Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD vying for customers in AI-fueled markets

Major component manufacturers in the artificial intelligence (AI) market have all increased their efforts to develop more aggressive processors for AI-fueled markets in 2017 including autonomous vehicles, enterprise drones, medical care, smart factories, image recognition, and general neural network research and development.

No added infrastructure

Google Deepmind is opening talks with the UK government to use the company's artificial intelligence to reduce British energy use by up to 10 percent.

It is already brighter than most Apple fanboys

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has said that computers running artificial intelligence programmes will exceed human intelligence within three decades,

A billion here and there and soon we are talking about big money

Samsung may be about to write a billion dollar cheque to pick up some artificial intelligence technology.

250,000 Civil service jobs replaced by cybermen in the UK

A UK government think tank believes that more than 250,000 jobs in the public sector could be replaced by AI in the next 15 years.

Sat nav based system

UK coppers might get a satnav-style system which will predict where a fugitive will head before they have worked it out themselves.

Focusing on transportation sector in Taiwan

Acer is expected to break into new territory in the fields of artificial intelligence, deep learning in 2017 and has begun talking with several potential clients about shipping its first in-house robotics devices, according to company CEO Jason Chen.

Samsung benefits from Siri engineers

If there is one takeaway to learn from recent announcements of smartphone lineups and refreshes, it is that AI-based voice assistants have become a top-valued feature for most serious manufacturers and are expected to gain significant momentum in new devices shipping through at least the next several quarters.

This year, several smartphone manufacturers, including Apple, Samsung Electronics, Huawei, LG and Xiaomi are expected to introduce new devices that feature better AI-based assistants in an effort to increase overall market share, according to industry reports.

But there is already an AI in air-conditioning Toto

LG has jacked some AI under the bonnet of its ‘Whisen Dual Air Conditioner’ and says its cunning plan is to apply AI to its other household appliances.