Social psychologist and NYU professor Jonathan Haidt joins'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss banning social media for children in the United States. Babies born in the year 2025 will begin the newest generation – Generation Beta. Following Generation Alpha (2010 to 2024), Gen Beta will comprise a new group of kids born between 2025 and 2039. The Australian research firm McCrindle predicted that Gen Beta will make up 16% of the world's population by 2035, and many will live to see the 22nd century. The research and analysis group, led by demographer and futurist Mark McCrindle, wrote in an article that Gen Beta "represents a pivotal chapter in our evolving world."

If any of us are still alive in the year 2100, we'll likely look back on artificial intelligence as the definitive development of the 21st century. Then we'll have a robot write a blog post about it for us. There is a 50 percent chance that AI be able to perform all human tasks better than humans in 45 years, and all human jobs are expected to be automated within the next 120 years, according to a survey of 352 AI researchers who published at either the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems or the International Conference on Machine Learning in 2015. The survey was conducted by the University of Oxford and Yale University. "Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will transform modern life by reshaping transportation, health, science, finance, and the military," reads the study.

Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today unveiled its Global Trend Study titled, "Getting Smarter by the Day: How AI is Elevating the Performance of Global Companies." Focused on the current and future impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study polled 835 executives across 13 global industry sectors in four regions of the world, finding that 84% of companies see the use of AI as "essential" to competitiveness, with a further 50% seeing the technology as "transformative." Widespread AI adoption expected across job functions Exploring the views and actions of decision makers from global companies with average revenues of $20 billion, the study revealed AI is spreading across almost all areas of a company. The biggest adopters of AI today are, not surprisingly, IT departments, with two-thirds (67%) of survey respondents using AI to detect security intrusions, user issues and deliver automation. However, by 2020, almost a third (32%) of companies believe AI's greatest impact will be in sales, marketing or customer service, while one in five (20%) see AI's impact being largest in non-customer facing corporate functions, including finance, strategic planning, corporate development, and HR.

LONDON MUMBAI, March 15, 2017: Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today unveiled its Global Trend Study titled, "Getting Smarter by the Day: How AI is Elevating the Performance of Global Companies." Focused on the current and future impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study polled 835 executives across 13 global industry sectors in four regions of the world, finding that 84% of companies see the use of AI as "essential" to competitiveness, with a further 50% seeing the technology as "transformative." Exploring the views and actions of decision makers from global companies with average revenues of $20 billion, the study revealed AI is spreading across almost all areas of a company. The biggest adopters of AI today are, not surprisingly, IT departments, with two-thirds (67%) of survey respondents using AI to detect security intrusions, user issues and deliver automation. However, by 2020, almost a third (32%) of companies believe AI's greatest impact will be in sales, marketing or customer service, while one in five (20%) see AI's impact being largest in non-customer facing corporate functions, including finance, strategic planning, corporate development, and HR.

LONDON: Sixty-eight per cent of organisations use artificial intelligence (AI) for IT functions, but 70 per cent believe AIs greatest impact by 2020 will be in marketing, customer service, finance and HR, a new study said on Wednesday. According to global IT consulting firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), organisations with the greatest financial improvements from AI investments expect three times as many new AI-related roles by 2020 as compared to companies with smallest improvements. "Given the increasing digital disruption across every industry and the public sector, AI should become a key and integrated component of an organisation's strategy," said K Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer of TCS, in a statement. Eighty-four per cent of companies see the use of AI as "essential" to competitiveness, with a further 50 per cent seeing the technology as "transformative". Financial investments in AI are set to rise, as seven per cent of companies each earmarked at least $250 million toward AI in 2016 and two per cent already plan to invest more than $1 billion by 2020, likely looking to gain a competitive advantage as early adopters, the findings showed.

A version of this essay was originally published at Tech.pinions, a website dedicated to informed opinions, insight and perspective on the tech industry. At the recent Code Conference, Jeff Bezos made a rather provocative statement when he said that when we talk about technology, we are on "the edge of a golden era." When it comes to artificial intelligence, Bezos said, "It's probably hard to overstate how big of an impact it's going to have on society over the next 20 years." He also said that Amazon has 1,000 people working on its Alexa platform, which powers the company's popular voice-controlled Echo device. Of course, Bezos is hardly alone with this line of thinking about artificial intelligence and its impact.