Sophia travels to Palm Beach, Florida, to meet with Tony Robbins during our Date With Destiny event -- and Tony did not hold back on asking some tough questions! Here are some highlights from their conversation where they talked about everything from how Sophia's makers have influenced and shaped her A.I., to their shared commitment to helping humans experience a better quality of life! What do you think about the future of A.I.? Let us know in the comments below! Tony Robbins is a #1 New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. For more than 37 years, millions of people have enjoyed the warmth, humor and dynamic presentation of Mr. Robbins' corporate and personal development events.

Some tech CEOs run the show but don't really understand the nuts and bolts of the company's product. Riveiro is the CEO of Vilynx (pronounced "VEE-links"), a firm which uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to help media companies make video "smarter." To date, the Spanish company has received about $15 million in funding from European and North American venture capital and angel investors. Vilynx has offices in Barcelona, Palo Alto and New York City. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.

One of the hottest debated tech topics in all of agriculture is whether artificial intelligence (AI) is going to enable or displace grower knowledge in the coming years and decades. Where you make your hay in this industry -- in plant production, as an input supplier, or for a technology provider -- will largely determine where you come down on this issue. The growers mostly all agree there are just too many variables to manage for artificial intelligence to ever truly replace grower knowledge, while the tech suppliers and algorithm wizards warn that this technology is already more accurate in its recommendations than many longtime growers, and its adoption is inevitable. Chris Higgins, Owner and Founder at Hort Americas, has his own thoughts on the subject. "It's one of the hot topics we're hearing about, but I would say that the majority of people don't understand how it is going to apply (to production)," he says.

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Data science consultant Cathy O'Neil helps companies audit their algorithms for a living. And when it comes to how algorithms and artificial intelligence can enable bias in the job hiring process, she said the biggest issue isn't even with the employers themselves. A new Illinois law that aims to help job seekers understand how AI tools are used to evaluate them in video interviews recently resurfaced the debate over AI's role in recruiting. But O'Neil believes the law tries to tackle bias too late in the process. "The problem actually lies before the application comes in. The problem lies in the pipeline to match job seekers with jobs," said O'Neil, founder and CEO of O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing.

Knowledge bases (KBs), pragmatic collections of knowledge about notable entities, are an important asset in applications such as search, question answering and dialogue. Rooted in a long tradition in knowledge representation, all popular KBs only store positive information, while they abstain from taking any stance towards statements not contained in them. In this paper, we make the case for explicitly stating interesting statements which are not true. Negative statements would be important to overcome current limitations of question answering, yet due to their potential abundance, any effort towards compiling them needs a tight coupling with ranking. We introduce two approaches towards compiling negative statements. (i) In peer-based statistical inferences, we compare entities with highly related entities in order to derive potential negative statements, which we then rank using supervised and unsupervised features. (ii) In query-log-based text extraction, we use a pattern-based approach for harvesting search engine query logs. Experimental results show that both approaches hold promising and complementary potential. Along with this paper, we publish the first datasets on interesting negative information, containing over 1.1M statements for 100K popular Wikidata entities.

When artificial intelligence is fully operational, it will transform the media and marketing industries. In particular, I believe that synthetic personalities powered by AI will change the way we learn about new products and how to use them. In my previous article, I showed how the collapse of broadcast TV exposed a huge weakness in the advertising industry. And I pointed to the nascent field known as Influencer Media, and especially Virtual Influencers, as a harbinger of the future of engagement brand-building. What happens when artificial intelligence is available to any app, any advertising campaign, and any brand marketer? How will that change things? Here's my answer: the media landscape will be transformed so deeply that it will be completely unrecognizable. All the leftover junk from the 20th century will be kaputt, including one-size-fits-all video programs for mass audiences, appointment viewing of a TV schedule and the very concept of TV channels, and the outdated intrusion of interruption advertising. Personalized programming and fully-responsive adbots will be the new norm.

John McCarthy was the son of a penniless Irish immigrant from Kerry and maybe the most important Irish American you never heard of. He died in 2011 aged 84. He was an American computer scientist pioneer and inventor and is known as the father of artificial intelligence (AI) after playing the key role in the development of intelligent machines we now call computers. He won the Turing Prize, one step below the Nobel, in 1971. He coined the term artificial intelligence for a 1955 Dartmouth College conference he chiefly organized which was the first-ever AI conference.

At CES 2020 in Las Vegas, TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler spoke with CNET and CBS News' Dan Patterson about the various technologies featured at the electronics show. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Now with CNET and CBS News, to talk a little bit about the tech we've seen this week. Dan, you cover a lot of privacy and security, and it's always an important issue, especially at CES, as we talk about technology blending into everyday objects. What have you seen here at the show that brings to light those issues of data privacy, data security? Dan Patterson: Well, what's really interesting to watch is this evolution of CES itself.

A media artist, Refik Anadol, has been doing some great stuff creating beautiful pieces of art. I recently ran into his interview with Wired (linked) and started questioning the point of A.I. in his work. What is the wisdom of this crowd on the A.I. piece of his work? Do you think that's a gimmick? I have a feeling that even if you feed random numbers, they will eventually control how the visuals are going to look like so neither A.I., nor data actually may matter.