The Global AI bootcamp is a free one-day event organized by local communities all over the world that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on the Microsoft stack. The next event takes place on the 14th of December 2019 on venues all over the world centrally organized by our HQ in the Netherlands, supported by Microsoft. The event is the perfect balance between quality content, awesome lectures, getting your hands dirty and learn & share with other community members. With the latest Teams as addition to the Microsoft Collaboration sphere it has become easier to work with bots. We already know that bot's are the way to go.

An artificially intelligent machine took to the podium at the Cambridge Union in the U.K. to debate the pros and cons of AI with humans--at one point telling the audience "AI can cause a lot of harm." However, it was the side in favor of AI that came out top, achieving a narrow victory by scoring votes from just over half the audience. According to Fortune, the AI's arguments were extracted from over 1,100 submissions sent in to IBM the week before the debate, which were categorized as being in favor or opposed to AI, or discarded entirely as being irrelevant to the debate. From these, IBM's Project Debater searched and condensed the strongest and most diverse arguments to repeat when given a short opening sentence as a prompt. The case for the benefits of AI included the argument that it could generate new jobs and bring greater efficiency to the workplace, while those against included the problem of human biases and AI being incapable of making moral decisions.

One of South Korea's most celebrated professional Go players, master Lee Se-dol, has retired, citing the futility of raging against the machines as a motivating factor. With the debut of AI in Go games, I've realized that I'm not at the top even if I become the number one through frantic efforts. Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated. Se-dol's 24-year career includes wins over dozens of the world's top players, including a stint as world champion. He faced DeepMind's AlphaGo in five matches during March of 2016 where he managed to come away with just a single win. Prior to the bouts, Se-dol predicted he'd win by "a landslide," and by all reports he was flat-out stunned when the AI repeatedly beat him.

Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is the author of Digital Colonialism: US Empire and the New Imperialism in the Global South, and hosts the Tech Empire podcast. "Beggars" and "vagrants" are not welcome in Parkhurst, South Africa, a mostly white, middle-class suburb of about 5,000 on the outskirts of Johannesburg's inner city. Criminals are on the prowl, residents warn, and they threaten their neighborhood security. To combat crime, the locals came up with a solution: place CCTV surveillance cameras everywhere. However, these are not the camera networks of times past. Thanks to advancements in machine learning and AI, CCTV systems are now equipped with sophisticated video analytics that can track a wide range of behaviors, objects, and patterns, in addition to individual faces. Armed with powerful new tech, communities of color can be watched, flagged, policed, and intimidated into submission. I've spent the past several years studying the video surveillance industry in South Africa. During that time, a private corporation called Vumacam has been quietly assembling a "smart" CCTV surveillance network in the suburbs of Johannesburg. Earlier this year, the company announced it would blanket Joburg with 15,000 cameras.

"How can I help you?" "Hi, I'm calling to book a women's haircut for a client. "Sure, give me one second." "For what time are you looking for around?" The machine assistant never identified itself as a bot in the demo. And Google got a lot of flak for that. They later clarified that they would only launch the tech with "disclosure built in." But therein lies a dilemma, because a new study in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence suggests that a bot is most effective when it hides its machine identity. "That is, if it is allowed to pose as human." Talal Rahwan is a computational social scientist at New York University's campus in Abu Dhabi. His team recruited nearly 700 online volunteers to play the prisoner's dilemma--a classic game of negotiation, trust and deception--against either humans or bots. Half the time, the human players were told the truth about who they were matched up against. The other half, they were told they were playing a bot when they were actually playing a human or that they were battling a human when, in fact, it was only a bot. And the scientists found that bots actually did remarkably well in this game of negotiation--if they impersonated humans. "When the machine is reported to be human, it outperforms humans themselves.

The novel service is running until the middle of December as a pilot scheme in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, to see if it is a viable business option in the longer term. The automated delivery vehicles are powered by electric batteries, which supports the environmental credentials of the Enriched range of drinks from supplier Plenish. Kara Rosen, founder of Plenish, said: "We are a future-conscious brand which is always looking to innovate. Through our new Enriched range, we have created the milk of the future – so what better way to deliver it than through a robot milk round? "Our brand ethos is all about'healthy you, healthy planet' – and this is the embodiment of that."

Hong Kong (CNN Business)A South Korean master of the ancient strategy game Go has announced his retirement from professional competition due to the rise of what he says is unbeatable artificial intelligence. The news that Lee Se-dol is bowing out comes three years after he lost in a closely watched series against Google's AlphaGo in 2016. Lee managed to win one game out of five against Google's computer program -- the only time it has been beaten in competition -- but was ultimately defeated. Since then, AlphaGo has become even more advanced, beating other top players around the world. "With the debut of AI in Go games, I've realized that I'm not at the top, even if I become the number one through frantic efforts," Lee told South Korea's Yonhap news agency this week.

In the age of artificial intelligence, adoption of advanced technology is imperative to building a sustainable business model. From manufacturing, to life sciences and financial services, businesses are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems. However, adoption of one of the most transformational innovations in history is not without its challenges. Trouble accessing clean and precise data, a fierce battle over AI talent and a deficit of IT infrastructure, top the list of obstacles standing between forward-thinking businesses and their goals for adopting AI solutions.

It is hard to think of any area of our lives that might not one day be affected by artificial intelligence, and an exponential rise in recent years has already seen it become increasingly embedded in healthcare. After an early focus on supercharging the way in which new drugs can be discovered, AI is now empowering healthcare improvements in diagnosis and patient care. Across these themes we see many exciting technological advances that are changing our conception of how healthcare is delivered as the capabilities of smartphones and sensors continue to increase and improve. By putting a compact, portable computer in our hands, smartphones have already enabled huge changes in our lives over the last decade or so. Now, as artificial intelligence comes of age, smartphones and other mobile devices are becoming cleverer still.

Creativity is thought of as a uniquely human trait, born from our conscious observations and interpretations of ourselves and the world around us-- in that sense, it's not something machines should ever be capable of. Nonetheless, few would doubt the'left-brain' potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its ability to paw through massive datasets-- extracting insights, predictions, and patterns, all of which can then inform a program's next action as a result, and enable technology to serve as our digital assistant. While we may not always know clearly how it's making decisions, we can be relatively sure those choices are driven by logic. It's not to say current uses of AI are exclusive from creative industries or art. For example, AI can comb through banks of historical, creative data and generate new content, based on a patchwork of previous data and an'understanding' of average formats.