In 2018 there were so many discussions about Ai, and its infusion into the world around us, that it all blurred into one big online narrative on the topic. We started to accept that Data was the driving force behind huge technical changes, and challenges, and we also began to normalise references to Ai as if it was just the next logical advancement of the internet, and app economies. But let's leave that all behind. I believe that 2019 is the year that Ai is well and truly'here'. This is the year that the conflict and negotiation of this technology will legitimately change the way we comprehend what it means to be human in the modern world.

Sanyam Bhutani: Hello Rachael, Thank you for taking the time to do this. Thank you for the invitation. Sanyam Bhutani: You're currently working as a Data Scientist at Kaggle, you have a background in Linguistics. Could you tell us how did you get interested in NLP and Data Science? Dr. Rachael Tatman: I definitely got into it from the "science" side.

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One of the biggest polarizing effects of practical artificial intelligence applications is that half the world seems to think it will take all our jobs, while the other half says it will create even more jobs. What's the reality, and is it even worth fighting what's obviously a losing battle against AI proliferation? As recently as last week, venture capitalist and AI expert Kai-Fu Lee told Scott Pelley of CBS News that he thinks about 40% of all human jobs in existence today will be taken over by robots. He's not the first to say this, by any means. In fact, Kai-Fu Lee said the same thing nearly two years ago, but at the time his estimate was that 50% of all jobs will be taken by AI in the next 10 years.

It's hard to avoid the prominence of AI in our lives, and there is a plethora of predictions about how it will influence our future. In their new book Solomon's Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines, co-authors Olaf Groth, Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Economics at HULT International Business School and CEO of advisory network Cambrian.ai, I caught up with the authors about how the continued integration between technology and humans, and their call for a "Digital Magna Carta," a broadly-accepted charter developed by a multi-stakeholder congress that would help guide the development of advanced technologies to harness their power for the benefit of all humanity. Lisa Kay Solomon: Your new book, Solomon's Code, explores artificial intelligence and its broader human, ethical, and societal implications that all leaders need to consider. AI is a technology that's been in development for decades.

Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese Nicholas Thompson is the editor in chief of WIRED magazine, contributing editor at CBS, co-founder of The Atavist and also worked at The New Yorker and authored a Cold War era biography. Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI, brought to you by GigaOm, I'm Byron Reese. Today my guest is Nicholas Thompson. He is the editor in chief of WIRED magazine. He's also a contributing editor at CBS which means you've probably seen him on the air talking about tech stories and trends.

Today I'm going to talk with Maria Johnsen, an entrepreneur, digital marketing expert, filmmaker and an author of many books. In this interview, she's going to talk about her daily life, struggles as an entrepreneur and her favorite moments in the business. Could you describe what do you do and how you earn your living? I run a multilingual digital marketing company in Norway and film production company in London, UK. I earn my living through my video creation and digital marketing services.

AlphaZero, progress in meta-learning, the role of AI in fake news, the difficulty of developing fair machine learning -- 2017 was another year of big breakthroughs and big challenges for AI researchers! To discuss this more, we invited FLI's Richard Mallah and Chelsea Finn from UC Berkeley to join Ariel for this month's podcast. They talked about some of the technical progress they were most excited to see and what they're looking forward to in the coming year. You can listen to the podcast here, or read the transcript below. In 2017, we saw an increase in investments into artificial intelligence. More students are applying for AI programs, and more AI labs are cropping up around the world. With 2017 now solidly behind us, we wanted to take a look back at the year and go over some of the biggest AI breakthroughs. To do so, I have Richard Mallah and Chelsea Finn with me today.

Cruce Saunders This is "Towards a Smarter World," and I'm your host Cruce Saunders. Very pleased to be joined today by Elizabeth McGuane, who is the content strategy lead at Intercom where she is part of the product design team, and owns the language of the core product including its messenger app. Elizabeth's been working in UX for 10 years and before that was a journalist. I'm really glad she could be with us today. She recently wrote an amazing article to check out on TechCrunch, called "On Bots, Language, and Making Technology Disappear." Elizabeth, with that article, would you summarize some of your thinking behind how you ended up arriving the conclusion that actually naming a bot is not necessarily the best strategy? We did it through research, but I think where we started was through a really careful and considered approach to testing the language. When I started, this was one of the first projects I worked on at Intercom when I joined just over a year ago, and we were looking at introducing bot-like, very simple bot, into our messenger. We make a B2B messenger, so not to get to complicated in terms of the UX of our product, but we always have to think of our users in terms of two layers: we have our customers and then our customers' customers, and we were really creating a bot that businesses would use to communicate concepts or to get data from their customers. I knew that we need to be really careful about how we express things so that we would marry with the business' tone of voice so that we wouldn't be overstepping the bounds of what we could say on their behalf. I had a feeling, and this was really just my gut instinct, that having a very chatty personality would not necessarily marry with the tone of voice of every single business that wanted to use our messenger. It was a very practical consideration on that front. When we went into testing, we tested with a name and without out a name. We also did testing with different tones of voice because going into this I think the design leads were interested to see whether a more friendly tone of voice or a more functional tone of voice would work. That was the initial consideration of "let's just try different kinds of copy, and see what works." I felt that I wanted to take a more structured approach and try names, no names, functional, more friendly, then we also tried with a pronoun, without a pronoun. Once we realized that names didn't work we also tried removing the first person "I", and removing an introduction so that the bot didn't say, "Hi, I'm so-and-so's digital assistant," or what have you to see what impact that had. That's really where it started was with an actual structured approach to research.

At the tech world's glitziest gala, the massive Consumer Electronics Showcase held in Las Vegas this week, you could find rows of devices only for women: breast pumps, fertility trackers, breast massagers, skin care gizmos. This embrace of women's health as a category for tech innovation is a huge shift from just a few years ago, when it was much easier to find a scantily clad "booth babe" hired to hawk some random fitness tracker than it was to find anything geared toward women as consumers--unless it was a pink version of a mainstream gadget. But while women's skin care, fertility, and general health have come to represent entire categories for gadget makers, women's pleasure is apparently still too taboo. A robotic vibrator, developed in consultation with Oregon State University's robotics department, was initially accepted into the show and given an innovation award, only to later be excluded because it didn't fit into an existing product category, according the Consumer Technology Association, which runs CES. The device was also called "immoral" and "profane," according to statements CTA made to the press.