Advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP): Though not quite as hyped as AI, NLP has advanced from basic applications such as speech recognition, speech synthesis and machine translation to a range of real-world applications such as creating spoken dialogue systems and speech-to-speech translation engines, mining social media for information about health or finance and identifying sentiment and emotion toward products [...]

We live in exciting times. A new wave of systems is emerging that apply machine learning, AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and more to provide more effective solutions.  Plus, there is a strong incentive for marketers to overhype technology that can’t be made black and white, and to deliberately coin terms or use them in different ways to get attention. [...]

Google Deep Dream learned to make its own art using a machine learning algorithm. A question that must be considered in the future is: who owns art and other creations that AI makes? Source: Artificial Intelligence Is Already a Better Artist Than You Are