House earlier. A unique, fairly civil, can you imagine that . Bipartisan debate before a Live National audience. You see President Trump is exchanging ideas with democrats and republicans alike, steny hoyer, the democrat to his left, standing firm, though, as far as the president is concerned on the wall, say that the u. S. Has no security without a border wall with mexico. Daca dreamers, chain migration, all the Economic Issues that meade to be solve. The president suggesting a plan in two phases, calling it dead in the water. Why . Adam shapiro is live in d. C. , hes going explain. On wall street, well, look at the bottom ticker. Extending a new year rally, as the dow, s p 500 and the nasdaq take aim at new record closes. You see the dow is up 124. The s p is better by 7. Nasdaq powering ahead by a quarter of a percent or 17 . People love to watch the techheavy nasdaq. Financials, industrial stocks are driving the record run. In las vegas, were coming to you live, in the broadcast to
And into the fryer good thursday morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Dow is down 91 currently the worst drop of the year so far. The big news today though, amazon announcing the finalist for the hq2. We have details. Good morning, carl. And lets go straight to a map of the 20 contenders youll see that most of the locations, they fall in the midwest, south, and east coast of the country away from amazons current home of seattle and the west coast in general where most of the Biggest Tech Companies are. The only city from this coast, the west coast on that list is los angeles. And the only city outside the u. S. Is toronto, canada. It has tons of engineering talent close by. An interesting candidate given the current political environment. Now other contenders include cities that already have ties to amazon or jeff bezos like austin and washington, d. C. , and where he himself bought a home last year the other cities on the list like boston,
Senate on cspan2. Were also streaming live online at cspan. Org and on the free cspan radio app. And welcome to las vegas. This is the communicators on cspan. We are on location for the next couple of weeks. Were at the ces, the Consumer Electronics show. Its one of the largest trade shows in america, and were going to show you some of the interviews we did with tech leaders and some of the latest technology. This is the communicators on cspan. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] host gary shapiro, this years ces, what are some of the buzz products . Guest well, ces 2018 is pretty big, and products, you know, theres a lot of focus on Artificial Intelligence in many different ways. So we have the smart speakers which, you know, alexa and google home. Obviously, googles huge here, but were talking about other products into the home and the car. Were also talking about Artificial Intelligence in another way, and that is smart cities. We have a big focus on smart cities for the f
[indistinct conversations] what do you do for a living . I am the chief marketing officer of topbots, focused on Machine Learning. We help executives figure out what this Artificial Intelligence is and how to actually use it and apply it within their businesses. I have been asking everybody, how do you define Artificial Intelligence . We define Artificial Intelligence as using computers or technology to reach human or beyond human levels of ability, whether that is automating different processes. Give me an example. So many. You can have Artificial Intelligence in something as simple as your music playlist or netflix queue. They are using technology that uses Machine Learning to figure out what movies you like to watch and what music you like to listen to. It can be in your female system filtering out spam. That Automated System is a computer algorithm using technologies like deep learning to do that. On the other end, you can have Artificial Intelligence powering self driving cars. Au
The country. Cspan is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. Host and this week on the communicators, more of our visit to las vegas and the Consumer Electronics show which is one of the largest trade shows in the world, about 200,000 people come every year to see it. About 47 Million People visit vegas on a regular basis. So heres more from ces. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host so, adelyn zhou is, what do you do for a living . Guest i am the chief operating officer of topbots focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We help executives, one, figure out what this Artificial Intelligence is, this technology, and two, how to actually use it and apply it within their businesses. Host and ive been asking everybody this, how do you define Artificial Intelligence . Guest its a great question. I think we define it as using computers or technology to reach human or even beyond human levels of ability whether its auto