This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein - first printed on 1 January 1818. Shelley came up with the idea at the age of 18 after being challenged by romantic poet Lord Byron, while in Switzerland, to construct a ghost story. The results were to have a monumental impact. This was the kernel from which the story of Frankenstein would emerge. The novel - originally published without Shelley's name - received mixed reviews, but came into prominence after being picked up and re-versioned by theatre companies a few years later.

No doubt each of us has come in contact with Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- whether it is by shopping online and seeing'suggested for you' products, or ads popping up in your Facebook feed, or at the bank when we are making a check deposit at the ATM.

Through the use of artificial intelligence, we will let billions of people have a go at experiencing the joy of flying," said Mr Xiong, 28, who is also EHang's chief marketing officer.

The programmers didn't program what a cancer is or isn't. The programmers showed the computer images that were labeled as "cancer" or "not cancer," the computer was left to its own to teach itself the characteristics of each. This teaching is a narrow form of artificial intelligence.

Paul Lee, from Deloitte, said a number of "invisible innovations", such as 5G connections, facial recognition and improved artificial intelligence, would drive sales.

The robot accomplishes this feat by using a 3D camera rig and artificial intelligence to map out the locations of tomatoes growing on a vine, determine which tomatoes are ripe enough to pick based on their shape and color, and execute complex movements to pick and capture each one.

But because neural networkss need lots of training data to function properly, they're ineffective against sophisticated one-of-a-kind attackers like governments and intelligence agencies.

We're going to begin to integrate big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning into the provision and production of our goods and services. How we treat our ownership of structured and unstructured data.

Some say people are born leaders. Some say they're groomed to be leaders. Now, artificial intelligence is helping to coach managers into leaders, by teaching them soft skills like clear communication, teamwork, and problem solving. According to the Harvard Business Review, most companies wait 10 years to train managers. If you combine this with the fact that a top reason people leave jobs is due to poor managers, it's clear why building positive soft skills within managers is so important.

It began as all well-meaning ideas do -- as an effort to make life a little bit easier. This year I began building my own stock-picking artificial intelligence (AI) program. I created it to help me invest my savings and gave it a name: AlphaBean. But as AlphaBean became smarter and smarter, I eventually began to wonder: Could it replace me? My job involves studying companies and writing about them for the wider public. If AlphaBean could learn to invest, might it, or something like it, steal my job? Of course, I'm not the first person to create an investing algorithm. Algorithmic thinking about investing has existed for a long time -- much longer, in fact, than people normally think.