His stark warning came at a time when the US and North Korea remain on heightened alert amid spiraling tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Earlier this week, both sides degenerated to open threats, demonstrating readiness to use coercive force if provoked to do so. Whereas the US said it may rely on strategic bombers to hit North Korean targets, the Asian nation's military announced that a plan of striking the American airbase in Guam will be ready soon. Adding fuel to the crisis, President Donald Trump said the US military assets are "locked and loaded" in case if Pyongyang misbehaves. The heated exchange – coupled by saber-rattling – has revived the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula, with many speculating on its impact on global affairs.

As many in the United States and abroad are watching as tensions grow with North Korea, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk issued a warning about artificial intelligence. "If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. The tweet also included a photo that reads, "In the end the machines will win." Musk also warned that artificial intelligence should be regulated the same way anything that could pose a danger to the public is. This is not the first time Musk has warned people about AI.

Elon Musk, hellbent on progressing the technological feats of humankind including artificial intelligence, would like you to know that artificial intelligence poses a greater threat to your fragile existence than threat-of-the-week North Korea. Elon Musk, a man who told a gathering of governors that "AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization" last month, is tweeting through the constant news of Donald Trump throwing Guam under the bus and egging on a nuclear power by comforting us with the threat of an evil artificial intelligence. Why do American political and business leaders seem to be practically begging North Korea to deep fry our asses on Twitter? Remember when Twitter was just bad joke punchlines and awkward "I meant to type that into the search bar, woops" scenarios? That was sort of fun.

A new report indicates that Australia must double its pace for artificial intelligence and robotics automation to achieve up to $2.2 trillion opportunity by 2030. While doing this, the country must urgently prepare to support over 3 million workers who may lose their jobs. Economics and strategy consulting firm AlphaBeta has released a report, which showed that automation can take away an average four hours of work every week from Aussie workers over the next 15 years if its rate is doubled. AlphaBeta director Andrew Charlton said the reality is that automation alters every job. He explained it is not so much about the jobs, but how the jobs will be done.

It's almost scary to think that the world as we know it may well be run by Artificial Intelligence (AI) one day. While the risk of an imminent AI disruption of the labour market may sound like a fantasy, those with the most advanced AI technologies at hand think that AI is an imminent threat. They say an Industry 4.0 or cyber physical systems (CPS) revolution is coming whether we like it or not. AI in the labour market means the use of intelligent software to optimise the delivery of services by humans. However, in a recent meeting with U.S. governors, business magnate Elon Musk warned: "AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilisation and I don't think people fully appreciate that … [AI] is the scariest problem."

Artificial intelligence is becoming commonplace, from your smartphone and your Amazon account to the driverless cars that will soon grace public roads in Australia. Often, the response to this reality is one of trepidation and concern, about mass unemployment and the dominance of Big Tech. "Art is one of the last domains in AI where there is an optimistic view on how humans and machines can work together," says Dave King, founder of Move 37, a creative AI company. He says creativity is not a God-given thing. It's a process, and it takes practice.

Tesla will partner with French renewable energy company Neoen to build the 100-megawatt battery farm in South Australia state. Tesla is poised to begin testing a self-driving semi-truck in an advancement that could help revolutionize shipping, according to multiple reports. The Silicon Valley automaker met with transportation department officials in Nevada in June about its plans to test a driverless truck crossing between the states, according to a document obtained by Reuters. The company also had plans to meet Wednesday with Department of Motor Vehicles officials in California to discuss the plans, according to Reuters and Bloomberg. Tesla has long planned to reveal an electric semi-truck at an event in late September with production launching within two years.

In the argument between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, it's hard to know which side to join. Both of them are right. Or, if you like, both of them are wrong. Musk is wrong to worry about artificial intelligence (AI) being a threat to humanity, so I agree with Zuckerberg. And Zuckerberg is wrong to dismiss all concerns about AI, so I agree with Musk.

When IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy! in 2011, it was a major validation of the potential of artificial intelligence and a sign of things to come. But Watson didn't stop there, said IBM's Jay Di Silvestri, speaking at a CDW Summit on "Modernizing IT Infrastructure for Digital Transformation" in Las Vegas on Monday. In the six years since, IBM's AI experts have sought to answer the question, What else can Watson do? "That group immediately turned its sights to say, 'What can we do that is as impressive, but different?'" said Di Silvestri, IBM's Watson platform adoption leader. Watson's next challenge, IBM decided, would be unstructured text, and Di Silvestri said that applications are already on the market for organizations that want to leverage AI to improve customer service and operations. The next phase of Watson is a logical one, he said: deconstructing the technology behind Watson into services that help businesses.

Back in 1985, the best robotic surgeon we had was the PUMA 560, a manipulator arm just barely more advanced than Rocky Balboa's robo-butler. The PUMA was nevertheless revolutionary. It was the very first mechanical operator, progenitor to steady-handed robo-surgeons like of the DaVinci system. But in the near future, robots will no longer be cutting into us -- from the outside, at least. Even as the the current generation of robotic surgeons continues to shrink, with miniscule pincers and malleable toolsets capable of curling their way through our innards, the medical community is working to develop robotic surgical devices capable of operating autonomously, or at least remotely.