"A Chatbot Should Have A Personality," Says Magnus Revang, Gartner Gartner Inc's Mumbai Summit held a session on chatbots and virtual assistants with Magnus Revang, VP Analyst at Gartner as a speaker. Below is an exclusive interview tracing the future of automation and digital workspaces.

Major milestones will be achieved through quantum computing that a normal classical computer cannot, claims Sundar Pichai, Alphabet CEO. Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2020, Sundar said the world needs to assemble and work under a common regulatory framework for artificial intelligence (AI). By 2024, the overall quantum computing will grow to USD 283 million at a CAGR of 24.9% from USD 93 million in 2019. Today, we're off limits of processing the power of data traditional computers produce, and the data produced daily is ginormous. According to Moore's law, the numbers of transistors on integrated circuits predict to be doubled every two years resulting to be resilient ever since it was coined in 1965; those transistors, however, are much smaller even if we wish to make them with the existing technology.

In the service of business, of society at large, artificial intelligence (AI) can be effective. Can it also be ethical? The wisdom of crowds, gleaned from social media, can paint a gestalt picture of how a government agency's, bank's or retailer's efforts are being received on the ground, so to speak. And it can also (perhaps), fed through models and analytics, can bolster decision-making for the greater, common good. Public opinion matters, after all, but across the social media platforms, the chatrooms -- the chatbots, even -- making sense of qualitative data is a challenge for most enterprises.

Your use of AI is probably succeeding in countless ways; however, AI has the potential to fail you, and in a big way: by sealing down the fate of your business and career. In fact, you might not even be able to prove that AI is driving you or your stakeholders to profit at all. Failures in the world of AI today can be small or enormous. Take for example IBM's "Watson for Oncology." The initiative had to be cancelled after $62 million in spending lead to unsafe treatment recommendations.

An attorney's computer program offers to screen potential jurors based on their ethnicity, political views and occupation to find a jury most favorable to a defense lawyer's case. Momus Analytics, the company was founded by attorney Alex Alvarez, trawls potential jurors' social media accounts and uses the findings to predict whether or not they should be chosen. The program includes a racially-biased algorithm that suggests Asian, Central American, and South American people are more likely to be leaders - a quality the program appears to prize. People who described their race as'other' were found to be likely to be leaders. Alvarez, who worked with Texas-based software designer Frogslayer to develop the program, has a pending patent application for the program.

The T9 is more than meets the eye... and more than meets most budgets. The dream robot of my childhood is right in front of me. A remote-control car drives on a table, stops and instantly transforms into a humanoid walking robot. It's a real-life Transformer... well, without the official Transformers licensing, that is. This mechanical specimen is called the T9, made by Robosen Robotics, and it's one of the many robots landing in 2020 to wow kids, and kids at heart.

China used locational and other data from hundreds of millions of smartphones to contain the spread of COVID-19, according to Chinese sources familiar with the program. In addition to draconian quarantine procedures, which kept more than 150 million Chinese in place at the February peak of the coronavirus epidemic, China used sophisticated computational methods on a scale never attempted in the West. With more than 80,000 cases registered, China reported only 126 new cases yesterday, compared to 851 in South Korea and 835 in Iran, out of a total of 1,969 new cases worldwide. Chinese sources emphasize that the artificial intelligence initiative supplemented basic public health measures, which centered on quarantines and aggressive efforts to convince Chinese citizens to change their behavior. Chinese government algorithms can estimate the probability that a given neighborhood or even an individual has exposure to COVID-19 by matching the location of smartphones to known locations of infected individuals or groups.

In turn, Japan uses China's rare earths to produce the three chemicals mentioned above that are subsequently shipped to South Korea, Taiwan and back to China, the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductors and microchips. According to the government reports, Japan produces about 90 percent of fluorinated polyimide, about 70 percent of hydrogen fluoride and 90 percent of photoresists. This makes Japan almost a full monopolist in this type of production, making it very difficult for its consumers to find substitutes or build up enough capabilities to avoid Japan entirely. Commenting on the current tensions between Japan and South Korea experts note that Japan developed the processing technology for decades and it will take several years to replicate it.

The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is a fluid situation changing by the day, and even by the hour. The growing worldwide public health emergency is threatening lives, but it's also impacting businesses and disrupting travel around the world. The OECD warns that coronavirus could cut global economic growth in half, and the Federal Reserve will cut the federal interest rates following the worst week for the stock market since 2008. Just how the COVID-19 coronavirus will affect the way we live and work is unclear because it's a novel disease spreading around the world for the first time, but it appears that AI may help fight the virus and its economic impact. A World Health Organization report released last month said that AI and big data are a key part of the response to the disease in China.

Time is the most valuable commodity for working professionals today. Having everything at our fingertips is becoming an expectation, not a benefit. Starting off one's day with a clean house or flat can lead to a clean mind, and boost productivity. While many want to have a tidy home or office, they don't have the time to clean, which is why the commercial cleaning industry has widely rolled out artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT technology. Metropolitan cities are offering endless opportunities and career paths within the gig economy and as a result, being a first-choice service for flexible workers requires more than just a good pay check.