Face-recognition, speech-to-text translation, and sentiment analysis are among tools that could be coming to the Pi.

Source: Google is bringing AI to your Raspberry Pi | ZDNet

Source: Patrick Grove: 7 predictions for Southeast Asia’s tech scene in 2017 – Business Insider

Breaking glass, barking dogs and crying babies – to computers it’s all just noise. But a new wave of artificial intelligence is being taught how to listen in.

Source: Why an AI firm is busy smashing thousands of windows

Sometimes even just defining the problem you’re trying to solve is the hardest part. We need human intelligence to decide how and when to use machine..

Source: Putting the “intelligent” machine in its place

Microsoft announced this morning that it has acquired Maluuba, a Toronto startup focused on using deep learning for natural language processing. Deep learning is an approach to artificial intelligence currently in vogue that has driven incredible gains in the field over the last five years. As Microsoft wrote in the blog post announcing the purchase, “We’ve recently set new milestones for speech and image recognition using deep learning techniques, and with this acquisition we are, as Wayne Gretzky would say, skating to where the puck will be next — machine reading and writing.”

Source: Microsoft just bought an AI startup that can outperform Facebook and Google – The Verge

With machine learning and flight control onboard the drone.

Source: Qualcomm’s latest technology allows drones to learn about their environment as they fly – Recode

Serving enterprise datacenters won’t sustain Red Hat. OpenShift and what it represents may be crucial to the company’s long-term survival

Source: Red Hat needs to get real about the cloud | InfoWorld

Automation isn’t just about manufacturing and transportation.

Source: Japanese white collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence — Quartz

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/the-end-of-telcos/

JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU see on TV is presented by one of a handful of media conglomerates. A similarly small number of telecommunication companies provides your cable service. If you have Comcast and you’re watching NBC, the content and the delivery infrastructure are owned by the same people. This tiny world will concentrate further if regulators approve AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.

At the start of a new year, what is there to look forward to? According to predictions from think tanks and tech experts, advances in automation and artificial intelligence will threaten the jobs of millions of workers.

Source: The rise of artificial intelligence risks making us all redundant | The Independent