The writer argues that artificial intelligence will steal our jobs – and it may be the best thing that will ever happen to us. We are living on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution argued Klaus Schwab, the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, recently. Like the revolutions of the past – from steam engine to electricity and digitalization, the coming earthquake will fundamentally alter the way we work. The supreme commander of the incoming revolution is artificial intelligence. Two aspects differentiate the coming tsunami from the past ones.

Britain is on the brink of a robotics revolution. Advances in technology are unleashing a new age where computers handle many tasks previously carried out by humans. From automated manufacturing to software that does complex legal work, business is adapting to the robot economy. Some worry that this will lead to a jobs apocalypse as "thinking machines" replace workers. Others are optimistic that robots will free workers from mundane tasks and allow them to concentrate on higher-level creative and strategic work.

After being stranded in the Mediterranean for three days, fear had overcome Alou Sango. "I thought that we would all die, because there was nothing left, the petrol had finished," he says of his journey from Libya. Like thousands before him, Sango boarded an overcrowded boat to escape the country's turmoil after being unable to return to his native Mali. But after days at sea the captain lost his way and, without a GPS position to give to the Italian authorities, the 100 or so passengers were losing hope. Their rubber dinghy was finally spotted by a Chinese vessel, which picked up the migrants and took them to Italy, where Sango, now 24, is studying through a Rome-based charity, Sant'Egidio Community.

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.