Artificial intelligence should be used to provide children with one-to-one tutoring to improve their learning and monitor their well-being, academics have argued. One-to-one tutoring has long been thought the most-effective approach to teaching but would be too expensive to provide for all students. However, in a paper, academics from University College London's Knowledge Lab argue that AI systems could simulate human one-to-one tutoring by delivering learning activities tailored to a student's needs and providing targeted and timely feedback, all without an individual teacher present. Instead of being examined in traditional ways, children could be assessed in a more complete manner by collecting data about their performance over a long period, providing employers and educational institutions with a richer picture of their abilities. The report argues that AI could radically transform our education system for the better – but it is being held back by funding.

At Silicon Valley's inaugural Comic Con, we gave a talk called "Superbabies vs. AI." Astro, who is captain of moonshots at Alphabet's X division, argued that genetically engineered babies are going to destroy civilization as we know it. He sees the horror of eugenics, X-Men, and a planet entirely populated by the sort of kids who beat him up in middle school, all rolled into one. Danielle, a physician-scientist and wife of said captain of moonshots, argued that the robot apocalypse is going to annihilate humanity. Super intelligent computers will eventually destroy us all, no matter what sort of Asimovian instructions we try to give them.

Toyota is forming a new data science company in partnership with Microsoft that's designed to free customers "from the tyranny of technology." The company called Toyota Connected has a goal of simplifying technology so it's easier to use, perhaps even getting rid of distracting and complicated touch screens that now are in most cars and replacing them with heads-up or voice-activated technology, said Zack Hicks, the company's CEO who also is Toyota Motor America's chief information officer. "I think people are really tired of fumbling with multiple devices and having this disjointed experience," Hicks said as Toyota announced the venture Monday. Like other automakers, Toyota Connected will research connecting cars to each other and to homes, as well as telematics features that learn and anticipate a driver's habits. The company, like other automakers, will explore transmitting a driver's health data to a doctor or driving patterns to an insurance company so people are insured based on where they travel, Toyota said.

DeepMind's deep learning software AlphaGo conquered one of the world's greatest Go players, Lee Sedol, last week – a task that many thought would take another decade to accomplish. The AI approaches AlphaGo used to beat Sedol might be indicative of future trends in AI in general – particularly in the domain of healthcare. In the world of one-to-one boardgames Go is special because, despite it's apparent simplicity, the strategies required to play are considered to be intimately "human" in their reliance on intuition above calculation. While the combinations of many chess scenarios can sometimes be searched thoroughly to 3 or 4 moves head, the number of possible Go moves is borderline incalculable, so the same "brute force" computing strategies that allowed IMB's Deep Blue to defeat Gary Kasparov are not possible on a Go board. Where a human Go player can – in theory – play against herself, it's most practical for her to play against another player to practice, train, and come in contact with different game scenarios.

Business leaders all over the world are waking up to the fact that artificial intelligence is no longer confined to science fiction movies but could in fact disrupt their industry. A recent survey of the world's top CEOs indicated that 50% believe AI will revolutionise their business in the next 3-5 years, making now a crucial time to plan and implement a roadmap to integrate AI solutions into many businesses. The AI Summit 2016 is the world's only event dedicated to the practical implications of Artificial Intelligence for enterprises and is aimed at providing business leaders with a forum to learn about the latest developments in intelligent solutions that threaten to disrupt their industry. The event brings together senior business leaders from 35 countries and offers a comprehensive overview of all the technologies under the AI umbrella including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Voice/Image/Video Recognition and Cognitive Computing; focusing on how these are implemented across industries to help increase productivity while reducing costs. Speakers from around the world include CIOs/CTOs, Chief/Head Data & Analytics Officers, Innovation Heads from BT, Harvard, AIA, AIG, American Airlines, Tesco, VISA, BDP, TVH, Deutsche Bank, MetLife, UK Government, Petrobras, Engie, Toyota, UBER and Goldman Sachs.

Terms were not disclosed, but it has all the markings of an "acqhire" sort of deal. Founder and CTO Richard Socher announced the deal in a post on the MetaMind website. Socher says on his personal website that his new title is Chief Scientist at Salesforce. MetaMind's area of expertise is deep learning, the subset of artificial intelligence focused on data processing that is en vogue with Google, Facebook and other tech companies. The startup's specialty is natural language processing -- allowing computers to analyze relationships between words.

Since the debut of Avatar in 2008, 3D movies has rapidly developed into mainstream technology. Roughly 10 to 20 3D movies are produced each year and the launch of Oculus Rift and other VR head set is only going to drive up the demand. Producing 3D movies, however, is still hard. There are two ways of doing this and in practice they are about equally popular: shooting with a special 3D camera or shooting in 2D and manually convert to 3D. But 3D cameras are expensive and unwieldy while manual conversion involves an army of "depth artists" who sit there and draw depth maps for each frame.

The program name is Planet and uses earning neural network program. Thanks to Google, a new artificial intelligence system is outperforming humans in spotting the origins of images. Google has unveiled a new system to identify where photos are taken. The task, simple when images contain famous landmarks or unique architecture, goes beyond the overt to examine small clues hidden in the pixels. The program, named PlaNet, uses a deep-learning neural network, which means the more images PlaNet sees, the smarter it gets.

Mark Zuckerberg has some pretty big plans for artificial intelligence this year. Until he figures out how to literally become Iron Man and build an AI to run his home based on his voice commands, though, he's going to have to it for more practical purposes. Such as giving blind people a chance to experience images on their phones. Facebook has released a new feature for its iOS app, called automatic alternative text, which will use artificial intelligence to allow blind people to experience photos through the use pf object recognition technology. The technology will give them a description of what is in each photo, including a list of items that appear when they are swiping through on the app.

Facebook is using AI to help describe images posted by users. Facebook's iOS app is using object recognition technology to give blind people an audio breakdown of what's going on in photos posted on the social network. The new accessibility feature, rolling out today, could be a major improvement on existing screen readers, which largely focus on text. Until now, when blind users were checking their Facebook newsfeed and came across an image, they would only hear the word "photo" and the name of the person who shared it, which left the user still dependent on friends and family to interpret an image. To improve the experience for blind people, Facebook has used its vast trove of user images to train a deep neural network that drives a computer vision system built to recognise objects in images.