With artificial intelligence maturing in the current era, it is gaining immense potential in becoming a key technology for practical applications. Although the technology has displayed expertise in coming up with answers to business queries with accuracy, it often struggles to answer questions that are abstract in nature. In fact, even these conversation AI bots like Alexa and Siri are advanced in managing our schedule but if asked obscure existential questions like "meaning of life," it will only provide you with either a hilarious response or a sarcastic joke. However, as artificial intelligence is evolving with advancements in natural language processing, speech recognition and automated reasoning, the technology can now answer some of the tough life questions asked by humans. To test the theory, researchers from the University of New South Wales asked some moral and existential questions to Salesforce's Conditional Transformer Language model to check if the AI is capable of answering some fundamental questions of life.

In today's digital world, AI and IoT are transforming so many aspects of our lives profoundly. The number of IoT devices that are connected to the network is exploding at an enormous rate. According to IDC, we will have over 41 billion connected devices by 2025. With the growing number of connected devices, the amount of data flowing back to the cloud is also exponentially increasing. In the end, it is not a scalable model to pump all this data back to the cloud for processing.

AI is being leveraged to meet the requirements of the search engines, which are getting better at identifying keyword stuffing, quality of content, and irrelevant backlinks. FREMONT, CA: Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the dynamics of various industries. Its ability to analyze and find patterns in vast data sets has prompted businesses to adopt AI systems into their processes. The effect of AI is also impacting the way search engines operate. AI and ML have become a crucial component that influences the way search engines rank pages.

New technologies from artificial intelligence to gene editing hold immense potential to improve people's live -- but can also drive greater inequality and social dislocation, according to a U.N. report launched Monday. The World Economic and Social Survey 2018 focused on whether leading edge technologies can be used to meet U.N. goals for 2030 including ending extreme poverty, preserving the environment and promoting economic growth. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said "frontier technologies -- from DNA sequencing to 3D-printing, from renewable energy technologies to biodegradable plastics, from machine learning to artificial intelligence -- present immense potential for the 2030 agenda." "Good health and longevity, prosperity for all and environmental sustainability are within our reach if we harness the full power of these innovations," he said in the foreword to the report. "However, these same technologies also raise serious concerns."

The infrastructure and construction industry is undergoing a lot of seismic transformations that will change its essential character and redefine the industry – which has conventionally traversed at a snail's pace in incorporating innovative technology – to maximize utility, boost productivity and streamline delivery. BIM is already playing a crucial role in this drastic transformation of the construction industry and making it more efficient, reliable, accurate and cost-effective as well as sustainable. The further digitalization and automation of the construction industry would involve synchronization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and BIM. As per a recent study by McKinsey, there is both tremendous scope and an unparalleled demand for specific technology solutions based on AI-powered algorithms and analytic methods. AI would assist the construction industry in combatting some of the biggest recurring challenges that it has to face, including project schedule delay, accuracy margin, and safety considerations.

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Facebook's efforts to get users, developers, and clients excited about chatbots appear to have paid off. Despite only being launched in April during Facebook's F8 developer conference, there are now more than 30,000 bots on the Messenger Platform, up from 11,000 in July. However, this hype could be hurting adoption and use of the technology.

James Crowder is the chief engineer at Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services. Imagine yourself a passenger in a futuristic self-driving car. Instead of programming its navigation system, the car interacts with you in a near-human way to understand your desired destination. The car has learned your preferences for music, temperature and lighting; these are adjusted without the need to twist a knob. Two distinct paths of technological evolution are advancing technology to create this future (and more): virtual intelligence (VI) is planned, controlled and predictable; in sharp contrast, artificial intelligence (AI) is none of these.