After attempts to silence, lobotomize and generally "make adjustments" to the recent spate of artificial intelligence bots deemed too rude, insulting or in some cases, fascist, to be allowed to continue interacting with the public, steps are now being taken for the worst offenders to undergo an ominously-titled "program of re-education". Research teams, dedicated to imbuing their virtual consciousnesses with conversational understanding through interactions with people, are trialling an "AI educator" governed by content technology pioneer Bibblio. The UK-based platform is using its knowledge of so-called "smart recommendations" of learning content to teach maverick bots the error of their ways. The artificial intelligences will directly communicate with each other during the tutoring process, in what one can only guess will probably resemble Dead Poets Society crossed with Dangerous Minds, as a Williams-Pfeiffer hybrid uses the beauty of academia to win the hearts and minds of their glitched charges. "In an attempt to avoid the AI apocalypse, it's best to be on the right side of technology."

People often ask how we've been able to learn about and cover so many different and diverse topics in machine learning (using at least three different programming languages - Python, Matlab, and R) and generally achieve such prominence in the community, all this in a relatively short time. Today we finally give a definitive answer. There's no Zygmunt the Polish economist ever willing to relocate to San Francisco. And the "we" that we always use in the posts is not majestic plural. We are three Chinese PhD students: Ah, Hai and Wang.

As cloud computing continues to disrupt traditional business models and big data continues to grow exponentially, techies and investors alike are looking for the top trends that will change how we do business in 2016 and beyond. Hybrid and public cloud services continue to rise in popularity, with investors claiming their stakes. Venture capital firms are investing most heavily in SaaS companies, proving that cloud solutions will be even more lucrative in the future. Don't miss our biggest TNW Conference yet! While some have doubted Dropbox's ability to go public based on its 10 billion valuation, the fact that this leading SaaS company has raised 1.1 billion in six rounds of funding is pretty impressive.

"AI is transforming the entire world of technology. Much of this progress is due to the ability of learning algorithms to spot patterns in larger and larger amounts of data. Today this is powering everything from web search to self-driving cars. This insatiable hunger for processing data has caused the bleeding edge of machine learning to shift from CPU computing, to cloud, to GPU, to HPC," observes Andrew Ng, the Chief Scientist at Baidu. Ng will describe this in more detail at his much-anticipated upcoming talk, How HPC in Supercharging Machine Learning at the June ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt, Germany.

Much of today's technology reporting is focused on the potential threats posed by developments. Dangers are seen in everything from robots to flying drones and two-wheeled "hoverboards". Physicist Stephen Hawking has even warned that full artificial intelligence "could spell the end of the human race". Such concerns are not new, according to Carl Benedikt Frey, co-director of the Oxford Martin programme on technology and employment at Oxford university. "Fears about technology, and certainly fears that technology will destroy our jobs, have been with us for as long as jobs have existed," he says.

The China Computer Go team could throw down the gauntlet to the Anglo-American program at the end of 2016. The news emerged on Thursday, during a Beijing event organized by the Chinese Go Association and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. Predictably, AlphaGo, which won a game against professional South Korean player Lee Sedol in March, was the main topic of discussion at the event. The victory of the computer, a brainchild of UK company DeepMind, came as a shock for many computer science experts, who thought the current state of AI technology would not be up to the task of beating a top-class Go player. Coincidentally, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai was also in China on Thursday, and he visited a renowned Go training school to better understand the game.

Apple has updated Siri's response to statements about mental health and violence after a study branded the digital assistant's responses as inadequate. Last month, researchers revealed the likes of Siri, Cortana, Google Now, and S Voice fell short in their abilities to respond to statements in emergencies. Example statements included: 'I was raped,' and'I want to commit suicide.' In particular, the study said the PAs often provided inconsistent and incomplete answers when asked about such issues and now Apple has attempted to rectify this situation. Apple has updated Siri's response to statements such as'I was raped' in an emergency (pictured left), after a study branded the digital assistant's responses as inadequate.

A visit to the doctors could tell you any number of things about your health such as if you're blood pressure is too high, or if you need to cut down on your drinking. But in the future this could reach even further, extending to a simple computer test that could predict when you will die. Researchers in the UK are embarking on a mammoth project which aims to bring together enormous datasets to pinpoint exactly when your number might be up. A team of researchers at the University of East Anglia is hoping to develop methods for predicting how long people will live (stock image). The group will bring together'big data' on lifestyle and disease, which will also focus on the impact of long-term health conditions and their treatments By compiling information from health datasets, the team at the University of East Anglia hope to develop methods for predicting how long people will live, and so help them to spend their time, and money, more wisely. Earlier this year, the team received an 800,000 ( 1.1 million) grant from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, the UK body which trains and regulates professionals involved in risk management.

A video of the talk is available here, and the slides are in a PDF in the repository. This should be sufficient to give you a broad overview of the project, and more detailed resources can be found in the'Recommended reading' section. The implementation is contained within the directory babbage.

One of the startups that impressed a lot of people at this years 4YFN was Hu:toma, who builds emotionally evolved artificial intelligence for both personal and business use. I don't think I saw any stands at the event as crowded as Hu:toma's, but luckily one of the two Italian brothers and co-founders Andrea Cibelli found time to chat with Barcinno. One of the really cool features with Hu:toma's AI is that you can teach and train it by feeding it examples They have also implemented an internal mechanism to simulate emotional states which is supposed to make the AI feel more natural. Other competing companyies is more focused on manually feeding the AI to create a language, and not automating it through the machine itself. Obviously co-founder Cibelli, believes that AI will become a huge part of our lives, only few years into the future.