Many aspects of artificial intelligence - the technique of training a machine to learn in a way which resembles a human being - may not be entirely new, but with the increasing availability of relatively cheap and flexible computing power the technology is becoming far more accessible. A number of tech companies and vendors are now offering APIs and frameworks that allow businesses to create their own intelligent services. Most businesses are at very early stages of adoption, however there are a growing number of examples where the smart technology is being used to optimise back office and consumer-facing systems and processes. Here are just some of the enterprise use cases around machine learning and AI that we are seeing...

Researchers worked on the Defects4J benchmark data-set – a collection of bugs from object-oriented, open-source programmes, including Java. "We investigated 20 method-invocation related bugs, with trackable bug repositories, from Defects4J," said Fujitsu. It found 29 out of the 49 single-fault-location bugs (59.2%) in the Defects4J data-set are method-invocation related bugs, saying that patches for such bugs typically have a have a large number of candidate patches, often several hundred. "Conventional techniques, such as the heuristic-search-based automated repair tool ACS, essentially do not fix method-invocation related bugs, and can correctly fix only six out of the 29 [20.7%] "By contrast, our technique, fixed method-invocation bugs and generated 15 correct patches out of 29 bugs [51.7%], and overall correctly fixed 26 out of the 49 bugs."

"Technology is super critical to what we do in a lot of ways," Lortscher said, adding that the aim for Curology's technology was to make it easy for both the patient and doctor to connect with each other. The idea came to him, he said, while he was practicing in New Mexico and his patients were driving one or two hours to see him. He began encouraging them to send him photos of their progress instead of having to come in for a check-up, especially if they were satisfied with treatment results and weren't experiencing serious problems.

We live in a crazy world where a robot was recently given citizenship to a sovereign country for the first time. Granted, the country is Saudi Arabia and the robot's creator is creepier than the robot itself, but it's hard to ignore the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving quickly and becoming ingrained in various aspects of our lives. Programmatic advertising online is a space that was driven by empowering computers to make decisions by taking into account enormous amounts of data that the human mind could never process. Is influencer marketing, a space that has been plagued by a lack of automation, in line for a revolution? If you ask me, automation will streamline the influencer campaign process.

A meritocracy is all about rewarding people on the basis of their abilities. This almost always turns out to be those people who work harder and take bigger risks. It's what has made our present day society so great. Everything you see around you today is the result of a meritocracy that rewards those people who work the hardest and accomplish the most. The social media platforms people use to spew forth outrage about the "myth of meritocracy" and how "unfair the system is" fail to realize that it's a meritocracy that has motivated the founders of said platforms to forgo evenings in front of the television in favor of 70-hour work weeks to build something that made them quite wealthy.

This "fail fast and pivot" approach is also fun for the team because it breaks the daily routine. Throughout the hack, client facing colleagues joined us in the hack room to provide real-time guidance against the needs of HR and payroll professionals. This enabled us to pivot even during the hack and create some great outcomes.

That was my key take away from a bunch of conversations I had at Productronica, the tradeshow for electronics development and production in Munich in November and at the more recent consumer electronics tradeshow CES in January. Not just in consumer electronics, smart cities, and autonomous vehicles, but also around the factory as we search for the next big step along the road to the fourth industrial revolution. A glance at the available market research confirmed my suspicions. The artificial intelligence market was valued at $1.36 billion in 2016 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 52% during the forecast period from 2017 to 2025, according to a recent report from Research and Markets. I realized that these big industry events offered a huge opportunity in terms of industry insight and knowledge.

If you don't like getting up to answer the door, you're in luck. Today Amazon's dropped the price of the Ring Video Doorbell Pro to $199. This smart doorbell comes with four interchangeable face plates and features a 1080p wide-angle camera with infrared night vision. As you'd expect with a smart device, it has an accessible live view, and you can archive video for later viewing if you opt for the cloud video-recording subscription plan. The Doorbell Pro has a two-way talk feature that allows you to interrogate the visitors at your door, and also has motion-detection and customizable alert zones so that you're not constantly getting false alerts that someone's approaching your door.

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Tinder's new update will allow female users to take the lead in conversations with matches in a setting dubbed "women-talk-first." The dating app's new feature is optional for female users. By entering the app's settings, women will soon be able to change it so that they are required to initiate dialogue before men. Therefore, this feature would allow for women to not be on the receiving end of an assortment of messages from every person they'd ever matched with. Match Group, a company that operates Tinder alongside other dating websites, claimed the change is great for women if they don't mind the "pressure" of initiating a conversation with a new match.