A recent estimation put 40% of the world's jobs at risk of automation over the next 15 years. That's a major shift, but it's nothing new -- throughout history, advances in technology have replaced human jobs time and again. Between 1947 and 2014, for example, the number of U.S. workers employed by the railroad industry dropped by 86% as a result of new technology and automation. At the same time, this tech dramatically increased productivity, allowing the amount of freight being moved to increase by 182%. Today it's the field of robotics -- or rather, "cobotics" -- that's changing the way we work.

"AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on." This statement from Google CEO has become quite relevant in the Indian banking industry, especially after demonetisation. With an average Indian consumer getting at ease with online banking, making internal operations efficient and the customer experience more effective has certainly become a challenge. Poor data quality and customer segmentation are one among the many challenges banks face today. Further, with the rise of technology-oriented payments banks like Airtel Payments Bank, Paytm Payments Bank, etc; entry of neo banks and neo banking platforms, as well as rise of NBFCs, has also made it impossible for banks to survive with the traditional mode on. As they say, 'necessity is the mother of invention', banks are now finding solace in new-age technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and more.

I was once asked by a colleague in the Philosophy Department here at Stanford if robot musicians will ever exist, to which I replied that they may -- someday -- but only if we first figure out what it means to have robot philosophers. The exchange was admittedly a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it revealed a blind-spot in the way we talk about the future of AI: in our tendency to ask whether or when a given task will be taken over by automation, it is easy to ignore the deeper issue of what such a takeover would mean. We're less concerned with how these tasks are accomplished, and more concerned with the outcome -- generally measured in cost, speed and safety. But when we imagine "automating" a pursuit like music making, we're forced to balance the product of work with something deeper -- the meaning we derive from the process of doing it. Of course, automation is only accelerating in the age of AI, and it's natural to ask how far it will go.

Advanced safety systems using AI are being delivered in cars today, whether the customer asks for them or not. This is big business, with the value of AI in automotive manufacturing and cloud services projected to exceed $10.7 billion by 2024. Reaction to the new systems from the auto consumer public is mostly positive based on reactions seen so far. When a deer jumped in front of a 2017 Subaru Outback being driven in Skokie, Ill, recently, the vehicle came to a complete stop on its own, before the driver could react, according to an account in Consumer Reports, based on a survey of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). "Without the car's automatic emergency braking system, I'd have hit the deer, no question about it," the driver said.

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New and existing Spotify Premium users can get a free Google Home Mini. The music streaming service announced the giveaway Tuesday for eligible Premium Individual and Premium Family master account users, which is available through Nov. 15 or while supplies last. Spotify offered Google's smart speakers for free last year for its premium family users. The difference with this deal is it's also for users with individual premium plans, the company said in a news release. If you already got the promotion, sorry, you're not eligible for another.

Blue Origin said it will no longer go-it-alone on the development of a lander designed to bring humans back to the lunar surface. In a press conference from the Jeff Bezos-owned aerospace company, Brent Sherwood, vice president of advanced development programs, said Blue Origin will team up with legacy defense and aerospace contractors like Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Draper to bring its lander, called Blue Moon, to fruition. It's partnership with those companies will help expedite the Blue Moon's production and also increase the odds that Blue Origin meets an ambitious 2024 deadline to return to the moon set by NASA. 'This is the kind of thing that is so ambitious, it needs to be done with partners,' said Bezos, who owns e-taling stalwart Amazon, at the 70th International Astronautical Congress held this week in Washington. 'This is the only way to get back to the Moon fast.'

Over the past 20 years, the number of tech jobs in the U.S. has nearly doubled while the number of women in technology jobs has decreased by nearly 50% - and continues to trend lower.1 Today, women leave the tech industry at a rate 45% higher than their male counterparts and make up less than 20% of the IT professional workforce.1 Empowering young women is the first step but creating conscious workplace environments where women not only grow but thrive needs to become the industry standard. This is even more than the social impact, having more diversity in the workplace is proven to be better for business too. In this session, learn first-hand from female computer scientists about the barriers they face in the tech industry, the role you can play as an ally, and how no-code software promotes parity in today's IT workforce. According to research, robotic automation is at or near the peak of the hype cycle. It seems like everywhere you turn people are excited about how robotics is going to change the IT world.

Several neural network frameworks for deep learning exist, all of which offer distance features and functionality. Transferring neural networks between frameworks, however, creates extra time and work for developers. The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies creating advanced acceleration standards, has developed NNEF (Neural Network Exchange Format), an open, royalty-free standard that allows hardware manufacturers to reliably exchange trained neural networks between training frameworks and inference engines. Neural networks are trained using a variety of different frameworks and are then deployed on a similarly-wide variety of inference engines, each of which has its own proprietary format. This diversity is highly desirable but is also where the problem lies.