The man who made the entire nation scamper about to reach their devices to search the word "farrago" has said that jobs in India are in danger due to artificial intelligence. Speaking on the third day at Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO) conclave in Chennai, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor spoke about the negative effects of using artificial intelligence. "Artificial intelligence is also making inroads into jobs like medical transcription. A World Bank report points out that 69 percent of Indian jobs would be taken away by robots," said Tharoor. "In the US, they are talking about driverless cars. What will happen to 25 million drivers in India?" he said, according to a national newspaper.

The 21st century is the age of data and artificial intelligence, two powerful tools with the potential to solve some of the world's most pressing problems. Yet many researchers and leaders are still trying to take on today's challenges using tools from the past -- especially when it comes to protecting the environment. Take, for instance, the iconic Chesapeake Bay: Its watershed stretches from Pennsylvania south to Virginia in the United States, spanning more than 64,000 square miles and supporting more than 3,600 species of plants and animals. Despite its importance, its health over decades has been marred by sewage overflows and runoff of animal waste and chemicals. The future of the watershed, home to 17 million people, depends upon smart conservation that is informed by data about where growth is least harmful and where interventions can be most helpful.

In 1965, I. J. Good described for the first time the notion of "intelligence explosion", as it relates to artificial intelligence (AI): Decades later, the concept of an "intelligence explosion" -- leading to the sudden rise of "superintelligence" and the accidental end of the human race -- has taken hold in the AI community. Famous business leaders are casting it as a major risk, greater than nuclear war or climate change. Average graduate students in machine learning are endorsing it. In a 2015 email survey targeting AI researchers, 29% of respondents answered that intelligence explosion was "likely" or "highly likely". A further 21% considered it a serious possibility. The basic premise is that, in the near future, a first "seed AI" will be created, with general problem-solving abilities slightly surpassing that of humans. This seed AI would start designing better AIs, initiating a recursive self-improvement loop that would immediately leave human intelligence in the dust, overtaking it by orders of magnitude in a short time. Proponents of this theory also regard intelligence as a kind of superpower, conferring its holders with almost supernatural capabilities to shape their environment -- as seen in the science-fiction movie Transcendence (2014), for instance.

California regulators have given the green light to truly driverless cars. The state's Department of Motor Vehicles said Monday that it was eliminating a requirement for autonomous vehicles to have a person in the driver's seat to take over in the event of an emergency. The new rule goes into effect on April 2. California has given 50 companies a license to test self-driving vehicles in the state. The new rules also require companies to be able to operate the vehicle remotely -- a bit like a flying military drone -- and communicate with law enforcement and other drivers when something goes wrong. The changes signal a step toward the wider deployment of autonomous vehicles.

Artificial intelligence is taking away jobs in the field of healthcare and information technology and it is a cause of concern, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said. "Artificial intelligence is also making inroads into jobs like medical transcription. A World Bank report points out that 69% of Indian jobs would be taken away by robots," he said, speaking at the third day of Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO) conclave in Chennai. Mr. Tharoor spoke on the theme of youth empowerment and also inaugurated JITO's first Youth Conclave. "In the U.S., they are talking about driverless cars. What will happen to 25 million drivers in India?" he asked.

Due to advances in the technology most of the mundane Americans have lost their jobs, they felt resentment against the ruling elite of the America. This was the one of the reason American people voted in the great number for the Donald Trump. This was the most consequential surprise for the most of the world. Despite the very controversial stand of Donald trump he became the president of the America. Hilary Clinton was the symbol of the elite and establishment in America so people voted against her.

Can a repressive state, led by a central government specializing in five-year plans and surveillance of its own people, make such a leap? Economic history includes few examples of authoritarian states becoming innovative business leaders. But China aims to make that jump in artificial intelligence--or high-level machine learning--with an unusual approach that can't be dismissed. Beijing is bankrolling a big effort in AI, in part, to keep better track of homegrown individuals it considers criminals and dissidents, and to intimidate would-be opponents. That work involves fundamental research in image recognition, data collection and sorting that could have commercial spinoffs in the software used to run complex systems.

At MapD, we've long been big fans of the PyData stack, and are constantly working on ways for our open source GPU-accelerated analytic SQL engine to play nicely with the terrific tools in the most popular stack that supports open data science. We are founding collaborators of GOAI (the GPU Open Analytics Initiative), working with the awesome folks at Anaconda and H2O.ai, and our friends at NVIDIA. In GOAI, we use Apache Arrow to mediate efficient, high-performance data interchange for analytics and AI workflows. A big reason for doing this is to make MapD itself easily accessible to Python tools. For starters, this means supporting modern Python database interfaces like DBAPI.

It could be here in a few years' time, another sign of the ever-faster technological changes that are reshaping our world. But will the march of technology and AI come at a price? Will it cost you your job? Let us start the week in outer space, where – to misquote Ming the Merciless – the puny earthlings have hurled a car into the void. At the beginning of this month, the Falcon Heavy was launched.

The shooting at the school in Florida was devastating, and it appears clear that Russia has been manipulating public opinion in the U.S. to stoke the flames of a divisive argument on guns. What is being missed is a brewing problem that potentially could have an even more devastating impact. Competing for our eyeballs is the news that the U.S. president kissed a woman without her permission. That story has served as a distraction from far more horrendous attacks against women in the tech industry and in government. Intel showcased virtual reality at the Olympics, but almost no one cared. I think that deep learning and artificial intelligence either could make things far better or far, far worse -- and my fear is that we are moving toward the latter and away from the former.