Artificial intelligence will not replace human jobs but will instead help to augment human intelligence, it has been claimed. Speaking at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, executive VP and GM of HPE Software, Robert Youngjohns, called the idea of AI and machine learning replacing humans "fanciful". "Everything and everyone is producing data, whether it's enterprise apps, mobile phones, wearable devices, thermostats, sensors, log files, and more and more," said Youngjohns. "Machine learning does is employ advanced techniques - statistical inference, pattern recognition, artificial neural networks - to understand information in context and reveal hidden insights and predict outcomes" "We need a pragmatic way to get and harness this, to augment human intelligence of our people and our organisation. Sometimes there's this fanciful view of machine learning and artificial intelligence will be replacing the intelligent [people] is a little far fetched. This is about augmenting human intelligence, making our people more insightful, more effective and more responsive so we can collectively deliver superior business outcomes," he added.

The drumbeat of the road to India's inaugural DeveloperConnect continues to beat this week as we take a look at the significant learning experiences being offered to developers at the June 17th conference held in Bangalore. Imagine taking a day off to attend a conference and coming back with more hands-on training and software knowledge than you could acquire in one year. We have designed this exact opportunity for attendees at the Experience Zone. Learn firsthand how IBM is partnering with the auto industry to create connected cars like Formula One race cars and enabling entrepreneurial new ventures in auto like the on-demand car sharing services Car2Go. Our cognitive computing superpower, IBM Watson (which has long led the revolution in modernizing healthcare) is teaming up with our new partner Sesame Street to create mobile apps, games, smart toys, and a range of products offering adaptive, individualized education for preschoolers.

For those thinking of law school, keep in mind that technology may revolutionize the profession before you earn that J.D. In the research-driven, labor-intensive legal profession, the age-old question of man vs. machine is being answered as some law firms have begun to use an "artificially intelligent attorney" to research and hash out legal issues – a trend that legal minds predict will displace some human lawyers. Called ROSS, the robot lawyer uses IBM's cognitive computer program Watson to learn from experience to gain speed when answering legal questions, according to its creators. It can read through the entire body of law to return a cited answer, monitor the law to recognize other court decisions that could affect the case at hand, and even glean conclusions from more than one billion legal documents per second, they add. Its creation comes on the heels of a 2014 analysis that predicted artificial intelligence will cause "structural collapse" of law firms by 2030. As for the robo-lawyer, one law professor said the technology will displace some workers.

Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know. We know autonomous cars are coming, and in several ways are here already. But BMW CEO Harald Krueger is thinking beyond just autonomy to the effects of full-on artificial intelligence in cars. Citing the win of Google's AlphaGo AI over a Chinese player and the development humanoid robots that react to how you feel, here's what Krueger is thinking about these days, according to Automotive News: "The companion in the Vision Next 100 car is just that: a real companion that gets to know you as a person and responds to you as an individual," Krueger said.

Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt, left, talks AI alongside Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, center. Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt has hit back at suggestions by Tesla boss Elon Musk that Google's artificial intelligence initiatives should be feared. If you're terrified by artificial intelligence outsmarting and then wiping out humanity, you've watched too many movies, Schmidt told a panel at Symposium Stockholm on Thursday. Asked about how such a scenario could be stopped if it occurred, Schmidt replied: "Don't you think humans would notice this happening? And don't you think humans would then go about turning these computers off? But then a virus starts relocating itself to other computers and then it's a mad race for the last computer, and you can't turn it off and then it destroys humanity. It's just speculation," Schmidt said.

Just last week Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that he was only worried about the work of one AI company, which many read to be Google. Musk and his fellow worriers should feel a little more at ease to know that Google and DeepMind are thinking about ways to ensure full human control. In an academic paper, DeepMind's Laurent Orseau and Stuart Armstrong of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford have established a framework for interrupting an AI's course of action. "Now and then it may be necessary for a human operator to press the big red button to prevent the agent from continuing a harmful sequence of actions," reads the paper. Of course, this isn't much use if the clever-clogs AI (shall we just call it Skynet?)

Warcraft: The Beginning, the adaptation of the video game World of Warcraft, has proved a massive hit in China, with a first-day take of 46m ( 31.8m), the second biggest in the country's history after another Hollywood hit, Furious 7, which took 63.1m in its first 24 hours in 2015. Warcraft's impressive results put it on course to challenge Furious 7's 150m opening instalment in China – and thoroughly dwarfs the projected result for its domestic release in the US, which is currently tracking for around 25m when it opens on Friday. Warcraft's success in China has been ascribed partly to the game's popularity there – according to the International Business Times (IBT), an estimated half of the world's players are based in the country – and partly to the favourable position the film acquired in the release calendar due to the participation of a number of powerful Chinese enterprises in Warcraft: notably the purchase of production outfit Legendary Pictures by conglomerate Dalian Wanda. However, box-office analysts don't expect Warcraft to trouble any Hollywood-import grossing records, such as Furious 7's total of 390m, let alone domestic record holder The Mermaid, which finished with 526m earlier this year. Related: A bigger splash: how did The Mermaid become China's biggest ever film?

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Whether that makes a good game or not is, of course, a whole different question, but it's just refreshing to see a major publisher watching what's happening in the world and reacting – as great movies and television do almost instinctively. While HBO's Silicon Valley has certainly skewered the sociopathic personal failings of San Francisco's geek glitterati, video games can put players right into the middle of the scene as active agents. And of course, we all are active agents in the San Francisco tech story because we're buying and using the products, and it's our data they're fighting over. Watch Dogs 2 may well fall short of what Ubisoft is promising but it's an exciting prospect, and as with Assassin's Creed 2, there are hints it will get closer to what its predecessor aimed for. Whatever, seeing memes, drones, robots and VR headsets being used in a big game, not just as "hey aren't we cool and up-to-date signifiers" but as symbols of a troubling culture, is refreshing.