A new astronaut will join the roster to help facilitate man's first trip to Mars. Nasa is recruiting teams to develop and display the ability of a Robonaut 5 (R5) robot with a series of tasks that could save astronauts' lives in space. Called Space Robotics Challenge, the million dollar contest will create an AI robot to act as an astronaut's assistant. Nasa has launched a competition encouraging teams to develop and display the ability of a Robonaut 5 robot (pictured) with a series of tasks in a virtual environment. Each team's R5 will be will be challenged with resolving the aftermath of a dust storm that has damaged a Martian habitat.

Inviting software and artificial intelligence into the booking process allows travelers to spend less time booking and more time enjoying their trip. Automated travel systems with customizable profiles will provide tailored itinerary suggestions based on your preferences. And, thanks to our obsessive use of mobile devices and technology for almost everything, especially in the travel industry in which customers demand rich mobile experiences, we're providing test data continuously. His accomplishments span the Internet of Things (IoT), highly distributed system development, multi-tiered web development, real-time development, and transactional software development.

As artificial intelligence continues to be the toast of the town in the tech world, it is difficult to not think about the repercussions of our creations. The reality is artificial intelligence is reaching the point where it is becoming very possible to steal jobs from humans. Thankfully, the jobs artificial intelligence is stealing is leading to the freeing up of more important tasks for humans. For many, the thought of the Terminator films coming to life is horrific. This is made evident in the latest episode of HBO's Silicon Valley.

Ford announced a due date for its self-driving future. Stepping on the gas could soon be a thing of the past -- as well as hitting the brakes, or getting behind the wheel altogether. Ford has announced its plan to develop fully autonomous cars by 2021. The company sees fully autonomous cars as having "as big of an impact on society" as its moving assembly lines did a century ago, Ford President and CEO Mark Fields said in a press conference yesterday. "A driver is not going to be required."

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI just received a package that took 2 billion to develop: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just delivered the first DGX-1 supercomputer to the non-profit organization, which is dedicated to "advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." The "AI supercomputer in a box" is packed with 170 teraflops of computing power--that's equivalent to 250 conventional servers. NVIDIA says it's a very fitting match: "The world's leading non-profit artificial intelligence research team needs the world's fastest AI system." "I thought it was incredibly appropriate that the world's first supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence would go to the laboratory that was dedicated to open artificial intelligence," Huang added. The supercomputer will tackle the most difficult challenges facing the artificial intelligence industy…by reading through Reddit forums.

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When most people think of artificial intelligence, thoughts of robots, self-intelligent computers and science-fiction films come to mind. What many people don't realize is that artificial intelligence is already being used in industries today. There is a great untapped potential in utilizing artificial intelligence and HR together. Proactive HR leaders can leverage this potential to plan for the future and increase the overall productivity of the organization. Artificial intelligence software has the capacity to remove most bias and deliver economic competencies, particularly when replacing transactional mundane tasks and process-based work.

Consider this scenario: You switch on your TV at 8pm every day, look through the channels and select BBC. This is a daily routine. Now, imagine a different scenario, where your TV understands you, and goes to BBC at 8pm every day. Going a step further, BMW has unveiled the MINI Vision Next 100, a prototype of a car we can expect to be driving a few years from now. This car takes artificial intelligence to the next level -- by learning its driver's schedules and preferences.

What could possibly go wrong? Elon Musk's AI set to try and learn the art of human conversation ...

Intel Corp. signaled it wants a bigger role in artificial intelligence, revealing plans to modify a line of chips to target a fast-growing market turning into a battleground for technology suppliers. The company INTC, -0.54% told technology developers Wednesday that it plans next year to deliver a new version of the Xeon Phi processor--a product line previously targeted at scientific applications--with added features designed to accelerate tasks associated with what Silicon Valley calls artificial intelligence. Intel said the technology will help accelerate a technique called deep learning, increasingly used for tasks such as interpreting speech, identifying objects in photos and piloting autonomous vehicles. Intel says Xeon Phi can run most analytic software without tapping external processors that can slow analytical tasks, something it bills as a key advantage over other approaches. Executives added that it can also make use of more memory than GPU-based approaches.