Amazon has hired Ashwin Ram, an ex-Xerox PARC employee and a researcher in cognitive science, in an effort to step up its AI R&D department. Although Amazon have not officially released a statement, Ram announced on Twitter that he was "excited to join Amazon." A spokesperson from Amazon has confirmed his appointment but refused to provide further comment. Ram is described as Alexa AI senior manager on his LinkedIn profile. Ram had served as the Chief Innovation Officer at Xerox PARC, a venerate Silicon Valley R&D powerhouse whose noted luminaries include the creators of Ethernet, the world's first WYSIWYG editor, the GUI, the mouse, and laser printing.

The White House will host a series of public meetings to help figure out the benefits and risks of recent and anticipated breakthroughs in artificial intelligence -- and will study how it could help government services. Four workshops will be held across the country in the next two months, co-hosted by local universities and non-profits, examining the various ways AI is already intruding into public life, according to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. The announcement comes in the wake of comments from the government's top blue-sky researcher on the limits of AI -- and of recent public commentary about the apocalyptic threat of learning machines. "Like any transformative technology, artificial intelligence carries some risk and presents complex policy challenges along several dimensions, from jobs and the economy to safety and regulatory questions," writes U.S. Deputy CTO Ed Felten in a blog post. "There are tremendous opportunities and an array of considerations across the Federal Government in privacy, security, regulation, law, and research and development to be taken into account when effectively integrating this technology into both government and private-sector activities."

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Last week, the New York Times reported the first successful "limb reanimation" in a person with quadriplegia. Ian Burkhart, 24, had broken his neck as a teen in a diving accident. His spine was damaged at the fifth cervical vertebra, leaving him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Using nerve bypass technology that transmits his thoughts directly to his hand muscles, he has regained control over his right hand and fingers. This is the first time a brain-computer interface has been used to help an individual move his own hands.

Drones seem to be a hot topic for debate at the moment in terms of their morality. Drones currently are controlled from control rooms at a distance, there is no pilot within the vehicle allowing no harm to come to him. However, what happens when there isn't even a man or woman holding the trigger? This is where modern warfare seems to be progressing, and though its a controversial topic I don't see any halt of advancements in the area coming any time soon. A computer's'mind' is far from similar to ours.

As you may read from our first article farming robots are shaping agriculture and will feed humans of the future. Economics will demand a leap from theoretical concept of artificial intelligence to its practical application in agriculture, many experts suggest. But this process has already begun and is irreversible. Automated irrigation systems, crop health monitoring, face recognition systems for domestic cattle, CBR systems for fishing industry and many others are clear examples of how AI can be the Holy Grail for the farming industry. Irrigation systems are as old as man itself since agriculture is the foremost occupation of civilized humanity.

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I met Mr. Lee in Taiping, China, circa 1993. He managed "Warehouse B," a massive structure that stored over 3,000 reusable tools and dies. A humble man, he sat quietly at his high-top desk in a simple button-down shirt and black slacks. His workers treated him with the respect you might reserve for a beloved grandfather, each literally running to do his bidding before he would even finish a gently delivered request. His ledgers were meticulously neat.

IBM will launch a Korean version of its AI platform Watson next year in cooperation with local IT service vendor SK C&C, the companies have announced. SK announced Monday that it signed a cooperation agreement with Big Blue on May 4 and will together build an integrated system to market Watson in South Korea. They will develop Korean data analysis solutions based on machine learning and natural language semantic analysis technology for Watson within this year, and will commercialise it sometime in the first half of 2017, SK said. IBM and SK will also build a "Watson Cloud Platform" at the Korean company's datacentre in Pangyo -- the local version of Silicon Valley -- that IT developers and managers can access to make their own applications. For example, an open market business can apply the Watson solution to its product search features to make a personalized contents recommendation solution.