It may seem like humanity has been taking a lot of hits from artificial intelligence lately -- from the AI that recently defeated world champion Lee Sedol in the game of Go, to the AI that consistently beats us on "Jeopardy," to the AI that is currently out-trumping Donald Trump on Twitter. Artificial intelligence can help make humanity better, not just by winning games or driving cars, but also by addressing some of the not-so-great aspects of human nature. In fact, building smarter AI means we're getting smarter ourselves. Take Fan Hui, the European champion who lost five matches of Go earlier this year to the same AI Lee Sedol played against last month. When Fan Hui first played the AlphaGo AI, he was ranked 633rd in the world.

The conference's details remain a secret -- Amazon hasn't even confirmed it yet. But Bloomberg says the guests attended seminars, including one that talked about giving robots human values. Amazon focused on these particular fields, most likely because they're all relevant to its interests. It has robots working in its warehouses, and it even held a robotics challenge last year to develop machines that can find items and fulfill orders. Its Amazon Echo speakers come with Alexa, its voice assistant that can read ebooks aloud, control the lights and give you election updates.

Google may be looking to ensure its control of the world's search market by building a gesture-based smartphone and tablet keyboard designed to work with Apple's iPhone and iPad, which has integrated search functionality, according to sources speaking to the Verge. According to the report, Google employees have been testing the new keyboard for several months already though the search giant has yet to decide when or if it will release the keyboard to Apple's App Store. With the introduction of iOS 8 in 2014, Apple finally opened up its software to allow users install third-party keyboards to replace the stock iOS version. Google's keyboard, like the stock Android keyboard, allows for gesture typing, a feature that allows users to swipe their finger from one letter to the next allowing Google to then guess what word you want based on the shape of the gesture you have made. As well as this gesture feature, Google is said to be integrating GIFs and images directly into the keyboard which would be powered by Google's own image search.

Nearly a decade after the iPhone broke the mould, is the evolution of the smartphone finally come to an end? Industry experts believe innovation is giving way to phone functions popping up as software or services in devices from cars to fridges and to watches and jewellery. Even Apple now treats older, smaller 4-inch screens as something new. And analysts and product designers said fresh breakthroughs are running up against the practical limits of what's possible in current hardware in terms of screen size and battery life. Industry experts believe innovation is giving way to phone functions popping up as software or services in devices from cars to fridges and to watches and jewellery.

Machine learning is generating a tremendous amount of attention these days from the press as well as the practitioners. And rightly so – machine learning is a transformative technology. But despite the references to the topic, the money raised from venture capitalists, and the spotlight that Google is bringing to the subject, machine learning is still poorly understood outside of a core group of highly technical leaders. This has the effect of underestimating how transformative machine learning is going to be. It also has the effect of shielding business leaders from what they need to do to prepare for the era of machine learning.

Today is a big day for whatGoogle just bought a startup that takes the pain out of editing videos. Read more ... » very well could be the next big business at GoogleGoogle Acquires Fly Labs To Bring Photo Editing To Google Photos. In San Francisco, the company is holding its first cloud userMicrosoft Dynamics AX Upgrade Integrates Power BI, Machine Learning. Read more ... » conference, a perch to show off its product and win more paying customers. Keynotes will come from new enterprise boss Diane Greene and Urs Hölzle, its veteran infrastructureGoogle Just Open Sourced TensorFlow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine.

What makes the UK such a breeding ground for businesses working with Artificial Intelligence? We asked Alexandre Flamant and John Henderson, Co-founders of the LondonAI meetups, for their thoughts. Last week, a prototype programme from Google DeepMind achieved what many commentators thought would take at least another decade: it won a five match series of the ancient Chinese board game Go against reigning world champion Lee Sedol. In doing so, AlphaGo made a number of'creative' moves that flummoxed Go experts – no human would have ever played in such a way. This is true intelligence, even if currently confined to a specific board game.

These days, Google is making headlines as its artificial intelligence (AI) AlphaGo beated top pro Go player Lee Se-dol 2:0 in a highly publicized five-game Go series. The internet search giant is expanding its AI business by taking over four robotics companies including DeepMind which designed AlphaGo. But in Korea, AI is an underdeveloped and poorly invested sector. "Korean companies have not made much progress in AI research. They still have a long way to go in terms of AI commercialization," said Jin Jeong-yeol, director of the Kohyoung Technology.

Fast, novel, automated: threats are routinely getting past traditional security tools. Security now, more than ever, needs to be top of the CEO's agenda. We are seeing a host of new, innovative threats attacking companies on a daily basis. A recent example, detected by Darktrace's'immune system' approach, highlights how machine learning can help in this new era of advanced threat. Within a week of installing threat detection software into one customer's security stack, Darktrace discovered a serious compromise.

Data scientists must always remember that data sets are not objective - they are selected, collected, filtered, structured and analyzed by human design. Naked and hidden biases in selecting, collecting, structuring and analyzing data present serious risks. For example, a recent Wall Street Journal article entitled "Tweets Provide New Way to Gauge TV Audiences" provides evidence of a disconnect between mainstream viewers and folks who use Twitter. The chart above shows the disconnect between the most popular and most tweeted shows - the most tweeted show is not a top ten show. While Twitter data can be useful for detecting trends and sentiments for certain areas (e.g., disease surveillance, natural disaster surveillance, product sentiments, financial trading, politics) in limited circumstances using scientific methods, it can also mislead and present a false view of reality.