Artificial intelligence (AI) is practically everywhere today. There are so many products out there which use Al. Some are being developed, some are already in use, and some failed and are being improved so it’s very difficult to name a few of them and regard them as the best.

Vi Personal Trainer

It tracks your daily activities, understands your workout routines (常规) and coaches you to achieve your fitness goals. The AI human voice living inside its bio-sensing headphones is one of the best conversational voice assistants (助手) and is super easy to talk to. You can also enjoy your favorite music while you work out or talk on the phone without having to press a button.

Deep Text

Do you ever wonder how an ad appears suddenly just when you are looking for something similar? This is because of Deep Text. It uses real-time consumer (消费者) information to produce data which in turn is used to target consumers. Thus, if you search online for flight tickets from Bangalore to Delhi, it is very likely that an ad relating to hotels in Delhi will soon follow.

Hello Egg

If you live alone and miss your mother because you always miss your breakfast or don’t know what to eat for dinner, then Hello Egg is exactly what you are looking for. A very healthy choice of the 2-minute noodles and oats, Hello Egg provides you with a detailed weekly meal plan about the needs of your body. It is truly a modern AI-powered home cooking tool for the young.

Wordsmith

You can put Mr. Smith into your Microsoft Excel using their free API, and let it write up detailed analysis (分析) of the stories behind your numbers. It can produce detailed reports on thousands of pages of spreadsheets in seconds.

Historical heritage is human beings’ wisdom. Historical relics, however, as time goes by, suffer different degrees of damage. People used to protect cultural relics by manual work-photographing and rubbing (拓印) techniques. Although this method can keep the basic information, many vital details are still ignored.

At present, 3D digitalization has been proved to be the most popular technology in the field of cultural heritage. The 3D digital technology can be used for data archiving (存档), displaying as well as restoration.

3D scanning (扫描) technology features fast measurement speed and accurate capturing (绘制) capacity. It’s good at collecting enough and accurate 3D data from different perspectives, which is beneficial to the restoration of historical relics when they suffer accidental damage. Experts can also virtually restore the heritage through the computer, and finish assistant research by means of accurate 3D models.

For historical relics’ protection, nevertheless, 3D scanning isn’t the only way put into use. 3D printing also contributes to displaying historical relics. It provides people with more chances to get to know historical relics and better understand human beings’ history.

Yucheng Museum unearthed a new collection of cultural relics in April 2019. One of the most urgent issues for archaeologists was data archiving. Invited by Quimbaya Art x Tech, ScanTech conducted 3D scanning immediately on these relics by 3D scanner. This handheld 3D laser scanner was equipped with the world’s leading-edge technologies and brought great convenience for further restoration and research.

To avoid any damage, Yucheng Museum combined with 3D printing technology based on 3D data to reproduce 1:1 3D models of cultural relics for exhibition, which aimed to make more people get close to history and pass on the precious historical heritage.

Many thousand-year cultural treasures have gradually disappeared from our sight due to technical problems. However, 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies provide very effective 3D solutions for historical relic display and protection.

For two centuries, the famous University of Cambridge debating society has hosted many famous people, from world leaders to scientists to comedians. On Nov 21, the Cambridge Union hosted its first-ever non-human guest—Project Debater, a machine that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) (人工智能) to form a spoken argument. It can even listen to and answer opposing statements, much like a real person.

Project Debater uses AI to search journals, newspapers and other information sources. It then analyzes (分析) these sources. It gets rid of useless information, picks the strongest arguments, and forms a persuasive argument in minutes.

In the Cambridge test debate, it argued the topic: AI will finally do more harm than good. Before the debate, the machine analyzed more than 1,100 arguments for the positives and negatives of AI and formed the basis of its arguments in minutes. Project Debater then showed off its AI by arguing for both sides of the debate.

This isn’t the first test for Project Debater. In June 2018, the machine went back-and-forth for 20 minutes against champion debater Harish Natarajan. According to New Scientist, on both occasions, Project Debater repeated points and didn’t always have enough strong evidence to support them.

Noam Slonim, the project’s lead engineer said, “The AI is not perfect, but it’s going in the right direction.” The team hopes to improve the AI by researching why humans find certain arguments more persuasive than others. They also hope the test might shine a light on false or one-sided statements and provide well-informed viewpoints for society, governments and companies.