Taipei, Nov. 2 (CNA) Artificial intelligence (AI) is not destructive, asserted Rob High, International Business Machine (IBM) Watson Chief Technology Officer, at an annual IBM forum held in Taipei Thursday. His remark came in the wake of a United Kingdom's Daily Mail report that Facebook shut down a chat bot experiment after two AI robots developed their own language to communicate. Answering questions at the forum, High said that even though some people may believe that chat bots are learning new languages, he thinks they are simply trying to optimize the language. Humans shouldn't think that AIs will develop consciousness or naturally produce ethics, but they should bear the responsibility to make sure that AIs are being used ethically, said High. Watson is a computer system developed by IBM that is capable of answering questions posed by humans verbally. In 2011, it competed on the popular game show Jeopardy and won first place, beating human contestants.

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At this year's Genius of Things (GoT) event in Boston, IBM announced that we are working with Golden State Foods to embrace two big opportunities for growth and change in the food services industry. Golden State Foods are using Watson IoT to assist fleet management and safety for their 2,000 trucks, and creating connected restaurants in over 125,000 locations. To say that Golden State Foods operate on a large scale is something of an understatement. They are one of the largest diversified suppliers to the food service industry, servicing around 125,000 restaurants in over 60 countries from their 50 locations, and producing 400,000 hamburger patties per hour. Many of the restaurants they supply are quick serve and rely on speedy, safe and quality food production and delivery to meet their customers' expectations.

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AI taken to another level as IBM Watson analysis data in the sky. IBM is taking to the skies with its latest Watson deployment, with Korean Air using the AI tech to help crews on the ground with aircraft maintenance. Using machine learning, Korean Air wants to increase the safety of their planes by taking advantage of the data collection, analytical ability and AI capabilities of IBM's Watson. IBM's Watson will do this by collating data from technical guidelines, inventory and in-flight incident history to analyse a current or potential future problem. In doing so, it will help to identify the cause of these problems and quickly offer an effective solution.

IBM Watson has partnered with two of Sweden's leading law firms, MAQS and Lindahl, as well as legal knowledge management consultancy, VQ, to build an AI-driven contract review and advice system. The new AI tool, which is called True Agreement, is at present focused on Swedish shareholder agreements and has been trained to identify the type of document, find key clauses and then provide advice on aspects of those clauses as they are surfaced by IBM Watson's natural language processing capability. The new venture was revealed at the VQ forum event in Stockholm, yesterday and is the first joint venture legal AI project of its kind in Scandinavia. Also, MAQS revealed that it is now working with UK legal AI company, Luminance, becoming one of several law firms in the region now making use of the due diligence-focused AI company's platform. MAQS Knowledge Manager, Hans Hedkvist told Artificial Lawyer: 'The idea came about jointly between myself, the head of IT at Lindahl and Helena Hallgarn of VQ.' 'We saw that AI was coming and we wanted to do something in Swedish.

Note: This is part one of a two-part series on IBM Watson Care Manager for specialty courts. Our goal at the Juvenile Court of Montgomery County, Ohio, is to keep kids alive until they're old enough to make decisions on their own. We feel as if almost every child is directly or indirectly at risk today because of drugs, abuse and other issues. When we can't rely on the family to take care of them, it's our role to become like a surrogate parent. We give them a chance to survive until they're an adult and able to make it on their own.

The Internet of Things is about connections and the massive amounts of data that result from those connections. Trouble is, most of the resulting data is not tapped, and that's where IBM and its AI mega-machine Watson come in. During a break in the IBM Genius of Things summit in Boston this week, I sat down with Harriet Green, general manager of Watson IoT and customer engagement and education at IBM, to discuss IBM's IoT and AI strategy. Green sees a market need as an opportunity, noting that 80% of the world's data is not yet searchable. "We've made a big bet ($3 billion) on IoT and bringing AI capabilities to IoT," says Green. "We're seeing this huge drive to connect the world's devices to, in our case, the IBM cloud, the IoT platform. People are understanding that if you connect things to things and things to people, the data flows and the opportunities are very real. "Secondly, we're seeing that the software application to gather this data and apply analytics to it are becoming deeper and richer.

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