First the machines came for the menial jobs. Since then, they've climbed the corporate ladder and now sit on the board of directors of at least one venture capital firm in Japan. But that's Japan, you say. Well, if you thought your job was safe, you might want to think again. In the cover story of this week's MoneyWeek magazine, Matthew Partridge gets to grips with the nuts and bolts of what's driving the rise of artificial intelligence, or AI for those in the know.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Artificial Intelligence Market Analysis & Trends - Industry Forecast to 2025" report to their offering. The Global Artificial Intelligence Market is poised to grow at a CAGR of around 44.3% over the next decade to reach approximately 23.4 billion by 2025. This industry report analyzes the global markets for Artificial Intelligence across all the given segments on global as well as regional levels presented in the research scope. It presents historical market data for 2013, 2014 revenue estimations are presented for 2015 and forecasts from 2016 till 2025. The study focuses on market trends, leading players, supply chain trends, technological innovations, key developments, and future strategies.

There are some mistakes that we make habitually. Even as we're doing it, a part of our brain is screaming: "This is absolutely the wrong thing to do." But somehow, before we know it, we've gone ahead done it; we've bought a ticket to see Batman v Superman. Sometimes those things happen in games too. It doesn't matter how experienced you are at Call of Duty, there are moments you think you can take out several incoming players at once by charging at them with your pistol and two bullets in the clip.

Google executives on Tuesday took turns extolling the capabilities and potential of the company's cloud computing infrastructure, with an eye toward dethroning cloud computing leader Amazon. "In the future, almost everything will be done in the cloud because it simply is a better way of doing computing," said Google CEO Sundar Pichai in opening remarks at the Google Cloud Platform Next 2016 conference. Such sentiment is expected at a cloud evangelism event. But Google wrapped its hard sell in an alluring package, the promise of machine learning. "This platform is not the end, it's the bottom," said Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google parent company Alphabet.

In my new book BOLD, one of the interviews that I'm most excited about is with my good friend Ray Kurzweil. Bill Gates calls Ray, "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence." Ray is also amazing at predicting a lot more beyond just AI. This post looks at his very incredible predictions for the next 20 years. He has received 20 honorary doctorates, has been awarded honors from three U.S. presidents, and has authored 7 books (5 of which have been national bestsellers). He is the principal inventor of many technologies ranging from the first CCD flatbed scanner to the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind. He is also the chancellor and co-founder of Singularity University, and the guy tagged by Larry Page to direct artificial intelligence development at Google. In short, Ray's pretty smart… and his predictions are amazing, mind-boggling, and important reminders that we are living in the most exciting time in human history. But, first let's look back at some of the predictions Ray got right. Then in 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov. He was right, to say the least.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamt of building his own one day. Unlike most of the others, however, Ma has realized his childhood dream at the age of 42, by successfully constructing a life-sized robot from scratch on the balcony of his home. The fruit of his labors of a year-and-a-half, and a budget of more than 50,000, is a female robot prototype he calls the Mark 1, modeled after a Hollywood star whose name he wants to keep under wraps. It responds to a set of programed verbal commands spoken into a microphone. "I figured I should just do it when the timing is right and realize my dream. If I realize my dream, I will have no regrets in life," said Ma, who had to learn about fields completely new to him before he could build the complex gadget.

I attended the Intelligence Squared artificial intelligence debate at the 92nd St. Y's Seven Day of Genius Festival (March 9th) and felt like I had a seat at the edge of the world. For better or worse, this is arguably the central debate of the 21st century. The motion was "Don't Trust The Promise of AI?" Jaron Lanier and Andrew Keen took the position we shouldn't trust AI, while Martine Rothblatt and James Hughes argued we should. There were transhumanists on both sides of the debate, which made things interesting. For those unfamiliar, "transhumanism is an international and intellectual movement aiming to transform the human condition by developing and creating widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities."

Between smart machines, A.I., and big data, supply chain management is steadily embracing futuristic technology. This is driven by a confluence of factors, including rapid technological development, a more strategic charter being pushed from the C-suite, and the realization that company-wide agility begins at the supply chain level. Data gets buzz in every market, but supply chain management is a field where it can have an immediate impact. David Wilkins, Vice President of Supply Chain at Raytheon sums it up well, "Our customers need us to "do more with less" – that means providing the most advanced capability at the lowest possible price. When roughly 70 percent of a program's cost comes from materials, we know we can reduce costs by sourcing smarter. To do this, we're using data analytics, collaborative technology and internal strategic sourcing."

Predicting the Presidential Election is practically a national sport. However, traditional predictors – especially the talkshow hosts on Fox News – have historically been terrible at calling the next set of numbers. It took Nate Silver's exceptional statistical skill to show us that with public data, you could accurately predict the election down to the last winning percentage – if the mind doing the calculations was good enough. Artificial Intelligence has evolved exponentially over the years. We've gone from Deep Blue beating Gary Kasparov to DeepMind mastering Go.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple 40 years ago. On Friday, Apple reaches a major milestone in its history, celebrating 40 years since it was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It was a long road to becoming one of the world's biggest tech names, nearly reaching the edge of a financial collapse before Jobs returned to save the company and launch arguably its most important products. On Apple's 40th birthday, we look back at the 40 biggest moments in company history: While hanging out together as part of the Homebrew Computer Club, the two friends formed Apple from Jobs' garage. "We first met during my college years, while he was in high school," Wozniak said in a 2007 interview with ABC News.