Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "Westworld." The second episode of "Westworld" made a significant leap when it came to explaining "glitches" in the robotic hosts' programming. One of the programming employees, Elsie, expressed concern to Bernard about Peter Abernathy (the host who went "crazy" in the premiere). Peter Abernathy began reciting threatening lines from his old narratives. "Let me at least pull the hosts who had contact with him," Elsie asks Bernard.

Super human artificial intelligence is coming, says Sam Harris, a Stanford grad with his PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. He has five New York Times bestsellers under his belt. "It's very difficult to see how they won't destroy us or inspire us to destroy ourselves," he says. How should we be preparing? Sam says our current emotional response--that it's cool--is woefully lacking.

It's hard to let go of loved ones, especially when they pass away suddenly. But thanks to rapidly evolving artificial intelligence, you soon may not have to let go. Case in point, Eugenia Kuyda, the co-founder and CEO of a Russian artificial intelligence startup called Luka Inc, who recently brought her best friend back to life as an AI chatbot. Kuyda lost her best friend, fellow tech entrepreneur Roman Mazurenko, in November 2015, but just three months after his tragic car accident, she sent the first text message to his AI personality, Roman. With no grave to visit, because he had been cremated, the young programmer, decided to use every digital memory of him, including photos, news articles and thousands of SMS text messages he had sent to her over the years, and feed them into a neural network to create an AI chatbot that many of those who knew Roman say sounds just like him.

Full Artificial Intelligence does not exist. Also called Super AI or Strong Artificial Intelligence, it refers to the possibility of creating an artificial consciousness. Artificial Intelligence per se, does exist and has great potential to assist and complement the human being in Vision, Speech and Machine Learning. AI is just coming out of laboratories, is involving in business and in a still very shy way, in homes. AI can help in Medicine, Finance and other areas, but it is important to monitor their use.

Omar Abdelwahed, Head of Studio at SoftBank Robotics America, demos the capabilities of a humanoid robot, called Pepper, which is supposed to help customers shop in stores. "We designed Pepper to create empathy," says Steve Carlin, SoftBank Robotics America vice president in charge of sales and development. Steve Carlin, VP of Marketing and Business Development at SoftBank, discusses Pepper's new ability to help consumers shop at stores. "We've given Pepper a number of cues that will help people understand what it's doing," says SoftBank's Omar Abdelwahed, head of the company's robotics studio.

Maintaining the highest level of user safety will be non-negotiable when it comes to the deployment of autonomous vehicles whether they are used for personal or mass transport, or logistics in industrial environments. However, for reasons of sheer volume, it will be road vehicles where the biggest changes will be felt. Vehicle efficiency and road safety will be improved and congestion will come down and the technology and legislation is in development to make it a reality. It is generally agreed that the transition to autonomous driving will be gradual. In the US, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has defined five levels of automation, from 0 to 4, which it refers to as the automation continuum.

Pindrop's software will be integrated into Lloyd's customer service offices. Representatives will see a traffic light system that will alert them if the call is fraudulent. From there, they can pass the call onto fraud specialists. "Every time we mark a phone call as fraudulent, we tell the system it did well and the machine learns. When we get it wrong, Lloyds lets us know, the machine learning system is constantly learning," Vijay Balasubramaniyan, chief executive of Pindrop, told CNBC by phone.

In Australia last week, the banking industry was focussed on a parliamentary inquiry into the industry's culture and response to a range of issues from customer complaints to pricing to market behaviour. Meanwhile, in the United States, technology services giant IBM bought Promontory Financial Group, a specialist risk-management consultancy. Promontory had been mentioned back in Australia, not because of IBM, but because it has been overseeing the remediation program Commonwealth Bank of Australia is running to compensate customers given inappropriate financial advice. Founded by a former US regulator, Promontory is recognised as one of the world's leading firms in regulatory compliance, risk management and risk culture. While Promontory has a significant role in Australia and globally (particularly with the ongoing fallout from the financial crisis and the cultural challenges facing banks) the IBM deal is potentially vastly more significant.

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has agreed to acquire Viv Labs, "the intelligent interface to everything." Viv has developed an open artificial intelligence (AI) platform that gives third-party developers the power to use and build conversational assistants and integrate a natural language-based interface into applications and services. It claims to be well advanced over other language interfaces like Siri or Google Now where accuracy cannot be relied on. Viv's creator, Dag Kittlaus should know as he co-created Siri too. He said, "Viv would breathe life into the inanimate objects of our life through conversation."

Robotics and AI have "huge potential" to reshape the way people work and live, but the government needs to do more to address the issues raised by such technology, says a report. MPs on the Science and Technology Committee have called for careful scrutiny of the probable ethical, legal and societal impact. They want the government to establish a commission to look at the issues. That will include new skills for humans as artificial intelligence takes jobs. Others, such as Tesla boss Elon Musk, have gone further - declaring AI to be the biggest threat to the survival of the human race.