JAXenter: The term'intelligence' is not easy to understand. What's the best way to explain it and how can we apply it to machines? Marisa Tschopp: Human intelligence has been a very controversial topic and has undergone dramatic changes in history since the beginnings in the early 19th century. Intelligence gained importance especially in the educational context as these "mental abilities" were the best predictors for success in school and aimed to place students into the right classes. There are various, very elaborated theories, that define human intelligence.

If you are like a lot of dealers today, you are considering using some form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your dealership. In fact, you may already have it in play via chat, texting, emails, etc. to your customers. The truth is, it's probably a good idea when employed in the right way and blended with committed and capable human intelligence. When I went to the Consumer Electronics Show this year, AI was all the rage from robots that could play ping pong to communications applications that assisted business customers. I was intrigued when I read about the hamburger flipping robot "employed" at a California burger chain.

Artificial intelligence has the capability to far surpass our intelligence in a relatively short period of time. But AI expert Ben Goertzel knows that the foundation has to be strong for that artificial brain power to grow exponentially. It's all good to be super-intelligent, he argues, but if you don't have rationality and empathy to match it the results will be wasted and we could just end up with an incredible number-cruncher. In this illuminating chat, we makes the case for thinking bigger. Ben Goertzel's most recent book is AGI Revolution: An Inside View of the Rise of Artificial General Intelligence.

Nonetheless, this has our curiosity. What's more, the news also presents us the chance that we seldom get in the mainstream media to further debate points of contention related to AI, like how Sikka's admiration for China should not overlook the massive state surveillance that is reportedly being carried out (think –facial recognition) or that there is a genuine basis for being careful on how we develop these technologies and the impact that they could have on the human society. AI is the future but how we get there is the debate.

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smart people have bigger brain cells than their peers. As well as being bulkier, the cells are better connected to their neighbours, allowing them to process more information at a faster rate. If results of the study are confirmed, it could help researchers find a way to enhance our intelligence. Smart people have bigger brain cells that are better connected than those of less intelligent people, say scientists. A study, led by Natalia Goriounova at the Free University Amsterdam, gave an IQ test to 35 people who were due to undergo brain surgery, according to report in New Scientist.

Nintendo is coming out of a rough patch in its 128-year history. After spending most of the 00s riding high on the success and profits of its DS and Wii consoles, the current decade has seen the Japanese company struggle to adapt to the changes that its rivals and smartphones have wrought upon the video game world. The death of company president Satoru Iwata in 2016, who presided over a creatively and financially brilliant period in Nintendo's history, left many wondering how the company would find its way again. In March 2017, Nintendo's fortunes turned around again with the launch of the Switch, a smart portable games console that can also be docked next to a TV and played at home. It has proven extremely popular, and its flagship games Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2 and Zelda: Breath of the Wild hoovered up awards last year, including three Baftas at this month's ceremony.

Last week, PLOS Medicine and PLOS ONE editors Linda Nevin and Meghan Byrne attended Human Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence (HIAI) in Medicine, a Stanford Presence Center symposium. HIAI brought together thought leaders in medicine, computer science and policy to envisage an inclusive, equitable and humane experience in medicine with AI solutions. A few highlights from the symposium are described here. "Supervised learning is the ultimate example of'garbage in, garbage out'," computer scientist and former Stanford President John L. Hennessy told the audience in his opening remarks at last Tuesday's Human Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence (HIAI) in Medicine Symposium, hosted by the Stanford Presence Center. Dr. Hennessy was honored at the symposium for his recent Turing Award, but his talk stayed true to the Presence mission--championing human intelligence in medicine as artificial intelligence (AI)'s role in the clinic grows.

Enrollment in the society, founded in 1946, is open only to individuals who score in the 98th percentile or higher on a pre-approved intelligence test. To join this clever club, hopefuls must demonstrate excellence in verbal-, spatial-, and mathematical-reasoning skills. These four problems are what today's aspirants might see on a typical IQ assessment.

Whatever the encouraging results and the progress of #ArtificialIntelligence (#AI) the world can see, we are far from the development of an intelligence such as human intelligence. More and more studies show the major importance of our sensory relation to our environment. In his book, Descartes' Error, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio writes that "Nature appears to have built the apparatus of rationality not just on top of the apparatus of biological regulation, but also from it and with it ". In other words, the human thinks with all his body, not just with his brain. This need of physical survival in an uncertain world can be at the root of the suppleness and power of human intelligence.

The U.S. Senate and House hearings last week on Facebook's use of data and foreign interference in the U.S. election raised important challenges concerning data privacy, security, ethics, transparency, and responsibility. They also illuminated what could become a vast chasm between traditional privacy and security laws and regulations and rapidly evolving internet-related business models and activities. To help close this gap, technologists need to seriously reevaluate their relationship with government. Here are four ways to start. Help to increase tech literacy in Washington.