture Technology Vision report showed that 70 percent of corporate executives are making more investments in AI-related technologies than they were two years ago, with 55 percent stating that they plan on using machine learning, deep learning, as well as embedded AI solutions like Amelia. Businesses are using this technology to fundamentally change the way they operate and to drive a new, more productive relationship between people and machines.