Artificial intelligence: Are you ready for the fourth industrial revolution?

Building on the innovative thinking that jump-started three previous life-changing eras – steam-powered mechanised production, mass production assembly lines, and the first electronics and IT-based automations – we're about to find out how this latest evolution will take us places we can't begin to imagine. In the most disruptive industrial revolution yet, AI advancements are infiltrating our existence at every level, whether they're in the guise of IBM Watson's Jeopardy-playing prowess, or Uber's self-driving cars. The businesses we run, the jobs we perform and the lives we live will never be the same again. With every new era comes fresh concerns that the latest advancements will usurp our role as humans, and make our work redundant. From driving our cars to diagnosing the sick, if machines are being trained to do our thinking for us, will we still need to think for ourselves?