Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, shown here at the company's shareholder meeting in December 2015. Satya Nadella is a believer in the vast promise of artificial intelligence. But the Microsoft CEO says humans and machines need to work together to solve the world's great societal challenges, including issues of diversity and inequality. And responsibility is in the hands of the designers. "Ultimately, it's not going to be about human vs. machine," Nadella wrote in a piece on Slate later reposted to LinkedIn, the professional networking service Microsoft is buying.

But where do you start? Which library do you use? There are just so many! This list is by no means exhaustive, it's simply a list of libraries that I've used in my computer vision career and found particular useful at one time or another. Some of these libraries I use more than others -- specifically, Keras, mxnet, and sklearn-theano.

A graph is a representation of a set of objects where some pairs of objects are connected by links. The interconnected objects are represented by mathematical abstractions called vertices (also called nodes orpoints), and the links that connect some pairs of vertices are called edges (also called arcs or lines). Typically, a graph is depicted in diagrammatic form as a set of dots for the vertices, joined by lines or curves for the edges. Graphs are one of the objects of study in discrete mathematics. The edges may be directed or undirected.

It was at Carnegie Mellon where Dr. Hon began seriously building the foundation for his later work in machine-human interaction. His PhD supervisor, Turing Award winner Raj Reddy, was a former student of John McCarthy, the computer scientist who coined the term'artificial intelligence' in 1956 and is widely known as the father of AI. This connection would have richly benefited Dr. Hon, except that an'AI Winter' was happening from 1986 to 1992 when he was completing his doctorate degree. Recalling the climate of this period, "government agencies, universities and even companies slowed down or stopped funding to the field. It was only until the first decade of the 2000's that AI got so hot," said Dr. Hon. Dr. Hon credits the power of improved hardware and software and Big Data for heating up the AI scene.

In the field of artificial intelligence, the phrase deep learning applies to software that improves its model of reality with experience. Consider, for example, a project developed at Google in 2012, in which a neural network running on 16,000 computer processors, browsing through 10 million YouTube videos, began on its own to identify and seek out one of the most popular YouTube genres: cat videos. The then director of that project, Andrew Ng, went on to become the founding chief scientist at Baidu Research, an innovation center run by the giant Web services company Baidu. The parent company owns the largest search engine in China, along with Chinese-language browsers, online encyclopedias, social networks, and other Web-based services. According to the company, Baidu responds to more than 6 billion search requests from more than 138 countries every day. Because search engines and advertising placement platforms (such as Baidu's Phoenix Nest) depend on artificial intelligence (AI) to satisfy vague or ambiguous requests, the company -- along with Google, Microsoft, and other providers of internet guidance -- has a natural interest in machine learning.

Daniel Schwartzkopff, commercial director and DataProphet co-founder, says the start-up is looking towards the European and North American markets for further expansion. Yellowwoods Capital Holdings, a member of the European-based global investment and private equity focused Yellowwoods Group, has acquired a significant interest in DataProphet, where the local start-up will act as the advanced analytics partner for the group. The group's local investments include Hollard Insurance, Clientele and Nandos, among others. While the actual value of the investment into the start-up remains under wraps, DataProphet commercial director and co-founder, Daniel Schwartzkopff, says the business has hit multimillion-dollar status. "As a private fund, our investor partners would prefer us not to discuss the amount. It can be disclosed, however, that DataProphet was priced at a multimillion-dollar valuation," he explains.

After fifty years of soaring crop yields thanks to fertilizers, pest control, and irrigation, that growth is bottoming out. We solved the food shortfall in the 20th century, but we need to do it again in this century. The UN says crop production must rise 70% by 2050 to meet demand. Startups see cheap sensors and artificial intelligence as the solution. Clever algorithms are processing a deluge of high-resolution data enabling real-time monitoring of crops and their environment for the first time.

I'm relieved Volition is making something other than Saints Row V. Which is not to say they'll never make one--or that it's not secretly in development right now. But if it is, it's being developed alongside the all-new Agents of Mayhem, which Volition revealed right before E3. It's set in the Saints Row universe, but trades the town of Steelport for Seoul, South Korea and the Saints themselves for a group of superheroes known as the Multi-national AgencY for Hunting Evil Masterminds or M.A.Y.H.E.M. And yes, they lifted the "Y" from the end of "Agency." But after playing a demo of the game recently, I'm a bit worried--worried that maybe Saints Row isn't quite as enjoyable without the Saints.

The world's first robot lawyer has saved drivers millions by helping overturn parking tickets. An artificial intelligence chatbot has successfully challenged 160,000 traffic fines, resulting in savings of over 4 million – that's about 3 million in post-referendum Sterling. The chatbot, dubbed'DoNotPay', operates in both London and New York, and doesn't cost users a single penny. It was created by London-born Stanford student Joshua Browder, and has only been live for 21 months. Over 250,000 cases have been taken by the chatbot so far, resulting in an impressive 64% success rate.

With virtual reality, the video game industry is undergoing its biggest change since consoles made their way into living rooms. It may also stir social change, bringing new opportunities to female developers, whose scarce representation in the industry nowhere near reflects the true number of female gamers. "What we're seeing in the VR space, the spark of excitement around this particular type of technology that has suddenly become cost-effective and also added creative potential," Tracy Fullerton, director of USC Games, told International Business Times at the Games for Change festival in New York last week. "I think there's a tremendous energy and interest. That's always good because there will be opportunities there, and a broad range of them." As of 2014, female developers made up just 22 percent of the industry, with 2 percent identifying as transgender or androgynous, according to an International Game Developers Association workplace study.