Schools should put a greater emphasis on teaching digital technology - as millions of jobs could be swept away by automation, says former education secretary Lord Kenneth Baker. Now chair of the Edge Foundation, Mr Baker says young people must be taught the skills for jobs of the future. He warned that many white collar and professional jobs will be under threat from artificial intelligence. "Jobs are being lost in professions we used to regard as careers for life." Lord Baker has produced a report, the Digital Revolution, calling for the education system to respond to the way in which technological change will affect the future jobs market.

"You should be able to message a business in the same way you'd message a friend," said Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook's F8 developer conference last month as he laid out his vision for the social network's future. Bots took front and centre of his 10-year road map – and we're not talking spammy Twitter accounts here. Instead, brands are increasingly experimenting with chatbots to usher in a new era of'conversational commerce', to use a term coined by Uber's Chris Messina. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), Facebook's chatbots will allow customers to interact with partner brands like KLM and 1-800 Flowers inside its Messenger platform to review orders, make customer service enquiries and more. The social giant's long-anticipated foray into AI will help it gain ground on messaging rivals, such as Kik and Chinese giant WeChat, which are investing in their very own branded bot armies.

Artificial intelligence can solve routine tasks but still struggles to be creative or collaborate with us. Imagine if machines were as creative and as collaborative as humans. By working together with a creative computer intelligence, you might produce a beautiful piece of art in only a few hours. But even though artificial intelligence keeps improving, this dream is still far away. It turns out that teaching computer programs to play chess is much easier than teaching them to help us write symphonies.

A day spent at the inaugural AI Summit in London last week highlighted the inherent contradiction when it comes to artificial intelligence and the enterprise: AI has been on the industry's radar for decades, yet businesses aren't ready to deploy the technology just yet. Murray Shanahan, professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London said that artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest fashion in an industry that is known for them: "Larry Ellison famously said that there is nothing more fashion led than the IT industry. We can see AI as a new fashion, rebadging a load of old ideas, but essentially technology has always been about adding value to an organisation." David Schatsky, head of the trend-sensing program for the US innovation team at Deloitte is a little more positive, saying: "I have looked at literally hundreds of examples of organisations in every industry that have applied or are piloting cognitive technologies in some way. We've found that you can classify everything into one of these three buckets of applications: product, process and insight."

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

You have gathered gigabytes or terabytes of unstructured text, for instance scraping the Internet, or pieces of email from your employees or users, or tweets, or millions of products that you want to categorize (only product description and product name is available - sometimes with typos). Now you want to make sense of it, and extract value, possibly design a nice search engine so that your customers can easily find your products. The core algorithm that you need is an automated cataloguer, also called indexer. I am going to explain in layman's terms how it works. First, let's assume that the data consists of Typically, these "pages" are stored as large repositories containing millions or billions of (sometimes compressed) text files spread across a number of folders and sub-folders, or multiple servers.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) said that it is "at least twelve months ahead" of the competition when it comes to its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for banking customers called Luvo, and will release it to the public in twelve months, according to managing director of digitisation Chris Popple. RBS announced that it was working on an AI assistant back in March and speaking at the inaugural AI Summit in London today Popple talked about how the pilots have been going and where Luvo will eventually live (the answer is everywhere). Luvo is a natural language processing AI bot which will answer RBS, Natwest and Ulster bank customer's questions and perform simple banking tasks like money transfers. If Luvo is unable to find the answer it will pass a customer over to a member of staff. Luvo "talks to you through WhatsApp-type interaction" and what sets it apart from digital assistants like Siri and IKEA's Ask Anna is its ability to understand context and perform tasks.

When tackling with cutting edge science, it's not always easy to know what it is that we, as humans, lack understanding of. It's what Donald Rumsfeld would call the'unknown unknowns'. To try and overcome this, a team from the University of Vienna have developed an algorithm that can propose new quantum physics experiments itself, with the hope being that it suggests ideas that humans would never have thought of themselves. The researchers, after struggling to generate so called Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states themselves, began formulating an algorithm that might do a better job. They developed an application, called MELVIN, that takes the common building blocks of quantum experiments and then arranges these to propose unique configurations.

In this talk we will introduce artificial neural networks and their similarities to how the brain works. We will provide some history and theoretical foundations to introduce feed-forward multi-layer neural networks, describing their predictive and learning ability, and some of their applications in the real world. This is part one of an introductory pair of talks on deep learning concepts and theory. Valentino Zocca has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Maryland with a thesis in theoretical geometry, though he has since worked on technical applications and first-on-the block VR geo-navigation data tools and data analysis. Currently he lives in Italy and the United States where he works on emerging deep learning protocols and neural network architectures.