The U.S. military has constructed a massive virtual reality platform to help train infantry soldiers in realistic battlefields filled with millions of artificial intelligence agents. https://futurism.com/army-soldiers-vr-combat-training

A vast number of tech companies are now offering "emotion analysis" products. These products are designed to analyse an individual's face in order to determine how they are feeling. The emotion detection system is a mix between two technologies, the first is a computer vision which sees a person's face and detects its features. The next is through AI which analyses this information to determine how this person is feeling. https://futurism.com/the-byte/emotion-detect-system-getting-job

Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg aims to build a computer that will be able to read thoughts. This will allow users to communicate through their minds. Zuckerberg believes that this way of communicating is the ?ultimate communication technology? and has been experimenting with mind-reading technology for several months. https://futurism.com/facebook-brain-computer-interface-zuckerberg

BioCarbon Engineering has come up with a new clever way of planting trees. Drones fire tree bullets into the ground at a precise location. They are driven by AI and are very accurate. The bullets are biodegradable containers with nutrient rich solution. These drones are expected to be able to plant 100,000 trees a day. https://www.biocarbonengineering.com/services

Walmart, the world's biggest brick-and-mortar retailer, is building out its e-commerce experience to better compete with Amazon. It has acquired Aspectiva, a startup out of Israel whose AI-based technology analyses user-generated content, like customers' product reviews, and combines it with a shopper's browsing behavior to make product suggestions to shoppers both online and in stores. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/25/walmart-acquires-israels-aspectiva-which-analyses-ugc-to-recommend-products-to-shoppers/

Wild Me is introducing an innovative program where citizen science and high technology are combined to fight the extinction of wildlife. Microsoft AI is the technology that uses the algorithm to distinguish the pattern of an animal?s physical appearance, for instance, skin pattern and scars. This program would not be completed without the help of citizen science and researchers who actively seek the existence of the living creatures and record them. For example, the data shows that Wild Me succeeded in identifying 10 times more whale sharks than ever recorded. https://www.wildme.org/