My son has just been given a new toy car. It's small, blue and remarkably cute-looking for something that threatens one day to cost a lot of people their jobs. For what's unusual about this car is that it wasn't made in a distant Chinese factory before being shipped back to a warehouse here, then trucked to a shop, or dumped on a doorstep by an overworked Amazon driver with no time to ring the doorbell. This one came straight off a 3D printer, one of those faintly space age-sounding gizmos that works a bit like a normal printer except that you load it with plastic fibres instead of paper, and then programme it to "print" a solid object according to your preferred design. It's slow and expensive now, which is why the car my son was given isn't really a toy but a marketing gimmick.

Artificial intelligence could add 630 billion pounds ($837 billion) to the U.K. economy by 2035, a government-commissioned report said. The economic boost would come from a combination of more personalized services, improvements in health care and adopting machine learning to find ways to use resources more efficiently, according to the report. But to see that gain, the U.K. needs to do more to encourage businesses to deploy machine learning and artificial intelligence and ensure the U.K. maintains a leadership position in AI research and development. "We have a choice," the report's authors, Wendy Hall, a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, and Jerome Pesenti, chief executive officer of health care research startup BenevolentAI, wrote. "The U.K. could stay among the world leaders in AI in the future, or allow other countries to dominate."

Robots can be used to perform a raft of benign and "dangerous" jobs to unlock £630bn for the UK economy, ministers said today. Tasks including smarter scheduling of medical operations and hiring on-demand self-driving cars can be performed by machines, according to a government-commissioned report into how artificial intelligence (AI) can be developed. Culture minister Karen Bradley said the UK has "some of the best minds in the world working on AI" and urged industry and academia to work more closely together. She said: "I want the UK to lead the way in AI. It has the potential to improve our everyday lives – from healthcare to robots that perform dangerous tasks."

Yesterday I had the chance to meet Andreas Liebl, partner at UnternehmerTUM, who launched a programme Applied.AI, wherein people from across the world are invited to apply. If you are an engineer, or a professional, and wish to launch an application or gain expertise in the field of AI, this is the programme for you. The institute was founded by entrepreneur Susanne Klatten in 2002 and is supported by several corporations such as Nvidia, Mercedes Benz and SAP, to name a few. What I found interesting about the institute is that not only do they train you, but can also support you, should you wish to start up. The institute has a venture capital arm that can facilitate investments towards startups with promising ideas.

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It makes a lot of sense to think about the potential economic effects of AI. Governments badly need to be considering the impact of AI and automation on jobs, including the safety risks, and thinking hard about how to realize the technology's potential to boost economic productivity. The recommendations of the U.K. report bring to mind the massive commitment China is making in AI (for an in-depth discussion of this, check out our feature "China's AI Awakening"). Other countries--including the U.S.--would be wise to ramp up their own investments if they don't want to get left behind by the boom.

The UK economy could benefit from an estimated £630bn provided the government supports efforts to develop and apply Artificial Intelligence in a range of applications including healthcare. These are the conclusions of a report published yesterday, October 15, 2017, which set out proposals for how government can work with industry to take a leading position in AI, a sector singled out for growth in January 2017's Industrial Strategy Green Paper. The independent review, 'Growing the Artificial Intelligence Industry in the UK', was announced as part of the Digital Strategy in March, 2017, and was led by Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science at Southampton University, and Jérôme Pesenti, chief executive of BenevolentTech. Pesenti said that the AI review focussed on recommendations that are practicable and deliverable. "By following these recommendations, government, academia and industry can help strengthen the UK's position in the global AI market," he said.

Artificial intelligence could add 630 billion pounds ($837 billion) to the U.K. economy by 2035, a government-commissioned report said. The economic boost would come from a combination of more personalized services, improvements in health care and adopting machine learning to find ways to use resources more efficiently, according to the report. But to see that gain, the U.K. needs to do more to encourage businesses to deploy machine learning and artificial intelligence and ensure the U.K. maintains a leadership position in AI research and development. "We have a choice," the report's authors, Wendy Hall, a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, and Jerome Pesenti, chief executive officer of health care research startup BenevolentAI, wrote. "The U.K. could stay among the world leaders in AI in the future, or allow other countries to dominate."

If my email inbox is anything to go by, a technology revolution is under way that is going to transform all of our lives very soon and it is called artificial intelligence. A Welsh company is using AI to detect North Korean bio-weapons. I could pop over to California to hear about "AI wearable solutions for aging population". And Lloyd's of London has unveiled its first artificial intelligence deal. It promises that "in a decade a significant part of the insurance industry will be powered by AI."

Machines won't become intelligent unless they incorporate certain features of the human brain. Europe's massive €1 billion project has shifted focus from simulation to informatics By Megan Scudellari Large-scale brainlike systems are possible with existing technology--if we're willing to spend the money By Jennifer Hasler Researchers in this specialized field have hitched their wagon to deep learning's star By Lee Gomes Running algorithms that mimic a rat's navigation neurons, heavy machines will soon plumb Australia's underground mines By Jean Kumagai Artificial intelligence might endow some computers with self-awareness.