Morning roundup of Artificial Intelligence news for September 29, 2016

Sean Captain 09.29.16 7:30 AM The Terminator isn't arriving anytime soon, but concern is growing that artificial intelligence is already so pervasive in society--and getting more so all the time--that there needs to be more focus on how it's being used and potentially misused (even if by accident). Aside from futuristic killer robots, there are already real dangers ranging from faulty autonomous cars to algorithms used in hiring or recruiting that have an inadvertent bias against women or ... IBM recently released new details about the efficiency of its TrueNorth processors, which sport a fundamentally novel design that cribs from the structure of the brain. Rather than line up billions of digital transistors all in a line, TrueNorth chips have a million computer'neurons' that work in parallel across 256 million inter-neuron connections ('synapses'). In recent months, cancer and artificial intelligence (AI) have long been associated together. Continuously proving its undeniable influence to humanity, it's not quite surprising to learn how machine learning could be of help in the field of precision medicine, particularly in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Microsoft wants to help enterprises make sense of their big data with the help of the software giant's cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning product portfolio, CEO Satya Nadella said during his keynote presentation at Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.