LOS ANGELES – Modern movie culture would have you believe artificial intelligence is out to kill us all. In "2001: A Space Odyssey," Hal, the AI computer aboard a space flight to Jupiter, develops a mind of its own and turns against the crew. "The Terminator" makes his mission clear in the movie's title. Ava, the pretty-faced android in "Ex Machina," has a killer instinct. David, the pretty-faced android in "Prometheus," also doesn't have the best intentions for human survival.

Robotics is a domain in artificial intelligence that deals with the study of creating intelligent and efficient robots. Robots are the artificial agents acting in real world environment. Robots are aimed at manipulating the objects by perceiving, picking, moving, modifying the physical properties of object, destroying it, or to have an effect thereby freeing manpower from doing repetitive functions without getting bored, distracted, or exhausted. Robotics is a branch of AI, which is composed of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science for designing, construction, and application of robots. The robots have mechanical construction, form, or shape designed to accomplish a particular task.

But deciding to build an app in the first place was driven by a broader purpose. As one doctor put it, "If you want to do world-class sociology research, build Facebook."

In other words, he hopes the new chip and the new service will set Google's cloud business apart from services offered by its main rivals, including Amazon and Microsoft, the unnamed competitive threat underlying his I/O keynote. Between its two AI labs--Google Brain, based at company headquarters in Silicon Valley, and DeepMind, a London AI startup Google purchased a little more than three years ago--Google is leading the new wave of artificial intelligence research and development so rapidly changing entire industries and economies. But the company believes cloud computing--where computing power is rented over the internet to businesses and software developers--could one day bring in far more. Google built its new chip as a better way of serving its own AI services, most notably Google Translate, says Jeff Dean, the uber-engineer who oversees Google Brain, the company's main AI lab.

Humanoid robots and advances in information technology are increasingly being used by nursing homes in a bid to give elderly people a better quality of life. In one example, a nursing home in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, has enlisted the help of the Telenoid robot via which people can communicate remotely with an elderly person using a microphone and camera. "Grandma, what color flowers do you like?" the Telenoid robot asked a resident in her 80s at the Urayasu elderly nursing home last month. "Pink cherry blossoms," the woman responded with a smile. Telenoid, which weighs 2.7 kg and is 50 cm tall, was developed by Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and his associates.

Touchkin is a platform that uses AI and machine learning to provide personalised care solutions. For Jo Aggarwal and Ramakant Vempati, one of the biggest concerns they had while working abroad was the health of their family living back in India. The husband and wife duo were working in high-flying corporate jobs with organsations like Pearson Learning Solutions and Goldman Sachs International in the UK. Living away from family, the couple realised that remote care giving was a huge global challenge, not just in India, but abroad as well, especially when it came to understanding the emotional and mental well-being of the families living in their home countries. So, in 2012, the two of them moved back to India to take care of their family.

With the CAO change-of-mind facility, there's still time to switch degree for a career in machine learning. Machine learning is similar to data analysis, but they're not quite the same thing. While a data analyst has to produce insights and be able to tell a story with the data they have, a machine learning engineer's output is largely software-based, which means their data has to be understood by machines instead of people. For this reason, software engineering knowledge is critical to a machine learning engineer. There are specific software engineering courses in various institutions including: University College Dublin (UCD), Maynooth University, NUI Galway, Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) and Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).

With Google for Jobs, Google is trying to make it easier for everyone to find a job that is right for them. Google wants to make your next job search a lot less painful. That is one of the initiatives the company addressed during the keynote presentation of this year's Google I/O conference in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday. It is called Google for Jobs and it embeds powerful and intuitive job search tools right in Google Search for faster, more relevant results. A quick search for "retail jobs" brought up a list of nearby positions, which could then be filtered by category, title, date posted, and even commute times.

In recent years, a host of Hollywood blockbusters -- including "The Fast and the Furious 7," "Jurassic World," and "The Wolf of Wall Street" -- have included aerial tracking shots provided by drone helicopters outfitted with cameras. Those shots required separate operators for the drones and the cameras, and careful planning to avoid collisions. But a team of researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and ETH Zurich hope to make drone cinematography more accessible, simple, and reliable. At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation later this month, the researchers will present a system that allows a director to specify a shot's framing -- which figures or faces appear where, at what distance. Then, on the fly, it generates control signals for a camera-equipped autonomous drone, which preserve that framing as the actors move.

When people work together on a project, they often come to think they've figured out the problems in their own respective spheres. If trouble persists, it's somebody else--engineering, say, or the marketing department--who is screwing up. That "local focus" means finding the best way forward for the overall project is often a struggle. But what if adding artificial intelligence to the conversation, in the form of a computer program called a bot, could actually make people in groups more productive? This is the tantalizing implication of a study published Wednesday in Nature.