Disruption: it's the death knell for enterprises averse to change but the sweet capriccio of opportunity for visionary, built-to-last companies. This is largely because the technology-driven disruption that has created the current market conditions thrives on agility and a willingness to change. Generally, large companies are averse to change, and instead focus on stability and efficiency. This may be beneficial to shareholders in the near- and intermediate-term, but does not always translate into sustained market leadership. Organizations that embrace the disruption, on the other hand, can deliver new innovative solutions to open new markets and create new business models, while outpacing the slow-to-adopt companies reluctant to transformation.

Think about your typical day. Your phone alarm wakes you up (maybe after hitting snooze a couple of times), you check the weather as your coffee is brewing, and you get traffic alerts about your commute to work. How many times do you think artificial intelligence (AI) is a part of your day? It's definitely more often than you think. During a conversation with President Barack Obama, technologist Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicted that 2016 would be the "year artificial intelligence becomes more than just a computer science problem." In 2016, AI's fast progress led to acquisition deals topping $1 billion, and the White House released its first report on artificial intelligence and the economy.

Adobe this week published three videos on YouTube, sharing details on what its research team is working on for inclusion in future Adobe products like Photoshop. A voice-based AI assistant like Siri is Adobe's most interesting project, which Adobe says is the first step towards a voice-based interface that would let Adobe users search and edit images in unique ways. According to Adobe, its team is working to combine voice interaction with "a deep understanding" of creative workflows. In its current incarnation, the speech recognition system can accept natural language instructions or image editing, directly on a device or through a cloud-based Natural Language understanding service. Adobe is also working on a new digital face painting application that would allow users to paint on a still image of a person, using blending and rotating tools to paint on all sides of the face.

SEEK is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to send its users more relevant job advertisements and alerts. Norway switches off its FM radio network this week, but other nations have abandoned similar plans. James Fairfax, the philanthropist and former chairman of John Fairfax & Sons, has died, aged 83, at his home in Bowral. Facebook has launched its own'Journalism Project' in an attempt to better engage with news organisations. Communications Minister Mitch Fifield is expected to woo the crossbench on media regulation.

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The Nintendo Switch video game console, which will launch next March. Half of game developers believe Nintendo's Switch video game console will outsell the Wii U, but are unsure whether the device's hybrid concept will attract consumers. The sentiments come from a State of the Industry survey ahead of next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The survey features responses from 4,500 professionals in the video game industry. The survey found 50% of developers believe the Switch will sell better than its predecessor, the Wii U, which struggled to gain momentum against more powerful home consoles including the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The Switch is the combination of a home and portable device, featuring a tablet players can travel with or pop in to a docking station attached to a television to play games at home with a traditional controller.

From Siri creator Dag Kittlaus comes Viv, a product that aims to be the next generation personal assistant. Kittlaus sat down with USA TODAY's Ed Baig to talk about Viv and where he thinks its headed. SAN FRANCISCO -- No matter what tech innovations Dag Kittlaus creates in the coming years, the 49-year-old speech recognition expert will be best known as the man who sold Siri to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Now, strangely, the two figures have something else in common. According to an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher, Kittlaus reveals that in a routine screening he discovered he had the same rare type of pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer that felled Jobs in 2011.

The European parliament has urged the drafting of a set of regulations to govern the use and creation of robots and artificial intelligence, including a form of "electronic personhood" to ensure rights and responsibilities for the most capable AI. In a 17-2 vote, with two abstentions, the parliament's legal affairs committee passed the report, which outlines one possible framework for regulation. "A growing number of areas of our daily lives are increasingly affected by robotics," said the report's author, Luxembourgish MEP Mady Delvaux. "In order to address this reality and to ensure that robots are and will remain in the service of humans, we urgently need to create a robust European legal framework". The proposed legal status for robots would be analogous to corporate personhood, which allows firms to take part in legal cases both as the plaintiff and respondent.

How would you feel about getting therapy from a robot? Emotionally intelligent machines may not be as far away as it seems. Over the last few decades, artificial intelligence (AI) have got increasingly good at reading emotional reactions in humans. But reading is not the same as understanding. If AI cannot experience emotions themselves, can they ever truly understand us? And, if not, is there a risk that we ascribe robots properties they don't have?

MEPs have called for the adoption of comprehensive rules for how humans will interact with artificial intelligence and robots. The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a "new industrial" robot revolution. It looks at whether to give robots legal status as "electronic persons". Designers should make sure any robots have a kill switch, which would allow functions to be shut down if necessary, the report recommends. Meanwhile users should be able to use robots "without risk or fear of physical or psychological harm", it states. Lorna Brazell, a partner at law firm Osborne Clarke, was surprised by how far-reaching the rules were.