International Business Machines Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. agreed to mingle their artificial-intelligence technologies in a bid to boost sales of data-analytics offerings.

The Chancellor Philip Hammond will outline plans in Wednesday's Budget to make hundreds of millions of pounds available to scientists and researchers to develop solutions to hi-tech challenges including artificial intelligence and robotics, next generation batteries and new techniques for manufacturing medicines.

This year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) set the battleground for another skirmish between long-time Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) foes AMD and NVIDIA. NVIDIA is the reigning champ in discrete desktop graphics chips with 72.4% market share (per Mercury Research), while AMD has announced its new GPU architecture, called Vega, which will attempt to gain additional market share when it launches in Q2. But NVIDIA is not content to sit back and wait for AMD to catch up – it has gone on the offensive with a new high-performance GPU based on a tweaked version of its existing high-performance Pascal GPU architecture. NVIDIA's new performance champ is the GTX 1080 Ti and preorders have already sold out. NVIDIA hosted an Editors' Day with industry analysts, press, and tech enthusiast sites to introduce updates to its extensive set of developer tools.

Facebook asked the BBC to send it sexualised images of children, then reported it to police for doing so, according to the news organisation. The developments came as part of a BBC investigation into the social network's tools for moderating images that are shared on the site, which the BBC says is insufficient and allows for posts of pictures that include images of child abuse. As part of that investigation, the BBC claims that Facebook asked to see the pictures that were under discussion. When the BBC journalists sent them to the site, it said, Facebook reported the news organisation to the police and cancelled all of its interviews. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Too many businesses now are pitching AI almost as though it's batteries included. I think that's dangerous because it's going to potentially lead to over-investment in things that overpromise. Then when they under-deliver, it has a deflationary effect on people's attitudes toward the space. Not everything requires the latest whiz-bang technology. In fact, the dirty secret of machine learning--and, in a way, venture capital--is so many problems could be solved by just applying simple regression analysis. Yet, very few people, very few industries do the bare minimum.

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The Chinese government, who recently announced they want to build AI based cruise missiles and a new nationwide Social Credit Scoring system, has approved a plan to create a next generation artificial intelligence (AI) national laboratory network which is expected to help China close the gap with its Western counterparts, many of whom now seem to be driving at full speed towards a world where artificial intelligence is the norm, not the exception. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) approved plans for a national engineering lab to support the research and development of deep learning technologies last week, but in a twist the lab will be online only, and won't have a physical presence. The NDRC commissioned Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant, to create the lab in collaboration with Tsinghua University and Peking University, as well as the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and the China Electronics Standardization Institute. The project will be led by Baidu's deep learning institute chief Lin Yuanqing and scientist Xu Wei, along with academics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhang Bo and Li Wei. Baidu, who by all accounts are rapidly becoming the Google of China, certainly with respect to AI, will also provide the deep learning computing, algorithms and big data for the project. The lab will focus on seven different areas of the field: deep learning, computer vision and sensing, computer listening, biometric identification, new forms of human-computer interaction, standardized services, and deep learning intellectual property rights.

At a media conference held in China, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun hinted that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon become mainstream and will be a standard inclusion in consumer products in the future. The conference with Lei Jun was first reported by MyDrivers which reveals the company's push for artificial intelligence. Jun explained how the future of technology companies is AI. The CEO explained that a number of major breakthroughs have been made and thanks to this, Xiaomi has in store a product line up for the near future that is based on artificial intelligence. Also confirmed at the conference, was the company's AI laboratory.

It has been almost 20 years since Deep Blue famously defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov, and one years since Google developed an AI which defeated the world's greatest Go player. Now AI development has seemingly taken a further step in defeating some of the world's greatest players in Super Smash Bros. Melee. As Quartz reports, an AI developed by MIT student Vlad Firoiu was able to defeat some of the best Smash players in the world, representing a new frontier in how AI can develop to beat humans in every game. While the AI did not face the very best players, one of the players who lost admitted that "I am not sure if anyone could beat it." While this accomplishment is impressive, AI still has improvements it can make until it can actually outthink humans in every single game out there.

As a general rule of thumb, the law and government are slow-moving and deliberate. That's really handy for important things that you have to get right, but the trouble is that disruptive technology tends to move much faster. That's bad enough if the disruptive technology you're talking about is (say) the sharing economy, but it's more serious when it's something that Elon Musk once described as "potentially more dangerous than nukes".