In 2011, in an article in the Wall Street Journal, Marc Andreessen proclaimed that software is eating the world. He argued that a slew of technological innovations including advanced microprocessors and high-speed connectivity will revolutionize traditional business, and that every company should become a software company. Many pundits have subsequently argued that even traditional businesses will need to rethink their business models. Andreessen even went so far as to say that the entire retail vertical will eventually die due to the scalability of companies like Amazon. In short, if you aren't thinking about how you will disrupt your industry you can bet your competitors are already doing so.

Ever since Google announced RankBrain, a machine learning algo, there has been much speculation about what other parts of the search algo Google might use machine learning in. While they have said Penguin is not a machine learning algorithm, there is speculation that other parts of the search algo could incorporate machine learning, especially with comments John Mueller made recently about machine learning being used in a lot of Google's systems. During the breakfast keynote at Pubcon last week with Gary Illyes and Eric Enge, the use of machine learning in the Google algo came up with RankBrain being discussed. Enge then asked "It hasn't taken over the whole algorithm?" I can probably say that it will never take over the whole algorithm, or the core algorithm.

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British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking at the inauguration of Cambridge University's artificial intelligence (AI) centre on Wednesday said that AI will either "transform" society or destroy it. "Success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation...but it could also be the last unless we learn how to avoid the risks," he said.

WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are the most secure chat platforms, according to Amnesty International. But that decision has already met with scepticism from people in the technology community, some of whom have warned that it might not be safe to use the apps at all. Amnesty gave Facebook and WhatsApp a score of 73 out of 100 – its highest – to the two apps, which it didn't distinguish between. But it particularly picked out WhatsApp, which it said was "the only app where users are explicitly warned when end-to-end encryption is not applied to a particular chat". It did have some criticism for Facebook, which doesn't apply strong encryption by default and doesn't warn users that they're not using the most secure technology.

With the vital exception of venture capitalist Peter Thiel, tomorrow-focused Silicon Valley tends to see Donald Trump as the candidate of yesterday. Tech workers are demonstrably less than fans of the Republican presidential nominee. Among the many issues at which they find themselves at odds, the real estate/media maven's approach to automation is anathema to the Valley as autonomous cars speed ever closer. "You have a potential candidate in Trump where his entire rhetoric is, 'We're going to bring back all those old jobs, we're not going to go into the future,'" Aaron Levie, CEO and founder of Box, said this week at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. Levie's right: Trump's promise to "bring back" 5 million factory jobs spirited away overseas has been an vital tenet of his campaign.

Last Thursday, I had the honor to be one of the warmup acts for President Obama at the White House Frontiers Conference at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Here is the prepared text and slides from the talk I delivered there. As you'll see if you watch the video, what I ended up saying isn't exactly what I had written out in advance, but it is reasonably close. Let me know if you like this format for sharing talks.) Hearing that Bob Dylan just won the Nobel Prize for Literature, how could I not begin this talk with his famous line, "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?"

Stephanie Palermo wasn't interested in living in a "smart home" outfitted with web-connected appliances controlled remotely by phone or computer. She didn't need her fridge to have Wi-Fi or her blinds to close themselves. But when Amazon temporarily discounted the price on its voice-controlled Echo speaker to 99 for Amazon Prime members, there was "a low barrier to entry," and the 28-year-old from Belmont, Calif., was willing to take a risk. She started using the cylindrical device as a hands-free speaker. During board game nights, she'd tell Alexa -- the artificial intelligence that powers the Echo -- to play themed music from Pandora.

The energy landscape: what is driving change in renewable energy markets? A record 15.2bn was invested in UK clean energy last year. Energy system transformation: where are we at and where are we going? What are the positive economic effects of emerging technology in energy? Hear experts from leading industry players including BP, British Gas and the Centre for Sustainable Energy as they explain the opportunities of applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to manage energy generation and consumption.

The aim of Sentiment Analysis is to define automatic tools able to extract subjective information from texts in natural language, such as opinions and sentiments, in order to create structured and actionable knowledge to be used by either a decision support system or a decision maker. Sentiment analysis has gained even more value with the advent and growth of social networking. Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks begins with an overview of the latest research trends in the field. It then discusses the sociological and psychological processes underling social network interactions. The book explores both semantic and machine learning models and methods that address context-dependent and dynamic text in online social networks, showing how social network streams pose numerous challenges due to their large-scale, short, noisy, context- dependent and dynamic nature.