In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages around you. While we aren't quite there yet, language is becoming less of a barrier than in generations past. "Understanding is going to become the new normal," says Dave Limp, Amazon's senior vice president of devices and services. Kids "will never grow up in world where they aren't able to hear any language. To that end, today's technology is helping to interpret and translate the world around us in ways that are nearing seamless and in real time. From apps on your phone to increasingly multilingual virtual personal assistants, communicating as a tourist or with clients, friends and family who don't speak the same language is less of a challenge. Yet for all the authentique gains achieved in translation over the past several years, don't count on your phone, smart speaker, PC or ear device ...

That shiny new smart light bulb that can be turned on and off with Alexa and change colors with the Google Assistant could be vulnerable to a hack. Security researchers from Check Point tested the Philips Hue models, the most popular smart lights brand, and says it successfully hacked into a home's computer network. It went to Philips to show its findings and says Philips has now fixed the issue, but Yaniv Balmas, Head of Cyber Research at Check Point Research says consumers of off-brand lights may not be as lucky. Amazon lists many brands in its smart light offerings, including Philips, Wyze, Teckin and Berennis. Oh no:Amazon's Ring security shares your personal data with Facebook and Google, report says Balmas warns that the same protocol flaw found in the Hue bulbs is also used by other popular devices, including the Amazon Echo speakers and Belkin's WEMO.

Every week, Invector Labs publishes a newsletter that covers the most recent developments in AI research and technology. You can find this week's issue below. You can sign up for it below. Conversational applications such as digital assistants or chatbots are one of the main use cases of artificial intelligence(AI) applications across diverse industries. Currently, most conversational models remain highly specialized and constrained to specific domains.

Financial services companies are investing in voice and chat conversational technologies -- but can they really drive engagement and streamline customer communications? Catch up on this VB Live event to learn how Capital One and others are leveraging these technologies to create meaningful customer experiences. Consumer enthusiasm around digital assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home sparked a run on investment in the financial services world. Financial institutions have been going all in on conversational technologies such as voice and chat in banking. "There's the near-term focus that a lot of folks gravitate to: How can we rip costs out of the system by having people interact with automation and AI instead of a human?" says Ken Dodelin, VP conversational AI products at Capital One.

Modern technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science have become popular but no one completely understands it. They appear to be extremely complicated to a layman. All these popular terms sound like a business executive or a student from a non-technical background. People often get confused by words like AI, ML and data science. In this blog, we clarify these technologies in basic words so you can easily distinguish them and how they are being used in business.

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The average time-frame of tech disruption in our lives has significantly diminished and things are changing at a rapid scale. In a span of few years, gadgets such as MP3 players, compact digital cameras, scanners, CDs, fax machines and several others have more or less disappeared. On the other hand, new-age technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), content streaming, automation, robotics and 5G have been growing in leaps and bounds to make our lives better. Let's take a look at five tech trends that are expected to explode in the decade that has just begun. Imagine a chip that can perform target computation in 200 seconds, which would otherwise take the world's fastest supercomputer 10,000 years.

I watch most TV shows and movies on my iPad these days, and something strange happened recently. My iPad – or rather apps such as Hulu and Bravo linked via Apple TV on my iPad – started showing me commercials in Spanish. That was interesting, since I hadn't touched the language settings, watched any shows in Spanish, or done any kind of internet activity in another language. But even more curious, was what had changed when the new commercials popped up. We had just moved to a more Spanish-speaking area of Oakland, California.

The ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) evaluates algorithms for object detection and image classification at large scale. This is was the benchmark that is used to date to evaluate the performance of the classification model. It also provided the Data to train big models. Apple acquired Siri for an amount reportedly in the vicinity of $200 million. The company immediately started working out how to bake Siri into the iPhone. And Jobs got hands-on about making the AI assistant user-friendly.

Google is working towards its best digital assistant that is capable of having a conversation based Artificial Intelligence (AI) model known as Meena. Meena, a neural network that has 2.6 billion parameters, is a multi-turn open-domain chatbot and claimed to be better than any other AI chatbot available in the market. Conversational AI is a comprehensive term used to natural language models for AI that understand human language, speak and completes tasks given in simple words. However, talking and carrying a Conversation are both different tasks as AI assistants like Alexa, Siri, Google doesn't really chat -- they just complete tasks and answers factual questions. Holding a human-like conversation is still very much impossible for the smart assistants available today.