The rise of killer robots is now unstoppable and a new digital Geneva Convention is essential to protect the world from the growing threat they pose, according to the President of the world's biggest technology company. In an interview with The Telegraph, Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said the use of'lethal autonomous weapon systems' poses a host of new ethical questions which need to be considered by governments as a matter of urgency. He said the rapidly advancing technology, in which flying, swimming or walking drones can be equipped with lethal weapons systems – missiles, bombs or guns – which could be programmed to operate entirely or partially autonomously, "ultimately will spread… to many countries". The US, China, Israel, South Korea, Russia and the UK are all developing weapon systems with a significant degree of autonomy in the critical functions of selecting and attacking targets. The technology is a growing focus for many militaries because replacing troops with machines can make the decision to go to war easier.

"Nobody, nobody – not now, not ever – knows the least goddam thing about what is or isn't going to work at the box office." Fast forward five years, a show based on real lives of women prisoners shook up the world of television. Dark humor, Sci-fi, Comedy, and a diverse cast – you got that right. A company that started off with a DVD rent-by-mail website is the 10th largest internet company by revenue across the globe today. Back in 1997, a man whose resume highlighted'software geek' and'movie'buff' rented Apollo 13 from Blockbuster (the biggest video-rental chain then).

As J.P. Morgan put it, "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason." Such is the case with the potential rolling out of new gov backed high tech. There is the benevolent PR selling point behind which are concerns about to what real use such will be put, in the near or distant future. The PR front is "a way to identify early signs of changes in people with mental illness that could lead to violent behavior" premised upon "gun control following recent mass shootings…volunteer data to identify'neurobehavioral signs' of'someone headed toward a violent explosive act'…it would not collect sensitive health data about individuals without their permission"--about this last part, I will say "yeah, right": can you say "Snowden"? We are told that "there are plenty of researchers and mental health experts who believe that mental health and gun violence aren't necessarily linked. Mental illness can sometimes be a factor in such violent acts…no more than a quarter of mass shooters have a diagnosed mental illness."

Artificial Intelligence (AI) job recruitment is growing at an accelerated rate. This was the substance of what I shared with host Cisco Cotto during my appearance on CBS Radio affiliate WBBM News Radio 780 on Thursday, September 12, 2019. Please click here to listen to my segment in its entirety. Below are the questions Cisco asked me as well as my responses in italics. I hope you enjoy this.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged from relative dormancy to a worldwide renaissance--fueled by significant investments and arousing interest across nearly all sectors and industries. Amid this global ground swell of enthusiasm, a few voices are going against popular opinion, and are calling for a reboot. Robust.AI CEO Gary Marcus and NYU professor of computer science Ernest Davis, sound a warning bell for AI in their book Rebooting AI, released in September 2019. Gary Marcus is a modern-day polymath. He is a cognitive scientist, successful technology entrepreneur, prolific author, keynote speaker, professor emeritus at New York University (NYU), juggler, unicyclist and erstwhile guitarist who literally wrote the book on it with his bestseller Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age.

The new iPhones are in stores now. With their release, the 2019 tech buying season has officially begun. Facebook released its fall hardware lineup on Wednesday, and Roku updated its streaming player offeringsThursday. Meanwhile, Amazon is set for this upcoming Wednesday, and Google and Microsoft have October events lined up. The e-tailer will host press next week at its Seattle headquarters, where the company is expected to introduce several new Amazon Echo speakers and other products.

Maria Bartiromo has been covering business news for 30 years, and she's got her eye on the next big wave: artificial intelligence. The Fox Business Network anchor, who recently re-signed with the network for a multiyear deal, is releasing an hour-long investigative documentary about artificial intelligence. The segment, which has been in the works for a year now, includes interviews with chief executive officers of major companies including IBM IBM, -0.76% and Ford. Fox News parent company Fox Corp FOXA, 0.72% was previously owned by MarketWatch parent News Corp NWS, -0.21%. Artificial intelligence isn't just making demands to Siri on Apple's iPhones, AAPL, -1.46% or telling your Google GOOG, -0.71% email inbox to identify spam.

Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family"- Kofi Annan Education is the backbone of every society and education must be made available to everyone. To ensure this we have to modify the traditional method of learning and adopt new technologies in this field. Digitization is turning as an aid in accomplishing the same, it had made learning electronic and widen its availability to 24 7. Anybody with internet access can learn anything at any time, the boundaries to education have been destructed. Technologies in the education sector are changing the methodology for both educators and modern-day learners. People are adopting new methods other than just bookish learning and prefer a more realistic learning experience. Digitization has brought drastic changes in the education sector nationally and globally. Let us see what various personalities have viewpoints on the same. "Yes to some extent digitization can help today's industrial age education industry in reaching the unreachable population of the country, that said, reform is only possible when the education system is rebooted to focus on the needs of the 21st century and beyond.

Facial recognition and other A.I. technologies learn their skills by analyzing vast amounts of digital data. Drawn from old websites and academic projects, this data often contains subtle biases and other flaws that have gone unnoticed for years. ImageNet Roulette, designed by the American artist Trevor Paglen and a Microsoft researcher named Kate Crawford, aims to show the depth of this problem. "We want to show how layers of bias and racism and misogyny move from one system to the next," Mr. Paglen said in a phone interview from Paris. "The point is to let people see the work that is being done behind the scenes, to see how we are being processed and categorized all the time."

Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., the leader in ophthalmic drug development, has selected ArisGlobal to create a single global safety database and improve the efficiency and quality of their global safety vigilance processes. Santen Pharmaceutical's safety suite will include ArisGlobal's LifeSphere MultiVigilance (LSMV), LifeSphere Reporting and Analytics and LifeSphere Intake and Triage solutions to automate key safety vigilance activities, reduce costs, and increase compliance. "LSMV's advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning automates repetitive manual tasks, improving efficiency and compliance levels. Switching to LSMV makes our team dramatically more efficient," added Dr. Shimada, head of global safety vigilance at Santen Pharmaceutical. Santen joins more than 250 life science companies, including 9 regulatory authorities, who use ArisGlobal's safety, medical affairs, clinical and regulatory solutions, benefiting from rapid implementation on a multi-tenant cloud with upgrades delivered seamlessly.