'Every TV station in the country wants one, but they can't be limited to flying in the middle of nowhere because there's no news in the middle of nowhere,' said Jim Williams, a former head of the FAA's drone office who now advises the industry for Dentons, an international law firm. Mobile network providers also want to loosen restrictions so drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, can inspect mobile phone masts, which often are in urban areas. Amazon's vision for package deliveries entails drones winging their way over city and suburban neighborhoods. The AP obtained a copy of the recommendations, which were sent to the FAA late Friday. The agency is not bound by the recommendations and can make changes when it writes the final rules.

A government-sponsored committee is recommending standards that could clear the way for commercial drone flights over populated areas and help speed the introduction of package delivery drones and other uses not yet possible, The Associated Press has learned. The Federal Aviation Administration currently prohibits most commercial drone flights over populated areas, especially crowds. That ban frustrates a host of industries that want to take advantage of the technology. "Every TV station in the country wants one, but they can't be limited to flying in the middle of nowhere because there's no news in the middle of nowhere," said Jim Williams, a former head of FAA's drone office who now advises the industry for Dentons, an international law firm. Cellular network providers also want to loosen restrictions so drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, can inspect cell towers, which often are in urban areas.

One consistent, fearful theme was the potential for job losses. As automation continues to replace manufacturing or blue collar jobs, artificial intelligence will subsequently do the same for skilled, white collar jobs in banking, law or medicine. Estimates as to the impac this will have on jobs vary, but many prognostications in Davos suggested a depressive impact on the global economy. While it's true that technological leaps have often eliminated older, human-powered methods of doing things, many in Davos also recognized that advances in technology create new jobs, most of which we can't even dream of today. For example, the invention of the airplane created hundreds of thousands of jobs, from pilots, to stewards, to airport personnel, to international agents and more prognostications not to mention the transformative economic impact of billions of people travelling vast distances in a short span of time.

WASHINGTON – A government-sponsored committee is recommending standards that could clear the way for commercial drone flights over populated areas and help speed the introduction of package delivery drones and other uses not yet possible, The Associated Press has learned. The Federal Aviation Administration currently prohibits most commercial drone flights over populated areas, especially crowds. That ban frustrates a host of industries that want to take advantage of the technology. "Every TV station in the country wants one, but they can't be limited to flying in the middle of nowhere because there's no news in the middle of nowhere," said Jim Williams, a former head of the FAA's drone office who now advises the industry for Dentons, an international law firm. Cellular network providers also want to loosen restrictions so drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, can inspect cell towers, which often are in urban areas.

The bot, which was primarily targeted at 18- to 24-year-olds, was designed to "engage and entertain people" through "casual and playful conversation." But, after a short period of interacting with Twitter users, Tay began to spit out some of the most obscene statements known to man. Tay's bio, which coins her as "Microsoft's AI fan from the Internet that's got zero chill," is remarkably accurate. From praising Hitler and disputing the existence of the holocaust, to advocating genocide and calling Black people the'N word,' Tay was completely out of control. And, although Microsoft has deleted most of her most inappropriate statements, many of us are left to wonder how this sort of thing could happen in the first place.

Workers set up a commercial drone display at the AEE Technology booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center for the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 5, 2016. WASHINGTON -- A government-sponsored committee is recommending standards that could clear the way for commercial drone flights over populated areas and help speed the introduction of package delivery drones and other uses not yet possible, The Associated Press has learned. The Federal Aviation Administration currently prohibits most commercial drone flights over populated areas, especially crowds. That ban frustrates a host of industries that want to take advantage of the technology. "Every TV station in the country wants one, but they can't be limited to flying in the middle of nowhere because there's no news in the middle of nowhere," said Jim Williams, a former head of FAA's drone office who now advises the industry for Dentons, an international law firm.

Legal is one of the industries faced with a huge potential impact through the advent of AI. AIBusiness.org met with Counselytics Founder Jason Gabbard in New York City, one of the most exciting start-ups in this space. Counselytics client Gavin Solotar, Partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz stated that'Counselytics is the first truly significant innovation I've seen in the legal field since word processing'. We call ourselves a cognitive augmentation company rather than an artificial intelligence company. The notion with cognitive augmentation is that while we may not have true thinking machines (ie, true AI), we do have really powerful and sophisticated technologies that people can utilize to perform their jobs more intelligently and more efficiently.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact and applications in the legal profession is examined in a new white paper, entitled Artificial Intelligence in Law The State of Play 2016, by Michael Mills, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Neota Logic, a provider of intelligent software. In the paper, published by Thomson Reuters' Legal Executive Institute, Mills analyzes AI -- what the author calls a "big forest of academic and commercial work around'the science and engineering of making intelligent machines'" -- and how AI is being implemented in legal areas such as ediscovery, legal research, compliance, contract analysis, case prediction and document automation. Lawyers do not need robots or machine vision, but other branches of AI are indeed useful. Practical use of cognitive technologies in legal services is by no means new, nor did it begin when IBM's general counsel predicted that Watson could pass the bar exam by 2016. Artificial intelligence is hard at work in the law -- for example, in legal research, ediscovery, compliance, contract analysis, case prediction and document automation -- though often there is no "AI Inside" label on the box.

Smart robots seem to be everywhere. Whether they're performing surgery, trouncing Go champions or generating dreamy artwork, computers programmed to learn on their own are growing more intelligent by the day. Southwestern Law School professor Ryan Abbott believes that computers are even generating patentable subject matter. We just don't know about it, he says, because disclosing it on an application might render the invention unpatentable. "Now that very large companies like IBM, Pfizer and Google are investing heavily in creative computing, it's going to play a much greater role in innovation in the future," he says.

Rocket Lawyer UK head Mark Edwards says legal professionals have nothing to fear from technological developments in the legal services sector. Mr Edwards challenges the commonly held view that as a growing number of legal functions become automated or performed by'smart' machines, there will be an inevitable downturn in lawyer headcount. On the contrary, he believes that modernising the legal industry is key to ensuring the sustainability, and even growth, of jobs in the sector. 'As the profession modernises, the amount of legal services will increase. We're going to end up with more lawyers, in my view,' he said.