Expertly serving the industries like e-Commerce, retail, social, and more, consumer AI is focused on driving customer experiences. Consumer AI interacts with customers to help the business scale and automate customer engagement. At the same time, with insights gained from this, organizations can gain insights to personalize their offerings, thereby impacting customer delight positively. On the other hand, enterprise AI is more organizational-focused and strongly emphasizes creating tangible value for the brands. The results are deduced based on pre-decided KPIs and contribute to adding value over time.

The COVID-19 outbreak has sent shockwaves throughout nearly every industry, so what about AI? How will the cultural and economic impacts of the virus affect the development and implementation of this technology? In some areas, the pandemic has given AI the chance to prove its worth. Different parts of the population may have developed opposing feelings toward the concept, though. In the wake of COVID-19, AI could play a more dominant role in society, but possibly a different one than some expected. You can't talk about AI and COVID-19 without mentioning how the technology will impact health care.

One of our favourite conferences on technology and the future of gadgets and AI, has to be the Consumer Electrics Show. Subscribe to the Last Futurist, to read more articles like this. As the rest of the world returns to work, it's Sin City square and center like it happened all before. The spirit of technology never wavers, always moving forward and dares us to dream higher and better - for a more connected, more virtual, more human future. The smart home keeps getting smarter and artificial intelligence keeps finding new ways into our lives.

Even as research and investment into artificial intelligence (AI) have gone through some 60 years of booms and busts, consumers' fascination with the technology persists. But it is with the recent rise of digitization, Big Data, improved algorithms, and processing speed that consumer applications of AI have begun to emerge into the mainstream. From movie recommendations to search engine queries, AI and, more specifically, deep learning are powering a range of applications that have recalibrated consumer expectations for the digital lifestyle. According to a new report from Tractica, consumer AI now accounts for the largest portion of AI software, hardware, and services revenue, reaching $1.9 billion in 2016 and rising to $2.7 billion by the end of 2017, which is greater than any other industry segment. Although the entire market, including consumer AI, remains in its infancy, Tractica forecasts strong growth ahead, with the market for consumer AI hardware, software, and services increasing to $42.1 billion by 2025.

Assistant was launched a year ago during Google's first hardware event. During the company's Pixel 2 unveiling yesterday, Google said Assistant is meant to be "helpful, simple to use [and] available where you need it." With these fundamentals in mind, Assistant will soon be expanded with several new features meant to differentiate it from competitors including Siri and Alexa. Running Routines Amazon recently unveiled its new range of Alexa-enabled products. They come with Routines, a feature that allows several linked actions to be run from a single voice command.

IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty was interviewed on Sept. 13 in New York City by Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Megan Murphy. Following are excerpts from their discussion, which appear in the Sept. 25, 2017, edition of Bloomberg Businessweek. People may not know that IBM doesn't call it AI. They call it " cognitive computing." Tell us why that is. Ginni Rometty: I have actually had to explain this to my husband as well, because he said to me, "Ginni, of all words, why cognitive?" It was really a very thoughtful decision. The world calls it AI.

The New York Times published a provocative article on Friday, asking in the headline "Is China outsmarting America in A.I.?". But depending on how you define "outsmarting," and the context in which the question is asked, the answer might not even matter much. The answer might matter very much in terms of geopolitics and national security. Just like with supercomputing, quantum computing and other areas of deep computer science research, having better capabilities in artificial intelligence can arguably lead to an edge in areas like military, energy and climate science that can shift the world-power balance. But if we're talking about consumer or enterprise AI, then comparing China and the United States is kind of like comparing apples and oranges.

Almost 12 months after releasing the public preview of Spark for Azure HDInsight Microsoft has announced general availability of the proposition to the industry, as well as extending Cortana's offering to the Xbox. Making the announcement on the Azure blog, Oliver Chiu, Product Marketing Manager for Hadoop/Big Data and Data Warehousing, outlined the improvements made on the offering as well as the company's efforts to make big data easy and more approachable. The company claims the Hadoop and Spark cloud service is now an enterprise-ready solution which is fully managed, secured, and highly available. "Since we announced the public preview, Spark for HDInsight has gained rapid adoption and is now 50% of all new HDInsight clusters deployed," said Chiu. "With GA (General Availability), we are revealing improvements we've made to the service to make Spark hardened for the enterprise and easy for your users. This includes improvements to the availability, scalability, and productivity of our managed Spark service."