Not everyone agrees that AI will be such a bad thing, however. Research firm Gartner, for instance, said in a recent report that AI could in fact create 2.3 million jobs by 2020, exceeding the 1.8 million that it could wipe out. Shiller, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2013 for his work on asset prices and inefficient markets, said he advocated some kind of "livelihood insurance" to mitigate against the potential loss of jobs or drop in incomes that AI could cause. "I think that people are facing career risks like never before and what I've advocated in the book'Finance and the Good Society' is that I think we should think about some kind of insurance program for individuals and their careers, and to prevent inequality from just running its course," he said.

Tue 23 Jan 2018 12.47 EST Last modified on Tue 23 Jan 2018 12.48 EST The computer scientist Mary Lee Berners-Lee, who has died aged 93, was on the programming team for the computer that in 1951 became the first in the world to be sold commercially: the Ferranti Mark I. She led a successful campaign at Ferranti for equal pay for male and female programmers, almost two decades before the Equal Pay Act came into force. As a young mother in the mid-1950s she set up on her own as a home-based software consultant, making her one of the world's first freelance programmers. Modest about her own pioneering achievements, she is on record (in an interview with computer historian Janet Abbate) as saying that her biggest contribution was to be "the grandmother of the web". In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee (now Sir Tim), the eldest of her four children, proposed a system to access and exchange documents across the internet, and soon afterwards built the first web server, website and browser.

Today, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open sourced Detectron -- our state-of-the-art platform for object detection research. The Detectron project was started in July 2016 with the goal of creating a fast and flexible object detection system built on Caffe2, which was then in early alpha development. Over the last year and a half, the codebase has matured and supported a large number of our projects, including Mask R-CNN and Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection, which won the Marr Prize and Best Student Paper awards, respectively, at ICCV 2017. These algorithms, powered by Detectron, provide intuitive models for important computer vision tasks, such as instance segmentation, and have played a key role in the unprecedented advancement of visual perception systems that our community has achieved in recent years. Beyond research, a number of Facebook teams use this platform to train custom models for a variety of applications including augmented reality and community integrity.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai believes artificial intelligence could have "more profound" implications for humanity than electricity or fire, according to recent comments. Pichai also warned that the development of artificial intelligence could pose as much risk as that of fire if its potential is not harnessed correctly. "AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on," Pichai said in an interview with MSNBC and Recode, set to air on Friday, January 26. "It's more profound than, I don't know, electricity or fire." Pichai went on to warn of the potential dangers associated with developing advanced AI, saying that developers need to learn to harness its benefits in the same way humanity did with fire.

Today in Entertainment: Megyn Kelly swats back at Jane Fonda; and the Razzie nominees for worst in film are... 'Transformers,' 'Fifty Shades' lead Razzie Award nominations Megyn Kelly fires back at'Hanoi Jane' Fonda over plastic-surgery feud Princess Eugenie is engaged and tying the knot in the same venue as her cousin Prince Harry Morgan Freeman confirms it was Lily Tomlin who interrupted his SAG Awards speech Sterling K. Brown makes history at SAG Awards -- and says Time's Up Sterling K. Brown makes history at SAG Awards -- and says Time's Up Nominations for the 2018 Razzie Awards came out Monday, with the bulk of the loathing -- nine nominations each -- heaped on "Transformers: The Last Knight" and "Fifty Shades Darker," with "The Mummy" and its eight nods close behind. The mock honors, now in their 38th year and formally known as the Golden Raspberry Awards, are given out annually the day before the Academy Awards and honor the worst in film. Winners get a raspberry statue spray-painted gold. Tom Cruise, "The Mummy" Jamie Dornan, "Fifty Shades Darker" Mark Wahlberg, "Transformers: The Last Knight" and "Daddy's Home 2" Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" Zac Efron, "Baywatch" Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" Javier Bardem, "Mother!" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" Russell Crowe, "The Mummy" Josh Duhamel, "Transformers: The Last Knight" Mel Gibson, "Daddy's Home 2" Anthony Hopkins, "Collide" and "Transformers" The Last Knight" Javier Bardem, "Mother!" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" Any combination of two characters, two sex toys or two sexual positions, "Fifty Shades Darker" Any combination of two humans, two robots or two explosions, "Transformers XVII: Last Knight" [sic] Any two obnoxious emojis, "The Emoji Movie" Johnny Depp and his worn-out drunk routine, "Pirates of the Caribbean XIII: Dead Careers Tell No Tales" [sic] Tyler Perry and either the ratty old dress or worn-out wig, "Boo 2! A Madea Halloween" Johnny Depp and his worn-out drunk routine, "Pirates of the Caribbean XIII: Dead Careers Tell No Tales" [sic] In 2017, the director, actor, actress and worst-picture awards all went to the 2016 documentary "Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party," which featured director-narrator Dinesh D'Souza and actress Rebekah Turner, who played Clinton.

On 11 January, U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly used a choice word during an Oval Office meeting about immigration. Just like that, a term that's usually not part of respectable public vernacular had been splashed on the front pages of newspapers and media websites. That evening, a twitter bot called New New York Times, running under the handle @NYT_first_said, tweeted the word: "shithole." The bot scans The New York Times for words that the esteemed newspaper uses for the first time. That tweet went viral and the Twitter account gained a bunch of new followers. We chatted with Max Bittker, the San Francisco-based software engineer who built the bot.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is the latest high profile figure to warn about the dangers of artificial intelligence. In an interview with Recode and MSNBC set to air Jan. 26, Pichai likened AI to fire: dangerous, but useful. Pichai said the technology was important but that caution was necessary. Pichai made the comments during a taped segment of "Revolution: Google and YouTube Changing the World," a joint endeavor between Recode and MSNBC. "AI is one of the most important things that humanity is working on," Pichai said.

Silicon Valley tech giants and startups alike have for years been trying to drum up excitement around Internet-connected home appliances. But despite the push from companies like Samsung, Google and Apple, consumer adoption has been slow. Only 7% of households in the Americas were estimated to have connected home tech by the end of 2017, according to research from IHS Markit. Shoppers have had good reasons to avoid smart home gadgets. They're usually more expensive than their "dumb" counterparts, they can be complicated to set up and use, and the true utility they offer can be unclear.

Personalisation today is a must, not longer a maybe. Research from BCG suggests that brands which create personalised experiences by integrating advanced digital technologies and proprietary data for customers are seeing revenues increase by 6% to 10% – two to three times faster than those that don't. The need for personalisation has infiltrated a wide variety of industries. Why do you think you can personalise your Coke with your own name, or get the perfect song recommended on Spotify? The travel industry has slowly started to go in the same direction.

Martin Welker is the chief executive of Axonic. Even with the support of AI frameworks like TensorFlow or OpenAI, artificial intelligence still requires deep knowledge and understanding compared to a mainstream web developer. If you have built a working prototype, you are probably the smartest guy in the room. Congratulations, you are a member of a very exclusive club. With Kaggle, you can even earn decent money by solving real-world projects. All in all, it is an excellent position to be in, but is it enough to build a business?