What is AI and what is not AI is, to some extent, a matter of definition. There is no denying that AlphaGo, the Go-playing artificial intelligence designed by Google Deep Mind that recently beat world champion Lee Sedol, and similar deep learning approaches have managed to solve quite hard computational problems in recent years. But is it going to get us to full AI, in the sense of an artificial general intelligence, or AGI, machine? Not quite, and here is why. One of the key issues when building an AGI is that it will have to make sense of the world for itself, to develop its own, internal meaning for everything it will encounter, hear, say, and do.

Here are the basics of what the Panama Papers leak is all about. Photo shows the building where the office of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca is located in Panama City, Panama, April 03, 2016. SAN FRANCISCO -- The 11.5 million leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca are providing a treasure trove of data on a hidden world of offshore accounts and murky dealings. "It's becoming much easier than it used to be to store and move very large amounts of data. I would expect this to continue," said John King, a professor of information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.

To the untrained eye, it might look like a campaign video, albeit one that's a bit over the top. Donald Trump tweeted out a video Monday that appears to have originated from this vidme upload. The video warns that "humanity is under attack" and that "one very specific man might be all that stands between humanity and the greatest threat of our brief existence." Martin Sheen's authoritative voiceover has been co-opted from a speech in which Sheen's character in the "Mass Effect" series, the Illusive Man, is discussing the threat of a deadly super species that wants to wipe out the human race, setting in motion the events of "Mass Effect 2." In fact, the Trump video mirrors the trailer for "Mass Effect 2" quite well, including ratings and scenes featuring allies and critics alike.

With a number of recent Hollywood films representing intelligent machines as either hero or villain, the subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has attracted the imagination of the media and popular culture. On the practical engineering side, over the past decade humanity's age-old dream of developing intelligent machines has experienced rapid development. The prospect of expert systems being increasingly able to outperform humans in a growing set of disciplines has led to deep soul-searching concerning the evolving future of labor. Meanwhile, cognitive computing platforms such as IBM's Watson are demonstrating a powerful ability to support and guide humans in complex activities as diverse as oncology diagnostics, investment management, biomedical research, and even the introduction of novel culinary recipes as Chef Watson.

Microsoft's vision of enterprise mobility and how to improve employee engagement for digital transformation has long been mooted in this publication – yet at the Redmond giant's Envision conference today, CEO Satya Nadella discussed themes taking the collaboration element a step further. Building on the'conversation as a platform' concept discussed at Build last week, the Microsoft chief exec described how bots and artificial intelligence (AI) could transform business conversations by'taking the human language but applying it much more pervasively to computing'. "Think of bots that you will build as the new websites or mobile apps, and your customers will interact with your business through these bots," he told delegates. "We think it is going to be much more ubiquitous in terms of its deployment." These bots already exist in some contexts; New York-based startup x.ai offers an AI-powered personal assistant called Amy which schedules meetings.

Sudipta Mukherjee was born in Kolkata and migrated to Bangalore. He is an electronics engineer by education and a computer engineer/scientist by profession and passion. He graduated in 2004 with a degree in electronics and communication engineering. He has a keen interest in data structure, algorithms, text processing, natural language processing tools development, programming languages, and machine learning at large. His first book on Data Structure using C has been received quite well.

During the dot-com boom, online clothing sales were predicted to grow to 40% -50% of total sales. Although online sales of some other kinds of merchandise, such as books, have reached 50% of the market in the past 15 years, the percentage of online clothing sales hovers around 20%. The difficulty in finding the correct size and fit is one of the primary reasons that consumers are reluctant to buy clothes online. And their concern is not groundless; sizing varies among clothing manufacturers, and it is difficult to ascertain fit from online images. Consequently, 30%-40% of online clothing purchases are returned.

On Monday, Toyota launched Toyota Connected, Inc., a new company that will serve to expand the automaker's abilities in data center management, data science, and data management. Toyota Connected is a collaboration between Toyota and Microsoft, as the company will use Microsoft Azure to build and deliver its data-based tools and services. According to a press release announcing the company, the services provided by Toyota Connected will be "predictive, contextual, and intuitive." Zack Hicks, CEO of Toyota Connected and CIO at Toyota Motor North America, said that could mean anything: "From telematics services that learn from your habits and preferences, to use-based insurance pricing models that respond to actual driving patterns, to connected vehicle networks that can share road condition and traffic information, our goal is to deliver services that make lives easier." Toyota began restructuring back in March 2016, abandoning its function-based structure in favor of a structure that is product-based.

Bots have brought us into a new era of spam: scammers seeking loose-wallet softies don't have to pose as Nigerian princes anymore--they just write a program that spams thousands of websites at once. Now, fully 56% of all website visits are bot traffic. Bots snatch up concert tickets. They chat with people on dating websites. They buy out 60 days of San Francisco restaurant reservations.

A 42-year-old man in Hong Kong spent 50,000 to realize a childhood dream: making a robot modeled on a Hollywood star, Reuters reports. Jezebel concurs, writing, "It does look just enough like Johansson for her to maybe want to consider taking out a restraining order." Still--after a year and a half of work, including teaching himself programming and electromechanics--Ma isn't letting anyone bring him down. "If I realize my dream, I will have no regrets in life," he tells Reuters, which has photos and video of his creation. Ma built the Mark 1 on the balcony of his apartment. It was a largely lonely experience.