New technologies aren't just the latest gadgets for the tech geeks to drool over; these new technologies are transforming our economy. In fact, some people believe that the technologies with transform our world and trigger a 4th industrial revolution because estimates suggest we may lose as many as 7 million traditional jobs worldwide by 2025. The good news is that many of these jobs won't just be usurped by technologies like robotics and artificial intelligence -- the new technologies will also create new jobs and entire new job categories. In other words: no one is immune from these technological developments, including you! The smart ones among us will develop their careers to succeed in this new world.

The Initiative for a Synthesis in Studies of Awareness will organize a two-week Summer School, with plenary lectures in the morning and parallel sessions in the afternoon, in which the lecturers will lead study groups that are aimed at producing original research of publishable quality. The lectures will cover topics in various aspects of neuroscience, experimental as well as computational; theoretical physics; logic and philosophy; and various other fields in cognitive science and the study of complex systems, including artificial intelligence, artificial life, and robotics. We invite graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to participate in the summer school. Organizers will provide lodging for all accepted students and travel support for selected students. Applications will be open until December 25, 2016.

Nick Bostrom: London's DeepMind is winning the global race to develop human-level artificial intelligence (businessinsider.com) This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 75%. Nick Bostrom, one of the leading voices on artificial intelligence, has singled out London research lab DeepMind as the company closest to developing a system that can mimic human-level artificial intelligence - a target widely shared by those at the forefront of the AI industry. When asked who was leading the global AI race, Bostrom immediately responded with DeepMind. "Right now, I think here in London we have the DeepMind group who are, I think, the biggest [group] specifically focused on solving general intelligence," Bostrom told Business Insider at a breakfast meeting aboard the Sunbourn Yacht Hotel in East London on Wednesday.

The Google Pixel phone is finally here, and it's bringing AI with it. The latest pure Android smartphone was announced at a Google event on Tuesday, along with a new Daydream View virtual reality (VR) headset, a new Google Wi-Fi router, and a new Chromecast. Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the event, explaining the transition from PC to web, and now web to mobile. He then spoke about how Google believes the tech world is in the midst of a transition from "mobile-first to AI-first." That AI focus is built around Google Assistant, Google's personal assistant that was unveiled in May.

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Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling computers to understand the world and respond intelligently to it. Google is already embracing these technologies for Android, but they're poised to have bigger implications, touching everything from drones to medical diagnosis. He made his fortune as co-founder of Netscape two decades ago, and more recently his firm has invested in successful companies like Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Slack, and Lyft. Andreessen is in constant contact with entrepreneurs and investors trying to build the next great technology company. Andreessen argues that recent breakthroughs mean artificial intelligence has the potential to spawn a new generation of big, important technology companies. At the same time, he acknowledges that certain industries have proven stubbornly resistant to technological change -- and he argues that more work is needed to bring the power of software to every corner of the economy. We spoke by phone in late September.

Microsoft Corp has created a new artificial intelligence unit, as the company pushes deeper into the fast-growing field. Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence (AI)and machine learning research, an industry estimated to zoom to 70 billion by 2020 from just 8.2 billion in 2013, according to a Bank of America report that cited IDC research. On Wednesday, Microsoft teamed up with four other big technology companies - Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet unit Google, Facebook Inc and IBM - to create a non-profit organization to advance public understanding of AI technologies. The new unit -- Microsoft AI and Research Group -- will be headed by Harry Shum, a company veteran who has held senior roles at the Microsoft Research and Bing engineering divisions.

In the last several years, interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has surged. Venture capital investments in companies developing and commercializing AI-related products and technology have exceeded 2 billion since 2011.1 Technology companies have invested billions more acquiring AI startups. Press coverage of the topic has been breathless, fueled by the huge investments and by pundits asserting that computers are starting to kill jobs, will soon be smarter than people, and could threaten the survival of humankind. Amid all the hype, there is significant commercial activity underway in the area of AI that is affecting or will likely soon affect organizations in every sector. Business leaders should understand what AI really is and where it is heading. The first steps in demystifying AI are defining the term, outlining its history, and describing some of the core technologies underlying it. The field of AI suffers from both too few and too many definitions. Nils Nilsson, one of the founding researchers in the field, has written that AI "may lack an agreed-upon definition. . .