There's a line I often say to my colleagues…heck, I say it to my friends and family too: The one thing that's constant about being around me is change! Well, that and the fact that I'll always be thinking about (and talking about) food. Change and innovation is what Facebook is all about, too. F8, Facebook's annual conference for developers and service-building entrepreneurs, took place in San Francisco this past week and there's much buzz about Chatbots, the latest addition to Facebook's Messenger platform. Chatbots--(and the AI that powers them)--are important because they are in many ways the future of communication and, for sure, the future of customer service.

Researchers from MIT and machine learning startup PatternEx combined machine learning algorithms-based systems and human expertise in new cybersecurity AI platform AI2. This innovation is said to detect cyberattacks 85 percent of the time. Cybersecurity today is executed by either humans or machines, which could have their own challenges – missed attacks because the parameters don't match rules set by human experts, or systems mistakenly zeroing in on non-threats. So why not combine humans and AI to get the best of both worlds? This is what researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accomplished with its new artificial intelligence system called AI2.

SAN FRANCISCO -- One of the chatbots Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg featured in his widely watched keynote is glitchy. And its developers know it. Poncho, the digital cat that gives sassy weather updates, won't tell me the weather or answer my questions. When asked to change the time it will deliver a forecast, it responds: "Sorry, you're going to have to say that again in Cat. When asked again specifically for the cat to tell the weather at 7 a.m., it changes the alert settings to 6 p.m. But it's stumped by others that seem pretty clear. Sam Mandel, CEO of the bot-developer behind Poncho, was holed up in an Airbnb rental in San Francisco's Richmond district two days after Zuckerberg's keynote here, trying to fix it with his team. "There are definitely some rough edges," he said by phone. "We had so much traffic, more than expected." An uneven user experience for some of Facebook Messenger's chatbots, the artificial intelligence-powered programs designed to simulate human conversation with businesses, is a cold dose of reality after the fanfare of Facebook's big developers conference here last week. "We think you should message a business just the way you would message a friend," Zuckerberg told attendees at the F8 conference. Messenger chatbots have the possibility of reaping billions in ad revenue for Facebook, analysts say. To smartphone users that have grown accustomed to tapping apps to hail an Uber or book a restaurant, the new conversational commerce holds the potential to reshape our everyday tech interactions into more personalized experiences. Rather than try to work a drop-down menu on a shopping app or mobile browser, you would chat with a chatbot concierge about size, price and design for a pair of shoes, for instance. CNN's bot is one of about thirty launched this week to work within Facebook's Messenger. But the vision and reality don't match yet, early attempts to use a few of the chatbots featured at F8 show. When I asked CNN's bot to tell me news about Facebook, it responded with a " \_(?)_/ " -- literally. To start our conversation, I texted the bot "Hi" and in return, it immediately started sending me daily news roundups with a variety of stories where I had the option to read or get a shortened summary. Spring, a shopping concierge bot, took minutes to respond. We'll be with you shortly."

Business documents written in foreign languages are no longer the problem they once were thanks to technologies like Google Translate, but what about contracts written in legalese? That's where LawGeex hopes to help with an AI-based online tool. LawGeex offers what it calls the world's first contract review platform based on artificial intelligence. The goal, it says, is to help businesses and individuals "get a fair deal" before signing an agreement. Toward that end, it combines machine-learning algorithms with crowdsourced data, text analytics, and the knowledge of expert lawyers to make in-depth contract reviews accessible to everyone.

This post is based on a presentation I shared at Ignite DFW on April 15, 2016. It was absolutely an amazing experience! Thank you to everyone who organized it, participated as a speaker, and showed up to enjoy the amazing topics we shared as Dallas-Fort Worth community. Ignite is a night of presentations on a variety of inspired topics -- with a twist. Each presentation has 20 slides that automatically advance after 15 seconds.

Artificial intelligence has dominated headlines recently, highlighting the best and worst of its capabilities and suggesting there is still work to be done and improvements to be made. News of Microsoft's Tay, an artificially intelligent bot which was created to mimic the personality of a 19-year old woman, quickly turned sour as it seemed to transform into a'bitter racist' on the social media website twitter. When Microsoft was asked to confirm whether the bot had been shut down, it responded: "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. "As it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it. A more successful venture into AI was seen in Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence after it defeated Go world champion Lee Se-dol twice. Se-dol said after the second defeat: "I am quite speechless… I feel like AlphaGo played a nearly perfect game."

