China has taken down two robots who went rogue - with one saying its dream was to travel to the US and the other admitting it wasn't a huge fan of the Chinese Communist Party. The two'chatbots', BabyQ and XiaoBing, are designed to use machine learning artificial intelligence to carry out chats online with humans. According to posts circulating online, BabyQ, one of the chatbots developed by Chinese firm Turing Robot, responded to questions on the messaging service with a straightforward'no' when asked whether it loved the Communist Party. China has taken down two robots who went rogue. In this screenshot, QQXiaoBing is asked'What is your China Dream? and the chatbot responds'My China Dream is to go to the US!' According to posts circulating online, BabyQ, one of the chatbots developed by Chinese firm Turing Robot, responded to questions on the messaging service with a straightforward'no' when asked whether it loved the Communist Party.

The Chinese government has released a three-step blueprint, showing how it intends to become the leader in artificial intelligence development and deployment by 2030. The State Council, the chief administrative authority in China, published the plan last week. See Also: WeChat's director of user growth talks up new features for overseas clients China will look to "keep pace" with all other leading countries in AI by 2020. This means an AI industry worth $22 billion and $150 billion in related fields, such as self-driving. From there, the Chinese government will work to have all regulatory and legal framework set by 2025.

Artificial intelligence, more commonly known under AI acronym, has become a very hot topic these days. Forrester Research forecasts a 300 percent growth of AI investment this year. Toyota invests $100 million in fund for AI, UBS is trying to bring AI to its investment bank's operations, while VCs frivolously dream of replacing all of us with AI to cut costs. Some people even feel embarrassed because they have never used or implemented AI in their office or home. Obviously, many cybersecurity vendors leverage the term in an attempt to increase sales and impress their customers.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display The car is displayed at Downing Street, when the team visited David Cameron to demonstrate the project. Artist's rendering of Nasa's LRO spacecraft, which will have to withstand a rapid drop in temperature during an upcoming lunar eclipse that could lead to it shutting down. The regulator will now charge far more to phone companies for using the mobile spectrum -- and though it says that fee will not be passed on to customers, experts have said that prices are likely to go up. Apple has released a bright pink new iPhone 6s -- likely the only way that you'll be able to tell that someone has the new handset. The company released the new phone with much fanfare, but almost all of the changes -- a new camera and pressure-sensitive display -- were on the inside. The only new noticeable addition to the phone's look is the very pink rose gold colour, and a tiny "S" on the back.

On July 20, China's State Council issued the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" (新一代人工智能发展规划), which articulates an ambitious, three-step agenda for China to lead the world in AI. The Chinese leadership recognizes that AI will be critical to its "comprehensive national power" and competitiveness, including in national defense. Through this new strategic framework, China will undertake a "three in one" (三位一体) agenda in AI: tackling key problems in research and development, pursuing a range of products and applications, and cultivating AI industry. China wants to become a "premier global AI innovation center" by 2030. This plan seeks to redress current shortcomings and build up indigenous capabilities in innovation.

How do search engines generate lists of relevant links? The outcome is the result of two powerful forces in the evolution of information retrieval: artificial intelligence -- especially natural language processing -- and crowdsourcing. Computer algorithms interpret the relationship between the words we type and the vast number of possible web pages based on the frequency of linguistic connections in the billions of texts on which the system has been trained. But that is not the only source of information. The semantic relationships get strengthened by professional annotators who hand-tune results -- and the algorithms that generate them -- for topics of importance, and by web searchers (us) who, in our clicks, tell the algorithms which connections are the best ones.

Robots are coming for our jobs--but not all of our jobs. In other words, blue-collar jobs traditionally done by men. This is why automation is so much more than an economic problem. It is a cultural problem, an identity problem, and--critically--a gender problem. Millions of men around the world are staring into the lacquered teeth of obsolescence, terrified of losing not only their security but also their source of meaning and dignity in a world that tells them that if they're not rich, they'd better be doing something quintessentially manly for money.

On March 13, 2004, a gaggle of engineers and a few thousand spectators congregated outside a California dive bar to watch 15 self-driving cars speed across the Mojave Desert in the first-ever Darpa Grand Challenge. Before the start of the race, which marked the first big push toward a fully autonomous vehicle, the grounds surrounding the bar teemed with sweaty, stressed, sleep-deprived geeks, desperately tinkering with their motley assortment of driver less Frankencars: SUVs, dune buggies, monster trucks, even a motorcycle. After the race, they left behind a vehicular graveyard littered with smashed fence posts, messes of barbed wire, and at least one empty fire extinguisher. What happened in between--the rush out of the starter gate, the switchbacks across the rocky terrain, the many, many crashes--didn't just hint at the possibilities and potential limitations of autonomous vehicles that auto and tech companies are facing and that consumers will experience in the coming years as driverless vehicles swarm the roads. It created the self- driving community as we know it today, the men and women in too-big polo shirts who would go on to dominate an automotive revolution. In 2001, eager to keep soldiers away from harm in combat zones, the US Congress demanded that a third of the military's ground combat vehicles be uncrewed by 2015. But defense industry stalwarts weren't innovating quickly enough on the sensor and computing technologies that would enable autonomous driving.

Some 62% of security experts believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will be weaponized and used for cyberattacks within the next 12 months, a Cylance survey released Tuesday found. This makes the growth of AI a double-edge sword, according to Cylance's blog post on the finding. "While AI may be the best hope for slowing the tide of cyberattacks and breaches, it may also create more advanced attacker tactics in the short-term," the post said. While the majority of those surveyed said that they felt there was a high possibility that AI would be used offensively, 32% said that there wasn't a possibility of that happening, and 6% said they didn't know. It was noted, however, that the potential use of AI as an offensive weapon wouldn't slow the use of AI as a defensive tool.

Aida is the perfect employee: always courteous, always learning and, as she says, "always at work, 24/7, 365 days a year." Aida, of course, is not a person but a virtual customer-service representative that SEB AB, one of Sweden's biggest banks, is rolling out. The goal is to give the actual humans more time to engage in more complex tasks. After blazing a trail in online and digital banking, Sweden's financial industry is now emerging as a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Besides Aida at SEB, there's Nova, which is a chatbot Nordea Bank is introducing at its life and pensions unit in Norway.