A four-part look at how robots are changing the way we work. About 180 robots here are doing work that humans used to do at a GE Aviation plant that makes parts for jet engines. But they haven't replaced the humans. Indeed, the opposite is true. Since a new, automated section of the plant ramped up at the start of the decade, the number of people working here has risen to more than 900 from 600. "A machine is not replacing three jobs," said Eric Bouchard, senior operations manager at the Bromont plant.

The UK election this Thursday will be shaped by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is being used to fake vocal political support on social media in the run up to the UK election. Then there's social media targeting. Huge swathes of marginalised people could be empowered by automated translation tools.

David Yang is an Armenian-born Russian founder, CEO of ABBYY an up and coming AI startup and an investor in AI startups. David is a co-founder, entrepreneur and/or co-investor of a number of other projects in addition to ABBYY. Foundation and participation in iiko company, which develops a new-generation system of restaurants and hospitality services management (http://www.iiko.ru, Participation in charity and educational projects, such as educational fund Ayb (http://www.ayb.am, David holds a, Ph.D. in Memeology, and received the Laureate of Russian Government Award in Science and Technology He has a BSc in Mathematics from Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and an MBA from the University of Brighton (UK).

Yasmin Green leads a team at Google's parent company with an audacious goal: solving the thorniest geopolitical problems that emerge online. Jigsaw, where she is the head of research and development, is a think tank within Alphabet tasked with fighting the unintended unsavory consequences of technological progress. That means listening to fake news creators, jihadis, and cyber bullies so that she and her team can understand their motivations, processes, and goals. "We look at censorship, cybersecurity, cyberattacks, ISIS--everything the creators of the internet did not imagine the internet would be used for," Green said today at WIRED's 2017 Business Conference in New York. Last week, Green traveled to Macedonia to meet with peddlers of fake news, those click-hungry opportunists who had such a sway over the 2016 presidential election in the US.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Hackers have become increasingly sophisticated at obscuring their footsteps, at times flooding systems with fake alerts to distract from truly insidious ones. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) demonstrated that a virtual AI security analyst trained by human experts accurately identifies 85% of attacks, beating previous benchmarks by a factor of three while reducing false positives by a factor of five.

The world's brightest minds in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and humanitarian action will meet with industry leaders and academia at the AI for Good Global Summit, 7-9 June 2017, to discuss how AI will assist global efforts to address poverty, hunger, education, healthcare and the protection of our environment. The event will in parallel explore means to ensure the safe, ethical development of AI, protecting against unintended consequences of advances in AI. The event is co-organized by ITU and the XPRIZE Foundation, in partnership with 20 other United Nations (UN) agencies, and with the participation of more than 70 leading companies and academic and research institutes. "Artificial Intelligence has the potential to accelerate progress towards a dignified life, in peace and prosperity, for all people," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. "The time has arrived for all of us – governments, industry and civil society – to consider how AI will affect our future. The AI for Good Global Summit represents the beginnings of our efforts to ensure that AI charts a course that will benefit all of humanity."

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah's Al Manar TV channel said it would broadcast footage on Wednesday of an Iranian drone tracking a U.S. plane over southeastern Syria. It said it would air the footage during its news broadcast at 5:30 p.m. local time (1430 GMT). The announcement came as tensions grow between Washington and the military alliance that backs the Syrian government, including Iranian-backed forces. Not all U.S. presidents are missed once they leave the White House. President Donald Trump announced Wray's nomination for FBI director on Twitter.

In 2015, after much research, I wrote about China having 194 robot companies and used screen shots of The Robot Report's Global Map to show where they were and a chart to show their makeup. We've just concluded another research project and have added hundreds of new Chinese companies to the database and global map. China installed 90,000 robots in 2016, 1/3 of the world's total and a 30% increase over 2015. Simply said, China has three drivers helping them move toward country-wide adoption of robotics: scale, growth momentum, and money. Startup companies can achieve scale quickly because the domestic market is so large.

Intel and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a new collaboration designed to create a new, powerful data-handling and computing platform which leverages machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. On Tuesday, the tech giant and US agency said DARPA's program, dubbed the Hierarchical Identify Verify & Exploit (HIVE), has the potential to surpass current hardware used to handle Big Data by up to 1,000 times in performance-per-watt, and Intel's technological expertise has been chosen to push HIVE research and development further. Intel's Data Center Group (DCG), Platform Engineering Group (PEG) and Intel Labs will work on the hardware research for DARPA HIVE. The joint research program, which is estimated to take 4 and a half years, is worth over $100 million. In only a few years, over 90 percent of the data available today has been created. This notion of "Big Data" is not only valuable to businesses to analyze and detect patterns and tailor business models based on consumer behavior, but also to researchers who can plunder this data treasure trove for projects relating to everything from healthcare, security, or software development, among others.

Intelligence analysts are swimming in data pouring in from an array of vehicles and platforms -- a problem that isn't new, but for which government leaders still seek the right solutions. To help stem the deluge and better position analysts and key mission-critical data, intelligence community officials are targeting automation as a high priority, with a futuristic vision for applications down the road as well. "A significant chunk of my analytic workforce today, I will send them to a dark room to look at TV monitors to do national security-essential work … but boy, is it inefficient," Robert Cardillo, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, told reporters at the annual GEOINT Symposium in San Antonio, Texas. "The number of people needed to maintain awareness of, if not exploitation of, one sensor is really daunting. I suspect we're going to get more of those sensors. The near-term goal particularly centers on analysis of full-motion video that streams in from unmanned aerial systems -- "the wolf really close to the door," as Cardillo put it. But he and other officials also are looking toward future uses for different types of automation, including artificial intelligence. And Cardillo, among others, are looking to partner up for help. "As the commercial industry and academic think tanks and advanced science and engineering schools move to artificial intelligence and machine learning, they're all desperate to get a hold of some data with [which] to train their algorithms and teach their machines to learn," Cardillo said. He added that intelligence community leaders, including those at the NGA, are looking at how to safely expose data sets to accelerate development in automated tools. Internally, the agency has launched a new Office of Ventures and Innovation aimed at guiding emerging technology from incubation through the entire life cycle. "To get to this automated, augmented future that we're talking about, we need to coordinate across a lot of different parts of the agency," Anthony Vinci, NGA director of plans and programs, told C4ISRNET. "It's not just a technology issue, it's bringing technology and [research and development] into the operational units, into analysis or into the business services units, human development or finance for business analytics." Vinci said the NGA is working closely with other government agencies, including the Defense Department, to further automation and AI and get to a new level of intelligence and military operations. "How can we use automation to take some of that pressure off of the analysts who are putting together those products?