Deep in the rainforest in a northern corner of the Republic of Congo, some of the most sophisticated monitoring of animal sounds on earth is taking place. Acoustic sensors are collecting large amounts of data around the clock for the Elephant Listening Project. These sensors capture the soundscape in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park and adjacent logging areas: chimpanzees, gorillas, forest buffalo, endangered African grey parrots, fruit hitting the ground, blood-sucking insects, chainsaws, engines, human voices, gunshots. But researchers and local land managers who placed them there are listening for one sound in particular -- the calls of elusive forest elephants. Forest elephants are in steep decline; scientists estimate two-thirds of Africa's population has likely been lost to ivory poaching in recent decades.

Computer pioneer and artificial intelligence (AI) theorist Alan Turing would have been 100 years old this Saturday. To mark the anniversary the BBC has commissioned a series of essays. In this, the fourth article, his influence on AI research and the resulting controversy are explored. Alan Turing was clearly a man ahead of his time. In 1950, at the dawn of computing, he was already grappling with the question: "Can machines think?"

The next wave of IT innovation will be powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. We look at the ways companies can take advantage of it and how to get started. Paperspace offers products ranging from virtual desktops to high-end workstations for use across a host of areas, including animation studios to the infrastructure for machine learning and data science. ZDNet spoke to Paperspace CEO, Dillon Erb, to find out more. ZDNet: What's your company's background and where do you position yourself in the market?

Artificial intelligence is the buzzword for 2018 and it is being used everywhere and often to describe fairly mundane automation and analytics-driven processes. One of the earliest adoptions has been speech to text, for example in call centres. AI enables the speech of both the call centre operator and the customer to be converted into text files and then an algorithm scans that text looking for keywords that may indicate an area of risk for the enterprise or sentiment analysis of the customer. "All AI today is narrow-focused, in other words, we have a system and we give it a specific challenge or task, a series of input data and a whole bunch of training data which is usually labelled or pre-classified," said Charles Sevior, CTO Unstructured Data Solutions, APJ and Greater China, Dell EMC, in an email interview with Networks Asia. "We are at the early stages of having computers accurately interpret unstructured data in a time so fast that it is considered to be "just like a human" – so-called AI."

LAS VEGAS--Complexity is the enemy of security, but prompt patching is its strongest ally. Security professionals have made those points for years, but two presentations at the Black Hat USA conference here provided fresh arguments for them--and signs companies are getting snappier at fixing vulnerabilities. What that means for you: When your computer, phone or tablet says it has an update available, install it. Don't wait to benefit from the tighter focus of an Apple, Google or Microsoft on security issues. Support for that came in one Black Hat briefing covering a "vuln" in Apple's device-management system that lets organizations configure Macs from afar.

An Amazon office building at 27 Melcher St. in Boston, which houses some of the 1,200 Amazon corporate staff who work in the greater Boston area. The newly refurbished building was formerly a Necco wafer candy factory. Amazon has 17 tech hubs in North America outside Seattle that employ more than 17,500 corporate, as opposed to warehouse and fulfillment, staff. That number is anticipated to rise to 26,200 by 2023. Here's where they are -- and why. Why: Silicon Valley is here, in addition to Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley and other universities with strong computer science and engineering programs.

You could work for Amazon in your PJs. Amazon has more than 1,200 Amazon staff in the greater Boston area. BOSTON – Amazon isn't just a Seattle company anymore, and a visit to its offices in this university city explains why. Here, in an old Necco wafer candy factory in the formerly industrial neighborhood of Fort Point, Rohit Prasad oversees 1,200 workers developing Alexa, the company's digital assistant. Walls made out of shipping containers, a playful nod to Amazon's main business, and exposed brick echo the urban tech vibe of its Seattle headquarters.

For any language, syntax and structure usually go hand in hand, where a set of specific rules, conventions, and principles govern the way words are combined into phrases; phrases get combines into clauses; and clauses get combined into sentences. We will be talking specifically about the English language syntax and structure in this section. In English, words usually combine together to form other constituent units. These constituents include words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. Considering a sentence, "The brown fox is quick and he is jumping over the lazy dog", it is made of a bunch of words and just looking at the words by themselves don't tell us much.

Beside healthcare, he is also impressed by the use of AI in the mobility sector, especially autonomous driving. Macron emphasizes, that "artificial intelligence will disrupt all the different business models." Now is the right time to make a choice: to be a part of the change or to become a subject of disruption and to lose some opportunities, for example new jobs. The first objective of the strategy is to build champions on the AI field. It requires adaptable national structures, modern financing system and friendly regulations.

In the last few years, it has felt like every big election has focused on jobs and the threats they (supposedly) face: from trade, from immigrants, and, most accurately, from technology. Until recently, the forecasts were almost unanimously grim: The robots were coming, we were told, and they'd soon make us humans redundant. In the summer of 2015, the Atlantic captured the panic with a cover story titled "A World Without Work," which warned that the moment when machines make workers obsolete "may finally be arriving." Then, on March 18 of this year, a self-driving car hit and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona -- and the conversation began to shift. Suddenly the fear that humans would soon be superfluous started to seem a little less likely.