In this handout image provided by Google, South Korean professional Go player Lee Se-Dol (R) puts his first stone against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the fourth Google DeepMind Challenge Match on March 13, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea. The ever-evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its pervasiveness in humanity as it continues to revolutionize the lives of humans and make big strides when it comes to technological innovations. Hence, many several entrepreneurs and innovators are investing more time and money on AI-driven platforms and programs as well AI-oriented technologies. Despite the usefulness of artificial intelligence in almost all fields of sciences such as healthcare, education, businesses and becoming a "meta-solution" to the biggest issues of the society, many experts have warned about its impact to humanity. In fact, experts have predicted that AI will change everything about the way humans produce, manufacture and deliver.

Job Description In this role, you'll be part of our European consulting team that is helping clients to design and deliver innovative solutions based on Cognitive Computing approaches - in particular based on IBM WATSON technology. We're looking for experienced professionals who have proven expertise in one or multiple of the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Technologies, Information Retrieval or Machine Learning. You'll provide advisory and implementation expertise to our clients including: use case and business case development for Cognitive Computing solutions; proof of concept execution to prove the value of Cognitive Computing use cases; solution outline and design of Cognitive Computing systems; as well as supporting business development activities. You'll have strong experience in designing and building innovative solutions based on the above technologies but you will also be have the expertise and architectural mindset to relate and integrate such solutions with existing client system infrastructures, such as e.g. Proven hands-on experience in conducting analyses on unstructured as well as structured / semi-structured data and in working with state-of the art technologies in Cognitive Computing will be expected.

There has been a lot of press coverage over the summer about robots and more generally Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over the world of work. BBC news has recently run a special feature on it which included an interactive test to check if your job is at risk (Will a robot take your job?). Artificial Intelligence is the science of how to make machines that can think for themselves according to Stanford University. Increasingly, machines have been able to learn and improve their own performance to produce results that until recently was only thought possible to obtain using human intelligence and social experience. It is this achievement which has thrust AI as a concept back into the mainstream press, along with all the sensational headlines.

Dr. Ben Choi, associate professor of computer science at Louisiana Tech University, will present his research on a groundbreaking new technology that has the potential to revolutionize the computing industry during a keynote speech next month at the International Conference on Measurement Instrumentation and Electronics. Choi will present on a foundational architecture for designing and building computers, which will utilize multiple values rather than binary as used by current computers. The many-valued logic computers should provide faster computation by increasing the speed of processing for microprocessors and the speed of data transfer between the processors and the memory as well as increasing the capacity of the memory. This technology has the potential to redefine the computing industry, which is constantly trying to increase the speed of computation and, in recent years, has run short of options. By providing a new hardware approach, the technology will push the speed limit of computing using a progressive approach which will move from two values to four values, then to eight values, then to 16 values, and so on. Future computers could be built using this many-valued approach.

You've probably been there: Something stressful is happening in your life, and you're feeling more anxious than usual. You'd love to talk to someone about it, but you don't know who to turn to. Therapy is one option, but A) it can be crazy expensive, and B) you don't want to be that person who has to see a shrink. Turns out, there is no that person. Roughly one in every five Americans, or about 43 million people, suffers from mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Can music be machine made? Google's Project Magenta is here to answer in the affirmative and how? In the latest edition of Moogfest in North Carolina, Google previewed its Project Magenta, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) product with tech robots to show the way to sing. As what Deep Dream does on images by imparting surreal twists, Project Magenta has music to experiment on. At the fest, a Google Brain (the machine learning wing) researcher demonstrated music generated on a digital synth.

We've entered the year where robots will start taking our orders. Pepper, a humanoid robot developed by SoftBank, will begin taking orders at Pizza Hut locations in Asia by the end of 2016, according to a company statement. It will be the first time Pepper is used for commerce purposes. You'll only be able to use the robot if you have MasterCard, though. Pizza Hut goers will be able to use Pepper by simply greeting the friendly-looking humanoid robot.

Futurists are accustomed to launching headfirst into some very complex subjects, but even the most high-minded and enthusiastic of prognosticators may take a pass when it comes to dealing with the future of sleep. It's just that we humans -- those in the developed world at least -- maintain such a complicated relationship with sleep. We are taught that we need it, seem to really love it while we're engaged in it and spend our waking hours moaning to each other about how much more of it we desire. But then we do everything in our power to delay its natural onset each night. Psychologists tell us that much of that struggle is classically existential; having to do with the subconscious realization that our time among the living is finite, so we attempt to make the most of the hours we're fully conscious.

In recent years, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) have received overwhelming attention, however the interesting – even obvious – connection between the two hasn't often been explored. It is the combination of big data and AI working together that is now enabling business leaders to deliver new insights, efficiencies and even new functions that haven't been possible before. This is evident in the increasingly useful role big data and AI are playing in a broad spectrum of traditionally outsourced functions such as recruitment, HR, finance and supply chain, through to security and IT. The combination has already had a major impact on how the stock market works, synthesising more and more data to the point at which some people believe it will eventually be able to accurately predict both market trends and human influences on the market. At a more everyday level, Google uses deep learning to recognise objects in images, AI is the technology behind Facebook's Deep Face friend tagging feature and machine learning is the basis for Amazon's recommendation engine.

'Michael – we are bigger than US Steel". Over the holiday season, I said this to my friend Jeremy Geelan when I was comparing the Mobile industry to the IoT. The term Internet of Things was coined by the British technologist Kevin Ashton in 1999, to describe a system where the Internet is connected to the physical world via ubiquitous sensors. Languishing depths of academia(at least here in Europe …) – IoT has it's netscape moment early in 2014 when Google acquired Nest Mobile is huge and has dominated the Tech landscape for the last decade. So, 50 billion by 2020 is a massive number by a factor, and no one doubts that number any more.