In this series, professionals provide advice for the next U.S. president. What do you want POTUS focused on? Over fifty years ago, in March 1964, a document known as the "Triple Revolution Report" landed on the desk of your predecessor, Lyndon Johnson. That report, written by a prominent group of intellectuals that included two Nobel laureates, argued that the United States was on the brink of dramatic social and economic disruption as rapidly advancing industrial automation technology was poised to throw millions out of work. Needless to say, that dire prediction did not come to pass.

A Silicon Valley startup wants to use artificial intelligence to help diabetes patients better navigate health and lifestyle decisions. Suggestic, an application and Internet-based platform, is looking to fuse medical advances with a growing trend of personalized healthcare -- making interventions specific to the individual patient. The company launched a beta version of its technology earlier this month and has a few thousand people signed up in their waiting list to try out the service. "We call it the'lifestyle GPS' because we want it to work as a personal assistant to help diabetic people to have a better lifestyle," Shai Rosen, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Suggestic, told Devex. "We want to give people a virtual presence right next to them 24 [hours a day] and 7 [days a week] to make small habit-changing choices."

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine vision and image-recognition technology are opening up the digital world to the blind and visually impaired – and helping them to interact with their surroundings. One interesting example is Austrian start-up BLITAB, which has created the first ever tactile tablet for blind and visually impaired people, dubbed "the iPad for the blind". As Kristina Tsvetanova, co-founder & CEO at BLITAB Technology, explains, the device looks similar to an ebook but displays small physical bubbles instead of using a screen, which means users can view whole pages of braille text at once, without any mechanical elements. "It offers a completely new user experience for braille and non-braille readers via touch navigation, text-to-speech output and Perkins-style keyboard application. It also enables the direct conversion of any text file into braille and obtains information via NFC tags. BLITAB is not just a tablet, it is a platform for all existing and future software applications for blind readers," she says.

Text analysis startup Aylien, which uses deep learning and NLP algorithms to parse text and extract intel from documents for its customers, has launched a new tool specifically focused on analyzing written news content. "The idea for the News API is to give access to the news content that is out there enriched and in real-time to developers and data scientists," says co-founder Parsa Ghaffari. The Dublin-based startup says it's utilizing core text analysis tech powering its existing text API product, which launched back in February 2014 -- but this time it's focusing exclusively on news content and also doing a little more of the analytical heavy lifting for its customers. "We decided to simplify the use case a little bit by collecting and analyzing the news documents on our end, rather than giving them the tools to do that themselves. So this was born out of that," says Ghaffari.

The purpose of a game is to deliver a captivating interactive experience to its users. If we delve games that have made a huge success out of themselves we'll find just one common trait- Design. People can call it'Fancy Technology', but we all know it's the fascination of technology that attracts users the most. Then comes the graphics part, where smoothness and asymmetry concoct an effective broth. With the entrance of technologies like Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, the user experience has drastically shot up and so the competition.

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said his company is committed to playing a key role in the emerging market for artificial intelligence-based chat software, one week after the company's first Internet chat bot in the U.S. was so manipulated by users that it had to be pulled down within a day of its introduction. "It's a simple concept yet it's very powerful in its impact it is about taking the power of human language and applying it more pervasively in all our computing," Nadella said about the strategy the company has dubbed conversation as a platform. The CEO was speaking Wednesday at the company's Build conference for software developers in San Francisco. Later, in a keynote speech, Nadella will outline the company's strategy for conversation-based products working with bots, which are pieces of software that use artificial intelligence to automate or accomplish tasks, as well as tools for developers to create their own. Nadella has been trying to expand Microsoft's reach and influence in AI, emphasizing how the technology can augment products in the mobile and cloud-computing markets.

Right now, the New Economic Summit (NEST) 2016 Conference is going on in Tokyo, Japan. One of the keynote speakers is Andy Rubin. Rubin was in charge of Google's robotics program in 2013, when the company (now Alphabet) acquired a fistful of some of the most capable and interesting robotics companies in the world. One of those companies was SCHAFT, which originated at the JSK Robotics Laboratory at the University of Tokyo and is best known for winning the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials by an absurd amount. We haven't heard anything at all from SCHAFT over the past three years, and as far as we know, they're still part of Google.

If you love data science, you'd find many aspects to it. A month back, I found 10 Best Movies on Machine Learning. A week later, I found 7 Documentaries on Statistics. It's time to explore the funny side of analytics. I've compiled a list of best hilarious jokes (including images, videos) based on numbers, statistics, big data, machine learning.

Switch chips have a very long technical and economic lives, considerably longer than that of a Xeon processor used in a server – something on the order of seven or eight years compared to three or four. As it turns out, the various GPUs used in Nvidia's Tesla accelerators look like they, too, will have very long technical and economic lives. Even after a new technology is introduced, sometimes the old one can be had at a much cheaper price and therefore continues to be a good price/performer even after it has been presumably obsoleted by an improved product. Its economic life outlives its technical life in this regard, and it is not obsoleted instantly (often to the frustration of its creator, which wants to sell the shiny new stuff). But sometimes this is in fact the plan.

Software is already pervasive in our society, but artificial intelligence software raises unique concerns even among the technological elite. The recent announcement that tech titans, including Elon Musk, have committed 1 billion to an artificial intelligence research center out of concern for what AI may become denotes an important question: Will AI software obey the law of the land and adhere to our ethical standards? It is true that AI software is increasingly autonomous and potentially self-modifying, but it is our view of AI as a hegemonic, monolithic entity that drives our fear of it. Just as there is no one "software" entity, there will be no one AI entity. So here is a new viewpoint on how AI will be kept in check -- more AI.