IBM launched the first artificial intelligence tennis expert phone number library with its AI platform, Watson, during this summer’s Wimbledon Championships. Watson analysed 22 years of sports journalism and countless transcripts of player interviews – a total of 11.2 million words – and combined this with 28 years of statistics. It resulted in two million engagements.
Domino’s skill allows UK consumers to ask Amazon’s Alexa to order a pizza. Since its launch and promotion across social media, the campaign (which ran in September) has garnered 2.7 million impressions on YouTube and 4.4 million on Facebook.
The Ikea Place app made the retailer one of the first brands to use Apple’s ARKit feature for something useful. Place allows users to virtually position Ikea products in almost any space. The app includes true-to-scale 3D models of Ikea sofas, armchairs, footstools and coffee tables to provide an accurate impression of their layout and how they might fit into the home.
Tui debuted a prototype face-reading machine that recommends a person’s holiday destination based on their subconscious micro-expressions. The device presents a variety of holiday videos to the user that will vary per person. At the end, the viewer will be presented with a unique “recipe” for the type of holiday that is likely to make them happiest, based on their reactions to the videos.
The TasteFace app used facial recognition technology to measure people's reactions to Marmite. The software was built on Microsoft's Emotion API, which can recognise facial expressions. AnalogFolk developed an algorithm to turn these expressions into a sliding love-hate scale for the tasty spread.