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Plenty of media attention has been devoted to robots replacing lawyers. Conversely, some industry players claim that artificial intelligence (AI) is simply a buzzword used to sell software to law firms. "Are many AI-badged products just rule-based decision-making tools?" asks Alex Smith, platform innovation lead at LexisNexis UK. "What counts as AI?" AI in business has moved beyond process automation to include natural language processing and machine-learning, whereby computers are trained to interpret information and adjust their processes to user feedback. Rather than searching for keywords or strings of words, the software reads and understands information, so its findings and recommendations are based on contextual elements. Gerard Frith, chief executive of AI consultancy Matter, explains how AI adds value by modelling and reapplying expert knowledge in a fast, scalable way.

An article on Business Insider highlights a free bot by British programmer Joshua Browder, 19, who launched a beta version of the ticket busting bot in London in September. In that month alone, 3,000 people used the service to appeal their parking tickets. By February, it had already appealed 3 million worth of parking tickets. In April, Browder launched the bot in New York as well. To-date, the bot has successfully appealed between 160,000 of 250,000 parking tickets in both London and New York, giving it a 64% success rate.

Why is artificial intelligence, or AI, so much in the news these days? How big an impact will it have on business? What will it mean for jobs? What do ordinary people need to understand? These were some of the questions that motivated a recent salon dinner discussion that Techonomy hosted on AI.

The artificial intelligence market in the US is projected to grow at a CAGR of 75% until 2021 on account of increasing AI technology adoption, according to TechSci Research. Major consumer electronic device manufacturers and platform providers such as Apple, Microsoft and Google are increasingly offering these solutions in smartphones, tablets and smart wearables. "It's no surprise AI and machine learning are growing at a CAGR of 75%. When looking at the cyber security segment, it's a painfully obvious need. Truth is we are short over 1,000,000 cyber security specialists globally this year. The way the industry previously handled cyber security analysis, incident response, threat detection and remediation will simply not scale going forward. Today, firms have Managed Security Service Providers that have armies of analysts with'eyes on glass' and that approach is worse than reactive, it's simply broken," Yuri Frayman, CEO of ZENEDGE, told Help Net Security.

NEW YORK--The first-year anniversary of the Windows 10 launch is still about a month away. But Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi announced today in a blog post that the next major iteration of the company's operating system--dubbed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update--will become available on August 2. Microsoft is encouraging folks to request it in advance. Indeed, ahead of July 29, the one-year anniversary launch date, anyone running Windows 10 on a PC today can request the upgrade for free, after which it will cost is 119. Either way, you'll still have to wait until August 2 to get it. Mehdi says that more than 350 million devices are currently running Windows 10 worldwide, with customer satisfaction levels higher than any previous version of Windows.

While Google was building an artificial intelligence that could beat a grandmaster at the ancient game of Go, researchers at the University of Cincinnati took a different tack. They designed an AI that could take on a fighter pilot. Dubbed ALPHA, this system recently beat retired United States Air Force Colonel Gene Lee in multiple flight simulator trials, as the researchers explain in a paper recently published in the Journal of Defense Management. The idea isn't to replace human fighter pilots. According to Nicholas Ernest, a University of Cincinnati alum and the founder of Psibernetix, a company that aims to commercialize the technology behind ALPHA, this AI may ultimately act as a kind of digital assistant that provides real-time advice to pilots.

Joshua Browder was fed up with parking tickets so he made a robot to help people challenge fines. The robot chats with people in London and New York, asks them what happened and writes an appeal.

It may be best known for Walkmans, Playstations and cameras, but Japanese electronics giant Sony has its sights set on robotics. The firm has revealed its plans to get back into robotics, a full decade since its last foray – in the form of robo-dog Aibo. Sony's chief executive Kazuo Hirai said the firm was on a mission to make a robot capable of'forming an emotional bond'. Is this the droid you're looking for? It may be best known for Walkmans, Playstations and cameras, but Japanese electronics giant Sony has its sights set on robotics.

The future of human workers is not as bleak as many fear, says a recent report by research firm Forrester. Though cognitive technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotic automation will eliminate 16% of US jobs by 2025, according to Forrester, they will also create new jobs amounting to a 9% increase over the same period. The net job loss, 7%, thus qualifies as only a bit bleak. It's not quite the apocalyptic 47% job loss figure suggested in Carl Benedikt Frey's and Michael Osborne's 2013 report, "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?" Last month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) came to a similar conclusion in a report titled "The Risk of Automation for Jobs in OECD Countries: A Comparative Analysis."