For years organisations around the world have tried to in vain to become a paper-less organisation. The recent surge in digitisation and mobilisation of processes has helped bring many closer, but very few have actually achieved this goal. In fact, it's far more accurate in my view to talk about being a less-paper-reliant organisation than a paper-less one. Many, many organisations still use paper for one reason or another. The question I'd like to raise today, is whether we'll be having the same conversation and experience as regards our people because AI and robots continue their advance?

Exari, the leading provider of enterprise contract management software, announced today that together with IACCM it will host a live and complimentary webinar titled "An Artificial Intelligence Survival Guide for Contracts Professionals," on Tuesday February 28, from 11:00AM to 12:00PM Eastern Standard Time. The webinar will offer expert advice from Jamie Wodetzki, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Exari and Tim Cummins, CEO of IACCM. Interested professionals can register for the webinar here. "We are in a golden age of machine learning," said Jamie Wodetzki. "Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our daily lives and our professional careers. AI has entered into the contract management space and is already giving us new and different ways to explore key facets of contract documents."

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be understood as a science, engineering and deployment of machines, which perform tasks with intelligence as similar to humans. Since its inception 60 years ago, AI has observed significant growth in recent years. Initially, AI was considered as topic for academicians, though in recent years with development of various technologies, AI has turned into reality and is influencing many lives and businesses. Additionally, evolution of various other supplementary technologies such as cloud computing, machine learning and cognitive computing are collectively paving the growth of the market for AI. According to Mr. Sachin Garg - Associate Director at MarketsandMarkets who tracks the global semiconductor market, the global artificial intelligence chipset market is expected to be worth USD 16.06 Billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 62.9% between 2016 and 2022.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has doubled down on his support of a universal basic income as a possible solution for unemployment caused by the rise of machines equipped with artificial intelligence taking over the workforce. A universal basic income would give a standard amount of money to every citizen to cover basic expenses like food and living costs each month. At the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday, Musk told a crowd that universal basic income is'going to be necessary' in the future. Tesla CEO Elon Musk told a crowd at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday (pictured) that universal basic income is'going to be necessary' in the future Musk first joined the growing list of tech executives supporting the payment system in November when he spoke about the concept in an interview with CNBC. Former President Barack Obama warned Congress in March that by 2030, as many as 50 per cent of jobs could be replaced by robots, leaving millions of people without work.

Some kids want to be astronauts, firefighters or chefs when they grow up – but one little girl has her sights set on one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Chloe Bridgewater, age 7, sent Google a handwritten letter noting her computer skills and expressing interest in working at a place that provides bean-bag chairs and go-karts for their employees. The'Google boss', CEO Sundar Pichai, replied telling Chloe that he looks'forward to receiving' her job application and encouraged the young girl to follow her dreams. Chloe, who lives in Hereford, England, was inspired to write the letter after seeing images of Google offices filled with comfy bean-bags, go-karts and slides. And the original letter was shared with Matt Weinberger of Business Insider by Chloe's father Andy Bridgewater.

In Norway, cervical cancer prevention involves the participation of as many eligible women aged 25-69 years as possible. However, reaching and inviting every eligible women to attend cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination is difficult. Using social nudging and gamification in modern means of communication can encourage the participation of unscreened people. Simula Research Laboratory together with the Cancer Registry of Norway have developed FightHPV, a mobile app game intended to inform adolescent and eligible women about cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination while they play and, to facilitate their further participation to prevention campaigns. However, game design and health information transfer can be hard to reconcile, as the design of each game episode is more guided by the release of information than gameplay and playing difficulty. In this paper, we propose a constraint-based model of FightHPV to evaluate the difficulty of each episode and to help the game designer in improving the player experience. This approach is relevant to facilitate social nudging of eligible women to participate to cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination, as shown by the initial deployment of FightHPV and tests performed in focus groups. The design of this mobile app can thus be regarded as a new application case of Artificial Intelligence techniques such as gamification and constraint programming.

When Worlds Collide, the 1951 Sci Fi film, painted a rather gloomy vision of the future of mankind on earth. However, the prospects for blended reality, in which the physical and digital worlds collide, couldn't be more promising. By fusing the virtual and real worlds, the possibilities are endless. By eliminating filters and limitations, blended reality enables expression at the speed of thought to improve experiences and inspire new technology. Using healthcare as an example, blended reality has significant implications for more personalized care, prevention and treatment by converging human biology, real-world context and technology advancements.

There are two options for controlling a robot inside of the human body: Either you try and build some sort of intricate and tiny robot submarine with self contained propulsion and navigation, which would be really really hard to do, or you just make the robot with a tiny bit of something that responds to magnetic fields, and control it externally with some big magnets. The latter approach is vastly less complicated, but it has one major drawback, which is that it's very hard to manage multiple robots. Here's the problem: Magnetic fields, being fields, aren't easily constrained to specific areas. Realistically, if you're using something like a clinical MRI scanner to create a magnetic field, whatever gradient you give the field will affect everything inside of the MRI, whether you've got one single microbot or a vast swarm of them. If you want two different robots to do two different things, you're out of luck.

One lens is good, four lenses are better. A tiny camera combines four 3D-printed lenses to mimic natural vision – with super-sharp focus in a central area and wider peripheral vision. The miniaturised camera could be used in insect-sized surveillance drones, to hone in on details without losing track of what's happening elsewhere. A spot at the back of our eyes called the fovea is crammed with a higher concentration of light-sensitive cells than the surrounding regions, giving us sharp vision in the centre of our field of view while objects closer to the edges of our vision are less well-defined. The lenses with longer focal lengths capture high detail over a narrow field of view, while the lenses with short focal lengths capture low detail over a wider field of view.

Current research projects show that artificial intelligence (AI) can help us solving global problems for the greater good of mankind. Despite the headlines presenting crashes involving self-driving cars, the applications of AI technology in this area could dramatically reduce injuries and deaths on the roads. Self-driving cars could also change our lifestyles. Thanks to this emerging technology, we will have more time to entertain ourselves of work during commutes. The decreased cognitive load and the increased comfort provided by shared transportation and self-driving may also affect where people choose to live.