The title may look like clickbait but I've decided to leave the original one. The article mentions important and serious change in law which will take effect in May 2018. EDIT: I've noticed that it was posted several days ago on r/Futurology and posting it here violate the rules. I think that it is too important and it should be discussed in context of machine learning and new approaches to the problem.

The Unilever brand is associated with things like soap and deodorant. But technology does play a central role in its business operations, and the UK-based company sought to tap into its power to improve hiring. With the goal of diversifying its pool of entry-level candidates, Unilever experimented with replacing its standard approach to recruiting with algorithms and targeted mobile ads. As described in a recent Wall Street Journal article, Unilever's recruiting in the past had centered primarily around eight college campuses and the usual resume collection. But the company wanted to try a different approach that would reach more people and filter through applications without overwhelming the human resources in place. The solution was setting up a hiring process based on algorithms.

One hundred and sixteen roboticists and AI researchers, including SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Google Deepmind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, have signed a letter to the United Nations calling for strict oversight of autonomous weapons, a.k.a. Though the letter itself is more circumspect, an accompanying press release says the group wants "a ban on their use internationally." Other signatories of the letter include executives and founders from Denmark's Universal Robotics, Canada's Element AI, and France's Aldebaran Robotics. The letter describes the risks of robotic weaponry in dire terms, and says that the need for strong action is urgent. It is aimed at a group of UN officials considering adding robotic weapons to the UN's Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.

Deep Learning is changing the way we look at technologies. There is a lot of excitement around artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning at the moment. It is also an amazing opportunity to get on on the ground floor of some really powerful tech. It's predicted that many deep learning applications will affect your life in the near future. Actually, they are already making an impact.

Some of the world's leading robotics and artificial intelligence pioneers are calling on the United Nations to ban the development and use of killer robots. Tesla's Elon Musk and Google's Mustafa Suleyman are leading a group of 116 specialists from across 26 countries who are calling for the ban on autonomous weapons. The UN recently voted to begin formal discussions on such weapons which include drones, tanks and automated machine guns. Ahead of this, the group of founders of AI and robotics companies have sent an open letter to the UN calling for it to prevent the arms race that is currently under way for killer robots. In their letter, the founders warn the review conference of the convention on conventional weapons that this arms race threatens to usher in the "third revolution in warfare" after gunpowder and nuclear arms.

Back in 2013, Daniel DiRocco felt stuck in a career rut. After four years working in sales for a major tobacco company, he was determined to explore new career opportunities, develop himself, and make an impact. He started spending his nights studying for the GMAT and researching business schools. For Daniel, a full-time MBA seemed like the best way to make a career switch. Just one month into a two-year MBA program at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB), he had eight interviews and two internship offers for jobs in brand management.

When Vishal Sikka, the then CEO of Infosys and the now the vice-chairman, arrived in a driverless golf cart at the firm's Bengaluru Campus recently, it showed the world how artificial intelligence or AI may become the new world order in the years to come. The software, 'driving' the cart, had been developed by Infosys together with IIT-Delhi. The vehicle can be used on a pre-determined route. "This is an example of the kind of things we are using to teach our employees," said Mr. Sikka. "We built the autonomous systems in the cart to teach our employees to build autonomous driving technology."

Two years ago, a Chinese chip-design expert named Micree Zhan was reading China's seminal science-fiction novel, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin, while wrestling with how to create a new processor. He had already designed custom chips for the company he co-founded, Bitmain, that had made it into the world's leading bitcoin miner, allowing it to dominate the new, hyper-competitive industry of unearthing bitcoins. Now he needed a chip that could launch Bitmain onto a new trajectory, one that would help it master a world-altering technology called deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence. While performing his nightly meditation, a practice he has kept up for nearly a decade, it suddenly came to Zhan. "It was late at night, and something inspired me--Sophon!" he recalls. A sophon is a fictional proton-sized supercomputer from The Three-Body Problem that is sent by an alien civilization to halt scientific progress on Earth. The aliens use it to take over Earth when their own planet is destroyed by the chaotic gravitational forces of its three suns.

Editor's note: A longer version of this post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Without a doubt, 2016 was the year "disruption" became tangible. Events like Brexit and the U.S. election brought home the reality we are living in a fast-changing global society where a sense of anti-establishment and rebellion is accelerating change. This shows no sign of stopping in 2017, with new and existing technologies allowing institutions to ultimately offer more unique banking experiences. From my meetings with decision-making executives at the world's leading banks, here are the top five trends dominating their technology investment discussions: In 2017, several banks will undoubtedly take their first steps toward "conversational commerce," a term coined by Chris Messina of Uber to describe the future of messaging within apps.

A next revolution in warfare where killer robots, or autonomous weapons systems, are common in battlefields is about to start. Both scientists and industry are worried. The world's top artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics companies have used a conference in Melbourne to collectively urge the United Nations to ban killer robots or lethal autonomous weapons. An open letter by 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies from 26 countries was launched at the world's biggest artificial intelligence conference, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), as the UN delays meeting until later this year to discuss the robot arms race. Toby Walsh, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales, released the letter at the opening of the opening of the conference, the world's pre-eminent gathering of experts in artificial intelligence and robotics.