What's striking in these discussions is regardless of whether you fear or love AI bots, our future with them is inevitable. People are excited about Bots, both physical and digital, because they are the next wave of industrial revolution. Industrial revolutions are not defined by individual technological improvements, but changes in labor and distribution. During the 1st and 2nd industrial revolutions, many things were invented; from looms to steam engines to new smelting iron techniques. It was an Industrial Revolution because goods were no longer produced by human hands, but could be primarily outsourced to machines and manufacturing processes.

George Hotz, the latest Silicon Valley startup founder to get a multimillion-dollar check from venture capitalists, went for a ride in a Rolls-Royce around San Francisco on Monday. At 26, Hotz thinks he could teach the legendary vehicle a few tricks. Braking should be smoother, he says. The vehicle should run each time as if the best limo driver in the world was behind the wheel. "You don't want the champagne to spill," Hotz says.

Popular chat app Kik may not have quite the clout of Facebook Messenger or Snapchat, but what they do have, as of Tuesday, is bots. Specifically, Kik now has multi-functional bots that allow you to do things like shop, play games and check the weather, similar to features offered by Skype. The humble chat bot, a marvelous curiosity of early artificial intelligence technology, saw a small surge a few years back, with bots like SmarterChild gaining a bit of internet fame and making for an afternoon of oohs, aahs and laughs. More sophisticated bots, such as the award-winning Mitsuku chat bot, are coming dangerously close to being able to pass a Turing Test, a test where a human chats with the bot and decides if the person they're talking to is a bot or a human. Some bots, however, have been developed in a different direction.

The move from humans working with computers to computers working without humans is almost upon us, and some are already calling it Industry 4.0 – or the fourth industrial revolution. For those not keeping up with your industrial revolutions, the first was considered launched by the use of steam and water power, the second by the use of electricity, and the third by the introduction of computers in the workplace. The name Industry 4.0 was first coined by the German Government, and represents the implementation of artificial intelligence, big data, and the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the factories. It might be the first revolution where humans are not required, according to some. Once computers can talk to each other and automate the assembly line, and AI can understand issues and address them ahead of time, there might be no need for humans.

Massachusetts General Hospital is buying into deep learning artificial intelligence, and it will use Nvidia's new DGX-1 deep-learning supercomputer that was announced today. Nvidia is partnering with the MGH Clinical Data Science Center, which wants to advance health care with AI to improve the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases. "Deep learning is revolutionizing a wide range of scientific fields," said Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, at the company's GPUTech event in San Jose, California, today. "There could be no more important application of this new capability than improving patient care. Massachusetts General Hospital runs the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, and is the top-ranked hospital on this year's U.S. News and World Report's "Best Hospitals" list. The center will train a deep neural network using Mass General's vast stores of phenotypic, genetics, and imaging data. The hospital has a database containing some 10 billion medical images. To do this, it will use the Nvidia DGX-1 -- a supercomputer designed for AI applications. Using AI, physicians can compare a patient's symptoms, tests, and history with insight from a vast population of other patients. Initially, the MGH Clinical Data Science Center will focus on the fields of radiology and pathology -- which are particularly rich in images and data -- and then expand into genomics and electronic health records. "We now have the ability to expand the field of radiology beyond its predominant state of providing visualization for human interpretation," said Keith J. Dreyer, vice chairman of Radiology at Mass General and executive director of the center, in a statement. "Guided by precision healthcare, we are entering the radiological era of biometric quantification, where our interpretations will be enhanced by algorithms learned from the diagnostic data of vast patient populations.

This is a NAO robot asking a human to touch its hand for science. Robots can't feel shame, which saves them from any awkwardness when they ask a human to touch their buttocks. Humans are not so lucky, and when asked by a robot to touch part of its body, humans will get uncomfortable if that body part is generally thought of as private. In a new study, Stanford researchers found that people get weirded out touching "low-accessible" parts of the robot's body (crotch, butt, that sort of thing). The paper will be presented this week in Fukuoka, Japan, at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association.

This is the Delft Dynamics Dronecatcher catching a drone. Robots that hunt other robots are my favorite robots. This is Delft Dynamic's Dronecatcher, a big drone built to hunt smaller drones. Here it is, from the ground. The dronecatcher debuted last year in crude form, and recently Delft Dynamics released new footage of it in action.

WASHINGTON – A Boeing company manager convicted of child pornography charges in December says he has a right to know what arguments the government used to obtain the warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Now, the Los Angeles case is testing a defendant's ability to access information about himself presented to the nation's secretive intelligence court, which issued the warrant that let agents scour his computers. At issue is how the government uses evidence derived through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and under what circumstances that information should be seen by defendants, particularly when it's repurposed for a routine criminal prosecution that has nothing to do with national security. Gartenlaub and his lawyers say they have a right to know the government's arguments that were used to obtain the warrant, and fight them. "You can't base a search on lies," the 47-year-old said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Nvidia's fastest GPU yet, the new Tesla P100, will be available in servers next year, the company said. Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cray and IBM will start taking orders for servers with the Tesla P100 in the fourth quarter of this year, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said during a keynote at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. The servers will start shipping in the first quarter of next year, Huang said Tuesday. The GPU will also ship to companies designing hyperscale servers in-house and then to outsourced manufacturing shops. It will be available for in-house "cloud servers" by the end of the year, Huang said.

Along with the tools out there for blind programmers to use, artificial intelligence might be something else that they can add to their tool belt. With recent developments at Microsoft, it could even help them see what is happening in the world around them. Saqib Shaikh is a London-based software developer who is working for Microsoft on the firm's Bing search engine, according to Forbes. He has been personally involved in the development of an application for cognitive computing, image recognition, and mobile headset technologies. The intelligence comes from "Seeing AI," a research project that helps people who are blind.