Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk have something in common, and it's not wealth or intelligence. They' re all terrified of the AI takeover. Also called the AI apocalypse, the AI takeover is a hypothetical scenario where artificially intelligent machines become the dominant life-form on Earth. It could be that robots rise and become our overlords, or worse, they exterminate mankind and claim Earth as their own. But can the AI Apocalypse really happen?

April 02--A conference dedicated to a versatile computer chip is expected to draw thousands of researchers and hundreds of tech companies to San Jose next week for a look at advances in some of Silicon Valley's hottest technologies. Now in its seventh year, the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference opening Tuesday at the San Jose Convention Center celebrates the graphics processing unit, or GPU, a chip that has become the Swiss Army knife of computing. Some industry observers credit the annual conference for helping spark the research that has led to recent leaps forward in artificial intelligence. Patrick Moorhead, a semiconductor analyst with Moor Insight and Solutions, said that the San Jose Convention Center conference -- now in its seventh year -- became a meeting ground for scientists, academics and developers. "What happened is that once you bring these researchers together in one place and get them focused on this whole notion of using graphics to do a compute engine, they find these new ways to use it.

Nothing proves a family resemblance like switching faces with your spawn. This father/daughter duo posted their uncanny face swap to Imgur on Friday night, and it's already making the Internet do a collective double take. SEE ALSO: Girl successfully face-swaps with her friend's boob It's pretty obvious that the 11-year-old daughter's face isn't quite her own -- she is, after all, sporting the facial hair of a middle-aged man. But the dad's face looks surprisingly normal. Perhaps this face swap is a time capsule of sorts, a window into his younger visage.

At the CES 2015, I was fascinated by all sorts of possible applications of IoT – socks with sensors, mattresses with sensors, smart watches, smart everything – it seems like a scene in sci-fi movies has just come true. People are eager to learn more about what's happening around them and now they can. While I was at there I attended a talk given by David Pogue – he is awesome. He pointed out that the prevalence of smartphone is the key to the realization of the phenomenon called "Quantified Self." Smart phones play a vital role as a hub where all our personal data converge and present, seamlessly.

I went to school in Cambridge University in England, then went to Stanford to do my master's around 2000. I met up with Sergey Brin around then when Google was a tiny company and he invited me to join Google. So I started working part-time for Google. It was a fantastic time at the company--200 people, one building, and bright, idealistic, change-the-world kind of people. Naturally, when I finished my master's I joined full-time.

Whether you define artificial intelligence as a sophisticated being that is convincingly "human" and can pass a Turing Test, or simply an algorithm that dictates which stories you see in your Facebook feed, the rise of smart machines will see more and more of the jobs we do today transformed and even replaced. Where mechanisation replaced a large swathe of manual labour jobs, now we're going to see more and more white-collar jobs overtaken by algorithms. "In the past we were removed from the limitations of our muscles; now we'll be removed from some of the limitations of our brains," says Toby Walsh, a prominent Australian AI expert who has taken a global campaign against the development of autonomous weapons (aka "killer robots") to the United Nations. As with previous cycles of technological advancement, the rise in productivity is expected to bring a rise in living standards. But there will be pain, too, at least in the short term.

We curated some use cases of companies that have integrated cognitive into their solutions. If you want to know more about any these use cases and receive tips from these companies, check out their webinars. VineSleuth's Wine4.Me In-Store Wine Advisor takes the guesswork out of buying wine by empowering shoppers and increasing sales. Shoppers tell the application what they want in a wine (flavor profile, food pairing, price requirements and more) and Watson returns a custom curated, unbiased wine list and suggests food pairings for each shopper. How it works: VineSleuth uses Natural Language Classifier and Speech to text APIs to allow consumers to easily ask a question into the application, either through voice or text.

April 1, 2016 – Boston, MA – Cloud-based computing and artificial intelligence represent the future of content creation, distribution, public relations, and marketing. SHIFT Communications, the premiere data-driven PR agency, announced today the release of the Heuristic And Recurrent Ontological Lexicon Deep-learner, or HAROLD, the world's first artificially intelligent (AI), cloud-based PR employee. HAROLD's creation represents the first AI employee of a virtual public relations workforce. HAROLD is based on the proven TensorFlow multidimensional data array artificial intelligence software, first developed by Google Brain, part of Google's Machine Intelligence division. SHIFT Vice President of Marketing Technology Christopher Penn said, "HAROLD provides SHIFT with limitless scale.

What does a computer company want with a bunch of meteorologists? A few weeks ago, IBM announced it was acquiring The Weather Company, which owns Weather.com and Weather Underground, and the Wall Street Journal reported they were paying more than 2 billion for the privilege. According to The New York Times, while The Weather Company employs many atmospheric scientists and meteorologists, nearly three-quarters of its scientists work in data and computers. The Weather Company was already storing most of its data with IBM's cloud computing platform, and now Big Blue has access to all that data, which they can now sell to other companies who need to know about the weather.

Have you ever visited a favorite e-commerce website, and noticed the website was recommending some products you had looked at before? Have you taken a picture of your friend with your smartphone, and the phone asked you to confirm whether or not it was, in fact that friend by name, based on pictures you had tagged before? Have you heard about Google's self-driving car, Skype's emerging translation capabilities or IBM Watson, which is helping doctors to diagnose and treat patients more effectively? There are many names for the magic behind this wizardry, including artificial intelligence, machine learning or cognitive technology. Regardless of what you call it, robots, software and computing devices are evolving to become more autonomous than ever before.