Google's cocktail party effect uniquely identifies and focuses on an individual's voice while watching a video of people talking in a crowded room

Luka has developed a chatbot which imitates people, alive or deceased, using a corpus of their text communications

Microsoft enables real-time subtitles on Skype video chat software

Microsoft launches deep learning based local language translation service in India supporting 22 languages

Microsoft's Bing enhances image search uses deep learning to automatically detect objects in an image and give more comprehensive search results

Pinterest enhances image search by not only searching for matching items but also related items such as suggesting recipes for grocery items doubling the click-through rates

The Weather Channel is able to automatically generate digital video content localised for each region using machine learning

Google drove a 15% reduction in power usage effectiveness overhead in cooling their data centres through advanced reinforcement ensemble machine learning

Airbnb improves search results ranking with the use of deep learning

Baidu improves ad targeting for its online users resulting in increased advertising revenue through deep learning

Equinix predicts customer churn with 90% accuracy using a machine learning neural network model

Facebook shuts down its virtual assistant chabot experiment as it proves it cannot live up to the difficulty of the tasks it is asked to perform

Yelp optimises visual interaction with users on its web page using deep learning to auto identify cover pictures as well as classify photos from the millions of pictures uploaded by users

Facebook and Instragram are automating detection of images related to drug dealing posted on the social media platforms

Facebook identifies and removes 8.7m child abuse images from its platform within a few months with machine learning

Google YouTube identifies 98% of the videos it removes for promoting extremism using machine learning

Tumblr has an automatic adult content detection method but has been flagging the wrong images for removal

iQiyi automatically deletes 10% of censorship violating user uploaded content minimising the number of human censors needed through the use of machine learning

Dropbox's in-house OCR system for document scanning outperforms commercial libraries by using neural networks

Facebook optimises experiments for server performance and ranking improvement using reinforcement learning

Indix automates and standardises product information retrieved from a variety of sources using machine learning

Ohio State University researchers using NLP to identify security flaws on Twitter

Amazon stops using machine learning program to evaluate job candidates based on historical resume datasets due to gender bias

Google improves hiring process, employee on-boarding, training, productivity and retention rate using people analytics

Kono bot checks participant calendars and suggests meeting schedules that work for everyone

Monster achieves 20% increase in job applications worldwide with machine learning

Instagram automates image description generation using machine learning

Kik, a popular messaging platform, uses machine learning to integrate and scale different systems

Instagram battles bullying on its platform with machine learning

Microsoft's Tay bot project is taken down after generating sexist, racist and offensive comments online