At HPE Discover 2019, TechRepublic's James Sanders spoke with Aruba's Larry Lunetta about what is needed to deploy AI in security products. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Larry Lunetta: So the AI washing is absolutely true--and you can reach back to the late '90s, it was web washing, right, as the internet became popular and then roll forward, it's cloud washing. There's a set of waves that the marketers ride, and AI is certainly one now. The interesting thing is as you go through those phases, the technologies get tougher and tougher to actually execute.

Years ago, Landing.ai founder and former Google Brain researcher Andrew Ng famously declared that artificial intelligence is the "new electricity." In short, AI will revolutionize the way all businesses will work in the future. But as more companies race to integrate AI into their operations, many are finding that it's not as easy as they thought it would be. At VentureBeat's Transform 2019 conference in San Francisco, Landing.ai VP of transformation Dongyan Wang explained why companies seem to fail so often and the steps they need to take to make meaningful progress.

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" has long been a staple on nursery room shelves for a reason: It teaches kids that joking too much about a possible threat may turn people ignorant when the threat becomes an actual danger. President Donald Trump has been warning about "fake news" throughout his entire political career putting a dark cloud over the journalism professional. And now the real wolf might be just around the corner that industry experts should be alarmed about. The threat is called "deepfaking," a product of AI and machine learning advancements that allows high-tech computers to produce completely false yet remarkably realistic videos depicting events that never happened or people saying things they never said. A viral video starring Jordan Peele and "Barack Obama" warned against this technology in 2018, but the message was not enough to keep Jim Carrey from starring in "The Shining" earlier this week.

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Vegebot, a vegetable-picking robot, uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop. A team at the University of Cambridge initially trained Vegebot to recognize and harvest iceberg lettuce in the laboratory. It has now been successfully tested in a variety of field conditions in cooperation with G's Growers, a local fruit and vegetable co-operative. Although the prototype is nowhere near as fast or efficient as a human worker, it demonstrates how the use of robotics in agriculture might be expanded, even for crops like iceberg lettuce which are particularly challenging to harvest mechanically. The researchers published their results in The Journal of Field Robotics.

There is an unprecedented growth in the percentage of aging population throughout the world, particularly in growing economies such as Europe, Japan and China. Form 2000 to 2050, the percentage of the world's population who is 60 years of age and older will approximately double from about 12% to 22% (from 605 million to 2 billion). During the same period, the number of people aged 80 years and older will quadruple. In the USA, 14.5% of the population is 65 years or older, but by 2030 these number is anticipated to grow to 20%. This rapid aging demographic will directly affect social, economic and health outcomes for these growing economies.

The promise of autonomous cars has no doubt been an exciting and intoxicating one for technophiles everywhere, not to mention those who see driving as a chore that must be endured, rather than enjoyed. There's no shortage of autonomy evangelists - Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a famous example, Ford reckons it will have its first truly self-driving car ready by 2021 and BMW and Mercedes have similar timelines - while ridesharing companies and Silicon Valley tech giants like Uber and Google are also bullish on fully-autonomous vehicles. And why wouldn't they be? Without a driver taking a cut of fares, profit margins for those businesses would explode, while also giving the public cheaper rides and potentially freeing them from the financial burden of owning a car. But according to one of the world's biggest manufacturers of the advanced sensors that make autonomous cars possible, the utopian vision of completely hands-off, point-to-point driving is highly unlikely for the foreseeable.

EdgeTier, an Irish start-up using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve customer service, has raised €1.5 million in a new funding round. The investment is to be used to to increase research and development efforts in its AI assistant known as Arthur, and for further international expansion. Arthur uses AI, analytics and automation to guide call centre staff through complex customer queries, resulting in speedier and more accurate responses. Founded in 2015 by Shane Lynn, Bert Lehane and Ciarán Tobin, the company recently edged out rival start-ups Webio, Data Chemist, VRAI and UrbanFox to win Enterprise Ireland's'digital disruptor' award. Last year the company also won'best start-up' at AI Ireland's awards and'best use of data science in a start-up' at the DatSci awards.

Google officials have admitted that the company's workers can listen to Google Assistant users, and that one of them recently leaked confidential data. A Dutch language expert working for Google to train its speech technology leaked private information in a breach of the company's security policies, company officials said. The disclosure came after Belgian broadcaster VRT NWS reported that its reporters listened to more than 1,000 conversations recorded by the search giant's virtual assistant, including some that revealed identifiable information about the users. "As part of our work to develop speech technology for more languages, we partner with language experts around the world who understand the nuances and accents of a specific language," Google executive David Monsees wrote in a blog post posted on Thursday. These language experts review and transcribe a small set of queries to help us better understand those languages." "We just learned that one of these language reviewers has violated our data security policies by leaking confidential Dutch audio data.

Elon Musk's brain-computing venture Neuralink has scheduled an event on Tuesday to "share" what it has been secretively working on since its start a few years ago. Musk, who is also the chief executive of Tesla Inc. TSLA, 2.72% and privately held Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and The Boring Co., late Thursday retweeted Neuralink's announcement: We're having an event next Tuesday in San Francisco to share a bit about what we've been working on the last two years, and we've reserved a few seats for the internet. Neuralink's bare-bones website has job postings that describe the company as developing "ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers" and currently building a team of "multidisciplinary experts." Related: Tesla picks up two'car of the year' awards Most if not all posts requested future employees who were "resourceful, flexible and adaptable; no task is too big or too small." Musk confirmed plans for Neuralink in 2017 and last year, during his infamous appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience's podcast, said he'd be ready to announce a new Neuralink product in a few months, and that "a best-case scenario" would be humans effectively merging with artificial intelligence.