My 250-word blog on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on recruitment and recruiters generated a lot of banter. So I decided to look more closely at how the job of the recruiter will change. Will they exist at all? Let me say right now I am very confident about our industry. I am investing in recruitment companies and recruitment tech.

In January, Amazon opened Amazon Go, a high-tech, cashierless convenience store in Seattle. There are no checkout lines and few employees. The only requirement to shop is downloading an app. Customers just walk in, load up their bags, and go. There's no need to even scan purchases; cameras positioned overhead take note of items in customers' carts and add them to a virtual bill. Amazon Go is both an interesting novelty -- and a profound challenge to the livelihoods of the more than 3.5 million Americans who work as cashiers. Rumors of a coming wave of similar stores and robot-run factories have provoked apocalyptic predictions of mass unemployment among pundits and politicians.

Anyone who's had a frustrating interaction with Siri or Alexa knows that digital assistants just don't get humans. What they need is what psychologists call theory of mind, an awareness of others' beliefs and desires. Now, computer scientists have created an artificial intelligence (AI) that can probe the "minds" of other computers and predict their actions, the first step to fluid collaboration among machines--and between machines and people. "Theory of mind is clearly a crucial ability," for navigating a world full of other minds says Alison Gopnik, a developmental psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the work. By about the age of 4, human children understand that the beliefs of another person may diverge from reality, and that those beliefs can be used to predict the person's future behavior. Some of today's computers can label facial expressions such as "happy" or "angry"--a skill associated with theory of mind--but they have little understanding of human emotions or what motivates us.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Japan's edition of Hebocon (the "best worst robot competition") took place at the end of last month, I think, and while we hope to get a bunch of really good videos at some point, here's a tiny teaser fight that's too good not to share. On the left, we have "Transparent Robot," which consists mostly of a GoPro pointing backwards, and a phone that displays the video feed from the GoPro pointing forwards, making the robot "invisible."

The scorching heatwave gripping northern Europe was made twice as likely to happen by climate change, scientists have revealed. An initial assessment of the prolonged period of record-breaking hot weather suggests rising temperatures caused by human activity increased the odds of it happening. The preliminary research claims to have found'unambiguous' evidence that human interference has triggered the recent heatwave, which computer models predict will continue until the end of August. People enjoy the Bournemouth beach in Dorset, England, as the hot weather continues across Britain. Britain is experiencing a severe heatwave which has prompted its national weather service to issue an alert for people to'stay out of the sun' 'The logic that climate change will do this is inescapable – the world is becoming warmer and so heatwaves like this are becoming more common,' said one of the authors Dr Friederike Otto, deputy director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and and part of the World Weather Attribution (WWA) consortium that did the latest research.

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Artificial Intelligence can recognize documents, robots complete electronic files, recognize speech, images and analyze behavior, artificial creations are already here! Today, artificial intelligence is used to increase business benefits. Soon, it will be publically used as standard. On 1-2 October 2018 at The Westin Warsaw Hotel, the AI & Big Data Congress is taking place, which allows to confront the complexity of modern technologies. For artificial intelligence to become a standard, specific facts are needed.

The UK government is using a type of artificial intelligence that can detect emotion on social media to measure and understand how people feel on certain topics. Web science firm FlyingBinary has released the "artificial emotional intelligence" service to the government's G-Cloud marketplace, in partnership with emotional AI recognition company Emrays B.V. "The web has become a noisy space as online content grows exponentially," said Professor Jacqui Taylor, CEO of FlyingBinary. "Where once tools were in the hands of a social team it is increasingly difficult for humans using social media monitoring to understand the signals about a brand, initiatives, good news or issues." "This service uses AI technology to understand digital content from an emotional perspective and how resonant this is with an online audience before content is shared online." The two companies have deployed the artificial emotional intelligence engine as part of a newly awarded G-Cloud 10 service built for the UK government.

An egg bank in Spain is using face recognition technology to match people with donors who look like them. The idea is that this way prospective mothers will get a child who resembles them even though they are not genetically related. Egg donation is relatively common in Spain compared to other European nations. It has strict laws protecting the anonymity of the donor, which makes it a popular destination for women across Europe seeking eggs for IVF.

Vienna's residents and tourists do not have to rely on the kindness of strangers or scroll through long lists of website links to find parking, restrooms or other critical information. They can simply use WienBot, the Austrian city's chatbot. Available via Facebook Messenger, WienBot provides answers to an array of user questions and continuously learns from the interactions -- even pre-empting questions as it captures the most frequently used terms. WienBot is a perfect example of how governments can use artificial intelligence (AI) to go digital, one of the biggest challenges for cities, states and nations worldwide. Bettina Tratz-Ryan, research vice president at Gartner, says developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-powered chatbots will allow government CIOs to customize and improve the delivery of services for the citizens they serve.