The Bible is an unusual book, as it is not only the most controversial but also the best-selling book ever written. Now, a ground-breaking digital analysis has revealed how many writers have penned it. The research and innovative technology behind it stand to teach us about the origins of the Bible itself. "It's well understood that the Bible was not composed in real time but was probably written and edited later," Arie Shaus, a mathematician at Tel Aviv University told Gizmodo. "The question is, when exactly?"

The marriage of computing power and data is finally bearing fruit in the field of cognitive computing, sometimes called machine learning or, more controversially, artificial intelligence. In its most everyday form, we see it in tools such as Google Translate or Microsoft's Bing Translate, which can translate phrases and documents effortlessly across multiple languages. More futuristically, the promise of self-driving vehicles, which can complete entire road journeys without driver intervention, is already being realised. Yet the biggest revolution in work is happening at some of the most basic levels, such as reading and dissecting legal documents to extract meaning and useful information. The tedious slog of work can be transformed by computers which are able to read and parse legal phrases, and summarise them or enter relevant details into a database or spreadsheet.

Here is how I think about these issues. The Artificial in AI can sometimes mislead so let's start by getting rid of the A and asking instead whether more NI, Natural Intelligence, will decimate the middle class. As I said in my TED talk, the brainpower of China and India in the 20th century was essentially "offline". Instead of contributing to the world technological frontier the people of China and India were just barely feeding themselves. China and India are now coming online and I see the increase in natural intelligence as one of the most hopeful facts for the future.

Artificial intelligence is poised to automate lots of service jobs. The White House has estimated there's an 83% chance that someone making less than 20 will eventually lose their job to a computer. That means gigs like customer service rep could soon be extinct. But it's not just low-paying positions that will get replaced. AI also could cause high earning(like top 5% of American salaries) jobs to disappear.

Facebook just released new tools that will let any business build "smart" chatbots that users can interact with and even purchase things from while using the Messenger app. But what about Facebook's own super-smart virtual assistant, M? The bot, which Facebook first introduced to the world in the Fall, got few on-stage mentions during the company's F8 developer conference on Tuesday. And the third-party chatbots that Facebook now wants outside businesses to create might seem to obviate the need for Facebook to maintain its own bot. But Facebook told Business Insider that the company has not given up on M, even if the bot is still "a long way" from being broadly released. Stan Chudnovsky, head of product for messaging at Facebook, assures Business Insider that the company does still foresee M as being its own product.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage on Tuesday at the company's F8 developers conference to kick off the event with a major look into the future and a very cool surprise for attendees. See also: Facebook's Surround camera captures 360-degree video in 8K But before he dived into tech, Zuck doubled down on comments he made in recent weeks, lightly touching on issue of immigration and even taking a very veiled swipe at GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. But even that moment was fairly harmless, as his message mostly focused on a message of bringing the planet together and connecting all the people in it, one at a time. To that end, Zuckerberg then unveiled Facebook's grand 10-year plan. Back in the boom time of the '80s, when Japan was on the rise, U.S. business leaders often touted how Japanese businesses planned decades and even centuries ahead, rather than for the short term, like Western companies.

Don't think you have time for video games? Haven't picked up a game since the original Super Mario Bros.? This might be the best way to dive in -- even if you think "but I don't play games!" Telltale Games is known for its story-driven games, and its tie-in titles for major franchises like The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Borderlands, Minecraft and (on the horizon) Batman. You can set your own price for Telltale Games for the next two weeks, thanks to a deal on Humble Bundle, which lets anyone pay what they want to get groups of games. You can also get the whole set for 12. SEE ALSO: Telltale plans'The Walking Dead: Season 3' for a 2016 premiere That 12 price gets you two seasons of The Walking Dead game, plus its off-shoot 400 Days; Game of Thrones; A Wolf Among Us (based on the comic series Fables); Back to the Future: The Game; and 2015's should-not-be-missed Tales from the Borderlands. It also features star-studded poker games Poker Night and Poker Night 2, where you play against characters from Portal, The Venture Brothers, Borderlands and 2000s web cartoon celebrity Strong Bad.

Getting a robot to balance and walk on two feet is a massive challenge, as the DARPA Challenge revealed. But it turns out it's a little less tricky when you focus on just the legs, as the Alphabet-owned SCHAFT's newest bipedal creation demonstrated by confidently walking out on stage at the New Economic Summit going on in Tokyo. Until it's revealed outside of the conference, we'll have to settle with shaky smartphone footage of the demo reel SCHAFT played during its presentation. But the video shows the lab's development of its latest bipedal robot, including the impressive progress it's made when it comes to dealing with uneven terrain, and random obstacles that would easily trip up other walking bots. Details on what the new SCHAFT robot is capable of are slim at the moment, but apparently it's designed to be low-cost and low-power.

Useless robot waiters are being blamed for the closure of several restaurants in China, after an investment by the owners in automated serving staff turned out to be a financial disaster. According to a translated report in the Worker's Daily -- which might have good reason to undermine robot labour, so perhaps be a bit cynical about it -- a restaurant chain has closed two branches staffed in part by 7,000 ( 4,900) robot servants, with a third surviving the cut; but replacing the underperforming automatons with rubbish old last-generation human service staff. Despite what we may have been told by the pro-robot agenda being pushed by the media, staff weren't impressed, telling the paper: "The robots weren't able to carry soup or other food steady and they would frequently break down. The boss has decided never to use them again." Which is odd, as they seem to be able to weld cars together and put windscreens into them by themselves, surely harder tasks than giving a man a cup of tea?

In late 2015 Toyota proclaimed a five-year project investing 1 billion in artificial intelligence and robotics research with the establishment of Toyota Research Institute (TRI) facilities at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The fields of study are artificial intelligence, autonomous transportation, and mobile indoor robotics. Gil Pratt, CEO of TRI as well as an MIT alum and a former program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), laid out two tracks for autonomous vehicle research: one for "chauffeur model" wholly autonomous cars, one for "guardian angel" systems that would create more helpful, "intelligent" but traditional cars. A guardian angel, like a fearless driving instructor with a mirrored set of controls in the passenger's seat, would only take over if it determines an incident is imminent. Seen as a mid-term step ahead of the fully autonomous cars Toyota is also working on – and Google, Uber, Ford, and Volvo – the introduction of advanced AI monitoring systems could see production before self-driving cars since the human remains in charge more than 99 percent of the time.