Diabetes is one of deadliest diseases in the world. It is not only a disease but also a creator of different kinds of diseases like heart attack, blindness, kidney diseases, etc. The normal identifying process is that patients need to visit a diagnostic center, consult their doctor, and sit tight for a day or more to get their reports. Moreover, every time they want to get their diagnosis report, they have to waste their money in vain. But with the rise of Machine Learning approaches we have the ability to find a solution to this issue, we have developed a system using data mining which has the ability to predict whether the patient has diabetes or not.

The fact that these are mere electrical components means that they can be adapted to more than brain-emulating computers. This technology can hold special significance for devices considered to be a part of the Internet of Things. According to co-author Dr Themis Prodromakis, "This new type of hardware could find a diverse range of applications in pervasive sensing technologies to fuel real-time monitoring in harsh or inaccessible environments; a highly desirable capability for enabling the Internet of Things vision."

When it comes to robots replacing humans, we might think we have the upper hand since we're the ones who build and program them but that's not neccesarily the case anymore. Google is taking a different approach to training its robots – it's letting them teach each other. Researchers at Google have released a report showing how they connected 14 robotic arms together and used convolutional neural networks to let them teach themselves how to pick things up. The approach mimics how young children learn between the ages of one and four years old, and is essentially helping the robots to develop reliable hand-eye coordination. Typically, a robot would be programmed to carry out specific tasks, but this method shows how they can learn through trial-and-error in combination with a neural network – the same way a child learns how to do something by watching other people.

Welcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or what the World Economic Forum calls the "fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres." One aspect of it, Artificial Intelligence, is poised to change our lives dramatically. In this ongoing series, we will explore what the impact of AI will be on us as humans and designers. Our first installment, by Rob Girling, takes a look at what makes the stakes higher than ever before. Already, artificial intelligence is all around us, from self-driving cars and drones to virtual assistants and software that translate or invest.

I love to visit Machine Learning meetups organized in Madrid (Spain) and I'm a regular attendant to Tensorflow Madrid and Machine Learning Spain groups. At least I was until the begining of the Self-Driving Car course, but that is another story. The fact is that too often, during "pizza & beer" time or networking I heard people talking about Deep Learning. Sentences like "where should I begin? Tensorflow is the most popular, isn't it?",

Earlier this month, Apple made a splash when it told the artificial intelligence research community that the secretive company would start publishing AI papers of its own. Not even a month later, it's already starting to make good on that promise. Apple has published its very first AI paper on December 22. (The paper was submitted for publication on November 15.) The paper describes a technique for how to improve the training of an algorithm's ability to recognize images using computer-generated images rather than real-world images. In machine learning research, using synthetic images (like those from a video game) to train neural networks can be more efficient than using real-world images.

There have been some alarming reports recently about the possibility of artificial intelligence leaving half of the world potentially unemployed. Recent research shows that within 30 years, robots will be in a position to perform almost all jobs that are held by humans right now. A recent detailed study from the Martin Oxford School has speculated that approximately 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of automation. As there may be some truth in this report, it is not likely that half of the world's jobs will be taken by machines in 30 years. Additionally, some of the jobs facing the risk of automation might not be automated because of technical, societal and economical reasons.

In February, I took a job designing the personality of a chatbot called Kai. I ghostwrite the lines it says, and I have thought, while testing it, that talking to myself has rarely been so unpredictable. Kai, which was conceived by my employer, Kasisto, to help customers with online banking, works over text message, Slack, and especially Facebook Messenger, where more than thirty-four thousand other chatbots have joined it since April, when Facebook opened the platform to developers. Many of these bots possess no personality. The ones created by CNN and the Wall Street Journal, for instance, greet first-time users with "we," as if the whole newsroom were on the other side of the screen, and run keyword searches rather than engaging in conversation.

Ruslan Salakhutdinov received his PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto in 2009. After spending two postdoctoral years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab, he joined the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science. In 2016 he joined the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University as an associate professor. Ruslan's primary interests lie in deep learning, machine learning, and large-scale optimization. His main research goal is to understand the computational and statistical principles required for discovering structure in large amounts of data.

In the advertising and marketing industry, event marketing has proved to be the fastest growing approach. Event marketers have adopted various new methods of marketing today, and video or live streaming is perhaps the trend which organizations are embracing willingly and promptly. Sharat Saran, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at ON24, analyzes the shape of things to come, "Following from its rise in 2016, next year we'll start to see marketers in both the B2B and B2C worlds really leverage live video for their initiatives – particularly those types of solutions that can provide tangible insights and data on the back end. Video had long been a black hole for data – where you don't know how long someone watched and what they engaged in – but the latest technology shifts make it a gold mine of stats. Savvy marketers will make the move to glean invaluable intelligence from this channel, and helping transform how they engage with consumers."