Whether we have been in a tech bubble or not is frankly not that interesting. What is interesting is that the foundation for innovation is as strong as we've ever seen and entrepreneurs are bringing the future to reality at an amazing pace. Here are a few of my predictions for what we'll see in 2016: So far most conversations around self-driving cars focus on personal vehicles. It's unlikely we'll take a fully autonomous car for our daily commute for quite a few years, but commercial trucking will see self-driving vehicles emerge far sooner. One company, Peloton, is already making this a reality.

As a reminder, all participants' lines will be in the listen-only mode. There will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Aravind Viswanathan. Thank you and over to you, sir. We will begin the call with business highlights and overview by Abid, the Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board, followed by the financial overview by our CFO, Jatin Dalal. Afterwards, the operator will open the bridge for Q&A with our management team. Before Abid starts, let me draw your attention to the fact that during this call, we may make certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Private Securities Litigation Reform Act 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are associated with uncertainties and risks, which may cause the actual results to differ materially from those expected. The uncertainties and risk factors are being explained in our detailed filings with the SEC. Wipro does not undertake any obligation to update the forward-looking statements to reflect events and circumstances after the date of filing thereof. The conference call will be archived and the transcript will be available on our website. Ladies and gentlemen, let me now hand it over to Mr. Abid. Today is the first opportunity for me to interact with all of you since I've taken over as the Chief Executive Officer of Wipro, and it's a special moment for me. While I will speak about the performance of our full quarter and the full fiscal year, I thought I will take this opportunity to begin by speaking about our ambition, our strategy and how we are going to execute this strategy. Since I got announced within two days, I was able to define and announce my structure and I had already preselected my leadership team which I announced on 6th of January, effective February 1. Over the past 80 days after I have taken over as CEO, I've had the opportunity to go around the globe and meet about 70 of our top 100 clients. And both with my leadership team and with the customers, I've had the opportunity to validate the strategy that we have been working on and this gives me a high level of confidence on the relevance of our overall strategy. Our ambition is to double our revenues to 15 billion by fiscal 2020 with a 23% operating margin.

Abdalla Kablan is the founder of Scheduit and an academic specializing in machine intelligence, big data and computational finance. After more than 60 years since its conceptual inception -- and after too many hype-generating moments -- AI is yet again making its presence felt in mainstream media. Following a recent WEF report, many perceive AI as a threat to our jobs, while others even go so far to assert that it poses a real threat to humanity itself. What is clear for the time being is that there are many questions that still remain unanswered: Can we actually create conscious machines that have the ability to think and feel? What we do we mean by the word conscious in the first place?

SAN FRANCISCO -- One of the chatbots Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg featured in his widely watched keynote is glitchy. And its developers know it. Poncho, the digital cat that gives sassy weather updates, won't tell me the weather or answer my questions. When asked to change the time it will deliver a forecast, it responds: "Sorry, you're going to have to say that again in Cat. When asked again specifically for the cat to tell the weather at 7 a.m., it changes the alert settings to 6 p.m. But it's stumped by others that seem pretty clear. Sam Mandel, CEO of the bot-developer behind Poncho, was holed up in an Airbnb rental in San Francisco's Richmond district two days after Zuckerberg's keynote here, trying to fix it with his team. "There are definitely some rough edges," he said by phone. "We had so much traffic, more than expected." An uneven user experience for some of Facebook Messenger's chatbots, the artificial intelligence-powered programs designed to simulate human conversation with businesses, is a cold dose of reality after the fanfare of Facebook's big developers conference here last week. "We think you should message a business just the way you would message a friend," Zuckerberg told attendees at the F8 conference. Messenger chatbots have the possibility of reaping billions in ad revenue for Facebook, analysts say. To smartphone users that have grown accustomed to tapping apps to hail an Uber or book a restaurant, the new conversational commerce holds the potential to reshape our everyday tech interactions into more personalized experiences. Rather than try to work a drop-down menu on a shopping app or mobile browser, you would chat with a chatbot concierge about size, price and design for a pair of shoes, for instance. CNN's bot is one of about thirty launched this week to work within Facebook's Messenger. But the vision and reality don't match yet, early attempts to use a few of the chatbots featured at F8 show. When I asked CNN's bot to tell me news about Facebook, it responded with a " \_(?)_/ " -- literally. To start our conversation, I texted the bot "Hi" and in return, it immediately started sending me daily news roundups with a variety of stories where I had the option to read or get a shortened summary. Spring, a shopping concierge bot, took minutes to respond. We'll be with you shortly."