Missing teen's remains found in Lerderderg State Park Is the Australian Defence Force the next big customer for unmanned aerial vehicles? Australia has warned the world that artificially intelligent killer robots "may be closer than many of us had imagined" and nations need to work harder to tackle the future threat they may pose. At a United Nations meeting on "lethal autonomous weapons systems" in Geneva, Switzerland, the Australian delegation on Monday night called on the world to come up with agreed rules about how to handle the rapid pace in technology in military artificial intelligence. The Terminator movies imagined a future where killer robots posed a threat to humanity: some warn that the threat is real. "The development of fully autonomous systems able to conduct military targeting operations which kill and injure combatants or civilians may be closer than many of us had imagined," the delegation's statement said.

The last place you want to learn you have heart failure is where it often winds up being diagnosed: in the emergency room. Researchers analyzing electronic health records are using artificial intelligence and GPUs to get ahead of this curve. They've shown they can predict heart failure as much as nine months before doctors can now deliver the diagnosis. The stakes could hardly be higher. Each year, about 23 million people worldwide, including nearly 6 million Americans, have heart failure, according to the American Heart Association.

Some of the world's most prominent scientists and technology entrepreneurs including physicist Stephen Hawking, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak signed a letter warning about the dangers of autonomous weapons, which they said would be technologically feasible "within years, not decades". Australia has warned the world that artificially intelligent killer robots "may be closer than many of us had imagined" and nations need to work harder to tackle the future threat they may pose. At a United Nations meeting on "lethal autonomous weapons systems" in Geneva, Switzerland, the Australian delegation on Monday night called on the world to come up with agreed rules about how to handle the rapid pace in technology in military artificial intelligence. "The development of fully autonomous systems able to conduct military targeting operations which kill and injure combatants or civilians may be closer than many of us had imagined," the delegation's statement said. "It is an appropriate time to consider the risks of such weapons systems and to make sure we understand fully what might constitute misuse as well as legitimate use of emerging technologies."

Imagine a world without government, schools, a legal system, law enforcement, or companies. It's a world unlike the one we currently live in--but based on the evolution of technology and how we use it--representative of what the world may become. Imagine a computer infrastructure that could--with global knowledge and the ability to enact precise tweaks to the social and economic structure--drive the evolution of society. This is the idea behind the Universal Graph. In mathematics, this is a graph (or network) in which a piece of information can be connected with other pieces of information until all finite information is integrated.

HireVue's Chief Data Honcho, Ben Taylor, our Amazing Director of Engineering, Dave Smith, and our Talented Talent Man, John Grotegut had the opportunity to visit Utah State University this tonight and meet with their Computer Engineering students. And they brought a whole lot of pizza with them. If you are curious about the answers to these questions, or are interested in learning more, please reach out to the @VueNation team on social media.

"The robots are coming" is not something Paul Revere said during the American Revolution, but it is certainly something many people have uttered over the years. So have we finally reached the tipping point where artificial intelligence and robots will begin to take over human jobs en masse? Perhaps not, but we are closer to the time when they will be even more essential assets and presences in the workforce, explains Martin Ford, the author of the book "Rise of the Robots." I caught up with Ford at The Economist magazine's Innovation Forum event, which was held earlier this month. He pointed out that artificial intelligence is making its way into sectors that were once manned by only man, including the legal profession, where computer systems such as Watson could muscle in on human territory to provide legal counsel, and even journalism where stories are being written without direct human input about some articles.

Amazon has acquired PhotoTime creator Orbeus, an artificial intelligence startup that specializes in photo-recognition technology. The acquisition took place in the fall of 2015, according to sources familiar with the matter. This would be the latest in a string of acquisitions in the area of deep learning, with deals already completed for high-performance computing company Nice and video processing company Elemental Technologies. Orbeus developed photo-recognition technology based on a powerful type of AI called neural networks. It automatically identifies people and objects in photos and videos.

Facebook seems to be leaving Google in the dust in certain areas where the search giant should have dominated. Beyond giving Facebook bragging rights, the company's aggressive development of some of these new technologies has the potential to shake up the business landscape. Take Facebook's recent, dramatic push into video live-streaming. Sure, YouTube has broadcasting capabilities. Individuals can do it through its gaming app and the company has live-streamed huge events, like the President's State of the Union address and several debates.

With technological innovations emerging daily, experts predict that more people will be thrown out of jobs. They envisage that advanced technology will improve work efficiency and will replace the manpower of most organisations. A latest research by Avanade's affirms the predictions of forecasters that newly introduced smart technologies, connected things and intelligent automation are dramatically changing the digital workplace and benefiting the business enterprises. However, rather than leading to job losses, business and IT experts, who participated in the research, believe that the increased use of smart technologies will trigger dramatic shifts in how we work, when we work and what type of work we do. The Avanade report titled, 'Making digital work,' asserts that this evolution isn't the doom and gloom that others paint it to be. Avanade's global survey of business and IT leaders defined smart technologies as computers or machines that do the work of or make decisions traditionally made by humans.

With oil and gas prices hovering at decade lows, companies are turning to artificial intelligence to cut costs and boost productivity. The technology, which gives companies the ability to predict future problems, is estimated to save the industry trillions of dollars and lead to a new wave of highly sophisticated jobs. GE Oil and Gas is at the forefront of the shift, using artificial intelligence software to help producers become more efficient. The company's regional director, Mary Hackett, said the recent downturn in prices was driving interest in the technology. "We now need to rather than add to production, we need to make production more efficient and it's that that will change this industry," she said.