"The eyes … they never lie," said noted philosopher Tony Montana in the gangster movie Scarface. While Montana chose to go down the drug-dealing and murdering route, however, had he been born 30 years later he could probably have had a promising career as a computer interface designer. At least, that's the message we're choosing to take away from a new project created by researchers in Australia and Germany. They developed an artificial intelligence that is able to predict a person's personality type by looking into their eyes. "Several previous works suggested that the way in which we move our eyes is modulated by who we are -- by our personality," Andreas Bulling, a professor from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Informatics, told Digital Trends.

John Harris asks what happens next to all the jobs that technology will obliterate (Ten million jobs could be gone in 15 years. He fears that inequality will worsen. Let robots do the boring, repetitive stuff. Humans can do all those jobs required to create a better life for all, and provide decent pay and good working conditions to boot. We need many more care, support, youth and early years workers.

LONDON, UK – Much has been made of the international race for AI supremacy between the respective global superpowers of China and the US, with some commentators even pushing an'AI Cold War' angle. These two key focal points for AI interest and innovation may impress with their sheer resources and spending, but some of the greatest advancements in AI are coming out of smaller economies with much less firepower. Britain has for centuries punched above its weight in enterprise and business, and is today considered to have one of the strongest digital economies in the world. As this small, rainy island looks inward and asks difficult questions about its place in the world, the British AI sector is one area where the path forward is clear – as the recent Lords AI report indicated. From their offices near St. Pauls Cathedral in London, TechUK are certainly at the crossroads of many different strands of innovation going into British tech and enterprise.

Five robots have replaced seven employees at a Swiss bank in order to speed up workflow, according to a new report. The robots were able to do the same work as a human employee but could work 24/7 without a break, making them overall more effective. The pilot project at St. Galler Kantonalbank (SGKB) went so well the bank has decided to take on more robots at the end of this month. Last year a report found that as many as 800 million workers could be replaced by machines in just 13 years. Five robots have replaced seven employees at a Swiss bank in order to speed up workflow. The pilot project at St. Galler Kantonalbank (SGKB) went so well the bank has decided to take on more robots at the end of this month (stock image) The test was carried out last year when SGKB took over the private banking business of W.M Warburg Bank AG.

Facial recognition technology used by the UK police is making thousands of mistakes, a new report has found. South Wales Police, London's Met and Leicestershire are all trialling automated facial recognition systems in public places to identify wanted criminals. According to police figures, the system often makes more incorrect matches than correct ones. Experts warned the technology could lead to false arrests and described it as a'dangerously inaccurate policing tool'. South Wales Police has been testing an automated facial recognition system.

Virgin Holidays used AI to prove the value of overhauling its email emarketing as it prepared for a full-scale transformation of how it communicates with consumers. Saul Lopes, Virgin Holidays' customer lifecycle lead, admitted that when he first joined three years ago its email marketing setup was "complex"; it was using three different tools to send emails, it had a marketing and CRM team without any data analysts, it was only able to do limited personalisation and there was "no culture of testing". He wanted to do a full digital transformation of how the function worked, but with his plan costing lots of money and requiring a huge shift in skills and mindset, he was instead tasked with proving what success would look like on a small scale before the company would commit. The AI took away all of the bullsh*t. We are no longer led by human ego or human bias but by numbers and results.

US-based international market survey agency Compass Intelligence LLC recently released its list of the top 15 artificial intelligence (AI) chip makers, among whom the US NVIDIA Corp. ranked first, while Shenzhen-based HiSilicon Technologies Co., a unit of communications giant Huawei Technologies Co., ranked 12th, the highest among Chinese companies. The list showed the US Intel Corp. and the Netherlands NXP Semiconductors NV ranking second and third. America's IBM Corp., Google Inc. of Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc. ranked fourth, sixth and eighth, respectively. Compass Intelligence compiled the list of software and hardware companies which produce artificial intelligence chipsets. Products evaluated included central processors, image processors, neural network processors and application-specific integrated circuits, all of which it comprehensively graded and ranked in accordance with market indexes, supplier tracing analyses and company statistics.

Our eyes allow us to perceive the world around us, but they are also a window into the mind. In fact, an emerging body of research suggests that the way in which we move our eyes is affected by our personality. Studies looking into this topic have found people with similar traits tend to move their eyes in similar ways. For example, optimists spend less time looking at negative emotional stimuli, like images of cancer, while curious people tend to take in all regions of a scene. Recently, an international team of researchers from institutions in Australia and Germany tried to understand more about the link between personality and eye movements by developing a machine learning algorithm--a type of computer code that learns without the need to be specifically programed--New Scientist reports.

How much does Apple know about me? Following Facebook's acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of 87 million users, I rushed to see what kind of personal data the social network and Google had gathered on me. Both had more information, reaching back longer, than I had envisioned. I use an iPhone, iPad and two Mac computers, and Apple also offers data downloads in the privacy section of its website. It's hard to find, and once you do make the connection, you can expect a hefty wait to get the results.

Grocery chain Co-op is delivering shopping to customers in Milton Keynes using cute robots created by Starship Technologies. A Co-op store near Starship's headquarters in Monkston has been using the six-wheeled'ground drones' to deliver around 200 different products over the past four weeks. Customers pay the usual in-store price plus £1 ($1.36) for the delivery which goes to Starship. Earlier this month the company announced it plans to launch 1,000 bots to corporate and academic campuses in Europe and the US within the year. A Co-op member of staff - known as a'picker' - selects the items and puts them in a cooler box compartment inside the robot.