More and more self-driving vehicles are making their debut, raising the question of who should be held accountable if, or perhaps when, they cause accidents. Following American and German automakers Tesla Motors Inc. and Mercedes-Benz, Nissan Motor Co. released a minivan model with self-driving functions in the Serena family in August at a time when the government and automakers in Japan are looking to have autonomous vehicles in regular use by 2020. In Japan, autonomous vehicles are now sold with the understanding that drivers are responsible for maintaining control of their vehicles. Drivers are required to stay behind the steering wheel even when self-driving functions are in operation, and they are held accountable for accidents. The autonomous Serena model is designed for expressway use in single-lane traffic.

Soon, police officers won't need to pull you over if you're caught texting while driving. The machine vision technology company Movidius has teamed up with the Chinese security camera maker Hikvision to create smart cameras that can catch behavior such as leaving a suspicious package in a public place, driving while distracted by mobile devices, and break ins. Advanced visual analytics will also allow cameras to identify car models and detect seat belts. The partnership will debut a new line of cameras with higher accuracy than traditional computing techniques in China this week. Both search giant Google and the world's leading drone manufacturer DJI have relied on Movidius to enhance spatial awareness in virtual reality and engineer the sense and avoid features inside drones respectively.

How to get people interested in art? How to expose permanent-collection works that sit in storage? These are questions art museums constantly ponder. Recently, Tate Britain asked another one: How can artificial intelligence help? It put the question to anyone who wanted to compete for the 2016 IK Prize, which promotes the use of digital technology in the exploration of art at Tate Britain or on the Tate website.

We have discussed some AI topics in the previous posts, and it should seem now obvious the extraordinary disruptive impact AI had over the past few years. However, what everyone is now thinking of is where AI will be in five years time. I find it useful then to describe a few emerging trends we start seeing today, as well as make few predictions around machine learning future developments. The following proposed list does not want to be either exhaustive or truth-in-stone, but it comes from a series of personal considerations that might be useful when thinking about the impact of AI on our world. Companies like Vicarious or Geometric Intelligence are working toward reducing the data burden needed to train neural networks.

Ben Dickson is a software engineer and the founder of TechTalks. While machine learning is introducing innovation and change to many sectors, it also is bringing trouble and worries to others. One of the most worrying aspects of emerging machine learning technologies is their invasiveness on user privacy. From rooting out your intimate and embarrassing secrets to imitating you, machine learning is making it hard to not only hide your identity but also keep ownership of it and prevent from being attributed to you words you haven't uttered and actions you haven't taken. Here are some of the technologies that might have been created with good-natured intent, but can also be used for evil deeds when put into the wrong hands.

She heads HR for one of the largest banks and now has a difficult mandate to execute. She has had to shut down a branch in a small city because that branch is no longer profitable. Many of the jobs in the bank that were once being done by humans have been handed over to robots or "bots" as they are called. "Is Artificial Intelligence a job killer", I ask her. "The bots have been programmed in-house in our innovation lab. The innovation lab has added jobs."

A CNN Money report found that Americans paid more than $6 billion in overdraft fees in 2013 to the top three banks alone. A CNN Money report found that Americans paid more than $6 billion in overdraft fees in 2013 to the top three banks alone. Ahead of their official presentation at the Money 20/20 FinTech conference in Las Vegas, Change Labs has announced the launch of their platform and savings product, along with their latest pilot service that they are calling Predictive Overdraft Protection . Co-founded in 2015 by CEO Yaniv Levi, Head of Product Assaf Priel, and CTO Dmitri Chebotarev, Change Labs is on a mission to reshape the way that people behave with their money. So far the company has succeeded in raising $1.3 million in seed capital to reach their alpha testing round from various unidentified backers.

Dr. Bin Li received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and a bachelor's degree in economics from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2006. He earned a PhD degree from the School of Computer Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2013. He completed the CFA Program in 2013 and is currently an associate professor of finance at the Economics and Management School of Wuhan University. Dr. Li was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Nanyang Business School of Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are computational finance and machine learning.

Conservatives are girding for an extended clash on two fronts in the months ahead: one with a possible Clinton administration and one with Republicans who rejected Donald J. Trump. Megyn Kelly's divergent approach at Fox News took a different turn in her exchange with Newt Gingrich and again raised the question of the channel's future. A lot of healthy people are defying predictions by the Affordable Care Act architects and refusing to enroll, throwing off the calculations behind the system. The startling double-digital declines in TV viewership raise questions about whether the football and soccer leagues have reached their peak. Mr. Beatty's "Rules Don't Apply" is the first film he has written, directed and starred in since "Bulworth" in 1998.

HARI SREENIVASAN: More than ever before, a big part of this election campaign has played itself out on social media. No doubt the candidates and their campaigns have tried to take advantage of these platforms. But there's been a much bigger role this year as well for unseen players. You might call it the rise of the bots. Miles O'Brien has the story, part of our weekly reporting about on the Leading Edge of science and technology.