Artificial Intelligence is the science and practice of designing software and intelligent systems that exhibit artificial intelligent behavior.

Social media and AI both have emerged as great ways of marketing your business online. While social media provides you with a platform to potentially reach 4.2 billion people, AI has started to find applications in numerous marketing fields. And, when it comes to the combination of both, the market for AI in social media is expected to grow to $2.2 billion by 2023-- nearly a 4x jump from 2018. But, why is the market for social media and AI growing at such a rapid pace? The answer to this lies in the results that AI can help you derive for your social media campaigns.

The algorithms are well understood -- natural language processing, speech analytics, computer vision, and biometrics -- but we're only starting to come to grips with applications and with data, bias, and ethical implications. Emotion AI has many applications: consumer and market research, conversational interfaces, contact center operations, policy-making and finance, education, and, notably, healthcare uses that include suicide prevention. Potential but not-yet-fully-realized applications include emotionally intelligent design, design that aims to humanize technology. Actually, I wouldn't call the emotion AI potential of any application fully realized. That thought was the starting point for an exploratory conversation I had with Andy, who is professor of digital life at Bangor University in Wales and who'll be speaking at the up-coming Emotion AI Conference, taking place online on May 5th.

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Today, we are honored to have Michael Wu, Principal Scientist at Lithium Technologies, participate in our social media Q&A. I was a pure academic track research scientist before I entered the industry. I did research in computational neuroscience and my thesis was on modeling visual processing in the human brain using mathematical approaches, such as statistics and machine learning. Because computer vision is nowhere near the performance of humans in terms of its ability to segment objects, recognize people and understand a scene, my goal was to understand the computations that occur in our brains so we can recreate them in a machine vision system. I joined the industry right after finishing my PhD.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming very real--and at an exponentially faster rate. Moreover, those organizations that leverage AI in sync with those hard and soft trends that are shaping the future stand to make the most of its extraordinary potential. On one level, artificial intelligence is poised to help anticipate and address such critical issues as cybersecurity, civil unrest and even outright acts of terrorism. For example, using technology such as automated smart detection, officials at the recent Olympics in Rio were successful in maintaining security in a wide array of venues and locations. Closer to home, the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director for digital innovation Andrew Hallman recently addressed the issue of anticipatory intelligence at an event hosted by the government and technology website NextGov.

Users are looking for more than the humble SMS text message to communicate with friends and family. Our communication requirements now demand group messaging capabilities with the ability to seamlessly share an image or video on the move. Apple's iMessage, WhatsApp and Facebook's Messenger are leading the way, but the recent release of Google Allo suggests that messaging has become the new tech battleground. Our love affair with mobile apps is changing because we have so many, often over 50, yet on average we only actually use five of them on a regular basis. Searching for an app that is hidden in a folder of apps on page 3 of our phones is no longer deemed productive in an age of instant gratification.

Imagine you took a world-class business writer and asked him to rate the quality of several pieces of content in a blind test. Would he be able to tell which ones were created by humans and which ones were produced by automated writing? Well, that's exactly what Mark Schaefer addressed recently. To find out that… "two of the top three posts were written by a computer." Given that Mark is one of the most respected speakers and writers on marketing, with a successful blog, an impressive audience and numerous publications, I wouldn't blame you if it sounded so.

Artificial intelligence (AI), one of 20 core technologies I identified back in 1983 as the drivers of exponential economic value creation, is rapidly working its way into our lives from Amazon's Alexa and Facebook's M, to Google's Now and Apple's Siri. An example of how far AI has come is the recent news that a Google supercomputer, using its advanced AI software, was able to win a stunning 3-0 victory in a man vs. machine face-off against Go grandmaster, one of the game's all-time champions. For those who are not familiar with Go, it is a 3,000-year-old game that is widely considered to be the most complex game ever invented because it is reported to have more possible board configurations than there are atoms in the universe. Until just a few months ago, it was thought that a computer could not defeat a human grandmaster for at least another decade due to the game's complexity. How did Google's AlphaGo program advance so much faster than many expected?

Next into the tank is Trobo seeking 100,000 for 10 percent equity. Trobo is a storytelling robot that reads stories about science and math. The stories also become interactive so kids remain engaged. The content creation is crowdsourced by putting out a theme or topic and having people contribute. They have an order of 600.