When most of us think of artificial intelligence in the workplace, we imagine automated assembly lines of robots managed by an algorithm. LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman has a different idea. In an essay for MIT Sloan Management Review, Hoffman describes human applications for the technology. Among other things, it would help to use data science to improve the way we onboard new team members, organize workflow, and communicate about performance. Addressing the question of how technology will change management practices over the next five years, Hoffman explains how the use of a "knowledge graph" will become standard management practice.

In the workplace of the future, "humans may supplement the skills of machines -- and not the other way around," predicts Columbia's Bernd Schmitt. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. Is the convergence between artificial and human intelligence, which once seemed like just a gleam in the eyes of computer scientists and science fiction authors, almost upon us? And if robots become as clever as we are, how will the role of managers change? Bernd Schmitt, the Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School, thinks the convergence is coming, and that managers have to start preparing now.

Google and the U.K.'s government health service have partnered to study whether computers can be trained to spot degenerative eye problems early enough to prevent blindness. Google DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence unit owned by Alphabet, announced a research partnership today with the National Health Service to gain access to a million anonymous eye scans. DeepMind will use the data to train its computers to identify eye defects. The aim is to give doctors a digital tool that can read an eye-scan test and recognize problems faster. Earlier detection of eye disorders related to diabetes and age-related macular degeneration could allow doctors to prevent loss of vision in many people, according to a statement by DeepMind Tuesday announcing the project with the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

George Burgess, the founder of Gojimo, a revision app, explores how artificial intelligence can be used within education. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dominated tech news in 2016, from Google's ground breaking AlphaGo to Microsoft's racist Tay and Amazon's Echo. This has led to a heated debate on what it means for the human race, from socioeconomic concerns about loss of jobs in the fourth industrial revolution to moral, philosophical and even religious questions about our understanding of human consciousness. Rather than stray into these murky waters, I think it is best to concentrate on the sectors where AI can make a quantifiable and significant difference without threatening livelihoods or invoking metaphysics. One such area is education.

Take one major trend spanning the business and technology worlds, add countless vendors and consultants hoping to cash in, and what do you get? In the world of big data, the surrounding hype has spawned a brand-new lingo. Read on for a glossary of sorts highlighting some of the main data types you should understand. The shining star in this constellation of terms is "fast data," which is popping up with increasing frequency. It refers to "data whose utility is going to decline over time," said Tony Baer, a principal analyst at Ovum who says he coined the term back in 2012.

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So NVIDIA engineer Robert Bond is using deep learning -- and our Jetson TX1 development platform -- to recognize cats and turn on his home's sprinkler system to gently shoo the visitors away. "My wife is a gardener and she likes her garden to be tidy and clean," says Bond, 65, a system software engineer who has been at NVIDIA for more than eight years. Bond quickly dismissed the idea of trapping the cats -- which just seemed "unneighborly" -- and decided to go with a more technical solution. Bond is no stranger to deep learning or Jetson. Last year, he build a system that shines a harmless 5 milliwatt laser beam on the ants that occasionally scuttle across his kitchen floor (see "How One NVIDIA Built a Jetson-Powered Laser'Ant Annoyer'").

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Scientists have taught a robot how to hunt and destroy prey in a chilling new experiment. The test comes as experts warm AI could wipe out a tenth of the global population in five years. The ability to identify and zone in on a specific target will be crucial for any useful robotic technology like driverless cars, the researchers at the University of Zurich in Switzerland believe. And despite the chilling prospect of allowing a robot to mark up a target, they believe their research will prove more useful than deadly. Scientists have taught a robot how to hunt and destroy prey in a chilling new experiment.