Written by C. Raja Mohan Updated: November 29, 2016 12:18 am Two themes of Donald Trump's deeply disruptive presidential campaign resonated with the American people. One was to put America to work again by bringing jobs back and the other was to make the US military the most powerful and feared in the world again. Both would involve dealing with new technologies like big data, artificial intelligence, robotics and bioengineering -- often described as constituting the "fourth industrial revolution". The fusion of the cyber and the physical is indeed transforming the economic and security landscape in the world. Delhi, which has had little debate on the unfolding strategic implications of the fourth industrial revolution, must now begin to pay attention.

In March 2014, a few months before the release of This War of Mine, the developers at 11 Bit Studios were discussing potential endings to their video game story of civilians trying to survive in a war-torn city. Wojciech Setlak, one of the writers, suggested they have a neighbouring country intervene, sending in troops to gain control of part of the weakened nation. A month later, in the real world, militia flying Russian flags – known to the locals as "little green men" – appeared in eastern Ukraine. "It was uncanny," says Setlak. "We had anticipated something that actually happened."

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Machine learning has a lot of potential to accelerate innovation and ease burdens on workers in finance and other industries. Despite a dark side for those same workers, this form of artificial intelligence (AI) -- in which software uses data to program and improve itself -- could also help organizations manage crippling new demands. "There has been a dramatic increase in work in the last five or six years, coming from the exponential data explosion and an increase in audit regulation bureaucracy," Neil Kinson, chief of staff at enterprise process automation provider (and long-time SAP partner) Redwood Software, said in ZDNet last week. "The automation is being created to solve that problem, rather than to cut costs, [and] a lot of organizations are applying automation just to cope." And we may have only spotted the tip of this iceberg.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain using a combination of artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology. Fear related disorders effect around 19 million US adults, or 8.7 percent of the adult population. Current treatments are limited to expensive and'unpleasant' forms such as aversion therapy, where individuals confront their fear by being exposed to it in the hope they will learn that the thing they fear isn't harmful after all. Now a team of neuroscientists from University of Cambridge, Japan and the USA, has found a way of unconsciously removing a fear memory from the brain. Using AI, the team developed a method to read and identify fear memory using'Decoded Neurofeedback'.

Until robots reach some kind of full consciousness, nobody feels bad about not paying them. That's why austerity-focused governments are on a collision course with replacing civil servants with automated workers to cut costs: We're talking robo-cops, robo-firefighters, robo-mailmen. If artificial intelligence gets good enough to take private-sector jobs, there's little to stop it from driving a technological revolution that could leave government services unrecognizable. For the past six years, the British Conservative Party has been pursuing an austerity program to cut the deficit, slashing funds for local services and reducing staff numbers in the public sector. A recent report, published in October by Oxford University and Deloitte, suggests the government could go much further: over 850,000 public sector jobs could be lost to automation by the year 2030.

Is it time to buy into AI stocks? Artificial intelligence can pick our stocks. But should investors be picking artificial intelligence? AI has long been a popular theme in sci-fi movies, but its potential is now entering the real world as computers start driving cars, beating the world's best Go player, figuring out what we want to buy (in my case, apparently, a Lexus) and constructing investment portfolios. To continue reading this article, you must be a Globe Unlimited subscriber.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming the biggest issue on the agenda for many businesses. The current speed of development, the sheer range of possible applications, and the potential impact of AI suggest that it's time for CEOs to pay attention. So, what are the questions every CEO should be asking? Futurist Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future Publishing believes there are ten questions that need to be asked in order to assess and invest in AI's transformative potential: 1. AI will change the philosophy, practice and management of business. It is beginning to transform businesses and replace even senior management and leadership roles.

Indian engineers could be hurt in more ways than one by US president-elect Donald Trump's promise to bring back jobs for Americans. From the early days of his campaign, Trump's anti-immigrant stance has included plans to cut down on work visas, known as H-1B, that allow skilled foreign workers to work full-time in the US for at least six years. In March, the real estate mogul said, if elected, he would "end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labour program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program." His attorney general pick, Senator Jeff Sessions, has long advocated clipping the program. If H-1B visa allocations are limited under a Trump presidency, it would be bad news for Indians who have been the recipients of the highest number (pdf) of such visas all these years.

In a recent interview, AthenaHealth CEO Jonathan Bush noted the limitations of traditional doctors and said, "The human is wrong so freaking often, it's a massacre." "By 2025, AI systems could be involved in everything from population health management, to digital avatars capable of answering specific patient queries." Stephen Hawking has said the development of full Artificial Intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race – and Elon Musk agreed. In a recent interview, AthenaHealth CEO Jonathan Bush noted the limitations of traditional doctors and said, "The human is wrong so freaking often, it's a massacre." "By 2025, AI systems could be involved in everything from population health management, to digital avatars capable of answering specific patient queries."