Dispelling some of the myths about artificial intelligence and the impact it may have on companies will be the focus of keynote speaker Josh Comrie at the PwC Herald Talks: Business & Bots event this week. Comrie, chief executive and co-founder of chatbot developer Ambi, has about 20 years of experience in technology, taking relatively complex constructs and simplifying and articulating them for other people. Comrie will take what he calls one of the most exciting but also misunderstood evolutions of technology and present it so that people can understand the opportunities, ramifications and some of the pitfalls. "I think the misunderstanding stems from a variety of different information sources and that misinformation has led people to then have concerns and fears. It's the uncertainty that tends to give people fear," Comrie said.

Will the robots of the future be so sophisticated they get depressed? It's an idea Douglas Adams explored in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with Marvin the Paranoid Android -- and now a funny original film from TED imagines if they needed therapy. Created by Mother London, the film, which premiered last week at TED's conference in Vancouver, stars well-known U.K. comedy actors Rebecca Front, as a therapist, and Hugh Skinner as a depressed AI bot called Archie. Front's character explains that robots have evolved from doing menial tasks to taking on human bodies and doing amazing stuff ("They cured cancer. They re-froze the Arctic") but now the third generation have grown up privileged and miserable, "gravitating to fields such as art and DJing."

When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn't particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own work using image and video analytics, I suggest the company should be careful. Despite some basic potential flaws, AI can be a useful tool for spotting online propaganda – but it can also be startlingly good at creating misleading material. Researchers already know that online fake news spreads much more quickly and more widely than real news. My research has similarly found that online posts with fake medical information get more views, comments and likes than those with accurate medical content.

The popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has grown exponentially in recent years. According to Gartner, a research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500, Artificial Intelligence will be one of the top five investment priorities for more than 30 percent of Chief Information Officers by 2020, as they find more ways to include it in their digital business strategies. Gartner also predicts that AI technology will be pervasive in almost every new software product and service by 2020. Even now, from marketing, to retail, to software development and product design, Artificial Intelligence has become increasingly useful for improving products and services which ultimately improves customer experience. So, in what ways exactly does artificial intelligence improve customer experience?

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The issue was thrust into the national spotlight last month when Buzzfeed partnered with the filmmaker Jordan Peele to create a video of former President Barack Obama appearing to deliver a public service announcement about the potential impact of manipulated media. Instead it was Peele's impersonation of Obama, synced well enough with the former president's lips to keep viewers open to the possibility it could be authentic until the message itself became a clear parody. A casual observer could be forgiven at first for mistaking the video for a genuine presidential message, especially if watching on a mobile device. A closer look is less impressive, but it may not be long before the signs of tampering become nearly impossible to pick up with the untrained eye. Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at Dartmouth College, said there has been a "startling improvement" over the past year in technology creating "deep fakes," the artificial intelligence that allows users to swap people's faces with relative ease.

"Digitalization" has been on everybody's lips for many years now. It has become a bit worn out term, but we're only at the foot of the mountain when it comes to reaching the full potential of digitalization. What does it take to become digitally mature? One by one, big established enterprises fall due to "digital disruption". The textbook example is the fall of Kodak; the world's biggest brand at the time that held back from developing digital cameras trying to avoid interfering with their all-important film business.

This has further foisted pressure on the traditional retailers to reimagine the strategies for creating and capturing value in order to explore the optimal usage of their assets. Public policy liberalization is also one of the key factors supporting the flow of knowledge, information and resources, further generating pressure on the brick n' mortar retailers to tackle with the lowered entry barriers to the online retailers in the market. Key trend which will predominantly effect the market in coming year is rising adoption of multi-channel or omni channel retailing. In forthcoming years, the retail industry is anticipated to witness higher growth in the trend of Omni channel retailing. Artificial intelligence will be having a key role as this technology would be bridging the gap between online and offline retailing in coming future.

On his Comedy Central show Key & Peele, Jordan Peele often played a spot-on version of former President Barack Obama, but on April 17 he released an even more dead-on impression: a video in which the Get Out director used face-swapping technology to play the former president and shine a light on how artificial intelligence is making fake news even harder to parse out from the real kind. Peele made his "ObamaPeele" video using FakeApp, a free online application that allows users to swap faces in a video with a face from another video. These so-called "Deepfakes" have, in the past few months, been used to graft stars' faces onto pornographic media and have subsequently been banned from online platforms including Reddit, Twitter and Pornhub, officially. But in Hollywood, the technology behind these viral GIFs and videos, which uses AI to swap one person's face for another, isn't going away anytime soon. For major digital effects studios, such as Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), an AI that can successfully and convincingly map a famous actor's likeness onto another performer's would save time and production costs.

Research suggests some ways artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and blockchain are reshaping creative work. New technologies are reshaping the way we live and work, and their effects naturally touch the creative economy--art, journalism, music, and more. As artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, virtual reality (VR), and blockchain continue to emerge as powerful forces, could they be used to greater benefit? Our paper, Creative Disruption: The impact of emerging technologies on the creative economy, presents the findings of a joint project, conducted by McKinsey & Company and the World Economic Forum, which studied the impact of these technologies on the creative economy. The project team conducted more than 50 interviews with experts from Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as three workshops in China and the United States with World Economic Forum constituents.