AI will likely replace tasks rather than jobs in the near term and will create new jobs, but the new jobs that will be created are harder to imagine in advance. As AI becomes more ubiquitous in the workplace, its effects will emerge ranging from small amounts of replacement or adjustment in tasks or processes, to complete replacement. For example, AI technologies applied to legal information has automated portions of entry-level lawyer's jobs but has not automated the job of a lawyer. By 2030, a diverse array of job-holders from radiologists to truck drivers to gardeners may be affected.

While some worry that robots may become our adversaries, Daniel Weld, professor of computer science at the University of Washington, sees them as incredibly beneficial helpers. Self-driving cars, for example, might help prevent 1.3 million road deaths each year. Medical robots might avoid the 250,000 annual deaths from human errors in treatment. But there is work still to be done to make that happen, Weld said in a lecture, "Computational Ethics for AI," March 20. He was a guest lecturer in the series "The Emergence of Intelligent Machines: Challenges and Opportunities." "AIs won't wake up and want to kill us," he said, "but they might hurt us by accident."

Refugees can now use a Facebook chatbot to apply for asylum in the US, Canada, and the UK -- helping them navigate unfamiliar legal systems and avoid exorbitant lawyers' fees. It's an update to DoNotPay -- a Facebook chatbot that assisted 250,000 people in challenging parking fines, and has since been expanded into multiple other sectors, from claiming compensation for delayed flights to providing HIV legal advice. "Ultimately, I just want to level the playing field so there's a bot for everything," Joshua Browder, the Stanford student who created DoNotPay, told Business Insider. DoNotPay is a chatbot built in Facebook's messenger interface. It talks to the user and asks them questions, just like a real person, and records their responses. "There's this huge problem among immigration lawyers where the majority of their time is spent filling out forms rather than actually challenging the legal complexities of the case," Browder, whose grandmother fled the Holocaust, said in a phone call from California.

The rise of artificial intelligence represents a disruptive - and potentially destructive - force the likes of which mankind has never seen. AI has the potential to change virtually every aspect of modern life, representing both an opportunity for and an existential threat to businesses everywhere. In an informative and exciting discussion, Stephane Mallard draws examples from fields as diverse as medicine, banking, law and art to paint a vivid picture of our digital future.

One of the country's biggest law firms has become the first to publicly announce that it has "hired" a robot lawyer to assist with bankruptcy cases. The robot, called ROSS, has been marketed as "the world's first artificially intelligent attorney." ROSS has joined the ranks of law firm BakerHostetler, which employs about 50 human lawyers just in its bankruptcy practice. The AI machine, powered by IBM's Watson technology, will serve as a legal researcher for the firm. It will be responsible for sifting through thousands of legal documents to bolster the firm's cases.

The latest innovations in automation and AI are surrounded by controversy. Thanks to films such as the Terminator, we have been painted a picture of what happens when AI goes stupendously wrong. This fear does little to assuage the distrust of automated processes and machine learning, but what are the benefits? Though this technology is a long way off doing mouth to mouth or hoovering my living room, it does provide many benefits. For example, you can use voice commands to control smart devices like lights, thermostats and switches from home automation systems, manage everyday tasks like shopping lists and even play music.

Visions of a dystopian society are nothing new – in novels (from renaissance times through to modern) and films over the last 60 years we have enjoyed succumbing to the temptation of imagining our world where societal rules as we understand them are upended or menacingly transformed; from Swift's Gullivers Travels, HG Wells' The Time Machine, Orwell's 1984 to a whole raft of modern takes on dystopia (The Hunger Games, Divergent, Planet of the Apes, Mad Max, A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World, Blade Runner and so on) – all take pot shots at human frailties, and importantly human strengths, individually and collectively. Much has been written and said about the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence technologies and the impact that this will have on our daily lives. It seems popular to predict a dystopian future where dysfunctional robots prevail with humans living a weaker, fearful and subservient existence as portrayed in a proliferation of films and novels such The Hitchhikers Guide, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, The Terminator, I,Robot, A.I, to name but a few. Put simply, these films sensationally play upon our fear of machines'taking over'. It's interesting that rapid advances in A.I. beg us to define what AI means, and indeed what being human means.

Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law and two of his brothers-in-law have admitted hacking computers at the celebrity chef's restaurant and business empire during a time of bitter dispute in the family. Chris Hutcheson and two of his sons - Adam and Chris Jr – pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Tuesday to charges of conspiring to cause a computer to access programs and data without authority. Hutcheson's daughter, Orlanda Butland, denied the charge but the prosecution offered no evidence in her case, effectively withdrawing proceedings. In October 2010, Hutcheson was sacked by Ramsay as chief executive of Gordon Ramsay Holdings. The following year the pair ended up in a high court battle, with Ramsay alleging his computers had been hacked and blaming Hutcheson amid claims that emails between Ramsay and Tana had been read by a third party.

Yuneec diverted from its earlier higher-end drones to release a more affordable model last fall, the Breeze. For bundling a 4K camera and several flight modes into a $500 package, we guessed it would make it an ideal elaborate selfie machine. But now it's getting an update that lets users stream footage live on Facebook, YouTube and other services. It's not the first drone system to get the capability, as DJI upgraded its Go app last May to give its Phantom and Inspire models livestreaming ability. Likewise, the Breeze's Cam App is getting an update that will let users broadcast in 720p on the big two livestreaming platforms along with any others compatible with Real-Time Messaging Protocol.

The ritualized procreation in the novel--effectively, state-sanctioned rape--is extrapolated from the Bible. " 'Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her,' " Atwood recited. "Obviously, they stuck the two together and out came the baby, and it was given to Rachel.