The experts realized the transformative power of A.I., and robotics, while it also seems to be willing to tackle ethical concerns, legal issues around these new technologies and their consequences on the labor market.

Cognitive computing and AI have become a big part of business plans going forward. A recent survey finds one in three businesses say they already have fully implemented AI across their organizations. Another 20% have implemented AI at parts of their business. It's surprising to imagine that 33% of today's organizations are already full-functioning AI enterprises. It's not clear from the survey results, posted by EY, what respondents consider to be "AI" – it's possible they are looking at advanced analytics and algorithms and branding that as artificial intelligence.

This is a contributed article by Irina Raicu, the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. "Sometimes a type of glory lights up the mind of a man," writes John Steinbeck in his novel "East of Eden," which is set in a California valley -- Salinas, though, not Silicon. "It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. Okay, but what does that have to do with artificial intelligence? I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good. That line finds an echo in our times. Various ethicists are writing, these days, about the concerns that AI might eliminate some things "we hold good" -- and not just meaning "jobs." They write, for example, about the threat of "moral de-skilling" in the age of algorithmic decision-making. About what might be lost or diminished by the advent of robot caretakers. About what role humans will play, in general, in an age of machine learning and neural networks making so many of the decisions that shape human lives. "It is true," Steinbeck writes, A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. We are in the process of shifting from the kind of mass production that Steinbeck talked about to a kind of mass production that requires much less human involvement. If "mass method" was bound to get into our thinking back then, how is it shaping our thinking now? Is this what the current focus on data collection and analysis of patterns is about? "In our time," adds Steinbeck, This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. In our own time, AI is spreading into all the various spheres of our lives, and there is tension and great concern about its impact. We are confused by dueling claims that AI will eliminate jobs or create new ones; that it will eliminate bias or perpetuate it and make it harder to identify; that it will lead us to longer, happier lives -- or to extinction. "At such a time," writes Steinbeck's narrator, "it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions.

Most adults would hope that they could outsmart a 10-year-old. But a tricky new IQ quiz by Playbuzz, which is designed for schoolchildren, has left even the brainiest stumped. The challenging questions test out your numerical and linguistic skills, as well as your general knowledge and ability to problem solve. While the quiz starts off gently with a couple of relatively simple questions, it gets increasingly more difficult as you go along. So, how many answer can you get right?

Human intelligence is hard enough to measure, and over the decades today's ubiquitous Intelligence Quotient, or "IQ," test, the standard by which we are all judged, has caused ferocious controversy. But today we have a new, potentially even thornier dilemma – how we assess the intelligence of today's and tomorrow's increasingly capable Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, and perhaps, one day, even the Avatars and robots that they'll inhabit. While there are those who argue we shouldn't even bother trying to measure AI's IQ, whether it's because AI is seen as an "rapidly evolving alien, artificial and synthetic" form of intelligence by nature that is "dramatically different to human intelligence," or because today there are already so many different variants and variations of AI it makes "one standard to rule them all" almost impossible to define, being able to measure things seems deeply engrained into human behaviour. Therefore, it's obviously inevitable that at some point we will find ourselves adopting a new standard, an IQ test for AI that "once and for all" can tell us if we are in fact dumber than the 10,000 IQ chip in our trainers which is slated by Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, who now owns ARM, to arrive by 2047. Over the decades there have been a number of attempts by companies, such as Facebook who recently wrote a white paper on how to "Evaluate the intelligence of AI," and individuals, such as Alan Turning with his Turing Test, to create an standards based test but in the main very few of them have been hailed as credible.

Author and futurist Ricard Yonck contemplates the greatest partnership of all time: Humanity and technology. Their continued evolutionary blending will allow us to seed the universe with the rarest and most precious of gifts: Life. Will humanity and technology still thrive millions of years from now? Yonck believes this amazing partnership can continue to lift us up and enable us to journey from the confines of our planet throughout our solar system and beyond. "The more I learn, the more I realize just how intricately interconnected everything in our universe is – past, present and future." Futurist Richard Yonck is founder and lead futurist for Intelligent Future Consulting where he consults, writes and speaks about emerging trends and technologies, with a focus on their impacts on business and society.

Ideally, an interface will surface the deepest principles underlying a subject, revealing a new world to the user. When you learn such an interface, you internalize those principles, giving you more powerful ways of reasoning about that world. Those principles are the diffs in your understanding. They're all you really want to see, everything else is at best support, at worst unimportant dross. The purpose of the best interfaces isn't to be user-friendly in some shallow sense.

We'd all like to think we'd fare well in an intelligence test - but this fiendishly difficult quiz has proved too tricky for even the brainboxes among us. The new IQ test from Playbuzz has a mixture of language and maths-based questions sure to test your all-round mental abilities. In fact, according to the creators of the quiz, only one per cent of people who have taken the test so far have managed to get more than 4 out of 7 answers right. Those who score highly on the test tend to have a long-attention span, and can grasp mathematical concepts quickly. So, are you ready to see if you should deserve to be in Mensa?

Over the past few years, AI has dominated news cycles and captured the imagination of entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers alike. We can see the potential: self-driving transportation on-demand, robotic assistants in the home, and Amazon Echo version 14.0 to do things the human mind could never even contemplate. But as much as we talk and read about AI, many of us still think about it in the wrong way. People compare artificial intelligence to human intelligence too much and often see human intellect as the end goal for AI. Human intelligence is familiar, and it is natural to want to use it as the bar.