Artificial intelligence has wide-reaching implications across all aspects of the business, and now some leaders in the field advocate for this technology to be represented in the C-suite by a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Andrew Ng, a renowned A.I. researcher and thought leader, recently made that argument in Harvard Business Review article titled "Hiring Your First Chief A.I. Officer." Summarizing his case, Ng wrote, "The benefit of a chief A.I. officer is having someone who can make sure A.I. gets applied across silos." Since every aspect of a business involves the collection and use of data for competitive advantage, a CAIO could look across an organization and assess how different business units can work together to create new competitive advantages. Matthew Buskell, head of sales and business development at Rainbird Technologies, makes a similar case about the cross-functional impact of A.I. in a post on the Rainbird blog titled "Should There be a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer?"

A new nonprofit run by Carnegie Mellon University will receive more than $250 million for a new robotics institute in Pittsburgh dubbed the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute, or ARM, the university announced today. The award is primarily funded by the Department of Defense, which gave $80 million toward the new center. Another $173 million came from undisclosed partner organizations. The university did not respond to a late request for information on the undisclosed donors. The money will be used to research and develop robotic technologies in the area of manufacturing, artificial intellegence, 3D printing and industrial robotics.

Having been unleashed with a series of angry Trump tweets, the outpouring of carmarker investments in the US has turned into a veritable torrent, and just hours after GM announced it would invest $1 billion in new US factories, adding 1,000 jobs, Korea's Hyundai Motor Group said it also plans to lift U.S. investment by 50% to $3.1 billion over five years and may build a new plant there. It has become the latest auto firm to announce fresh spending following Ford, Fiat, Toyota and GM, after President-elect Donald Trump threatened to tax imports. As a reminder, Trump has repeatedly warned of a 35% tax on vehicles imported from Mexico, where many automakers have taken advantage of the country's lower labor costs. Toyota Motor, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler have all recently unveiled new U.S. investment plans, while over the weekend German automakers were the latest to come under fire from Trump, provoking a blistering response from Angela Merkel. According to Reuters, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors which make up the Hyundai Motor Group have not been directly criticized by Trump but they may have felt vulnerable because among major brands, they have one of the lowest ratios of cars built in the United States to cars sold.

Autonomous warriors may dominate the battlefield of tomorrow, but even those that still require human flesh will take on a robotic sheen. That shift could start with the end of windows. This, at least, is what Raytheon is proposing for its contribution to Darpa's new Ground X Vehicle Technologies program, an effort to improve of future tanks, fighting vehicles, and transports. Darpa hopes smart new tech will obviate the need for increasingly heavy armor by making vehicles harder to spot, catch, and kill. Ditching windows is a natural move: you eliminate a key vulnerability in both structural strength and crew protection.

Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today. Orson Welles called Los Angeles "a bright and guilty place." No wonder developer money and L.A. politics have long gone hand in hand. Though some lawmakers insist the donations don't influence whether big projects get approved, a new group of City Hall hopefuls is trying to make hay by saying they won't accept developers' cash -- and they're pointing in part to an L.A. Times investigation over questionable donations connected to one project. Speaking of the fight over development … L.A. is experiencing its biggest building boom since the Roaring '20s and is reshaping its public transit system.

Apple is pushing up the price of apps by 25 per cent to make up for the plunging value of the pound. The prices are now the same as they are in dollars. The change is thought to be a response to the pound's loss of value since Brexit. The June referendum and the policy statements that followed have pushed the pound to historic lows and seem to have forced Apple to adjust, since it does its accounting in US dollars. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

A lot can happen in 12 months. Last year, bots exploded into the mainstream, and adoption was rapid. For example, over $1.5 billion was invested in AI startups; Microsoft has over 35,000 bot developers on its platform; The Economist even asked if bots are the new apps. As with any technology that grows so quickly in such a short amount of time, sometimes we need to take a step back. Last year, we saw bots enter the home through the likes of Amazon Echo's Alexa and Google Assistant, and this paved the way for more bots to be introduced to our everyday lives.

More so than in any other year in recent history, events in 2017 promise to put business executives under intense pressure, as new political forces, restructured trading coalitions, and more aggressive central bankers and regulators exert their influence on companies and markets worldwide. Advances in digital technology and business models will also continue to shift the balance of global economic power, putting more pressure on CIOs to stay ahead of existing and emerging competitors. The many tools at the disposal of CIOs include cloud computing, predictive analytics, mobile applications, machine learning, and robotics, feeding broader movements such as the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. The business opportunities are considerable: lower costs; more precise supply chains; more dynamic, reliable, and personalized products and marketing campaigns; more attentive customer service; and ultimately more abundant, loyal customers. In the next five years, CIOs expect their companies' digital revenues to grow from 16% to 37%, according to Gartner's recent CIO Agenda survey of 2,944 CIOs in 84 countries. Public-sector CIOs predict that 77% of their processes will be digitized, up from 42% today. Massive changes are ahead, and they're happening faster than ever before.

France are eyeing up an inclusive benefits system that would see every adult receive a basic income of €750 in the fear robots will take over 3million jobs. Two of the seven candidates vying to represent the ruling Socialist Party in this year's presidential election are promising the money to all French adults. The radical move is already being tested in Finland and other experiments are planned elsewhere - including in the United States. If implemented in France, the potential costs could be an eye-watering €700billion a year, and critics have said it would promote laziness. French politicians, from left to right, Arnaud Montebourg, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Francois de Rugy, Benoit Hamon, Vincent Peillon, Manuel Valls and Sylvia Pinel, attend the first prime-time televised debate for the French left's presidential primaries in La Plaine Saint-Denis, near Paris The reason for the drastic measures is the number of automated systems and machines increasingly replacing human workers.

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