Machines are learning to think like us by recognizing patterns in our behavior, which has all been laid out quite nicely across our email, browsing behavior, web searches, app downloads and even our friends.

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Devices as non-intrusive and intimate as Shine show how machines are learning how to work with us in the age of wearables, rather than the other way round, says Olof Schybergson, chief executive of Fjord, a design consultancy.

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People excel at reasoning and make much better learning machines than do computers.

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Learning machines are people who work smarter, not just harder.

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These are the four-propellor flying machines that utilize statistical learning techniques and artificial intelligence to fly autonomously.

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You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science.

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Recent advancements in artificial intelligence birthed autonomic technologies, self-learning and self-managing machines which have become employed by large enterprises to oversee as much as 90% of IT tasks, thus signifying a turning point from machines as tools to machines as employees.

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Transforming the lives and learning of our children will take more than machines.

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As I wrote in a recent article, a fast-emerging branch of artificial intelligence called deep learning is helping Google and other companies and researchers produce significant advances in machines that at least approach the way we think.

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In each of these areas, the machines, objects, systems, and all sorts of other items and sensors are growing a brain and learning to talk.

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