They are becoming more capable at a faster pace than people and therefore will effectively outsmart us in a short amount of time," Mr Thrun now believes that education is the best way to tackle the big upheavals that are likely to spring from the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and robotics. But not education as you might know it. "We are still living with an educational system that was developed in the 1800s and 1900s," he says. "Needs have shifted in the modern age and what's also shifted is our ability to use digital media. We can now deliver a top-notch education at home in a way that was never possible before."

The key to effective cyber security is threat intelligence. This means having as much information and data available to you as possible (what some people call'a good view of the threat-landscape'), and then using that data and information to gain intelligence about threats to your IT network and your business. To keep our customers, and ourselves, secure we collect information from our networks, physical security, social media and intelligence agencies that we work with. And we put all of this into a data lake. We then use technology to inspect that data, looking for anomalies or suspicious activity.

How do you train a car to drive itself? Let it watch real drivers. Engineers from graphics processing unit (GPU) company Nvidia designed a system that learned how to drive after watching humans drive for a total of 72 hours, as reported by NetworkWorld. The likely conclusion of the system's success is that driverless cars are coming faster than most of us expected. The details of how Nvidia trained two test cars are in a file titled End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free Cade Metz WIRED "In the rarefied world of AI research, the brightest minds aren't driven by--or at least not only by--the next product cycle or profit margin. They want to make AI better, and making AI better doesn't happen when you keep your latest findings to yourself." ROBOTICS: When a Robot Kills, Is It Murder or Product Liability? Ryan Calo Slate "There is a fundamental similarity between the question of whether a robot can be responsible and the question of whether a robot should enjoy rights...We wouldn't say of a driverless car that it possesses a responsibility to keep its passengers safe, only that it is designed to do so. But somehow, we feel comfortable saying that a driverless car is responsible for an accident."

Last year blockchain became one of the hottest topics in the world even much outside IT community. We saw a booming growth in the number of startups; large banks and even governments started investing in researching the technology. So definitely, there is much buzz about the topic, but seemingly it has nothing to do with machine learning and artificial intelligence. While articles and news on artificial intelligence as compared to blockchain and other cryptoworld topics are in no less degree blossoming these days, everybody keep silent on possible synergic implications in these truly breakthrough fields of computer science. At BICA Labs we do see a strong synergy between blockchain and AI – a synergy that goes much beyond just an applied science.

China has rich talent sources and great potential on AI or artificial intelligence thanks to strong mathematics and IT research as well as local firms' expansion into AI, said LinkedIn in a report yesterday after the AlphaGo's winning in a machine-vs-human Go match. There are totally 250,000 people work and research on AI globally, mainly in the United States, Europe, India and China, according to LinkedIn, the world's largest business social network. Besides the eye-catching AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence is already part of people's lives, from applications used in navigation, Siri and Google Translate to robots deployed in manufacturing and stock-advice software. AI technologies have been evolving steadily alongside the development of the Internet, big data, cloud computing and graphic chips. The United States has the most AI talents with the top employers Google, developer of AlphaGo, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Apple.

In a section subtitled "The power of machine learning and artificial intelligence," Pichai sets the stage for the future as Google sees it. "We've been building the best AI team and tools for years, and recent breakthroughs will allow us to do even more," he writes. This year's shareholder letter was the first since the announcement of Alphabet last August as the Google parent company. It's also the first time anyone other than original Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote the letter. Search is what got Google started and search is Google's future.

In a recent interview with The Verge, the Microsoft founder and long-time education proponent explained how advancements in AI will make personalized learning more effective. At present, personalized-learning software allows students to move through course content at their own pace: Students who master material quickly advance to the next subject, while students who require extra practice can revisit modules as needed. Although studies -- such as those conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- show that the approach can positively impact learning outcomes, Gates thinks there's room for improvement, especially when it comes to human-software interactions. He describes the technology's failings in his interview with The Verge: Today's interactivity is OK: I answered a few questions wrong, so then it repeats the lecture. You know, part of the reason I'm so willing to tackle new subjects is that for each of those subjects, if I get utterly confused, I know somebody I can send an email to, and they'll straighten me out.

While most banks are offering banking facilities through mobile, DBS has said digibank has some unique features. Wherever they are, whatever their need, digibank customers can converse with digibank's AI-powered virtual assistant to get their queries answered or banking transactions performed. Because the virtual assistant understands natural language and has learning ability, it is able to respond in real-time. Most bank customers receive One-Time Passwords (OTPs) via SMS, and then typing codes into pages to authorise their mobile banking transactions.

DBS Bank of Singapore's recently unveiled Digibank, what it claimed is India's first mobile-only bank. Digibank brings together an entire suite of technology – from biometrics to artificial intelligence (AI) – to customers and is a completely paperless, signatureless and branchless bank. While most banks are offering banking facilities through mobile, DBS has said digibank has some unique features. Here are some of those features. Wherever they are, whatever their need, digibank customers can converse with digibank's AI-powered virtual assistant to get their queries answered or banking transactions performed.