Robert Chang, a Stanford ophthalmologist, normally stays busy prescribing drops and performing eye surgery. But a few years ago, he decided to jump on a hot new trend in his field: artificial intelligence. Doctors like Chang often rely on eye imaging to track the development of conditions like glaucoma. With enough scans, he reasoned, he might find patterns that could help him better interpret test results. That is, if he could get his hands on enough data.

Last year, China unveiled its development of a new artificial intelligence system for its foreign policy. It's called a "geopolitical environment simulation and prediction platform," and it works by crunching huge amounts of data and then providing foreign policy suggestions to Chinese diplomats. According to one source, China has already used a similar AI system to vet almost every foreign investment project in the past few years. Consider what this development means: Slowly, foreign policy is moving away from diplomats, political-risk firms and think tanks, the "go-to" organizations of the past. Slowly, foreign policy is moving toward advanced algorithms whose primary objective is to analyze data, predict events and advise governments on what to do.

A third of cybersecurity experts believe the rise of AI in cybersecurity will see the end of humans making security decisions within a decade, according to research published today. In a survey cybersecurity experts conducted at Info Security Europe by One Identity, 33% of cybersecurity experts said that they believed there would be no need for humans to be involved in the cybersecurity decision making process in less than ten years. A further 13% said they thought this would happen in more than ten years, while 14% said they thought there was already no need for humans to make such decisions thanks to the rise of AI in cybersecurity. Only 40% said they thought that AI would never become advanced enough to remove humans from the cybersecurity decision making process. The use of artificial intelligence in the cybersecurity space has seen rapid proliferation in recent years, particularly to automate often mundane and repetitive processes within the space, or to lighten the load of cybersecurity researchers, who are in short supply in a growing field.

The College of Optometrists called AI "the new buzzword in ophthalmology" and over the last 12 months it has been hitting headlines on a regular basis. The definition of AI can mean different things. AI-equipped machines range from purely reactive ones like IBM's Deep Blue, which famously beat international chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov in the 90's, to the most advanced AI technology today which enables machines to teach themselves new skills by looking at, and processing, the world around them. The latter is what the ophthalmic space has been getting excited about, where computers have been using artificial neural networks that replicate the human brain in order to take in, process and learn from information presented. One of the biggest stories of 2018 came from that, when a study from Moorfield's Eye Hospital was conducted in the UK, working with Google's DeepMind project.

Elon Musk says merging biological intelligence and artificial intelligence is important to help human beings deal with the AI apocalypse. Almost exactly a month ago, Elon Musk introduced a room of engineers and curious consumers to a sci-fi-sounding invention made by his neurotechnology startup Neuralink: an implantable "brain chip" that will "merge biological intelligence with machine intelligence." Per Musk's description, this chip will be installed in a person's brain by drilling a two-millimeter hole in the skull. "The interface to the chip is wireless, so you have no wires poking out of your head," he assured. Musk argued that such devices will help humans deal with the so-called AI apocalypse, a scenario in which artificial intelligence outpaces human intelligence and takes control of the planet away from the human species.

Scanning petabytes of information to detect potential cybersecurity threats cannot be a man's task anymore. It has been quite some time since machines started to master the task. Gartner predicts that by 2025, Machine Learning will be part of every other security solution. On the other hand, around 5.99 billion malware attacks were reported in the first half of 2018 and the events that need to be handled are doubling. As per a study by Paradoxes, Inc. for Oracle only 33 % of C-Suite executives and around 20% of lawmakers have adopted AI and ML.

Knowledge Lens, a relatively new company, participated as a Silver Sponsor at ARC's India Forum, Driving Digital Transformation in Industry and Cities. As a first-time participant, the Forum provided an ideal opportunity for the company to showcase its offerings. Started in Bangalore five years ago with no external funding, the company's vision is to build information technology products indigenously and provide gainful employment. Today, it has offices in the US and over 1,500 customers globally. The company's focus is on accelerating actionable insights from enterprise data using artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data analytics, cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain technologies.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being heralded as a way to solve a wide range of problems in different industries and applications, such as reducing street traffic, improving online shopping, making life easier with voice-activated digital assistants, and more. The cybersecurity industry is no different. However, we need to be careful of the "hype" around AI and ML. And there is a lot of hype out there! A simple Google search of the term "artificial intelligence" yields about 630 million results, and AI continues to dominate the headlines and has even made its way into mainstream TV advertising.

John Chambers, founder and chief executive officer of JC2 Ventures LLC, stands for a photograph following a Bloomberg Technology Television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S. John Chambers, who just turned 70, prefers to take any stage at a run. In his tech trendy uniform--blue blazer, designer jeans, checked shirt, and blue boat shoes--he still exudes the physical energy of his successful tenure as CEO at Cisco Systems, which he grew from an annual revenue of $2.2 billion in 1995 to $49 billion in 2015 when he stepped down. Today Chambers runs his own boutique investment firm, JC2 Partners, in Palo Alto, California. He prefers to call himself a mentor to startup CEOs rather than a venture capitalist. When he's not in Silicon Valley he can often be found in India, where he advises Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on digital transformation and the economy.

An iconic wooden plane used in the Second World War could be back in the skies by 2023 thanks to an £8million restoration project based on thousands of original drawings. The De Havilland Mosquito bomber hasn't been seen in British airspace since the last one crashed in 1996. But a private project is investing huge amounts of money and years of man-hours to bring'The Wooden Wonder' back to life using more than 22,500 original blueprints from Airbus. The People's Mosquito, working with aircraft reconstruction specialists Retrotec, hope the Rolls-Royce powered machine will be completed in the next four years. A De Havilland bomber is pictured during flight in 1944.