"The game isn't going to tell you if you got that right." It's an ominous way to start a game demo, but one I'm not too surprised by after playing 80 Days and Sorcery! Heaven's Vault is Inkle's new game, and I met up with studio co-founders Jon Ingold and Joseph Humfrey recently to get some hands-on time. At first glance it's a huge step away from Inkle's previous games--where 80 Days and Sorcery mostly played out in text, Heaven's Vault features fully navigable 3D environments. Your character Aliya Elasra is 2D though, her movements more suggested by a series of still frames than fully animated.

When researchers decide to train their latest and greatest artificial intelligence (AI) systems there's one big, fundamental flaw they have to deal with – AI's, by nature – and design – are amnesiacs, that is to say they have great difficulty in retaining knowledge between tasks. It's the equivalent of trying to train someone something new when they're always forgetting stuff. So as you can imagine if you're trying to teach an AI something new it can get quite frustrating, there's even a special term for it – "Catastrophic forgetting." In a new demonstration of just how close the associations between AI's and our own brains have become though Google's DeepMind engineers, the same crazy cats who recently published a breakthrough Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) architecture, who've been teaching their AI's to dream and fight with each other, and annihilate online gamers, have just created an AI that can retain its knowledge between tasks – turning raw memory into long term experiences that stay with the program, even as it moves onto other things. And they published a paper on it.

Solution provider giant Unisys made a twin splash in the world of artificial intelligence this month with its announcements of a planned May launch of a virtual "center of excellence" and the debut of its Machine Learning-as-a-Service that will enable organizations to predict changes in business conditions and quickly evaluate responses to those changes. The center of excellence, meanwhile, will give users free access to online tools to help them develop capabilities in advanced data analytics. Rod Fontecilla (pictured), vice president and global lead for analytics at Unisys – No. 19 on CRN's Solution Provider 500 – talked with ITBestOfBreed this week about the announcements and how the Blue Bell, Pa.-based company's work with the federal government paved the way. Here's what he told us in our interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity.

Instead, they might ask their Amazon Alexa, Apple's Siri or a text-based chatbot for help. This week, GSA launched a pilot that would walk federal agencies through the process of setting up virtual assistants, powered by machine-learning and artificial intelligence technology, which can eventually be deployed to citizens. The goal isn't just to produce more "intelligent personal assistants," or IPAs, GSA's Emerging Citizen Technology Office lead Justin Herman told Nextgov. It's also to build out a structure internally, complete with toolkits and guides, so agencies can decide for themselves whether this technology is worthwhile, he explained. "The easiest part of this is actually building them," Herman added.

Steve Mnuchin, for one, welcomes our new robot overlords. The treasury secretary said during an interview with Axios on Friday that he was "optimistic" rather than anxious about the effects advances in automation might have on the workforce. "I'm not worried," Mnuchin told the site. SEE ALSO: Robots taking our jobs? Mnuchin also seems blissfully ignorant of the timeframe in which most experts expect artificial intelligence to begin doing low-level jobs. "It's not even on our radar screen," he said.

Can you see the random forest for its leaves? The Leaf Classification playground competition ran on Kaggle from August 2016 to February 2017. Kagglers were challenged to correctly identify 99 classes of leaves based on images and pre-extracted features. In this winner's interview, Kaggler Ivan Sosnovik shares his first place approach. He explains how he had better luck using logistic regression and random forest algorithms over XGBoost or convolutional neural networks in this feature engineering competition.

Why is AI such a focus for the security space at present? I think two things happened more-or-less at the same time that contributed towards a focus on increased Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the security space. Most importantly, big data became mainstream and widely usable. It's no longer just the huge tech companies or research institutes that can afford to crunch numbers. Increasing computing capacity, especially via affordable cloud computing and easy-to-use tools, made it possible for a much wider range of users to apply sophisticated machine learning and AI algorithms to solve their problems.

There are only a few industries in which automation isn't threatening some job roles. "While automation will eliminate very few occupations entirely in the next decade, it will affect portions of almost all jobs to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the type of work they entail," according to McKinsey Quarterly. Roles that require empathy, like therapists and psychologists, as well as jobs that are highly reliant on social and negotiation skills, like managerial positions, are less threatened by automation, according to The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation? Those of us in roles that require creative thinking and original ideas -- like content creation -- are also deemed at less risk of having our jobs swiped from under our noses by something harder-working, "smarter," and cheaper to maintain. It's pretty tough to envision a machine generating great content ideas, not to mention creating that content -- content worth consuming.

Disrupting the streaming music market is extremely difficult to do, given the entrenched positions of Pandora and Spotify in the world market. But Brazilian company SuperPlayer is doing just that, with its streaming music service that is simple, curated, and effectively halves the price of Spotify's Premium service in Brazil. With the ability to listen to music offline without consuming data, Spotify should be worried. But the most impressive disruption that SuperPlayer has pulled off is using chatbots in their influencer marketing schemes. It's no secret that chatbots are essential to customer service, but SuperPlayer is the first to integrate music into chatbots, and effectively.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Accenture's Second Quarter Fiscal 2017 Earnings Conference Call. During today's conference all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Instructions will be given at that time. I would now like to turn the conference over to Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations, Angie Park. Thank you, Shannon and thanks everyone for joining us today on our second quarter fiscal 2017 earnings announcement. As Shannon just mentioned, I'm Angie Park, Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations. With me today are Pierre Nanterme, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and David Rowland, our Chief Financial Officer. We hope you've had an opportunity to review the News Release we issued a short time ago. Let me quickly outline the agenda for today's call. Pierre will begin with an overview of our results. David will take you through the financial details, including the income statement and balance sheet for the second quarter. Pierre will then provide a brief update on our market positioning before David provides our business outlook for the third quarter and full fiscal year 2017. We will then take your questions before Pierre provides a wrap up at the end of the call. As a reminder, when we discuss revenues during today's call, we're talking about revenues before reimbursements or net revenues. Some of the matters we'll discuss on the call, including our business outlook are forward-looking and as such, are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those factors set forth in today's News Release and discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other SEC filings. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed on this call.