If we look at our neighbouring country, there has been a regular collaboration between Chinese corporates, universities and the government over many years, which has now begun to pay off for the country. In India, the ratio of industry and university research is not very good compared to other countries. Scopus Analysis shows, about 70 percent of the AI research is at non-Indian companies' headquarters in India. Google and IBM have published almost 62 percent of all industry research publications, while there is only one Indian company in the top 10 – TCS with 13 percent of all publications.

Artificial intelligence works better than human lawyers in accurately spotting risks in everyday business contracts. That's the conclusion of a landmark study pitting 20 experienced US-trained corporate lawyers against Tel Aviv based LawGeex, which makes artificial intelligence (AI) software for contract review and approval, in spotting issues in everyday contracts. Both the lawyers and the LawGeex AI analyzed five previously unseen non-disclosure agreement contracts, containing 153 paragraphs of technical legal language under controlled conditions. This is the first time that AI software has been tested with a typical task undertaken by lawyers on a daily basis. The result: LawGeex software achieved a 94 percent accuracy rate at identifying risks in the NDAs.

Huawei's latest smartphone can take photos in near-dark conditions without using its flash or a tripod. The P20 Pro takes exposures lasting up to six seconds to get enough light. It then uses artificial intelligence to deliver sharp images and avoid the blurring and smearing normally associated with employing this technique handheld. The Chinese company recently told the BBC it could soon become the world's bestselling smartphone brand. At present, it is in third place behind Samsung and Apple, with US telecom networks' refusal to sell its handsets proving an obstacle.

Over the past few decades, the information technology industry has developed into the be all end all in the realms of science and technology – the one to rule them all – giving birth to what is known as the "digital era". The reason behind this development is quite simple: IT – particularly its subfield of AI or artificial intelligence – is the science that governs, controls, regulates, and connects all other fields in the world, be they sciences, faculties of engineering, technology, education, or even business. The world has long known what our country is just coming to terms with: artificial intelligence is the future. Countries and industries around the globe have been using information technology to develop their businesses by gaining unprecedented expansion. And thanks to a new tech startup, Mountainise, businesses in Pakistan, too, can now benefit from the cutting-edge technologies of artificial intelligence and machine learning to further their causes – i.e. business intelligence, business process management, conversion rate sales optimisation, sales, profits, and, above all, reach a customized experience of successful customer journey.

Google's AlphaGo AI has once again made the case that machines are now smarter than man -- when it comes to games of strategy, at least. AlphaGo made its name last year when it defeated high-profile Go player Lee Sedol 4-1, but now it has beaten the world's best player of Go, the hugely complex ancient strategy game. Today, it won against Go world champion Ke Jie to clinch a second, decisive win of a three-part series that is taking place in China this week. "I'm putting my hand on my chest, because I thought I had a chance. I thought I was very close to winning the match in the middle of the game, but that might not have been what AlphaGo was thinking. I was very excited, I could feel my heart thumping!" he said in a post-tie press conference.

Reports that robots, automation and artificial intelligence are going to put millions of us out of work may sound troubling, but should we believe them? That largely depends on whether we're technology optimists or pessimists. In our Future of Work series we look at how jobs might change in the future. The Snewing family lived in 62 Falkner Street, Liverpool, for more than four decades. They were saddlers working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Google has just started to fund computer software which will write local news. A short story written by Japanese computer software made it to second rounds of national literary prize. And an artificial intelligence company called deep mind has created software that can generate music by listening to music. All these foregoing flashy news stories are evident of the benefit and popularization of Artificial Intelligence in the modern world. Earlier, the computer generated works relied heavily upon the input provided by the programmer, the software was very much like a tool or a mechanism like brush or canvas.

There may be a debate in India as to whether enough jobs are being created or whether there is jobless growth. In the wider world, there is a big debate on the likely effects of artificial intelligence ( AI) and robotics. There is a fear that robots will replace not just manual labour but a lot of brainwork as well. There are scenarios being painted where no human being may be needed for any paid work and robots will do everything. Of course, a few people will be needed to produce robots and improve their quality.

Even if you're not particularly interested in video games, you'll probably have heard of Assassin's Creed. They're a series of historically themed action games that take place in digital recreations of places such as Revolution-era Paris, medieval Jerusalem and 1860s London. Playing Assassin's Creed involves climbing up ancient buildings and mingling with the residents of cities of the past, meeting (and occasionally assassinating) historical figures as a member of an ancient, clandestine brotherhood working against the Templars. The games have been around since 2007 and have made an awful lot of money for their publisher, Ubisoft. The company employs a team of hundreds of artists, historians, writers, coders, sound designers and more to create these virtual places.

Job openings often go unfulfilled despite a surfeit of unemployed or underemployed workers. One of the main reasons for this is a mismatch between the skills required by employers and the skills that workers possess. This mismatch, also known as the skills gap, can pose socioeconomic challenges for an economy. A first step in alleviating the skills gap is to accurately detect skills in human capital data such as resumes and job ads. Comprehensive and accurate detection of skills facilitates analysis of labor market dynamics. It also helps bridge the divide between supply and demand of labor by facilitating reskilling and workforce training programs. In this paper, we describe SKILL, a Named Entity Normalization (NEN) system for occupational skills. SKILL is composed of 1) A skills tagger which uses properties of semantic word vectors to recognize and normalize relevant skills, and 2) A skill entity sense disambiguation component which infers the correct meaning of an identified skill. We discuss the technical design and the synergy between data science and engineering that was required to transform the system from a research prototype to a production service that serves customers from across the organization. We also discuss establishing customer feedback loops, and it led to improvements to the system over time. SKILL is currently used by various internal teams at CareerBuilder for big data workforce analytics, semantic search, job matching, and recommendations.