ZipRecruiter, the Santa Monica based employment marketplace named One of the World's Most Innovative Companies in 2019 by Fast Company just released their much-anticipated Future of Work Report 2020. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) jobs gold rush is spreading to more states. This is good news for the future of work. Jobs that require AI, machine learning, robotics, and engineering skills will continue to dominate as AI-enabled systems replace manual labor. In this article, I will walk you through some of the highlights.

Blockchain, IoT, and AI are innovative technologies which will pave the way of digital transformation and will disrupt various industries. These three technologies will converge and will create new business models: Autonomous agents (i.e., sensors, cars, machines, and other IoT devices) will act as own profit centers 1) that have a digital twin leveraging IoT, 2) that autonomously send and receive money leveraging blockchain technology and 3) that autonomously make decisions as independent economic agents leveraging AI and data analytics. We argue that this convergence of technologies will drive the development of such autonomous business models and the digital transformation of companies.[1] Currently, the interconnection between these innovations is mainly neglected. However, these innovations can and should be applied jointly and will converge in the future.

The rapid development in technology, especially of Artificial Intelligence, will have the capability to transform every major aspect of an organization and open new opportunities than ever before. The use of AI will only grow as a report from BCG and MIT Sloan Management Review revealed that 85 percent of executives claimed AI will provide their companies a competitive advantage, while 60 percent reported an AI strategy to be an urgent need for their organisation. In recent years, AI became the subject of interest for many businesses that has spilled into the workplace with the ever-increasing use of AI-driven automation and robotics to perform traditional tasks. However, the ethics surrounding the development and use of artificial intelligence remain provocative, creating a significant constraining factor to AI's full potential. In February this year, the U.S. Department of Defense adopted ethical principles for Artificial Intelligence, which is based on the Defense Innovation Board's set of AI ethical guidelines proposed last year.

Scientists who designed an artificially intelligent robot that helped children with autism boost their learning and social skills hope such technology could one day aid others with the developmental disorder. The study saw seven children with mild to moderate autism take home what is known as a socially assistive robot, named Kiwi, for a month. According to a statement by the University of Southern California where the team is based, the participants from the Los Angeles area were aged between three and seven years old, and played space-themed games with the robot almost daily. As Kiwi was fitted with machine-learning technology, it was able to provide unique feedback and instructions to the children based on their abilities. For instance, if the child got a question wrong Kiwi would give prompts to help them solve it, and tweak the difficulty levels to challenge the child appropriately.

Assessments of patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), which is a type of inflammatory bowel disease, are usually conducted via endoscopy and histology. But now, researchers from Japan have developed a system that may be more accurate than existing methods and may reduce the need for these patients to undergo invasive medical procedures. In a study published this February in Gastroenterology, researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have revealed a newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) system that can evaluate endoscopic findings of UC with an accuracy equivalent to that of expert endoscopists. Accurate evaluations are critical in providing optimal care for patients with UC. Previous studies have indicated that both endoscopic remission, evaluated via assessment of endoscopic procedure, and histological remission, as indicated by the degree of microscopic inflammation, can predict patient outcomes, and are thus frequently used as treatment goals.

Yochay is an experienced tech leader with a background in building and designing products. He received a BSc in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) where he founded the HUJI Innovation Lab. Leah earned a BSc in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem while simultaneously working as a software team leader at WatchDox, which was later acquired by Blackberry. In her last position, she lead the startup, Appoint, as CTO – and has followed her career consulting enterprises on AI and Machine Learning. It has become eminently clear in the business world that AI adoption is key to remaining competitive in 2020.

In the early 1970s, the fledgling credit card industry routinely and shortsightedly held cardholders liable for fraudulent transactions, even if their cards had been lost or stolen. In response, Congress passed the 1974 Fair Credit Billing Act to limit cardholder liability. This protection increased public trust in the new payment system and spurred growth and innovation. Because they could no longer just pass fraud losses on to cardholders, payment networks devised one of the first commercial applications of neural networks to detect out-of-pattern card usage and reduce their fraud losses. Smart regulation, like the above example, that gets out in front of emerging technology can protect consumers and drive innovation.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, often brings to mind hospitality robots and self-driving cars -- the shiny, flashy machines effortlessly performing everyday tasks with superhuman speed and efficiency. Yet, peek under the hood, and you'll find the real magic. It's here that AI has a different meaning as the DNA of data that fills in the gaps. The sentient pieces of metal might dominate popular imagination, but in today's world, AI is more likely to be an obscured yet essential building block of any business. Most organizations understand the importance of using data to reduce costs and serve clients and customers effectively, but what happens when the data is too voluminous to understand?

A prototype of the unreleased'Nintendo PlayStation' console has sold for $360,000 (£273,096) at auction – nearly $1 million less than an earlier rejected offer. The super-rare console, which was sold with a Sony-branded SNES controller and cartridge that enables CD-Rom functionality, was sold by Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auctions on Friday. The collectors' item is a rare artefact from a brief collaboration between Japanese gaming giants Sony and Nintendo before they took separate paths in the video game market. The winner bidder was entrepreneur and video game collector Greg McLemore, who beat out other bidders including Palmer Luckey, founder of Facebook's Oculus VR platform. The previous owner of the prototype had reportedly turned down $1.2 million to put it up for auction – meaning he's missed out on nearly $850,000.

Let's talk about our current tech revolution and women's involvement in it. These are troubling times, on multiple fronts. Something we need to remind ourselves on a regular basis especially for those in the tech industry and tech leadership. I was reading a few articles about this topic and would like to discuss two points. I dug a little more to find the source of that 97% and found a more complete list of all the jobs that could go away with automation in an article in The Telegraph entitled "These are the jobs most at risk of automation according to Oxford University: Is yours one of them?" Word to the wise, if yours is on the top of the list, start looking for a safer alternative by scrolling down, way down.