Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Scientific American's sister publication, as "Digitale Demokratie statt Datendiktatur." "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another." The digital revolution is in full swing. How will it change our world? The amount of data we produce doubles every year. In other words: in 2016 we produced as much data as in the entire history of humankind through 2015. Every minute we produce hundreds of thousands of Google searches and Facebook posts. These contain information that reveals how we think and feel. Soon, the things around us, possibly even our clothing, also will be connected with the Internet. It is estimated that in 10 years' time there will be 150 billion networked measuring sensors, 20 times more than people on Earth. Then, the amount of data will double every 12 hours. Many companies are already trying to turn this Big Data into Big Money. Everything will become intelligent; soon we will not only have smart phones, but also smart homes, smart factories and smart cities. Should we also expect these developments to result in smart nations and a smarter planet? The field of artificial intelligence is, indeed, making breathtaking advances. In particular, it is contributing to the automation of data analysis. Artificial intelligence is no longer programmed line by line, but is now capable of learning, thereby continuously developing itself. Recently, Google's DeepMind algorithm taught itself how to win 49 Atari games. Algorithms can now recognize handwritten language and patterns almost as well as humans and even complete some tasks better than them. They are able to describe the contents of photos and videos. Today 70% of all financial transactions are performed by algorithms. News content is, in part, automatically generated. This all has radical economic consequences: in the coming 10 to 20 years around half of today's jobs will be threatened by algorithms. It can be expected that supercomputers will soon surpass human capabilities in almost all areas--somewhere between 2020 and 2060. Experts are starting to ring alarm bells.

Virtually all shopping will take place at home. The war in retail has long ago gone technological. Amazon is the poster child of this transition, paving the way first by taking its business online, then embracing the cloud and offering ever more advanced services for compute and storage to thirrd parties via Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon may be the undisputed leader both in terms of its market share in retail and its cloud offering, but that does not mean the competition just sits around watching. Alibaba, which some see as a Chinese counterpart of Amazon, is inspired by Amazon's success.

Particle physicists began fiddling with artificial intelligence (AI) in the late 1980s, just as the term "neural network" captured the public's imagination. Their field lends itself to AI and machine-learning algorithms because nearly every experiment centers on finding subtle spatial patterns in the countless, similar readouts of complex particle detectors--just the sort of thing at which AI excels. Particle physicists strive to understand the inner workings of the universe by smashing subatomic particles together with enormous energies to blast out exotic new bits of matter, such as the the long-predicted Higgs boson, which was discovered in 2012 at the world's largest proton collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. Such exotic particles don't come with labels, however. In a fraction of a nanosecond, they decay into other particles, and physicists must spot all those more-common particles and see whether they fit together in a way that's consistent with them coming from the same parent--a job made far harder by the hordes of extraneous particles in a typical collision.

The NSPCC is warning children and parents about the potential risks of Snap Map, Snapchat's controversial new feature. The charity has drawn attention to a recent survey saying that over a third of young people have added a stranger online in the last six months, and says Snap Map could leave children vulnerable to stalking, grooming and bullying. The new Snapchat feature allows other people to see exactly where you are in real time, on an interactive map detailed enough to show not only what street you're on, but also whereabouts on that street you are. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Newsweek and International Business Times are to host an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Capital Markets event, taking place on 1 and 2 March 2017 at the Barbican in the City of London. The event, which is taking place in association with Imperial College London will bring together data scientists from banks, hedge funds and fintech startup companies to discuss the frontiers of AI and machine learning technology in financial markets. IBT Media is the parent company of Newsweek and International Business Times. Professor Nick Jennings CB, FREng, Vice-Provost (Research) Imperial College, said: "Imperial College London is at the forefront of getting technology and economics/business expertise working together to create real impact at the forefront of the fintech revolution. "We have a broad and substantial expertise, from crypto-currency to financial economics, from signal processing to mathematical analysis and from AI to data processing and high performance computing.

Kalashnikov Group, the producer of the famous AK-74 assault rifle, has developed a fully automated combat module based on neural network technologies that enable it to identify targets and make decisions, Kalashnikov Director for Communications Sofiya Ivanova told TASS on Wednesday. "In the imminent future, the Group will unveil a range of products based on neural networks. A fully automated combat module featuring this technology is planned to be demonstrated at the Army-2017 forum," Ivanova said. A neural network is a quickly learning system that can operate using both the preset algorithm and acquired experience.

Amazon Prime Day 2017 is set to take place next week, with the promise of price reductions on thousands of products for a limited period of time. The company calls it "one of the world's best days to shop", and it's seen by many as an ideal opportunity to get the Christmas shopping done early. This will be the company's third Prime Day. Here's what you need to know before it kicks off. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

Its still hard to say if the voice-controlled aluminum can will be the next smartphone or the next Segway, but either way, brands are preparing. This morning Adobe launched a new fixed of analytics tools, Adobe Sensei for Voice, to help brands are benefiting from conversational data to improve targeting and, ideally, conversions. Adobe tells it can eat data from Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana and Bixby( lol one day). The corporation captures both user intent and contextual data context that can be put to use by brands when targeting clients across other channels like social and email. This entails Adobe can track the actions users most often take with their conversational AI of choice and the things they regularly interact with imagine calling an Uber versus listening to the latest Portugal.

GlaxoSmithKline has signed a $43 million agreement with Scotland-based Exscientia to use its artificial intelligence technology to lower the costs and times needed to identify drug candidates. Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi are among other firms investigating AI applications for drug research.

Particle physicists began fiddling with artificial intelligence (AI) in the late 1980s, just as the term "neural network" captured the public's imagination. Their field lends itself to AI and machine-learning algorithms because nearly every experiment centers on finding subtle spatial patterns in the countless, similar readouts of complex particle detectors--just the sort of thing at which AI excels. "It took us several years to convince people that this is not just some magic, hocus-pocus, black box stuff," says Boaz Klima, of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, one of the first physicists to embrace the techniques. Neural networks search for fingerprints of new particles in the debris of collisions at the LHC. Particle physicists strive to understand the inner workings of the universe by smashing subatomic particles together with enormous energies to blast out exotic new bits of matter.