Enterprises needing to beef up development of conversational AI and video-based applications may want to know about SmartCow.ai, The artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) is a newly named IT category. It combines artificial intelligence (AI) with the internet of things (IoT) infrastructure to ostensibly achieve more efficient IoT operations, improve human-machine interactions, and enhance data management and analytics. The six-year-old company this week introduced its new audiovisual development kit, Apollo. Built around Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX processors, the Apollo device enables developers to create applications with conversational AI capabilities, CEO and founder Ravi Kiran told VentureBeat from the company's headquarters in St. Julian's, Malta.

Most English dictionaries list words alphabetically, but how do we store them in our head? Finding out could have an unexpected pay-off: being able to tell what someone is thinking from their brain activity. Although neuroscientists can already do this to a limited extent, the brain's internal filing system for words and concepts – an important step towards accurately reading a person's thoughts – remains murky. Now Jack Gallant at the University of California, Berkeley, and his team have charted the "semantic system" of the human brain. The resulting map reveals that we organise words according to their deeper meaning, in subcategories based around numbers, places, and other common themes. Previous "mind-reading" studies have shown that certain parts of the brain respond to particular words.