Amazon just announced a new feature that it hopes will make us all more willing to invite Alexa into our everyday lives, and that is the ability to express certain emotions depending on specific interactions. Amazon is utilizing a Neural text-to-speech (NTTS) system that it claims is able to make the smart voice assistant's responses sound more natural than a pre-recorded audio snippet. There are six different emotions available to developers right now, including low, medium, and high variants of excited and disappointed responses. Amazon envisions these tones being used in Alexa games, as well as in response to requests for details about the news or scores from your favorite sports team. Here's a short example of one of Alexa's new emotional responses (high level disappointed):

Artificial intelligence (AI) is red-hot and for good reason. Coca-Cola is an example of a company that leverages AI to squeeze every drop of insight it can from the customer data it collects. Ever wonder how Cherry Sprite came about? Coca-Cola created Cherry Sprite as a new flavor after monitoring data collected from "smart" self-service soft drink fountains that allow customers to mix their own drinks. With more than 100 million Facebook fans and 35 million Twitter followers, Coca-Cola has used social media as another hugely important source for gathering customer insight.

RICHLAND, WA - Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working on improving doctor-patient relationships through new technology. A team of scientists has been working on this for the past few years. The goal is not to replace a doctor, but to assist them in accurately diagnosing a patient based on their symptoms. Imagine walking into a doctor's office and using technology like Siri or Google Assistant to help determine a diagnosis based on your symptoms. That's how PNNL scientists envision future doctor-patient care. "We will have this conversational interface with a system that will help the doctor to collect all different data sources and provide information that will help the doctor have a more precise diagnostic," computer scientist Robert Rallo said.

Tinder claims to have made 30 billion matches to date, but many of those connections did not go beyond the digital world. A new analysis found that many users do not meet their potential mate in-person and the chances of finding someone interested in a long-term relationship are very slim. Researchers discovered that users need a very large number of matches in order to have just a few meetups - as only 50 percent of users met one match face-to-face. Tinder is a location-based mobile dating service app that presents users with pictures, name, age and other information of potential mates. Users swipe either left (not interested) or right (interested) on the screen, and provided both users swipe right they are matched and can begin messaging.

Fox News Flash top headlines for Nov. 27 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com A Georgia man is accused of scamming a Virginia woman out of more than $6.5 million after wooing her into a romantic relationship through an online dating site. Nnamdi Marcellus MgBodile, 35, from Marietta, Georgia, was charged with 20 counts of bank fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, according to a Justice Department press release on Wednesday. MgBodile and others also allegedly tried to scam a company out of $350,000 using an email scheme, according to the DOJ.

Black Friday or Cyber Monday, take your pick; it's that time of year again. If you're in the market for a smartphone -- and it's statistically likely you are, given that 403.5 million handsets shipped last holiday season -- there's no better month to seek out promotions, discounts, and limited-time deals on new devices. Samsung is hosting a sale on Galaxy phones including the Galaxy S10e, S10, S10 Plus, and S10 5G, and OnePlus recently knocked $150 off the price of the OnePlus 7 Pro. Carriers like T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon are awarding up to $700 in trade-in credits, and as for retailers, there's the usual doorbusters. It's almost too much of a good thing -- particularly if you aren't committed to a brand, a model, or a manufacturer. Conventional wisdom would have you judge a device by its screen or perhaps its camera, but we took a different tack last year with our guide to the best phones for the AI enthusiast.

How are data and AI transforming transportation? While our growing dependencies on mobile phones stand to threaten road safety and increase rates of distracted driving, other technology innovations can work in safety's favor. Developments in 5G networks, autonomous vehicles, and artificial intelligence are poised to transform the way we drive and the safety of our roads. Today, road crews have to physically go on-site to inspect a problem and determine what next steps are required. But through new video and sensor data, road maintenance crews will receive alerts of life-threatening hazards faster than ever.

According to Facebook, over half of Instagram's roughly 1 billion users visit Instagram Explore to discover videos, photos, livestreams, and Stories each month. Predictably, building the underlying recommendation engine -- which curates the billions of pieces of content uploaded to Instagram -- posed an engineering challenge, not least because it works in real time. In a blog post published this morning, Facebook for the first time peeled back the curtains on Explore's inner workings. Its three-part ranking funnel, which the company says was architected with a custom query language and modeling techniques, extracts 65 billion features and makes 90 million model predictions every second. Before the team behind Explore embarked on building a content recommendation system, they developed tools to conduct large-scale experiments and obtain strong signals on the breadth of users' interests.

The global artificial intelligence (AI) market size was valued at USD 20.67 Billion in 2018 is projected to reach USD 202.57 Artificial intelligence is the result of a perfect blend of several technologies leading to the creation of intelligent hardware or software, capable of replicating human behaviors, namely learning and problem-solving. The version of artificial intelligence technology available at present allows machines to complete various human tasks, such as driving automobiles and reacting to their environment, providing virtual assistance, and even playing games. Forms of AI in use today include digital assistants, chatbots and machine learning, among others. AI will facilitate more seamless integration of supply chain data, enabling anticipatory production and efficient delivery of products to customers.

When we provide ratings for products and services on the internet, all the preferences we express and data we share (explicitly or not), are used to generate recommendations by recommender systems. The most common examples are that of Amazon, Google and Netflix. In this article, I have combined movie attributes such as genre, plot, director and main actors to calculate its cosine similarity with another movie. The dataset is IMDB top 250 English movies downloaded from data.world. Ensure that the Rapid Automatic Keyword Extraction (RAKE) library has been installed (or pip install rake_nltk).