Despite recent doom-and-gloom anecdotal reporting, a nationwide survey of 1,001 workers in the United States (U.S.) finds that 70% have an upbeat attitude toward new workplace technologies involving artificial intelligence (AI), such as chatbots, robots and augmented reality. Only 5% say they dislike new technology for putting their jobs at risk today. In fact, 32% of U.S. respondents feel AI will have a positive impact on their job in the next five years, increasing from 26% today. Just 19% of those surveyed express fear that AI/bots could swallow their jobs within the next decade. These findings stem from new research by Genesys (www.genesys.com),

Marcus Wallenberg, the billionaire heir of Sweden's foremost industrial dynasty, first got introduced to the topic of artificial intelligence back in 1977, when he studied in Palo Alto. "I walked around on the Stanford campus and saw a big sign where it said'SAIL' and since I love to sail, I went up and took a better look at it. Underneath it, it said, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory." Today, his family has become one of the foremost investors of artificial intelligence in Europe, investing around €300m in its AI program called WASP, in a mixture of AI startups and a business transformation company called Combient, bringing together Nordic companies to work together on AI. Marcus is also the chairman of Saab and the Swedish bank SEB, which the Wallenbergs founded in 1856 and is key to the family's success.

One of the biggest AI-driven titles of modern times, Alien: Isolation brings the terror of the xenomorph to video games. While the alien, LV-426 and many other key elements of the franchise have previously been explored, Alien: Isolation takes a different route. A horror game steeped in the aesthetic and style of Ridley Scott's classic 1979 movie: in which the player is trapped on the Sevastopol space station with a single, intelligent, near-invincible alien. For this experience to play out as expected, the alien itself has to carry a large amount of the experience: a demanding feat for any AI in an industry in which non-player characters are either heavily scripted or suffer really short life spans. So how did developers Creative Assembly pull it off?

UiPath, the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market leader, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the 2019 "Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation Software"* research report. UiPath was one of 18 vendors evaluated in the first year of this report and placed highest and furthest for ability to execute and completeness of vision, respectively, in the Leaders quadrant. According to Gartner, "As organizations look for ways to improve operational efficiency and integrate legacy systems with new enterprise applications and digital business, robotic process automation continues to grow its footprint." "We're excited to see the attention being paid to RPA," said Daniel Dines, UiPath co-founder and CEO. "There is real recognition that businesses are investing in RPA to augment and support their workforces with software robots, rapidly accelerating the digital transformation of their entire business, and freeing employees to spend time on more impactful work. UiPath is leading this workforce revolution, driven by our core determination to democratize RPA and deliver on our vision of a robot helping every person."

Artificial intelligence is still a relatively new technology but one business leader said its applications are already generating real value. For AI to become more mainstream, start-ups and tech giants have to understand the bottlenecks that businesses face, which can be solved by that technology, according to Ericson Chan, CEO of China's Ping An Technology. "Look at China, for example -- only 8% of the hospitals are triple-A grade," he told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal on Tuesday at the RISE Conference in Hong Kong. "But that 8% of the hospitals are taking care of more than 50% of the patients of the whole nation." As a result, resources are unevenly distributed, which, in turn, sours the patients' experiences at those hospitals, he said.

SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla Inc. and Apple Inc. both suspect they were betrayed by driverless technology engineers who defected to the same Chinese startup. So Tesla is now asking for Apple's help in a lawsuit in which the electric carmaker accused an engineer who worked on its Autopilot program of taking thousands of highly confidential files when he went to work for XMotors.ai, the U.S. research arm of Guangzhou-based Xpeng. Along with typical information demands in the early fact-finding phase of the lawsuit that are spelled out in a court filing last week -- Tesla wants to see the engineer's emails and have a forensic analysis conducted on his electronic devices -- the company founded by Elon Musk disclosed that it has also served the iPhone maker with a subpoena. The documents Tesla seeks from Apple aren't specified in the filing, but the thinking may be that while the Silicon Valley titans are rivals in the ultra-hot self-driving space, they share a common enemy in Xpeng. Last July, prosecutors charged a hardware engineer in Apple's autonomous vehicle-development team with downloading proprietary files as he prepared to leave the company and start work for the for Chinese company.

If you're looking for a smart plug that hits all the right notes and never puts a foot wrong, the iDevices Switch is still the way to go. On top of Android and iOS compatibility, the Switch offers in-depth energy monitoring and seamless integration with the two most popular smart home ecosystems: Amazon Alexa and Apple HomeKit. Looks aren't everything, but the iDevices Switch is easily the most attractive smart plug we tested. Along with its sleek, minimalist casing, it offers a unique "night light" LED strip that can be set to any color of the rainbow. Mercifully, the Switch only occupies a single outlet on your wall panel, and its own outlet is positioned on the right-hand side--a real advantage if you want to place it snugly behind a couch or bookcase. It could also be a disadvantage if you want to plug something in on the left side, but for most users the side placement will be a plus rather than a minus. The slickly designed iDevices app is more attractive than most, and very easy to use.

It violates The Fair Housing Act to advertise in ways that deny particular segments of the housing market information about housing opportunities. It also violates New York law. But what happens when you use an advertising medium that discriminates on its own? We may just find out. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently directed the New York Department of Financial Services to investigate reports of housing providers harnessing Facebook's abilities to target users with precision.

Whilst the'special relationship' between the UK and the US has been put to the test this week following a diplomatic dispute, it's clear that there are still mutually beneficial investment opportunities for the two nations - particularly in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence (RAI). That was the view of a cohort of leading experts from the UK's RAI research, start-up and enterprise communities, who were taken out to California and Texas in March of this year on a mission to meet with some of the US's leading aerospace, marine and cross-cutting technology companies. The cohort included people from D-RiskQ, Shadow Robot, Rolls Royce, London Southbank University, Brunel University, Soil Machine Dynamics, Forth Engineering, Autonomous Devices, Headlight.AI and HyBird. Their feedback was presented at an event yesterday in central London, alongside the publication of their findings in new Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) report - 'USA Robotics & AI in Extreme Environments 2019'. I'd recommend reading the report for a full overview of the mission and the RAI opportunities available.

The world's fish stocks are in decline and our increasing demand for seafood may be one of the main drivers. But the true extent of the problem is hard to estimate, especially when fishing occurs in the high seas, which lie beyond national jurisdiction and are hard to monitor. Conservation planners face growing pressures to combat illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, the value of which has been estimated at US$10-23.5 billion annually. This is an important cost for society as a whole, but also for the major high seas fishing countries such as China and Taiwan that subsidize their fleets and may have low labour costs. Artificial intelligence (AI) could address this global environmental concern -- and satisfy the need of seafood retailers and consumers to know if what they're selling and eating is sustainable.