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."

Proving that chatbots can actually be useful in real life, an automated lawyer chatbot has successfully challenged 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York. DoNotPay uses artificial intelligence to discuss the circumstances of the parking ticket with those who have received one, asking questions such as if there were clearly visible parking signs and then guides users through the process of lodging an appeal to the ticket using publicly available information. The 160,000 successful appeals are out of 250,000 seen, a success rate of a 64 percent, and is believed to have saved drivers around 2.5 million in fines. Perhaps even more remarkably, the service is completely free. "I think the people getting parking tickets are the most vulnerable in society," 19-year-old founder Joshua Browder told VentureBeat.

Fifteen years ago, when the time became ripe for post-PC devices that put a premium on integrating software and hardware, Apple was the best-positioned company to lead the charge -- and it did. The company's vertical integration, its attention to detail and innovation in both software and hardware and its willingness to make big bets gave it an edge. And it used that edge to reel off its now-familiar string of game-changing products like the iPod, the iPhone, the MacBook Air and the iPad. Now, the iPod is essentially gone, and the other products are in mature or maturing markets, with either pretty flat or dropping sales. And the tech industry is turning to a new battlefield: Artificial intelligence, spread across many devices.

The chat bot, which is free to use, took Browder three months to create between school and university. "It was a huge challenge," he said. He watched hours of YouTube tutorials and spoke to machine learning experts to create the intelligent bot that could understand human messages. Browder initially designed the DoNotPay bot as a "pet project" for family and friends after being issued with 30 parking tickets. But after it gained traction in London he made it available across the UK and New York, with Seattle to follow soon.

The traditional definition of artificial intelligence is the ability of machines to execute tasks and solve problems in ways normally attributed to humans. Some tasks that we consider simple--recognizing an object in a photo, driving a car--are incredibly complex for AI. Machines can surpass us when it comes to things like playing chess, but those machines are limited by the manual nature of their programming; a 30 gadget can beat us at a board game, but it can't do--or learn to do--anything else. This is where machine learning comes in. Show millions of cat photos to a machine, and it will hone its algorithms to improve at recognizing pictures of cats.