The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, has purchased Canadian artificial intelligence start-up Meta, which uses A.I. to read and comprehend scientific papers and then provide insights to researchers, as part of its mission to eradicate disease around the world. Meta capabilities will be unified in a tool made available for free to scientists. Meta co-founder and chief executive Sam Molyneux said in a statement, "We are very excited about what lies ahead." The start-up now joins an organization started by Zuckerberg and his wife, which in September, pledged $3 billion over the next decade in an effort to end all disease, pouring some of the Facebook founder's fortune into innovative research to meet the goal. "This is a big goal," said Zuckerberg at a San Francisco event where he announced the effort of the philanthropic organization established by Mark and his wife in 2015.

An artificial intelligence called Libratus has beaten four of the world's best poker players in a gruelling 20-day tournament that culminated late on Monday. The Brains vs Artificial Intelligence competition saw four human players – Dong Kim, Jason Les, Jimmy Chou and Daniel McAulay – spend 11 hours each day stationed at computer screens in the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh battling a piece of software at no-limit Texas Hold'em, a two-player unlimited form of poker. Machines have already become smart enough to beat humans at other games such as chess and Go, but poker is more difficult because it's a game with imperfect information. With chess and Go, each player can see the entire board, but with poker, players don't get to see each other's hands. Furthermore, the AI is required to bluff and correctly interpret misleading information in order to win.

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This year is expected to be a great leap forward in automation and the development of artificial intelligence, as machine learning and neural networks mean that robots can learn and understand more than ever before. But with this rise in automation has come a fear that the robots will completely supplant humans in the workforce. A YouTube video called "Humans Need Not Apply" released in 2014 has argued that much of the human workforce could be supplanted by robots, and that robots could even take over creative jobs which was assumed could only be done by humans. To some degree, these fears are overblown. The more likely scenario is that humans and AI will work together, covering for each other's strength and weaknesses and improving the economy.

In the hope of creating a'human-AI' cyborgs, Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla may be working on computers that can be implanted into people's brains. The astonishing revelation came in response to a tweet, asking Musk if he was working on'neural lace' – a way of installing computers into the human brain. It is not known what the brain chip could be used for, but Musk has previously said that it will be the'thing that really matters for humanity to achieve symbiosis with machines.' Musk remained elusive in response, saying: 'Maybe next month.' This isn't the first time that Musk has hinted that Tesla may be working on artificial intelligence.

The call for proposals is open for the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference NY 2017 now through January 18, 2017. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this episode I spoke with Vikash Mansinghka, research scientist at MIT, where he leads the Probabilistic Computing Project, and co-founder of Empirical Systems. I've long wanted to introduce listeners to recent developments in probabilistic programming, and I found the perfect guide in Mansinghka.

Whether you are a sports fan or not Big Data and Machine Learning is a trend that is not only impacting sports but our lives in general. From Google Search and Translate, to the Amazon referral engine, and Pinterest suggestions, Machine Learning is behind much of the intelligence and workings of these services. What does all of this have to with the Australian Open? Serena Williams and Roger Federer won the 2017 Australian Open. When you watch the matches, there is some fascinating commentary which shares how one player is doing versus the opponent.

The 2017 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards is a competition to showcase the companies with the most impressive technology that are paving the future in financial services and capital markets. To get you prepared for this year's awards, Benzinga will profile each fintech company that has applied. For this installment, we spoke with I Know First (answers have been edited for length and clarity). I Know First: I Know First's self-learning forecasting algorithm utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to find relationships and patterns in large sets of historical stock market data in order to analyze and predict behavior and identify the best daily market opportunities. I Know First: On the institutional side, our typical clients are family offices, hedge funds and other asset management firms, as well as banks.

Technology has long since advanced to the point where it can make decisions better than people can, and yet grocery managers are still happy to use their own experience to drive decision-making, sacrificing speed, efficiency and savings. By optimising key strategic areas of pricing and replenishment, and automating decisions using machine learning, retailers can combine the speed of their decisions with their KPIs (margins, volumes, mark downs). Yet still retailers are not currently marrying the two in a responsive and effective way. As part of Blue Yonder's recent survey of 750 grocery retailers across the globe, we asked some probing questions about decision making and customer service. The research revealed that grocery retailers believe robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence will be some of the key game changers for the industry.

With technologies like Alexa from Amazon, Home from Google, and Siri from Apple it's clear that human conversation is becoming a genuine alternative to traditional user interfaces. Throughout the year, I started building a deeper Chatbot example using Watson Conversation, and working with Stefania Kaczmarczyk. This is the first of a series of posts that looks at Watson Conversation holistically in the context of the software design and engineering of a Chatbot example. In this first post I'll introduce the concept with a short video clip, and review how we built the dialog using Watson Conversation. Most of all I wanted to experiment with a Chatbot that worked with personal data, accessed from a database.