In the fourth issue of this monthly digest series you can find out how Qualcomm is bringing deep learning and AI to smart devices, why Daimler sent self-driving trucks all across Europe, how to imitate Rembrandt's best work with the help of deep learning, and much more. From the Smithsonian comes news--and a must-see fascinating video--about a painting created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt's work, trained to paint in Rembrandt's signature style. Over the course of 18 months, a group of engineers, Rembrandt experts and data scientists analyzed 346 of Rembrandt's works, then trained a deep learning engine to "paint" in the master's signature style. In order to stay true to Rembrandt's art, the team decided to flex the engine's muscles on a portrait. They analyzed the demographics of the people Rembrandt painted over his lifetime and determined that it should paint a Caucasian male between 30 and 40 years of age, complete with black clothes, a white collar and hat, and facial hair.

Today our focus has been on KPIs, ERP, WMS, TMS, YMS, EDI, The Cloud, S and OP, 3 D Printing, IoT, IoE, Drones: Same Hour/Day/Time Delivery to Customers, Cyber Security, Theft, Government Regulations, E-Commerce, Omni-Channel, Modeling/Simulation, Risk Management, Tracking, Traceability, Re-shoring, Robotics, et al, but…what about Artificial Intelligence or AI technologies? AI is a controversy of deep, lasting dimensions. Will machines learn to think like humans…and then outthink us? The application of AI technologies has created the ability to understand, store and use product information in an entirely new way. AI technologies allow you to understand the underlying grammatical structure, the product DNA, used to build each product, together with all natural variations that potentially exist.

When the tech giant Microsoft unveiled its AI or artificial intelligence-powered bot on Twitter for a playful chat with the people in March, little did the tech giant realise that the twitterati would begin slamming the innocent bot with racist and offensive comments. Launched as an experiment in "conversational understanding" and to engage people through "casual and playful conversation", Tay was soon taken off Twitter by Microsoft engineers. This was a soft experiment. But what if you can interact with a "chatbot" and send the AI-powered machine your financial requirements like you would text to your banker or chartered accountant in the near future? Facebook wants this to happen and at its F8 global developer conference in April, the social networking giant unveiled AI bots right into its popular messaging app Messenger -- to allow 900 million monthly active users on Messenger to interact with businesses and get updates from them.

Lenovo, reigner in producing personal computer, is now putting its hands on investing 500 million dollar in hardware technology startups after its announcement of new fund. Lenovo has a record of making skilful investment with its first investment of 100 million invested in 30 companies which focused on security, games and smart home devices. Naming the few from the list: Israeli facial recognition startup Face which is listed as Chinese firm iDreamsky; biometric whiz Nok Nok Labs from US and SmartX, biometric facial and fingerprint recognizing attendance system from India. Following the Chinese government propaganda of Made in China 2025 initiative, which is putting prime significance to robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Lenovo will be utilizing this fund to support companies which potentiate its businesses and, in particular, those in the big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, robots and other Internet services. Lenovo is not the first to endeavour in this field in china.

Major disruption by technology is a recurring trend. In the 1990s, we experienced the rise of information technologies such as databases and personal computers. Then, came the rise of mobile computing. Following that, cloud computing transformed business operations. These technologies didn't just improve certain tasks - they completely changed the way we work.

This "robotic mermaid" could be more than just a clever way to retrieve sunken treasure (and disappoint amorous sailors). It hints at how humans and robots may someday work together in all sorts of difficult environments. The submersible humanoid robot, called OceanOne, was developed at Stanford University. It recently retrieved priceless artifacts from King Louis XIV's La Lune, a 350-year-old galleon wrecked off Toulon in southern France in 1664. OceanOne has two arms, a head, and a tail-like appendage fitted with motorized propellers.

Young patients at Alder Hey will soon be able to use their smartphones to ask questions about everything from hospital menus to details of their medical care. The West Derby hospital has teamed up with computer giant IBM to use artificial intelligence to help put children and their families at ease. The technology – known as Watson – will allow kids to ask questions ahead of their admission to hospital, relaxing them as much as possible beforehand. Over the next few months, hundreds of Alder Hey patients and their parents will be asked a range of questions about everything from parking to what they would like to eat, their favourite games and films and what they want their bedroom to look like.

Young patients at Alder Hey will soon be able to use their smartphones to ask questions about everything from hospital menus to details of their medical care. The West Derby hospital has teamed up with computer giant IBM to use artificial intelligence to help put children and their families at ease. The technology – known as Watson – will allow kids to ask questions ahead of their admission to hospital, relaxing them as much as possible beforehand. The technology will be available through an app on smartphones and tablets. The hospital hopes to have a prototype model up and running by early next year.

PAPIs is the premier forum for the presentation of new machine learning APIs, techniques, architectures and tools to build predictive applications. It is a community conference that brings together practitioners from industry, government and academia to present new developments, identify new needs and trends, and discuss the challenges of building real-world predictive applications. PAPIs '16 is the 3rd International conference on predictive applications and APIs, featuring 3 tracks (Technical, Business, Research) and the 1st AI Startup Battle where the jury is an AI. The audience is a mix of developers, software engineers, all-round data scientists, machine learning specialists, researchers, decision makers, managers, strategists and innovators. Previous editions took place in Sydney (PAPIs '15), Barcelona (PAPIs '14), Paris and Valencia (PAPIs Connect).

It sounds like the punchline from a joke. A law firm has hired the world's first artificially intelligent lawyer. According to Futurism, the lawyer has been named Ross. Ross was built on IBM's cognitive computer, Watson. IBM describes Watson as "a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data."