For centuries, humans have been fretting over "technological unemployment" or the loss of jobs caused by technological change. Never has this sentiment been accentuated more than it is today, at the cusp of the next industrial revolution. With developments in artificial intelligence continuing at a chaotic pace, fears of robots ultimately replacing humans are increasing. Gary Vaynerchuk was so impressed with TNW Conference 2016 he paused mid-talk to applaud us. However, while AI continues to master an increasing number of tasks, we're still decades away from human jobs going extinct.

For centuries, humans have been fretting over "technological unemployment" or the loss of jobs caused by technological change. Never has this sentiment been accentuated more than it is today, at the cusp of the next industrial revolution. With developments in artificial intelligence continuing at a chaotic pace, fears of robots ultimately replacing humans are increasing. TNW Conference won best European Event 2016 for our festival vibe. See what's in store for 2017.

Andrew Ng, one of the world's leading artificial intelligence researchers, said in a Medium post that he is resigning as the head of AI initiatives at Baidu Corp., one of China's largest Internet companies. Ng said he said he will "continue to shepherd" the growth of AI in society, but provided few clues about what might come next. He portrayed his departure from Baidu as amicable, saying: "the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish." Ng has held a multitude of high-profile positions in Silicon Valley in the past decade, serving as a computer science professor at Stanford University, as head of the Google Brain project, and as chairman of Coursera, an online-education company that he co-founded with Stanford faculty colleague Daphne Koller.

Responses to a 2016 Tech Pro Research survey indicate that artificial intelligence and machine learning will be a significant area of development for IT in the next few years. In this recent survey, only 28 percent of respondents, most of whom were in IT leadership positions, said they have firsthand experience with artificial intelligence or machine learning. However, if the survey results hold true, the majority of respondents will be using the technologies at work in the next few years. Forty-two percent of respondents, most of whom were in tech leadership positions, said their company lacks the skills necessary to implement and support artificial intelligence or machine learning. Almost as many respondents (41 percent) said all the implementation and support work would be done in house when the time comes, and that their company is working to address artificial intelligence and machine learning in the corporate security plan.

In his regular courses at Georgia Tech, the computer science professor had at most a few dozen students. But his online class had 400 students -- students based all over the world; students who viewed his class videos at different times; students with questions. Maybe 10,000 questions over the course of a semester, Goel says. It was more than he and his small staff of teaching assistants could handle. "We were going nuts trying to answer all these questions," he says.

Teachers should use teaching methods that utilize technology in the most efficient way. During action research a motivating learning environment was developed, with a digital learning game and the flipped classroom pedagogy. The target group was first year pupils in a primary school. There were seventeen pupils in the class: nine of them were girls and eight were boys. The experiment was held during five weeks and there was one lesson per week.

As technology grows, so do the options for gathering and sharing information. Because while finding cat gifs or funny memes on the internet is fun, there are also scholarly dissertations on a variety of subjects, public domain novels and classics, and up-to-date scientific information. This, in combination with advances in personal computing in both applications and general hardware, means that there are a host of new tools and methods that can be used to improve student learning outcomes. The open source movement is a technology in itself. The trend has already started with open-source education options available from high-profile universities and the Khan Academy.

Andrew Ng, one of the world's leading artificial intelligence researchers, said in a Medium post that he is resigning as the head of AI initiatives at Baidu Corp., one of China's largest Internet companies. Ng said he said he will "continue to shepherd" the growth of AI in society, but provided few clues about what might come next. He portrayed his departure from Baidu as amicable, saying: "the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish." Ng has held a multitude of high-profile positions in Silicon Valley in the past decade, serving as a computer science professor at Stanford University, as head of the Google Brain project, and as chairman of Coursera, an online-education company that he co-founded with Stanford faculty colleague Daphne Koller. I've completed a new book called "You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a Useless Liberal Arts Education."

Competition amongst universities is set to increase with institutions closely differentiating themselves to attract and retain the best quality students, academics and staff. Key to this differentiation will be an extensive technology adoption and innovation strategy, enhancing the student experience, delivery of learning content, community engagement and campus management. The education technology (Edutech) market in Australia is expected to grow significantly amidst increasing student demand for education services and technology innovation, competition amongst institutions and decreasing acquisition costs. Frost & Sullivan anticipates that as the learning experience becomes increasingly digitised, technologies and solutions incorporating big data and analytics, collaboration, Augmented / Virtual Reality technology, Artificial Intelligence and learning management systems will play a key role within universities in the coming years. Frost & Sullivan's most recent analysis, Australian Edutech Market: Key Trends, Technologies and Opportunities 2016-2022 finds that the Australian Edutech Market is expected to grow to AUD 1.7 Billion by 2022.

Education, the ability to pass on knowledge, is one of the most ancient practices that sets humans apart from all other species on earth. It is through education that, instead of rediscovering and mastering the laws that govern the world we live in, new generations are able to pick up where their predecessors left off and enhance the knowledge and skills we possess. Now, the learning and teaching process is undergoing an unprecedented transformation thanks to ed-tech, a conglomerate of technologies that is redefining classrooms, schools, universities and the entire education process. At the forefront of those technologies is Artificial Intelligence, the often mystic and misunderstood science that is taking the world by storm and is helping (or replacing) humans at performing complicated tasks in various industries. Here's how AI is changing education for the better.