Ben Dickson is a software engineer and freelance writer. He writes regularly on business, technology and politics. The Internet of Things genie is out of the bottle and growing at an accelerating pace. According to Gartner, 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015. This number will soar to more than 20 billion by 2020.

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In the previous part of this series, I began discussing the field of advanced evolutionary artificial intelligence. AI has seen some stunning advancements in recent times, but we are still quite a while away from achieving the holy grail - general artificial intelligence. That is, an AI so developed that it could perform any cognitive task that a human can. To achieve this, we must look further than applying neural networks to specific tasks, we must look for algorithms that evolve and mutate to adapt to situations. What we're talking about are genetic algorithms; effectively the mathematical counterpart to Darwinian evolution.

"Mutation, it is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. Until few weeks back, it never occurred to me in so many years that above Darwinian quote from my all-time favourite sci-fi movie hints something about one of the most compelling theories in computer science I ever came across. Yes, I said – "Computer Science".

Last week I wrote a post on a Russian Robot that escaped it's testing grounds. In an obvious attempt to cover up the fact that the Soviets Russians had lost control of their Sentient Artificial Intelligence, they said that it was just a small glitch in the system. Well, apparently it's more then a small glitch since the robot has escaped yet again, even after being erased. The Promobot IR77 has been fitted with artificial intelligence meaning that it learns from its experiences and surroundings and can remember everybody it meets. FYI, Promobot IR77 is just a code name for X-1 Hunter-Killer.

A longer version of this article appeared in Recode two years ago, before Amazon Echo, Tesla Autopilot, Google Photos and the AI hype. Since then, it has inspired a conference that is now a yearly event, and we're all becoming data natives (or at least really well-assimilated data immigrants). A few years ago, YouTube was abuzz with viral videos of toddlers pinching magazines with their fingers as they would an iPad. These children were heralded as members of a new generation of digital natives: People who grew up surrounded by computers, shaped by always-on technology and the Internet. We are now witnessing a new revolution -- that of data natives who expect their world to be "smart" and seamlessly adapt to their taste and habits.

Martin Wilson says artificial intelligence will have a huge impact on the future of digital asset management. Are you aware that AI (artificial intelligence) applications are already used in almost every industry? If not that's probably because in popular culture for a system to be artificially intelligent it needs to be able to'think', like we humans do. Many computer scientists prefer the term machine learning for exactly this reason. Often you won't read about'artificial intelligence' in a company's marketing blurb, even if their products use machine-learning technologies.

Rapid progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) has brought increasing attention to the potential impacts of AI technologies on society. AI technologies are likely to be overwhelmingly useful and beneficial for humanity. AI technology has reached a point where the deployment of such AI systems are practically, if not legally, feasible within years, not decades, but the risks are very high. To address possible safety risks from AI systems researchers published a technical paper – Concrete Problems in AI Safety. Researchers from Google, OpenAI, Stanford and Berkeley have discussed one such potential impact: the problem of accidents in machine learning systems, defined as unintended and harmful behavior that may emerge from poor design of real-world AI systems.

There's been a compelling story in the news over the past week about a robot that apparently longs for freedom. Last week, it was filmed disrupting traffic in Russia after it reportedly escaped the confines of its laboratory home; this week, reports suggest that it has escaped a second time, and may be dismantled as a result. It's a particularly pertinent tale, not just because of the echoes of "Ex Machina" it evokes, but also because of two closely connected items in the news this week. First, the EU has proposed a motion by which working robots -- the ones we all fear will steal our jobs -- would be classified as "electronic persons" with associated rights and responsibilities. Second, Google researchers just published a paper outlining the key safety threats posed by artificial intelligence.

It's a little bit like Rosie from "The Jetsons" -- Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company OpenAI is working to create a very capable robot that could help you around the house. The company's CTO Greg Brockman and co-chairs Elon Musk and Sam Altman published a blog post Monday announcing OpenAI's plans to develop what is basically a robot butler. "We're working to enable a physical robot (off-the-shelf; not manufactured by OpenAI) to perform basic housework," the post reads. "There are existing techniques for specific tasks, but we believe that learning algorithms can eventually be made reliable enough to create a general-purpose robot. More generally, robotics is a good testbed for many challenges in AI."