Speak up and sit tight, let your personal assistant find your flight! 🛫 #GoogleAssistant #voice pic.twitter.com/FTCI5KWoPC — Royal Dutch Airlines (@KLM) July 26, 2018 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands, has brought its smart assistant to Google Assistant, enabling customers to use voice commands to search for KLM flights. KLM’s […]
Health drink brand Yakult is on a mission to teach common Japanese phrases to the public with a vending machine that rewards quick learners with a free bottle of ‘good bacteria’. In the UK, the company is looking to hit home its Japanese heritage by teaching members of the public Nippon, baited with the allure of a […]
Google has launched an AI drawing game as a ‘mini app’ within Tencent’s WeChat messaging platform, as it continues to make overtures towards re-entering the consumer market there. The majority of its products, including its internet search engine, email and app store, are currently blocked by Chinese authorities over censorship concerns. Last year, Google launched […]
Contrary to popular belief, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies are projected to create as many jobs as they displace in the UK over the next 20 years, according to new analysis by PwC. In absolute terms, around 7m existing jobs could be displaced, but around 7.2 million could be created, giving the UK a small […]
Google has launched a job searching service in the UK, following its rollout in the US, offering users local results if they’re looking for a new role. A number of large job listing sites have signed up as partners for the launch, including Reed, Haymarket, CV-Library, and Gumtree, and roles advertised on these sites will […]
Mobile phone maker Huawei has launched a photography competition, rated by the HUAWEI P20 Pro’s AI and Alex Lambrechts, a top Leica photographer. The campaign is the latest activity for the HUAWEI P20 Series launch campaign and brings to life Huawei’s leadership in AI photography. “We have trained the AI in our P20 Pro smartphone […]
Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can write 20,000 lines of advertising copy per second. Businesses advertising on Alibaba’s Tmall, Taobao, Mei.com and 1688.com eCommerce sites can insert a link on one of their product pages and click a “produce smart copy” button to see different advertising ideas. But even though the […]
Channel 4 revealed the world’s first AI driven TV advertising technology that enables the broadcaster to place a brand’s ads next to relevant scenes in a linear TV show. At its first ever 2018 summer Upfronts event, Channel 4 announced it is seeking advertising partners to test its exclusively owned, tech-driven commercial innovation live on […]
The Times and The Sunday Times, pioneers in the world of publishing, are embracing AI to power subscription revenue. The brands have signed with Phrasee for optimised email subject line generation for email marketing campaigns. This forms part of a brand-wide shift to embrace and work with new technologies. Phrasee’s AI technology generates and optimises marketing copy at scale. The […]
Criteo, the advertising platform for the open Internet, announced the launch of the Criteo AI Lab, a center of excellence dedicated to the creation, experimentation and at-scale deployment of machine learning technology. Backed by an investment of €20M over three years, the lab will be involved in research related to building deep models that are interpretable, […]