For example, in Terminator XXVIII: Rise of the Earthlings (2051), a brave young android is tasked with saving the world from an army of killer humans sent from the future to destroy robotkind. Leading the human rebellion is Barry, an 18-stone unemployed bus driver from Caerphilly whose powers include the ability to eat a foot-long meatball marinara from Subway in under nine seconds. In the war zones of the future, robot generals will send human beings on to the battlefield to check for land mines and other unexploded devices. "Previously, this highly dangerous work was carried out by bomb disposal robots," explains Major-General Sir Optimus Prime. "Sending human beings instead will reduce the risk to robot life. We've lost too many good droids this way."

REUTERS/Joshua RobertsAn engineer makes an adjustment to the robot "The Incredible Bionic Man" at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington October 17, 2013. It's the latest in a series of figures economists have released projecting the impact that AI systems and machines will have on the human workforce, and this one, from the World Economic Forum, predicts a "Fourth Industrial Revolution," characterized by unprecedented "developments in genetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, 3D printing, and biotechnology." And while previous industrial revolutions have catapulted the human workforce forward, this one may set us back -- at least in the short term. According to the researchers at the WEF, "current trends could lead to a net employment impact of more than 5.1 million jobs lost to disruptive labor market changes over the period 2015–2020." The Forum estimates that a grand total of 7.1 million jobs will be lost as a direct result of many of our proudest innovations, and that two-thirds of these jobs will be "concentrated in the Office and Administrative job family."

Microsoft has decided to pull back its first publicly available artificial intelligence (AI) robot, after a horrible test run. Earlier this week, Microsoft released an artificial intelligence named Tay, who ran through an official Twitter Account, @Tayandyou. Within 24 hours of Microsoft releasing the AI on Twitter, Tay was shut down by Microsoft because of the offensive subject matter the bot was tweeting out. In a CNN Money Article by Hope King titled "After racist tweets, Microsoft muzzles teen chat bot Tay," a comment was made by Microsoft on the incident. "Microsoft blamed Tay's behavior on online trolls," according to the article, "saying in a statement that there was a coordinated effort to trick the program's commenting skills."

Perel told ABC News that he initially thought a bomb had been detonated outside the building, adding he was "99 percent ok, I just have a bruise." After realizing what had happened, he quickly removed the memory card from the GoPro camera attached to the DJI drone. "While sitting at my desk I heard what sounded like a missile followed by a huge bang and glass all over me," he wrote in the YouTube video description. "Turns out someone lost control of their drone.

Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise Immune System technology, presented a radical vision of cyber defense at InfoSec World 2016, Orlando, yesterday, where'immune system'-inspired technology can automatically find and respond to evolving cyber-threats. IT Security Architect at Steelcase, Stuart Berman, joined Sean O'Connor, Director at Darktrace on the conference stage as a guest speaker, to discuss how enterprises can tackle the cyber security challenges of tomorrow. As one of the world's leading manufacturers of corporate office environments, Steelcase is known for embracing new technology and innovation, and was quick to recognize the importance of adopting new models of security. Speaking at the InfoSec World Conference in Florida yesterday, Stuart Berman, who has over 20 years' experience in information security, shared his views on the future of cyber defense. "Math and machine learning are an important part of advanced threat defense, in the context of today's fast-moving, distributed work environments," Berman commented.

Relatives and tribal elders in southeastern Afghanistan are demanding an investigation into the killing of 17 people by US drones this week, claiming the air strikes hit civilians - not members of armed groups. US army officials said on Thursday two air strikes in Paktika province, near the Pakistani border, had only targeted fighters, without any evidence of civilian casualties. Afghan officials confirmed to Al Jazeera that 17 people had been killed in Wednesday's strikes in Gomal district, but added they all had links to the Taliban. Yet, local leaders and relatives insisted on Saturday all of those killed were innocent civilians. "We demand an investigation into the brutal killings of these innocent people," Nimatullah Baburi, a deputy of the Paktika provincial council, told Al Jazeera.

SpaceX has finally managed to safely land its re-usable rocket onto a barge, after previous repeated attempts saw the Falcon 9 kit explode. Successfully landing the booster onto the large "drone ship" is a huge step forward for SpaceX and its found Elon Musk, and for private space travel more generally. The company hopes that the re-usable rockets will make space travel much cheaper in future, since they can be re-filled and then sent back into space rather than re-building from scratch. Mr Musk celebrated the successful landing by referencing the T-Pain song "I'm On A Boat". He later deleted the tweet.

The latest buzz about Panama Papers has shaken the world. As we all know the Panama Papers is a set of 2.6 TB of data that includes 11.5 million confidential documents with detailed information about more than 214,000 offshore companies listed by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca. The Panama Papers has set an excellent example for the world about the importance of data science when it comes to analyzing big data. This leak makes us realize that appropriate approaches are needed to handle the challenges of data management for the present and the future. Let's take a deep dive into the Panama Papers and dig down the secret behind the biggest leak ever This leak contains 4.8 million emails, 3 million database entries, 21.5 million PDFs, around one million images and 320,000 text documents.

Small business financing can be challenging and risky, especially with the uncertain nature of small businesses given that large corporations are aggressively penetrating various market niches. While traditional financial institutions may turn away from SMEs, some alternative lenders are quite successful in delivering financing to these businesses. One of the market leaders in the alternative small business finance space, CAN Capital, has announced that it reached 6 billion in delivering access to working capital for small businesses. During its 18 years in business, CAN Capital has provided access to more working capital than any other company in the space. To date, CAN Capital has helped facilitate over 170,000 small business fundings in hundreds of unique industries, such as restaurants, medical offices and beauty salons.

Before assessing the potential impact Artificial Intelligence can have in the health insurance industry, it's important to understand what the term "AI" really means. In general, AI refers to a series of algorithms that can collect, process and analyze data on their own, without being explicitly programmed, to make predictions and insights far beyond the capabilities of manual processing. Originally conceived back in the 1950's companies have been attempting to design and improve machine learning models for decades only to have seen little commercial success. But thanks to hardware advances and the emergence of big data analytics, companies are recognizing and taking advantage of the true power of AI. In the health insurance space, there are many opportunities where AI and analytics can be applied to increase organizational productivity and drive new competitive advantages in today's fast-paced and complex business environment. One of the channels to increase productivity is through improved fraud detection, which is a major issue in the health insurance industry.