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If Hollywood movies are your only guide to Artificial Intelligence, we face a terrifying future in which machines become so clever that they dominate or even destroy us.

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Andrew Ng is hunched over his smartphone, in a pantomime of key-pecking, squinting, typo-ridden discomfort. “This is how we do it today,” he says.

“And this is how we should be doing it,” says the chief scientist for Baidu, China’s largest search engine. He sits back in his chair, speaking to no one in particular with his phone placed on the table. The one-finger typing agony of millions of smartphone users should one day become a thing of the past, he says. All it would take is the creation of a reasonably accurate, pocket-sized electronic version of a human brain.

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Facebook Artificial Intelligence Assistant “M” Is Ready To Welcome You : From the time of its launch in 2004 Facebook has evolved a lot. It has now become one of the very basic need for many people. Its has also somehow become identity of many people. Facebook has also gained a huge trust from people as well as other companies and websites on the internet. This is evident from the fact that almost every online website or service now accepts your Facebook account as your identity. This thing was previously limited to your email id and phone number only. Thus, it would be appropriate to say that Facebook has become a very important part of our lives.

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Can you still remember the days when choose-your-own adventure books were a thing? You could not only immerse yourself into the story but you were also able to craft your own way through the fantastic fictional saga. For me, the sense of freedom and immersion that these books offered could seldom be matched by the standard method of linear storytelling.

These books are pretty much non-existent these days but, thanks to some serious scientific prowess, we might seem them return with newfound glory.

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Dell CEO Michael Dell announced Thursday that his company will be investing $125 billion in China over the next five years.

Computer manufacturer Dell Inc. will invest $125 billion in China over the next five years, as part of a new strategy to expand in the world’s second-largest economy. The company’s CEO, Michael Dell, said in a statement Thursday that the investment would contribute $175 billion to imports and exports and help sustain one million jobs in the country.

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An artificial intelligence programme to improve Tinder suggestions has been developed by Harm de Vries, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Montreal who was sick of swiping left. Signing up for an account was one of the first things he did upon arriving in the city in August 2014, but he was disappointed with the results. “Tinder kept offering me photos of women with lots of tattoos and piercings, even though I’d never chosen a single one. I don’t want to offend anyone, they’re simply not my type,” he explained. Noting that the app failed to take note of his user history in order to better target the women he might like, he developed new software, the details of which he published onArxiv. His work is supervised by professors Aaron Courville and Roland Memisevic who are with Yoshua Bengio’s lab in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research.

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Last week, the Japanese multinational conglomerate Hitachi quietly issued an intriguing announcement. Apparently, the company has appointed its first AI boss.

Well, kinda-sorta. The announcement details a new initiative in which artificial intelligence (AI) technology is being used to determine workflows and employee duties in real time. Specifically, an AI “boss” was put in charge of a warehouse management system, where it managed to effect an 8 percent increase in efficiency among its human servants workers.

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Dell Inc. is expanding in China by linking up with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to create an artificial intelligence lab, joining with local companies for technology development and allowing its venture capital firm to operate in the country.

Dell will create the lab with the scientific institute to develop advanced technology relating to cognitive systems and deep learning, the Round Rock, Texas-based company said Thursday in a statement. The maker of personal computers, software and data-center equipment has also signed a strategic partnership agreement with Kingsoft Corp. of Beijing to co-develop and sell products relating to big data and cloud computing.

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