The Collison brothers' 5bn payments powerhouse Stripe is making its move into machine learning in a bid to wipe out card fraud, which is expected to total 183bn by 2020. Credit and debit card fraud has only accelerated as the internet has grown. Employing machine-learning tools, Stripe's new Radar technology is powered by the company's own behaviour network. This is a machine-learning system that learns from and adapts its defences based on transactions across hundreds of thousands of businesses, using the Stripe's technology globally. 'With Stripe Radar, businesses essentially have caller ID for incoming charges' – JOHN COLLISON According to Stripe, this is the first and only machine-learning-based fraud tool that requires no set-up and works for every user from the moment of their first transaction.

A London-based startup has combined some of today's most disruptive technologies in a bid to change the way we'll build the future. By retrofitting industrial robots with 3D printing guns and artificial intelligence algorithms, Ai Build has constructed machines that can see, create, and even learn from their mistakes. When CEO and founder Daghan Cam was studying architecture, he noticed a disconnect between small-scale manufacturing and large-scale construction. "On one side we have a fully automated production pipeline," Cam explained at a recent conference in London. With the emergence of more efficient printing technologies, he thought there must be a better way.

AI is a fascinating, complex and occasionally scary technology, with the power to change the world. Dr Nicola Millard gives her thoughts on its evolution. Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? This is the question that is being debated around the planet at the moment. Talk is rife of mass unemployment, existential threats and whether this technology is safe (especially in the context of self-driving cars and drones).

When you think of Artificial Intelligence, you can't help but think of another fantasy land where Ex Machina and The Matrix are taking over the world. Your mind travels to another world, a future that is so far away. In reality, the term "Artificial Intelligence" comprises a vast and diverse ecosystem of technologies that represent very powerful opportunities for your business competitiveness! Experts and professionals all agree: Artificial Intelligence is here to stay and will transform every field in a company, and every industry will be profoundly affected. Artificial Intelligence, which had its fair share of setbacks, is now ready to change the world, thanks to the combination of extraordinary technological advances, the rise of Big Data and the new opportunities created by the Internet of Things.

Nuance Communications Inc. announced that the Dragon Drive connected car framework will now have contextual reasoning which will allow AI to deliver contextualized and personalized recommendations for navigation, dining, gas stations, points of interest (POI) and other domains. The service can be integrated across a variety of Dragon Drive's Domain applications designed specifically for the in-car experience, and is entirely accessible through a conversational user interface or haptic feedback where appropriate. The Contextual Reasoning Framework leverages Nuance's advancements in Artificial Intelligence to exploit domain knowledge in a context-sensitive manner to provide a more intelligent experience behind the wheel. A core element of Nuance's Automotive Assistant offering, the new Contextual Reasoning Framework can proactively provide information and make recommendations by performing reasoning on a large repository of knowledge, in combination with a driver's preferences, location and situational context, and the data from the car's sensors. Each entry of the knowledge repository can range over general, spatial and temporal knowledge, domain-specific knowledge about parking, fuel stations, and information specific to certain geographic markets and vehicle characteristics.

From all the fields that Artificial Intelligence will disrupt in coming years, HealthCare may see the highest paradigm shift. Artificial Intelligence's influence in HealthCare industry will be wide and immense. Image recognition algorithms already help detect diseases at an astounding rate. This shift should be welcome. Artificial Intelligence at first glance, will bring remarkable well-being to humans.

PicScout, a wholly owned subsidiary of Getty Images, has today announced a new strategic direction and expanded product offering focused on visual insights. Using innovative methods of artificial intelligence and machine learning Insights for Business and Insights for Everyone provide detailed intelligence taken from visual content for customers ranging from consumers through developers, to businesses of all sizes. Drawing on years of experience in intelligent data gathering and image analysis, PicScout has released this expanded product line as part of a new strategic direction focused on visual analytics. Acquired by Getty Images in 2011, PicScout originally focused on identifying image use, metadata and licensing information on the web. "Driven by the increasing use of smartphones, people today are more visually literate than ever. In our image-saturated world, the demand for authentic quality imagery that tells a story and cuts through the clutter is greater than ever," said Uri Lavi, General Manager PicScout.

Eugenia Kuyda, 29, is the co-founder of Luka, whose main chatbot product mostly recommends restaurants. How did you go from a restaurant recommendation chatbot to, well, this? When I was living in San Francisco working on Luka, I lived with Roman, my best friend. He was killed in an accident, walking across the street. A few months after, I was sitting at home and reading through our text exchanges. And I was like, Goddammit, I opened up so much to him--am I going to be alone?

It's home to Google Assistant, the new conversational assistant that Google plans to bring to many more of its consumer products. The first sign that Allo is a bit smarter than the standard messaging app is through a feature called Smart Replies. Even more impressive, Google has combined this feature with its photo recognition abilities, so the app is able to suggest responses to photos that are shared within your conversation. Things that Google can do "natively" like conversions, simple Google searches and translations will appear directly in your chat while other queries will surface links to Google results.

All Telsa cars'from here on out' will be built with full autonomous capability - including the Model 3, Elon Musk announced tonight. In a press call today, the Tesla CEO said'all of the cars we make are shipping with level five hardware with full self-driving capability.' Musk claims the technology will soon enable'full autonomy all the way from LA to New York,' saying this would be achieved'without the need for a single touch.' According to the firm, Model S and Model X vehicles with the new hardware are'already in production.' Models with the new self-driving capabilities will have eight cameras, rather than the four in the simpler autopilot vehicles. All Teslas being produced, including the Model 3, are now being built with full autonomous capabilities. Model S and Model X vehicles with the new hardware are'already in production.' System will have eight cameras with 360 degree visibility around the car at up to 250 meters of range.