Artificial intelligence is getting bigger and smarter right here in Seattle. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a sister company to Paul Allen's Institute for Brain Science, plans to hire 25 people in the next year as it prepares to take its Aristo technology to the eighth grade, moving on from teaching it fourth-grade science. The company plans to take over about 6,000 additional square feet of space in its headquarters on North Northlake Way near Gas Works Park and grow its employee ranks, said CEO Oren Etzioni. Etzioni leads the small team of 50 with Chief Operating Officer James Allard, and the executives are preparing for a hiring binge. Artificial intelligence has been all over the news lately, and this time not solely over fears that machines may eliminate people's jobs.

As Amazon Inc. moves to shrink delivery times from days to hours, it's spreading its enormous inventory across a growing network of fulfillment centers on the outskirts of the nation's biggest cities. Within this strategy, San Bernardino has emerged as a key player thanks to its abundance of affordable land, proximity to ports and access to one of the nation's biggest consumer markets. Amazon this week doubled down on the city 60 miles east of Los Angeles by announcing plans for its second fulfillment center there, a cavernous 1.1-million-square-foot facility that will briefly warehouse items such as books, electronics and toys while adding 1,000 new full-time jobs. "San Bernardino has proven to be an important part of Amazon's growth in California, and we are proud to continue creating jobs and helping support the economy here in the Inland Empire," Akash Chauhan, Amazon's vice president of North American operations, said in a prepared statement. The new facility will be Amazon's fifth fulfillment center in the Inland Empire and seventh in California.

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In this week's QuestionTime we hear the views and opinions of Head of Learning & Development, Carrie Remington. In your opinion, what is the biggest anxiety within the world of learning and development at the moment? There's no doubt about it: technology has disrupted, and continues to disrupt, the world of business… and, of course, the learning and development industry. While innovative designers are often keen to maximise the potential of new advancements, in reality, there is often a lack of understanding throughout the wider organisation – which can cause delays in digital transformation. Misconceptions can also lead to poor early-adoption rates of certain technologies, making it difficult for even the most forward-thinking companies to lead in learning.

Machine learning is not new. SAS has been doing it for over 20 years and some early machine learning papers date back to the 50's. So why is it one of the hottest topics at the Strata Hadoop World conference later this week? Clearly, Hadoop is playing a major role in the increased focus on machine learning. Patrick Hall is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at SAS.

In October 2015, Google released a piece of machine learning software called TensorFlow. TensorFlow is open source software for creating machine learning models, especially deep neural networks. It is the second-generation software for machine learning infrastructure built at Google, and it powers many of their products such as Google Inbox, Google Translator, Youtube, Google Ads, and more. Already, TensorFlow is the most "popular" machine learning software: on github it has 19,000 likes and 6,500 forks. Google is also relentlessly releasing updates, supporting products, and training courses.

DeepMind was a relatively unknown artificial intelligence (AI) startup in London up until 2014, when it was bought by Google for around 400 million. Today some of the smartest people in the world are queuing up to work at DeepMind, according to an article by Celemency Burton-Hill in The Guardian in February. Interestingly, the same article states that no one has ever left DeepMind, which has created a series of algorithms that can learn for themselves and beat the best humans at games like Go and "Space Invaders." Based in up-and-coming King's Cross, DeepMind now employs around 250 people. However, as Burton-Hill points out, getting a job there is far from easy.

To kill education and give rise to learning, but only when you place pedagogy first. Where the instructor engages in dialogue with the student and helps them develop thinking skills, problem solving skills and passion for a discipline. The maker learning movement, Sugatra Mitra's SOLE model, and schools like AltSchool are leading the way in creating learning environments where students take ownership. In large part, it's because a lot of assessments today are focused on lower order thinking.

Machine learning just can't be left out of major tech keynotes and conferences these days. And while Tay continues to be a topic of funny discussions rather than the serious ones it was intended to be, Microsoft is announcing a few updates to its suite of Machine learning tools. First up, is the rebranding. If you are a developer, and a hard-core one at that, you'd remember Microsoft's machine tools being tabbed under something called'Project Oxford'. However, it isn't just the re-christening which is happening here.

Larry W. Bridgesmith, J.D., is an adjunct professor of law and coordinator of the Program on Law and Innovation at Vanderbilt Law School. You've probably seen one of the many commercials featuring the IBM supercomputer Watson, which made waves a few years ago when it easily defeated two "Jeopardy!" Watson even analyzes trends in music now, as seen in a recent advertising spot featuring Bob Dylan. Perhaps you read where a Google software program just beat a world master champion at Go, a game of intelligence, strategy and intuition far more complex than chess. Instead, the strength of artificial intelligence lies in its effect on the ways we do our jobs -- jobs we might have assumed would always be performed by humans.