An attendee looks at a Tifana.com Co. AI service character displayed on a screen at the Artificial Intelligence Exhibition & Conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, April 4, 2018. The AI Expo will run through April 6. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg) It's generally accepted that as technology moves into classrooms, teachers will move, as the saying goes, "from a sage on the stage to a guide on side." That shift has rightly troubled teachers and teaching advocates who fear that educators who instruct, analyze and provide vital context will be diminished or co-opted outright by soulless, algorithm-driven tech. Generally, it's been easy to dismiss those fears in favor of some to-be-determined technology/teacher partnership.

The recent CIO Summit saw executives across Australia coming together to discuss cutting-edge technology trends and management strategies. The event featured a heavyweight line-up of speakers and moderators, carefully selected to encourage discussion and challenge the status quo. IT Brief spoke to Huawei Australia chief technology officer David Soldani about his key takeaways from the event. That the world is changing fast, profoundly impacting every person, home, and organisation. For example, by 2025, 80% of people will have access to mobile broadband and the mobile traffic per day will rise from 30MB to 4GB per day; 75% of households will enjoy broadband services with 20 billion devices connected, with 12% of those being smart robots.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has fuelled science fiction for decades. Yet now, with technology having caught up with and overtaken human imagination, its capabilities are becoming science fact and too powerful for business leaders to ignore. AI, even in its relative infancy, is enabling C-suiters to redraw all aspects of their organisations. Those who embrace AI and related nascent digital technologies – automation, robotics, machine-learning, big data – are already gaining a significant advantage over laggards. "Everything invented in the past 150 years will be reinvented using AI within the next 15 years," predicts Randy Dean, San Francisco-based chief business officer at Launchpad.AI.

The leader of an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan who was responsible for a spate of recent bombings that left hundreds of civilians dead was killed in an American drone strike, U.S. officials told Fox News on Sunday. The deputy spokesperson for Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani announced the death of ISIS-K leader, Abu Sayeed Orakzai, a U.S. military spokesman said. Next weekend, a new U.S. military commander will be taking over in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Scott Miller, the former head of Joint Special Operations Command which oversees the elite commando units Delta Force, SEAL Team 6 and the 75th Ranger Regiment. The U.S. military has doubled its air strikes in Afghanistan over the past year and increased them fivefold over 2016 levels.

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IT WAS AN unusual sight: two lifelike disembodied robot torsos discussing the pros and cons of humans in front of a nervously tittering audience in Hong Kong last Wednesday. Artificial intelligence is the dominant theme at this year's sprawling RISE tech conference at the city's harbour front convention centre, but the live robot exchange took the AI debate to another level. Handsome male humanoid Han, dressed in a pinstripe suit jacket, and his elegant sister Sophia, modelled on Audrey Hepburn, chatted onstage about life in the universe and everything, from their love of science fiction to their bewilderment at "silly" reality shows. While chief scientist Ben Goertzel of Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, which invented the machines, sang their praises, the robots seemed more sceptical of their human peers. When Goertzel asked the duo whether robots could really be moral and ethical, Han countered: "Humans are not necessarily the most ethical creatures".

The legendary video game designer who created "Super Mario" and "Donkey Kong" has a word of advice for today's industry: Stop nickel-and-diming users. Shigeru Miyamoto, 65, said Nintendo Co. is exploring different ways of charging people for games, shunning the free-to-play model, which has become a moneymaker in the $140 billion gaming sector by charging players to access additional content. He called on his peers to deliver titles at fixed prices without overcharging players, which would create more sustainable businesses over the long term. "We're lucky to have such a giant market, so our thinking is, if we can deliver games at reasonable prices to as many people as possible, we will see big profits," Miyamoto said at the Computer Entertainment Developers Conference in Yokohama on Wednesday. Miyamoto's criticism comes as the free-to-play model -- including loot boxes and microtransactions -- drives record profits.

Twenty years ago, the Open Source framework was published, delivering what would be the most significant trend in software development since that time. Whether you want to call it "free software" or "open source", ultimately, it's all about making application and system source codes widely available and putting the software under a license that favors user autonomy. According to Ovum, open source is already the default option across several big data categories ranging from storage, analytics and applications to machine learning. In the latest Black Duck Software and North Bridge's survey, 90% of respondents reported they rely on open source "for improved efficiency, innovation and interoperability," most commonly because of "freedom from vendor lock-in; competitive features and technical capabilities; ability to customize; and overall quality." There are now thousands of successful open source projects that companies must strategically choose from to stay competitive.

Let us start from the very beginning. Artificial Intelligence has evolved over a period of time. In the 1950's AI started off as a program that could sense, reason, act and adapt. Artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize the automotive industry. Here we are not even talking about the impact AI is having on autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification, and shared m... Artificial Intelligence is about to hit the real estate industry, hard.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said it has approved two additional artificial intelligence based medical devices – Lunit's Lunit Insight and JLK Inspection's JB-01K – on Aug. 14. The approval comes after the ministry approved the first AI-based medical device, VUNOmed-BoneAge, in May. The licensed products went through the ministry's new guidelines for approval and examination of medical devices that use big data and artificial intelligence technology. Both devices received customized support and received approval within 60 days of submitting their applications. The Lunit Insight inputs and analyzes the chest images of a patient's X-ray and displays the degree of the suspected pulmonary nodule, which in turn helps doctors diagnose pulmonary nodule.