Chatbots can order flowers for you on Facebook. An intelligent assistant can schedule a meeting. Now, a new update for your iPhone will be packed with new automations to make our lives easier and maybe even reduce stress, and it won't cost you a cent when it debuts this fall (unless you need to get a new iPhone). This week at a developer conference in California, Apple announced iOS 10 and focused mostly on how to make your phone "think differently" by thinking for you and saving time. There are some brilliant new updates, but here are the ones that impressed me the most and offer the most automation.

We'll also discuss a case study which describes the step by step process of implementing kNN in building models. This algorithm is a supervised learning algorithm, where the destination is known, but the path to the destination is not. Understanding nearest neighbors forms the quintessence of machine learning. Just like Regression, this algorithm is also easy to learn and apply. Let's assume we have several groups of labeled samples.

Between recent controversies over Facebook's Trending Topics feature and the U.S. legal system's "risk assessment" scores in dealing with criminal defendants, there's probably never been broader interest in the mysterious algorithms that are making decisions about our lives. That mystery may not last much longer. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University announced this week that they've developed a method to help uncover the biases that can be encoded in those decision-making tools. Machine-learning algorithms don't just drive the personal recommendations we see on Netflix or Amazon. Increasingly, they play a key role in decisions about credit, healthcare and job opportunities, among other things.

Between recent controversies over Facebook's Trending Topics feature and the U.S. legal system's "risk assessment" scores in dealing with criminal defendants, there's probably never been broader interest in the mysterious algorithms that are making decisions about our lives. That mystery may not last much longer. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University announced this week that they've developed a method to help uncover the biases that can be encoded in those decision-making tools. Machine learning algorithms don't just drive the personal recommendations we see on Netflix or Amazon. Increasingly, they play a key role in decisions about credit, healthcare, and job opportunities, among other things.

McRobots are not coming to a McDonald's near you just yet, according to Steve Easterbrook, the company's chief executive officer. His comments came two days after one of the fast-food giant's former US chief executives suggested that a minimum wage of 15 an hour could lead to McDonald's replacing its workers with robots. Easterbrook was speaking at the company's annual shareholders' meeting when he said that technology is not likely to lead to "job elimination" at McDonald's. Related: Ex-McDonald's CEO suggests replacing employees with robots amid protests "It's a topic of discussion right now," he said, when asked by one of the shareholders if the higher minimum wage would lead to shift to more automated services. McDonald's is in a service business and "will always have an important human element", Easterbrook said.

If you're a man who's tried (or considered trying) online dating, chances are you've worried you might meet a woman looking to use you for a free expensive dinner. It seems trivial in comparison to what women have to worry about when they filter through men on dating sites, but it's still a concern, and it still happens to the best of us. My online dating profile doesn't mention my dad's accomplishments, but in moments of insecurity, I've been known to name-drop in order to keep the woman interested. It's never gone well, and it's never attracted the right women. The women who see me as "Giorgio the teacher" or "Giorgio the writer" have never tried to use me for a free dinner.

A former McDonald's chief executive has warned that raising the minimum wage will spur unemployment as companies will instead employ robots that work for less. "I guarantee you if a 15 minimum wage goes across the country you're going to see a job loss like you can't believe," said Edward Rensi in an appearance on Fox Business Network Tuesday. "It's cheaper to buy a 35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who's inefficient making 15 an hour bagging French fries." The minimum wage has been a hot topic this spring, with some states and employers deciding to up their minimum wage to 15 an hour in the coming years. California will raise its minimum wage to 15 an hour by 2022.

China's labor-intensive industries have been rapidly shifting toward jobs-killing automation in recent years, with a world-leading 16 percent rise in industrial-robot sales last year alone. Now, a new official estimate has put a spotlight on some of the effects of these investments in China's electronics-manufacturing center. Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., more commonly known as Foxconn, has shed 60,000 workers at one factory alone, according to a recent report in the South China Morning Post. Foxconn is most famously known as Apple's largest contract manufacturer, which has faced criticism over the treatment of its workers and for a string of worker suicides. "The Foxconn factory has reduced its employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000, thanks to the introduction of robots," Xu Yulian, spokesman for Kunshan city, told the Post.

Well, if I have a look at my personal life, there are some work categories where AI will be of great value to me--a maid, a driver, an on call doctor, even an assistant to help me filter through the information I have to churn through. When it comes down to it, I don't think AI can replace human communication, a combination of emotional and analytical perspective. We know when we're interacting with a machine, and as complex as we can make AI, will we ever truly feel it is more than talking to a toaster? Camilla Urdahl works for unified communications company Unified Inbox, and will speak to strangers at events about communications strategies, new business models, and how best to accelerate innovation.

In articles, movies, books and TV shows, speculation has been rife that artificial intelligence is going to make us all redundant. Well, most of us, a useless underclass where we are outclassed by AI on every level, our jobs being done better by AI replacements. Facebook has just opened up Messenger to a number of chatbots, which haven't strictly been one hundred percent reliable or user-friendly, not to mention Microsoft's AI twitter bot, Tay, taking a nasty turn into racism and sexism. These, while amusing, initial teething problems will be sorted. As with anything it will be a steep learning curve, but our collective knowledge will get AI to the point where it is useful to society.