The 2018 artificial intelligence landscape looks an awful lot like the Sharper Image catalog. It's chock full of products that were built merely because we can build them, and because they're marketable. Do you really have a need for this bacon toaster? Do you really think this 3D drawing pen is going to bring out your inner artist? Much like these products, too much of the AI on the market today is disposable novelty technology.

When Lori Beer, the recently-installed chief information officer of J.P. Morgan's corporate and investment bank, started out in 1989, technology was much more of a man's world than it is today. More often than not, she was the solitary woman surrounded by team of male nerds. Fitting in, she says, is not the best thing to do. "My advice would be to stop trying to be like one of the guys," she says. "I spent years being the only woman on predominantly male technology teams, but the best thing you can do as a woman in technology is to stay focused on the value you can bring as an individual. Tech teams need diversity of perspective."

Robots will not take everyone's job away. The male workforce with low level of instruction is the segment of the population that will pay the highest price of the technological unemployment, that Keynes predicted almost a century ago. At least, that is what the latest report from the English consulting firm PWC reveals. According to which, in the UK, 30% of existing professions will be automated by 2030. The three sectors that will be most affected are mechanics and routine laborers, in the areas of transportation (56%), manufacturing (46%) and wholesale (44%).