Jeff Bezos (R), founder and Chief Executive of Amazon.com and owner of The Washington Post, participates in a conversation with Martin Baron (L), executive editor of The Washington Post, during the event'Transformers: Pushing the Boundaries of Knowledge,' May 18, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Artificial intelligence (AI) is perhaps one of the most debated and most controversial technologies today. In fact, experts have opposing opinions when it comes to the remarkable advancement and progress of AI technologies. Over the past decade, people have witnessed how the media depicted the rise of artificial intelligence in numerous science-fiction films. But according to AI experts and researchers, the disturbing possibility of artificial intelligence going out of control or turning evil is a thing of the past, citing the fact that AI is only capable of performing very specific tasks. Despite several explanations and discussions regarding artificial intelligence's potential to outwit humans by automating cognitive tasks, the rapid development and evolution of AI have led to concerns over safety and widespread unemployment.

In the future, a new generation of autonomous robots is set to complete tasks autonomously, even if something unforeseeable happens. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, information technology experts in Graz are working to advance the development of artificial intelligence and equip robots with common sense. Something that children learn through play and that adults are able to do on the basis of past experience, such as responding to unexpected situations, remains one of the great challenges in robotics. Autonomous systems are expected to complete tasks given to them without external input. The deployment of such intelligent robots would be particularly important in critical situations – such as environmental disasters or industrial accidents.

One of the biggest risks of Artificial Intelligence is that no-one really understands how it works. By that I mean that when a complex algorithm works something out, it is extremely difficult to reverse engineer the process that was followed to get to that decision (a bit like recreating an egg from an omelette). This opaqueness of the inner workings of the algorithms is a worry to people who rely on the types of decisions it is making, such as credit approvals, medical diagnoses and financial trading. This allows it to test for discrimination, either in the underlying models used or in the way the AI has been trained - any adaptive system will inherently reflect the biases of the information (and people) used to train it. So, if a system to filter job applications is built, it could easily do that role with, say, gender bias if the training data and any subsequent reinforcement included that bias.

In the future, a new generation of autonomous robots is set to complete tasks autonomously, even if something unforeseeable happens. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, information technology experts in Graz are working to advance the development of artificial intelligence and equip robots with common sense. Something that children learn through play and that adults are able to do on the basis of past experience, such as responding to unexpected situations, remains one of the great challenges in robotics. Autonomous systems are expected to complete tasks given to them without external input. The deployment of such intelligent robots would be particularly important in critical situations – such as environmental disasters or industrial accidents.

Artificial Intelligence has touched each and every sector. We all know about Facebook suggesting friends or Siri managing our calendars. Even the stocks are traded by computers. There are cars which can park on their own. From education to military to even manufacturing there is hardly a field where artificial intelligence does not pay a role.

Artificial intelligence will take over the world! Or so we're told by the movies. We're all doomed to become "house cats" if the machines so desire! Or so prominent experts like Elon Musk have warned. Humbug, say Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky.

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The last few weeks I published a variety of thought leadership articles/blogs on some of my favorite topics. Please find below the links. Charles (Chuck) Brooks serves as the Vice President for Government Relations & Marketing for Sutherland Global Services. Chuck leads Federal and State & Local Government relations activities. He is also responsible for the Marketing portfolio (Media, PR, Digital Outreach, Thought Leadership, Strategic Partnering, Branding) for the Federal and State & Local markets.

A ROBOT with an algorithm-based persona is being used to help companies make data-driven decisions in real time. South Australian company Complexica has developed Larry, the Digital Analyst, which is basically a set of algorithms tuned to complex problems to quickly generate answers that would otherwise take people a very long time to work out. Big Data software algorithms are taking decision-making to a new level, delivering solutions and efficiencies like never before. The global Artificial Intelligence market is forecast to exceed USD 5 billion by 2020. Father and son team Matthew Michalewicz and Dr Zbigniew "Mike" Michalewicz, a former professor at the University of Adelaide's School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence pioneer, started the company in 2014 with software architect Constantin Chiriac.

When American novelist David Foster Wallace delivered the commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005, he urged the graduating class to "exercise some control over how and what you think." If you don't at least try to regulate your thoughts and behaviors, Wallace cautioned, you will go through life "dead, unconscious, a slave to your head." Wallace himself long suffered with unwanted negative thoughts and crippling self-doubt--and took his own life three years after that speech. But can our mind become a "terrible master," as Wallace described? Kessler, the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has considered that question for the past two decades, studying how substances such as food, alcohol and tobacco can hijack our brain chemistry and compel us to act against our own best intentions--bingeing on brownies, booze or cigarettes.