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Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionise our lives, drive our cars, diagnose our health problems, and lead us into a new future where thinking machines do things that we're yet to imagine. Even billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who admits he has access to some of the most cutting-edge AI, said recently that without some regulation "AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization". So what is the future of AI? Michael Milford and Peter Stratton are both heavily involved in AI research and they have different views on how it will impact on our lives in the future. How widespread is artificial intelligence today? Answering this question depends on what you consider to be "artificial intelligence".

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a little tit-for-tat this week over artificial intelligence. Does it represent an existential threat to humanity, as Musk argues, or does it hold great promise to improve our lives, as Zuckerberg believes? On a Facebook Live broadcast, Zuckerberg declared, "I think people who are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios -- I just, I don't understand it. It's really negative, and in some ways I actually think it is pretty irresponsible." Musk took the kerfuffle to Twitter, replying: "I've talked to Mark about this. His understanding of the subject is limited."

Summary Created by Alibaba (No. 41) in 2014 to operate its rapidly expanding Alipay mobile payments service, Ant Financial has staked out global ambitions, investing in financial ventures in India, Thailand, Singapore, and the U.S. The company executes over half of all mobile-payment transactions in China, with more than 450 million annual active users. Ant is building artificial intelligence into new products, including an insurance claim system that uses machine learning to process images of accidents taken on a smartphone, using them to determine how serious the damage is and begin to process the claim with an insurer. The company, which reportedly holds billions of dollars in customers' money before and after executing transactions, has also begun to offer small loans to consumers, evaluating their creditworthiness partly on the basis of their spending history.

Following a successful quarter, Intel has raised revenue outlook across the full-year owing to solid performance in artificial intelligence (AI) and driverless tech, reports Telecoms.com Quarterly figures were looking pretty impressive too. Total revenue was reported at $14.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9%, while net income stood at $2.8 billion, up 11% year-on-year. The team now expects to clock up $15.7 billion in the next quarter (plus or minus $500 million, because we regularly misplace change as well). "Q2 was an outstanding quarter with revenue and profits growing double digits over last year," says Intel CEO Brian Krzanich.

Blink and the lights go out. A sensor on a pair of glasses that can pick up the motion of your skin when you blink could be used to switch the lights on and off, or to help those with limited or no mobility write messages on a computer. "The good thing about the technology is the high sensitivity, which may become particularly useful in places where the motion is very limited," says Ambarish Ghosh at the Indian Institute of Science, who wasn't involved in the research. The sensor, called a triboelectric generator, is thin enough to fit on the arms of a pair of glasses. It is made from multiple polymer layers with a coating of metal that acts as an electrode.

Humans aren't very good at recognizing upside down faces - but then again, neither are fish. Researchers have discovered that the Japanese rice fish struggles to recognize inverted faces, just like humans. But the fish don't struggle recognizing faces when they're orientated the right way up, suggesting that these fish developed a brain pathway for face recognition, just like humans have. Can you recongize who's face this is? Humans read the face as a whole, rather than look at parts of the face, which is why it's harder to recognize a face when it's upside-down Humans don't struggle with identifying objects, such as a sofa, not matter what way up they are.

General purpose technology is a term economists reserve for technologies that spur protracted economic growth and societal advancements, revolutionizing the operations of households and corporations alike. A sample general purpose technology is electricity. Electricity spawned a multitude of products and sectors, including refrigerators, washing machines, trains and, of course, computers. The advent of electricity radically transformed the world. A recent Harvard Business Review article designates artificial intelligence (AI) as the most important general purpose technology of our era. A car that can parallel park itself. Devices that respond with tomorrow's weather when we ask.

On today's show, Kevin Kelly talks on how AI technology will shape organizations and why leaders need to adapt to company teaching mentality. Kevin Kelly is the Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its Executive Editor for the first seven years. His new book is called The Inevitable, where he discusses the 12 technological forces that will change our future. Welcome to the Innovation Ecosystem, with me today is Kevin Kelly to talk about How AI technology will shape future organizations. Kevin, I have to say when we planned this program, you were the first person that I wanted onto this show. So, I'm really pleased that we managed to find some time in your calendar, and thank you very much for making that time. So, Kevin, you described your work as packaging ideas into books, websites, and making them interesting and pretty. Before we get into your new book, The Inevitable, which is about AI technology, can you give our listeners a sense of your back story? Yeah, I was a science nerd in high school, but also interested in photography, and the arts. Couldn't decide whether to go to art school or MIT. In the end, I decided to be a college dropout, and instead because I read the Whole Earth catalogue, I was inspired to make my own education, and went to Asia where I awarded myself a graduate degree in Asian studies by roaming around for eight years mostly photographing the disappearing traditions of Asia. I also caught a really bad dose of optimism in Asia because right before my eyes I saw people lifting themselves out of poverty very, very quickly, and becoming, from some of the poorest nations of the Earth, to some of the richest ones. This was in the 70s? This was in the 70s, right exactly. So, I came back in the 80s, and I was writing about travel because that was something I knew about. I got myself invited onto the earliest experimental online systems in the very early 80s, 1981, or something. I was reporting on it as if it was a new foreign country, like a travel reporter, and I saw something for the first time, which was high technology that was very human and organic.

The world is experiencing an unprecedented rate of technologically-driven disruption - adding weight to the proposition that humanity will see more change in the next 20 to 25 years than the last 200. Although a critical driver, it is important to realise that exponential science and technology developments (e.g. While technological change is a constant factor across all these drivers, let's home in on how exponential technology development could impact the future of business and work. There have been several studies into the possible impact of automation - mostly through AI and robotics - on jobs and employment. There are a range of perspectives, but looking across the studies, the broad consensus is that something significant will happen – and arguably is already happening - to the jobs market.