SAN FRANCISCO -- One of the chatbots Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg featured in his widely watched keynote is glitchy. And its developers know it. Poncho, the digital cat that gives sassy weather updates, won't tell me the weather or answer my questions. When asked to change the time it will deliver a forecast, it responds: "Sorry, you're going to have to say that again in Cat. When asked again specifically for the cat to tell the weather at 7 a.m., it changes the alert settings to 6 p.m. But it's stumped by others that seem pretty clear. Sam Mandel, CEO of the bot-developer behind Poncho, was holed up in an Airbnb rental in San Francisco's Richmond district two days after Zuckerberg's keynote here, trying to fix it with his team. "There are definitely some rough edges," he said by phone. "We had so much traffic, more than expected." An uneven user experience for some of Facebook Messenger's chatbots, the artificial intelligence-powered programs designed to simulate human conversation with businesses, is a cold dose of reality after the fanfare of Facebook's big developers conference here last week. "We think you should message a business just the way you would message a friend," Zuckerberg told attendees at the F8 conference. Messenger chatbots have the possibility of reaping billions in ad revenue for Facebook, analysts say. To smartphone users that have grown accustomed to tapping apps to hail an Uber or book a restaurant, the new conversational commerce holds the potential to reshape our everyday tech interactions into more personalized experiences. Rather than try to work a drop-down menu on a shopping app or mobile browser, you would chat with a chatbot concierge about size, price and design for a pair of shoes, for instance. CNN's bot is one of about thirty launched this week to work within Facebook's Messenger. But the vision and reality don't match yet, early attempts to use a few of the chatbots featured at F8 show. When I asked CNN's bot to tell me news about Facebook, it responded with a " \_(?)_/ " -- literally. To start our conversation, I texted the bot "Hi" and in return, it immediately started sending me daily news roundups with a variety of stories where I had the option to read or get a shortened summary. Spring, a shopping concierge bot, took minutes to respond. We'll be with you shortly."

What do Google driverless cars and Stanford University autonomous helicopters have in common? Both rely on machine learning technology to make sense of complex environments, while ensuring good decisions are made sooner. Machine learning's ability to make good decisions faster in complex environments also can be applied to solve challenges in IT operations. In today's dynamic IT environments driven by virtualization, mobility, and cloud, application and infrastructure issues are popping up constantly. When an issue affecting service unfolds, there can be multiple underlying root causes that are simultaneously cascading across technology domains – apps, servers, storage, networks and, increasingly, private to public cloud hybrids.

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By 2030, India's population of people age 60 or older is projected to grow by 64 percent. Also by 2030, India's urban areas are expected to more than double their current population levels. Additionally, factors such as an increase in income levels, increases in health care insurance penetration, increases in private and public health care expenditure and rising consumer awareness will shape the future of the health care sector in India for the coming decades. Total spending on health care has increased at double-digit rates and accounted for 4 percent of GDP in 2013. However, government spending still remains low at 1.3 percent of GDP, making private expenditures as high as 2.7 percent of GDP in 2013.

Decadence, not Donald Trump, is defeating the Republican establishment in the primaries. The dominant wings of the national party -- neo-conservatives, as represented by Jeb Bush, John Kasich and several others, and the Tea Party, as represented by Ted Cruz -- are simply clueless to the economic and cultural forces transforming America. Globalization and technology -- fair and unfair trade, legal and illegal immigration and automation and artificial intelligence are destroying jobs, lowering wages and rendering obsolete the skills of millions of prime working age Americans. Coupled with lower birth rates among whites and the absolute failure of educational institutions to keep up with the times, these are creating a poorer, more unequal and radically more ethnically and religiously diverse electorate. Ivy League and elite state university graduates jump to six figure jobs in engineering, law, finance and the like, while the much larger army of diplomates from non-descript private and state colleges are often not decently prepared for entry-level professional and managerial positions still available in our slow growing economy.

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

Google is seriously thinking about building its own city that will serve as a showcase for some of the futuristic technologies that it's developed. No, seriously: Rather than deploy different tech ideas in existing towns to see if they work, Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs could create its digital city called "Project Sidewalk." DON'T MISS: The best Nexus phone of all time could be coming this year Nothing has been decided just yet, but Sidewalk CEO Dan Doctoroff will pitch the idea to Alphabet CEO Larry Page in the coming weeks, The Information has learned. If successful, Doctoroff will then have to choose where to base this digital city. Sidewalk could also decide to deploy its tech in an existing city, Gizmodo says.

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Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, Tesla and PayPal, is worried about killer robots. "You know those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's sure he can control the demon?" he has warned. That "unfriendly AI", as it is known in tech circles, would not be a boon for humanity is an easy cause to get behind. But unlike Musk – a tech entrepreneur who stands to make huge financial gains from AI in the short term – most of us don't have the luxury of taking the long view. The defeat, last week, of one of the world's strongest Go players, Lee Sedol, demonstrates the qualitative leap in AI that has already taken place.