By 2022, artificial intelligence and related technologies will change the jobs people do and the people who do the jobs. Anyone who believes the Fourth Industrial Revolution powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is still off in some distant science fiction landscape needs to take a gander at Future of Jobs Report 2018 by the World Economic Forum, based in Switzerland. The report based on a survey of executives at more than 300 global companies finds that the workplace is expected to change dramatically between 2018 and 2022 by four technologies: "ubiquitous high-speed mobile internet; artificial intelligence; widespread adoption of big data analytics; and cloud technology." In five years the report predicts business will be expanding their current adoption of IoT. "Machine learning and virtual reality are poised to likewise receive considerable business investment," the report states.

"The question here is about the data," Ms. Vestager said, adding that the investigation was in its "very early days" and that her office has "no conclusions" about whether to open a formal probe. A spokesman for Amazon didn't have any immediate comment. As the EU's antitrust chief, Ms. Vestager has emerged as one of the world's major technology regulators, helping inspire investigations into tech companies from Brazil to the U.S. Most recently, she fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google twice, for a total of €6.76 billion ($7.9 billion), for allegedly abusing the dominance of its search engine and Android operating system to favor its own services--decisions the company has either appealed or said it would appeal. Under her watch, the EU also ruled that Amazon must pay some €250 million in allegedly unpaid taxes to Luxembourg, an order that the Seattle-based company has appealed. Amazon is also drawing increasing scrutiny in its home country.

Millennials are used to talking to smart speakers, picking up groceries from a delivery droid and using robots to clean their floors. It turns out this tendency to be comfortable around robots has transferred to the workplace. A team of researchers has found that millennials are more likely to use robots as a means of avoiding human interaction at work. Millennials are used to talking to smart speakers and interacting with robots. For the study, which was commissioned by content solutions company ABBYY, researchers asked 1,200 employees in the UK how they felt about human interaction.

ANGELA MERKEL, Germany's chancellor, has a reputation for being dour. But if she wants to, she can be quite funny. When asked at a recent conference organised by Ada, a new quarterly publication for technophiles, whether robots should have rights, she dead-panned: "What do you mean? The interview was also striking for a different reason. Mrs Merkel showed herself preoccupied by artificial intelligence (AI) and its geopolitics. "In the US, control over personal data is privatised to a large extent.

ANGELA MERKEL, Germany's chancellor, has a reputation for being dour. But if she wants to, she can be quite funny. When asked at a recent conference organised by Ada, a new quarterly publication for technophiles, whether robots should have rights, she dead-panned: "What do you mean? The interview was also striking for a different reason. Mrs Merkel showed herself preoccupied by artificial intelligence (AI) and its geopolitics. "In the US, control over personal data is privatised to a large extent.

The following is an interview with Daniel Wagner, ahead of the release of his new book, AI Supremacy: Winning in the Era of Machine Learning. Can you briefly explain the differences between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning? Artificial intelligence (AI) is the overarching science and engineering associated with intelligent algorithms, whether or not they learn from data. However, the definition of intelligence is subject to philosophical debate-even the terms algorithms can be interpreted in a wide context. This is one of the reasons why there is some confusion about what AI is and what is not, because people use the word loosely and have their own definition of what they believe AI is. People should understand AI to be a catch-all term for technology which tends to imply the latest advances in intelligent algorithms, but the context in how the phrase is used determines its meaning, which can vary quite widely. Machine learning (ML) is a subfield of AI that focuses on intelligent algorithms that can learn automatically (without being explicitly programmed) from data.

Experts such as Prof. Jürgen Döllner from the Hasso Plattner Institute, whose keynote speech can be heard at INTERGEO 2018 on 16 October in Frankfurt, hardly see a field that would not be able to benefit from the advantages of artificial intelligence. He predicts that there will be a number of revolutionary changes. In his keynote speech "4D Point Clouds and Machine Learning", he discusses, among other things, the application areas of AI in geospatial business applications and what future potential there is especially in this area. INTERGEO TV met him at the Hasso Plattner Institute of the University of Potsdam for an opinion leader interview, which will be published on the news platform for the geospatial community (w w w. intergeo-tv. What applications exist for AI in the geospatial industry and what potential do you see in this sector in particular?

IEEE Spectrum: Why do you believe that China will soon match or even overtake the United States in developing and deploying AI? Kai-Fu Lee: The first and foremost reason is that we've transitioned out of an era of discovery--when the person who makes the discovery has a huge edge--and into an era of implementation. The algorithms for AI are pretty well known to many practitioners. What matters now is speed, execution, capital, and access to a large amount of data. In each of these areas, China has an edge. That's why I began the book by talking about China's entrepreneurism.

The octopus is unique among animals in that it can essentially turn itself into liquid, Terminator style. Get yourself a 600-pound octopus and leave it unsupervised and the thing will squeeze itself into a quarter-sized tube and melt its way to freedom. And its manipulation superpowers are legendary--cram it into a jar and it'll unscrew its way out. So it goes when you've got no bones. And loosey-goosey octopuses can teach us a thing or two about robots. An company called Soft Robotics has developed an inflatable, cephalopod-inspired gripper made of pliable polymer fingers.

The number of job postings featuring "artificial intelligence" or "machine learning" in their description has doubled since 2015, according to global jobs website Indeed.com and New York is becoming the capital for jobs related to artificial intelligence or A.I. Samsung just announced the opening of an A.I research center in NYC. Serkan Piantino who works with Facbook, started his own company called Spell Inc. and explained to Crain's New York what his goal is. "AI tools can be built for anyone, not just computer engineers", is the concept behind his startup. Facebook itself has an A.I research center in New York City which employees over 1000. They are researching how to improve MRI's with NYU researchers.