Predictive technology isn't new, but today, algorithms really are taking over! Looking to the future, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are going to completely transform the way companies do business. Over 90% of average business intelligence projects involve gathering, cleaning, and joining data from different sources. Algorithms can help automate some of this work, especially for more casual business users. Business intelligence interfaces can correctly interpret user questions in everyday language via voice or chat, such as, "What's the revenue per customer this month compared to last month?"

Robots must be taught morals so they can be trusted to make potentially life and death decisions, Theresa May will say. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to drive cars, diagnose patients and decide on prison sentences around the world. The Prime Minster will warn that as machines swoop in to carry out more jobs they must also be taught how to make ethical decisions. The PM - who was mockingly dubbed the Maybot during the election campaign - will make the warning in a major speech on AI this Thursday in Davos, a summit of political and business leaders. Theresa May (pictured in No10 last night) will warn that as machines swoop in to carry out more jobs they must also be taught how to make ethical decisions.

Early Tuesday morning two NASA astronauts are scheduled to complete a spacewalk for NASA to do maintenance work on the Canadarm2 attached to the International Space Station. The walk was scheduled weeks ago for the astronauts and it will go ahead even with the recent government shutdown. Monday afternoon the Senate passed a resolution that would extend the funding of the government for three weeks, if the House passes it as well then presumably, NASA would broadcast the walk come Tuesday morning. As of Monday at 3 p.m. ET the NASA TV website said, "Due to the government shutdown, NASA Television is unavailable. We regret the inconvenience," on both the Public and the Media channels of the site.

In 1969, William H. "Holly" Whyte decided to analyze, and eventually decode, New York City's rambunctious street life. A famed author, Whyte, along with a handful of collaborators, was recruited by the city's planning commission to set up cameras and surreptitiously track human activity. Whyte and his team spent countless afternoons filming parks, plazas, and crosswalks, and even more time counting, crossing out, analyzing, and quantifying footage. Notations were made for how people met and shook hands. Pedestrian movement was mapped on pads of graph paper. To get accurate assessments of activity at a street corner, Whyte's researchers manually screened people caught waiting for lights to change. Imagine how much time it took to figure out that at the garden of St. Bartholomew's Church, the average density at lunch time is 12 to 14 people per 1,000 square feet.

Google on Monday announced it will open a research center in Paris devoted to artificial intelligence, following a meeting between the tech giant's boss and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a blog post about Google's investments in France. There are three different pieces of news in this announcement. First, Google is going to expand its office in Paris. If you already know Google's current office in Paris, that building is going to stick around. The company is going to acquire or rent other buildings around Google's current office and connect them.

Their Head of EMEA Phil Cox gives us his top predictions for the year ahead.

What do the International Space Station (ISS) and the Belgian police force have in common? If you said integrated approaches to machine learning, you'd be correct! Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that were developed to prepare astronauts for space are now being employed to solve crimes. European law enforcement agents believe the technology has the potential to help them more efficiently sift through data, recreate crime scenes, and identify leads. The earliest version of this system was developed by Space Applications Services almost 15 years ago.

Britain and France's leading tech sectors will be brought closer together with plans for a digital conference - or digital colloque - to promote deeper integration in the digital economy, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Matt Hancock (pictured with his team) has announced. The UK tops the list in Europe for global tech investors, with its tech firms attracting more venture capital funding than any other European country in 2017. In December it was named by Oxford Insights as the best prepared country in the world for artificial intelligence (AI) implementation. France has made big strides in creating new tech businesses and encouraging entrepreneurs, with Paris's newly built Station F, a former railway station hosting startups, multinationals and investors, symbolising the country's ambition. Mr Hancock met his French counterpart, Françoise Nyssen, at the UK France Summit hosted by the Prime Minister and the French President, Emmanuel Macron, at Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.

It would be impossible to predict what artificial intelligence will look like 10 or even 5 years from now. Even a modest goal like making a 12-month forecast could prove challenging. However, PricewaterhouseCoopers has done just that in a new paper, released in mid-January, that offers up several predictions for how AI will unfold in 2018. While forecasts of advancing AI technology displacing workers are commonplace, it hasn't really happened yet. Rather, new jobs offset those that are lost. That will continue this year, PwC says.