SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced it was ranked as a leader in "The Forrester Wave: Predictive Analytics And Machine Learning Solutions, Q1 2017." According to Forrester, "SAP offers comprehensive data science tools to build models, but it is also the biggest enterprise application company on the planet. This puts SAP in a unique position to create tools that allow business users with no data science knowledge to use data-scientist-created models in applications. SAP's solution offers the data tools that enterprise data scientists expect, but it also offers distinguished automation tools to train models." A finding in the report is that the predictive analytics and machine learning (PAML) market is forecasted to experience a 15 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2021.*

Lawyers are the professionals everyone loves to loathe. Jokes about attorneys abound, and Shakespeare's line from Henry VI remains a cultural favorite: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Soon, that dream may come true, and machines will be the ones to do it. Academically trained attorneys are increasingly being replaced by technology to analyze evidence and assess it for relevance in investigations, lawsuits, compliance efforts, and more. Forty percent of more than 100 in-house attorneys in major American corporations told the industry publication Corporate Counsel, in a survey published on Jan. 23, that they rely on technology assisted review (TAR).

The stunning advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning has brought advances in society. These technologies have improved medicine and how quickly doctors can diagnose disease, for example. IBM's AI platform Watson helps reduce water waste in drought stricken areas. AI even entertains us--the more you use Netflix, the more it learns what your viewing preferences are and makes suggestions based on what you like to watch. However, there is a very dark side to AI, and it's worrying many social scientists and some in the tech industry.

The issue of sustainability has never been more prominent. Around the world, headlines are full of warnings on the dangers of climate change as companies, people and governments campaign for greener policies and practices. One of the sectors most affected by this drive is chemical processing and manufacturing. Every year, more than a thousand new chemical substances are introduced into the U.S. For each one, the potential applications need to be weighed against myriad potential health and environmental impacts across a broad range of metrics, such as energy consumption, toxicity or biodegradability across product lifecycles. If chemical processors and manufacturers are able to shift toward more sustainable practices – e.g., processes that are more energy efficient, require lower input volumes and are more environmentally and biologically-friendly – the benefits for both the industry and the environment would be significant.

Embattled Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is the "heart and soul" of the ride-hailing giant and should not step down, Uber board member and Thrive Capital founder Arianna Huffington said Monday. "You cannot judge people by their worst moments, (Kalanick) is changing, he's evolving," she told CNN, adding that "we would not be where we are without Travis," a reference to how the company took on taxi associations and city lawmakers to push its disruptive tech. Huffington also is involved in an ongoing investigation into accusations by former engineer Susan Fowler that Uber's environment is a toxic workplace for women. Former U.S. attorney general and Uber advisor Eric Holder is leading that investigation, which should conclude by the end of April, Huffington said. Beyond the internal probe into the company's frat-like culture, Uber also is contending with a lawsuit from Google-owned Waymo over alleged theft of proprietary self-driving car sensor technology.

Advancements in AI, Big Data, the Internet of Things and automation have many industries worried that these systems will push them out, absorb their work, make humans redundant, or accelerate the speed of business too fast for them to adapt. From formal models of legal reasoning to automated information extraction from legal databases and texts, the interaction of artificial intelligence and law will disrupt the contemporary status of legal practice. With the latest'wonder automation' in the form of JP Morgan's COIN, building upon the adoption of AI systems by firms such as Clifford Chance, and development projects like Denton's NextLaw Labs leading the way, are lawyers set to be replaced? AI will spell the end of lawyers. However, the age of automation and digitisation gives birth to an even more beautiful legal specialist: the cyber-lawyer – an augmented specialist, combining the processing power of AI with powerful searches of legal indexes in mere seconds through Big Data, produced through a human interface.

This story appeared in the March 20, 2017 issue of Level Up by Forbes newsletter. The TSA has spent $1 billion training airport personnel to detect terrorist-like body language, the New York Times reports, and the U.S. legal system looks for displays of remorse when deliberating on first-degree-murder trials. However, such readings of human nature are predicated on outdated neuroscience, new research concludes. Lisa Feldman Barrett, a Northeastern University professor of psychology, is at the forefront of the "constructed emotion" theory. For example: Fear does not have a specific operating location in the brain, nor does it create a universal response, like widening your eyes.

Your consumers spend a lot of time exploring and analyzing suitable information―which books to study, which news articles to read, which songs to play, which movies to watch, which games to play, and so on. Imagine, what their experience would be like, if they don't need to pick anything on their own, but are presented with options of their liking―be it in education or media or entertainment. Here are some of the things they can be offered: • Adaptive text-books, in which content changes based on the pace of learning and comfort level of the reader. Such advancements reduce the overall time spent on information discovery, and increase the scope of effective information consumption (or learning). Domains such as education, publishing, entertainment, and advertisement mostly deal with granular digital assets (text, images, audio, video, multi-media, and so on), and are better prepared to enhance personalization even without creating new content from scratch.

A group of schoolchildren who won a robotics competition were subjected to a barrage of racist abuse from some rival pupils and their parents who shouted: "Go back to Mexico". It was the first time that pupils from Pleasant Run Elementary School had entered the robotics challenge. Their victory over the youngsters from other Indianapolis schools, put them a step closer to the state championship. Yet as the children, aged nine and ten, left the event and walked out to the parking area, some of the children they had just beaten, along with their parents, unleashed racist comments. Kids on winning robotics team told, 'Go back to Mexico' https://t.co/iGmm9yOQsF

There are three categories of intelligence in the legal vertical--intellectual, emotional, and artificial. Many lawyers have elevated IQ's, though relatively few seem to possess high EQ's-- commonly called'people skills'. Only the best lawyers--trusted advisers-- have both. Artificial intelligence (AI), a recent entrant in the legal vertical, scores high on IQ, but the jury is still out on whether machines can develop comparable EQ. What kind of intelligence is required for legal delivery?