You can now ask Siri to search for YouTube videos on your Apple TV. This new feature, which was highlighted onstage at this week's WWDC, was expected to roll out this summer. But it's available right now for all fourth-generation Apple TVs. SEE ALSO: Apple TV's biggest pain points are going to get solved with next tvOS Here's how to do it: Using the Siri remote, simply say "Search YouTube for Justin Bieber falls down" or "Show me E.T. as a charming '90s sitcom on YouTube" and Apple TV will enter your search commands into the YouTube app. You can search for specific videos, people, or channels.

Platforms like Apple HomeKit and IFTTT (If This Then That) help your Internet-connected devices talk to each other. Use these cloud services to build your own domestic surveillance state. Forget fishing for keys while holding a case of beer. Install this puck on the inside of your door and it unlocks the dead bolt as it senses you (well, your phone) approaching. It works with HomeKit now, so you can use your voice too: "Siri, open the door!"

You'd get a book that contained paragraphs with key words missing, replaced with hints as to what might fill the blanks. You and your friends would come up with silly words to complete the sentences, with predictably hilarious results. For this game, the same word belongs in all the blanks. See if you can figure out what the missing word is (here's the source if you can't resist peeking). The current software ecosystem allows only whole products to be commercialized - not functions or features....

SugarCRM has put AI at the core of its product plans and is working on a new intelligence service along with a Siri-like agent named Candace. Tapping the company's recent acquisitions of Stitch and Contastic, the new technology will be designed to help businesses spend less time entering data into their customer relationship management software and more time learning from and acting upon it. SugarCRM is scheduled to demonstrate the new capabilities Wednesday at its SugarCon conference in San Francisco. Nominate your analytics project today! "In the CRM space, we want people to focus on what they're good at: relating to others, such as customers and partners," Rich Green, SugarCRM's chief product officer, said in an interview last week.

Virtual assistant technology is rapidly spreading on smartphones and other devices, but there's a new player in the field that has caught the attention of Silicon Valley. Dag Kittlaus, one of the masterminds behind Siri, now the ubiquitous helper available on Apple products, is looking to push the boundaries of what a virtual assistant can do with his new product, dubbed "Viv" and powered by artificial intelligence. For eight months, a CNET team tested more than 40 smart home products in a first-of-its-kind "living laboratory." "So at its essence, most of the assistants that we use today do a few dozen things, so we want to open the system up and let developers build hundreds and thousands of times the number of capabilities," Kittlaus said. "So really it's an opening up of the system and letting the world teach it."

In this week's Brain Boost: monetizing chatbots, AI breaks the sound barrier, and Björk's VR. Monetizing chatbots Artificially intelligent assistants are all the rage. Facebook has an AI messenger bot that makes recommendations with you via chat. Amazon has Alexa, which can handle simple conversations and enables you to make purchases– all without turning on any device. And, of course, Apple's Siri performs a huge range of functions and will reportedly be a big part of next generation Macintoshes.

By now you've probably heard the story of Tay, Microsoft's social AI experiment that went from "friendly millennial girl" to genocidal misogynist in less than a day. While Tay promised to learn from her interactions with people online, Microsoft apparently hasn't learned anything from the countless headlines about how Twitter users like to talk to visible women – everything from gleefully anarchic trolling to threats and abuse – otherwise it would have seen this coming. At first, Tay's story seems like a fun one for anyone who's interested in cautionary sci-fi. What does it mean for the future of artificial intelligence if a bot can embody the worst aspects of digital culture after just 16 hours online? If any AI is given the vastness of human creation to study at lightning speed, will it inevitably turn evil?

I think we can all agree that The Onion is one of America's greatest treasures. And I'm not just saying that because they're headquartered in my adopted hometown of Chicago; I'm saying it because it's absolutely true. Its ability to consistently capture our malaise -- whatever our malaise of the day may be -- and translate it into meaningful, sharply funny satire is almost overwhelming, particularly during weeks like this. But I'm not here to heap generic praise on America's Finest News Source, there's been plenty of that. I'm here to question whether its writers and editors are, in fact, shapeshifting time-travelers from an alternate dimension who do a better job of predicting the future than actual, non-satirical pundits do.

The defining advance of the next decade, if you listen to the prophets of Silicon Valley, will be the seismic and unavoidable ascent of artificial intelligence. It might be hard to take the thought seriously when a satnav sends you down a dead-end country road, or your phone's autocorrect feature turns a carefully-constructed text message to gibberish, but the milestones reached in the past year alone have been exceptional. DeepMind, the British AI company owned by Google, has defeated the world champion at Go, the ancient game that requires a finely tuned sense of intuition to master. Driverless cars now seem like an inevitability rather than a curiosity. Error rates on image recognition technology have dropped from 25pc in 2011 to less than 4pc.

A robotic employee will be deployed instead of human council workers to answer customer queries. IPsoft said Amelia, its technology platform, will be deployed to work for Enfield Council in North London. Capable of analyzing natural language, she understands context, applies logic, learns, resolves problems and even senses emotions. IPsoft said Amelia will be deployed to work for Enfield Council in North London. Capable of analyzing natural language, she understands context and even senses emotions.