A steady pencil-pour of steamed milk right in the heart of the espresso a Flat White dot in the making. Among many others, you know. One of our core principles is taking care of one another. That means mutual support, both professionally and personally. This ethos extends to our customers, who we figuratively (and sometimes literally) smother in hugs.

A lot of people are concerned about the coming robot and AI revolution. While it is true some jobs will be lost to robots in the process, quite a few sectors will remain virtually unchanged. Keep in mind this does not mean everyone should switch careers all of a sudden, as the change to robot-based employment will not happen overnight by any means. Some jobs require a human element, and until robots become far more advanced, the following jobs will not be on the bubble anytime soon. The healthcare sector will be hit quite hard by the impending robotization. However, certain aspects of healthcare cannot be replaced by robots in the near future.

This year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) celebrates 50 years of the ACM Turing Award, the most prestigious technical award in the computing industry. The Turing Award, generally regarded as the'Nobel Prize of computing', is an annual prize awarded to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community". In celebration of the 50 year milestone, renowned computer scientist Melanie Mitchell spoke to CBR's Ellie Burns about artificial intelligence (AI) – the biggest breakthroughs, hurdles and myths surrounding the technology. EB: What are the most important examples of Artificial Intelligence in mainstream society today? MM: There are many important examples of AI in the mainstream; some very visible, others blended in so well with other methods that the AI part is nearly invisible.

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was first introduced at a Dartmouth college conference in 1956. At the time, AI founder, Herbert Simon, predicted, "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do." But what Simon and the other optimistic early AI experts failed to appreciate are the numerous challenges involved in relying solely on machines - entities that lack the emotion that informs the human decision making process. Despite the fact that the AI field was born more than half a century ago, we've only recently in the last few years made monumental strides in advancing the artificial intelligence game. More specifically, we've started to transition from a model whereby AI assists humans to one whereby humans assist AI.

Our CEO Bill McDermott says, "Everything has to start with empathy for the end user." So, more precisely, what is empathy? It is "The quality of feeling and understanding another persons' situation in the present movement and communicating this to the person." A machine's ability to read the "emotion states" of a mind (body language, voice, and facial expression) is critical in the new paradigm of an autonomous system. Empathy changes the way we feel and more importantly, machines can be trained to recognize, express, and "have" emotions by reading those three emotion states.

I will dispense with any amenities and cut right to the chase. When it comes to corporate learning and training the numbers are truly staggering. Trust me, there's a lot more where this came from meaning there is no shortage of stats and research that speak to the benefits of e-Learning. In a piece last year for PC Magazine, Rob Marvin wrote something that of course struck a chord with me. I say of course because of me being the pop culture savant that I am.

The news feed below is from my #4IR page. As always, my focus is on investing. The Fourth Industrial Revolution represents change, with tech innovation leading to industrial and economic disruption. The three pillars of THIS Industrial Revolution are Agtech, Fintech, and Artificial Intelligence (in all it's shapes in sizes, from Big Data IOT to Deep Learning). Which companies can we invest in TODAY to take advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

Technology has long been considered a resource-liberating mechanism, granting us better access to resources like information, food and energy. Yet what is often overlooked is the revolutionary impact technology can have on our ability to create art. Many artists are reacting to a world of accelerating change and rapid digitization through their work. Emerging artistic mediums like 3D printing, virtual reality and artificial intelligence are providing artists with unprecedented forms of self-expression. Many are also embracing the rise of intelligent machines and leveraging the man-machine symbiosis to create increasingly powerful works of art.

Facebook has provided more details about its Lumos machine learning platform, which aims to understand images and video, and is designed to be used without deep learning and computer vision training. The next wave of IT innovation will be powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. We look at the ways companies can take advantage of it and how to get started. The Lumos platform, announced at Web Summit last year, is a scalable system to sort through photos and videos. Lumos is the front end to a new set of 12 image classification changes made to Facebook's automatic alt text (AAT) for photos and its FBLearner Flow system.

One of the hottest topics at the moment is the development of Artificial Intelligence. My question What references are there in the Bible to Artificial Intelligence and to our relationship with this new technology? Obviously there are no direct references but I guess there are references that could be interpreted in this manner.