A machine learning feature will be coming to Redtail Technology's popular CRM program sometime this winter, according to company's CEO Brian McLaughlin. He made the announcement at Riskalyze's Fearless Investing Summit in San Antonio, Texas on Thursday. Billed as artificial intelligence, the new feature will provide advisors with three specific, actionable feedback buckets: sentiment, keyphrases and entities, or tags, such as specific types of investment accounts. The project, developed primarily from open source technology, has been in the works for nearly 18 months. When work began, the company looked to Amazon and Google's natural language processing libraries, but found they were too general and not specific enough to the financial services industry.

Ronald Shrewsbery II used to be the Robot Doctor. Now he's known by the more bureaucratic-sounding title "WCM (World Class Manufacturing) Electrical Technical Specialist," but he still doctors the robots. There are a thousand of these machines inside Ohio's Toledo Assembly Complex, a 312-acre manufacturing leviathan dedicated to producing Jeeps. The Toledo Assembly Complex is one of the most heavily automated car factories in the United States. It can extrude 500 cars in a shift, far more than the Cove, the old Jeep plant that was shut down in 2006. And the machines make the work easier. There used to be a lot more lifting, more pushing.