As artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed at quite a pace in recent years, it is inevitable that governments have tried to get a handle on things and better understand how it might influence society. For instance, I wrote recently about a report by the British government's Science & Technology Select Committee into AI, which looked at a number of topics, from ethics to employment. Hot on the heels of this is another British government report, this time from the office of the Chief Scientific Advisor. It examines the increasingly blurred lines between big data and AI, and particularly the benefits of this for the state. For instance, it highlights that governments could secure enormous savings by utilizing both to reduce tax fraud and minimize errors in tax collection.

Can your tweets reveal your gender? When you post a tweet or write a status on Facebook, your choice of words sends and impression to others on all aspects of your life. But often these impressions can be wrong - especially when it comes to gender. For example, if you tweet about technology, people will assume you are a man, but if you use the words'love' or'fashion' people will think you are female. Using a form of artificial intelligence, researchers have identified the line where stereotyping goes from'plausible' to wrong.

When Hillary Clinton lost her history-making bid for the presidency last week, many parents had the painful task of sharing a hopeful message with their little girls in the face of devastating defeat. Only time can numb that grief, but a new book offers solace with a message that girls can be the heroes of their own stories. SEE ALSO: Trump's America: What women, immigrants and people of color want you to know Secret Code follows the adventures of young girl who loves coding and dislikes chores so much that she programs a robot to pick up after her. The robot, however, takes matters into his own hands and its creator must save the day. What makes the book, which is available online only, even better is the ability to customize the heroine to reflect a girl's appearance and race or ethnicity.

For instance, there is legislation that governs the use of citizen data by analysts and policy makers to ensure that privacy is maintained and equal treatment is given to all. This is a crucial aspect of public service, and there have been numerous stories about the implicit bias in AI systems, whether because of biased data used to train the systems, or a bias in the algorithms behind them. For AI to thrive in public service therefore, developers need to understand these legal frameworks and how they might apply to AI based decision support.

As the Big Data London event coincided with a new development in the Brexit story, back-stage discussions could not possibly have remained unaffected. In some cases they even took to the center stage, going as far as panelist Kim Nilsson from Pivigo who has been quoted to say that "if we have a hard Brexit, the data industry is going to die". The newly elected US president has drawn parallels between himself and the Brexit movement, so even though comparing leaving a federated union of nations and changing head of state is like comparing apple pie to Marmite, looking at what organizations can do using data to cope with political change may be of relevance. Predictions are always hard, no matter how much data you have. Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 14, 2016) - NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced that it is teaming up with the National Cancer Institute, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and several national laboratories on an initiative to accelerate cancer research. The initiative -- known as the Cancer Moonshot, announced by President Barack Obama during his 2016 State of the Union Address, and led by Vice President Joseph Biden -- aims to deliver a decade of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment in just five years. The research efforts include a focus on building an AI framework called CANDLE (Cancer Distributed Learning Environment), which will provide a common discovery platform that brings the power of AI to the fight against cancer. CANDLE will be the first AI framework designed to change the way we understand cancer, providing data scientists around the world with a powerful tool against this disease. Teams collaborating on CANDLE include researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and DOE, as well as at Argonne, Oak Ridge, Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Google's self-driving cars can now perform tricky three-point turns - and they do it BETTER than humans Development revealed in Google's latest report on its autonomous fleet 360-degree vision constantly analyses the car's surroundings Google describes how it made the tech feel natural to human passengers Last month Google reported a collision involving one of its cars Development revealed in Google's latest report on its autonomous fleet Google's self-driving cars are now able to perform tricky three-point turns. The cars are fitted with 360-degree vision, and a complex internal computer that constantly calculates and analyses its surroundings. They have mastered the driving manoeuvre so well that they can perform it better than humans. In the latest report on Google's highly anticipated fleet of self-driving vehicles, the firm revealed that it has taught its cars to perform one of the trickiest driving manoeuvres to master. In the latest report on Google's highly anticipated autonomous fleet, the firm revealed its cars perform thousands of the turns each week on real city streets.

Devastated Tinder users are forced to spend a night alone after the app goes down AGAIN deleting everyone's matches Users across the UK, Europe and parts of the US reported issues, including messages not sending, matches being deleted and problems logging in. All my matches on tinder got deleted' Amazon's Spotify-rival arrives in the UK: Music Unlimited... Is Apple expanding into digital GLASSES? Report suggests the... Two-thirds of internet users live under censorship as global... WhatsApp finally launches video calls: Feature will come to... Amazon's Spotify-rival arrives in the UK: Music Unlimited... Is Apple expanding into digital GLASSES? Report suggests the... Two-thirds of internet users live under censorship as global... WhatsApp finally launches video calls: Feature will come to... Gavin Lynn joked'My tinder is not working, this is seriously getting in the way of my search for a future bride' Others compared the outage to current events this year, with Tory Vettori tweeting: 'Earthquakes, flooding and Tinder is broken. Oh universe, will you ever stop punishing our country?!' Chase James tweeted: 'First Donald Trump wins the election and now Tinder deletes all of my matches?

Campaign rhetoric will calm down. People will return to their daily lives and America will go back to focusing on its future. Trump's victory, largely led by the voices that got ignored by the previous administrations, provides a clear mandate for the Trump administration. The minor problem: when it comes to technology, the Trump mandate is mostly silent. The major problem:technology strategy by the Trump administration can be at odds with the low-to-medium skilled job creation promise on one hand or lead to decline in American competitiveness on the other hand.

Humans will NOT survive another 1,000 years on Earth, says Stephen Hawking: Physicist warns we must'escape beyond our fragile planet' Professor Hawking was giving a talk at the Oxford University Union He urged the audience to take an interest in space travel He said: 'we must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity' He said: 'we must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity' Humans will not survive another 1,000 years on'fragile' Earth, according to Professor Stephen Hawking. Silicon Valley issues plea to Donald Trump to support strong... Mysterious'megafast electrons' are accelerated to the speed... Intelligent aliens are most likely to be MACHINES,... The AI that could tell you how long your flight is REALLY... Silicon Valley issues plea to Donald Trump to support strong... Mysterious'megafast electrons' are accelerated to the speed... Intelligent aliens are most likely to be MACHINES,... The AI that could tell you how long your flight is REALLY... Professor Hawking said: 'I don't think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet' Professor Hawking explained in his talk, titled'The Origin of the Universe', how he was currently working to prove how the origin of the universe did obey the laws of physics as was understood what modern physicists called M-theory (stock image) Mob storm police station and lynch suspected paedophile SNL mocks confident Clinton supporters with Dave Chappelle Chili's manager snatches veteran's free meal after complaint Dashcam footage captures moment van swerves before crashing Got any oink-tment?: Excited piglets take a warm bath Man discovers wife is cheating on him following her with drone Obama on Trump: This office has a way of waking you up Emotional Chelsea Handler fights back tears over election results Pres. Obama: Reflection'healthy' for Democratic party Obama's dig at Clinton over her ground game failures Is this the creepy moment the corpse of a girl OPENS her eyes?