Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble has the latest on fears the technology will spiral out of control on'Special Report.' With the growing presence of artificial intelligence in the everyday lives of people around the world, many tech leaders have spoken out about the controversial and revolutionary new technology. Some of the biggest names in tech have differing opinions on AI and how it will impact society as a whole. Even though forms of AI technology have been around for quite a while, AI has exploded in importance this year, and dominated conversation of late, in part because of how quickly the technology has advanced. What follows are thoughts from the tech industry's biggest players on AI: its potential, capabilities, economic impact, risks, and future.

The Augusta Webster, MD, Office of Medical Education (AWOME) has begun introducing a new component of the medical education curriculum to current medical students: instruction in Digital Health and Data Science. The curriculum is being co-developed by David Liebovitz, MD, associate vice chair for clinical informatics in the Department of Medicine and co-director of the Center for Medical Education in Data Science and Digital Health, and Mahesh Vaidyanathan, MD, MBA, assistant professor of Anesthesiology. The utilization of large data sets and machine learning is rapidly growing in healthcare. Feinberg is proud to be at the forefront of preparing our students to not only utilize this technology in care delivery and research, but also to critically evaluate its applicability and limitations. I am confident that this curriculum will be the foundation for many of our students to become leaders in the field of data science and augmented intelligence in medicine." The new curriculum component will see students meeting several core competencies and learning outcomes while learning about the health data ecosystem; the health IT regulatory environment; data science methods and research; digital health decision support; bias, ethics and health equity; and the sociotechnical context for digital health and data science. Mahesh Vaidyanathan, MD, MBA, assistant professor of Anesthesiology, is a co-leader of Feinberg's new Digital Health and Data Science curriculum component for medical students. "The tools that data science brings to clinical care enable more effective and personalized care for our patients.

In the intro to the HBO sci-fi series Westworld, a 3D printer churns out humanoid robots, delicately assembling the incredible complexities of the human form so that those robots can go on to--spoiler alert--do naughty things. It takes a lot of biomechanical coordination, after all, to murder a whole lot of flesh-and-blood people. Speaking of: Researchers just made a scientific leap toward making 3D-printed flesh and blood a reality. Writing recently in the journal ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, a team described how they repurposed a low-cost 3D printer into one capable of turning an MRI scan of a human heart into a deformable full-size analog you can actually hold in your hand. Squeeze it, and it'll give like the real thing.

Cerner was interviewing Silicon Valley giants to pick a storage provider for 250 million health records, one of the largest collections of U.S. patient data. Google dispatched former chief executive Eric Schmidt to personally pitch Cerner over several phone calls and offered around $250 million in discounts and incentives, people familiar with the matter say. Google had a bigger goal in pushing for the deal than dollars and cents: a way to expand its effort to collect, analyze and aggregate health data on millions of Americans. Google representatives were vague in answering questions about how Cerner's data would be used, making the health-care company's executives wary, the people say. Eventually, Cerner struck a storage deal with Amazon.com The failed Cerner deal reveals an emerging challenge to Google's move into health care: gaining the trust of health care partners and the public.

Augmented analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are among the top data and analytics technology trends that have the potential to significantly change business operations in the next three to five years, according to a presentation at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney this week. Data and analytics leaders must examine the potential business impact of these technology trends, and adjust business models accordingly--or risk losing competitive advantage to companies that do, Rita Sallam, research vice president at Gartner, said at the event and in a press release. "The story of data and analytics keeps evolving, from supporting internal decision making to continuous intelligence, information products and appointing chief data officers," Sallam said in the release. "It's critical to gain a deeper understanding of the technology trends fueling that evolving story and prioritize them based on business value." With digital transformation efforts underway at most organizations, businesses are collecting more data than ever before, creating challenges but also major opportunities, Donald Feinberg, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, said in the release.

Augmented analytics, continuous intelligence and explainable artificial intelligence (AI) are among the top trends in data and analytics technology that have significant disruptive potential over the next three to five years, according to Gartner, Inc. Speaking at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney today, Rita Sallam, research vice president at Gartner, said data and analytics leaders must examine the potential business impact of these trends and adjust business models and operations accordingly, or risk losing competitive advantage to those who do. "The story of data and analytics keeps evolving, from supporting internal decision making to continuous intelligence, information products and appointing chief data officers," she said. "It's critical to gain a deeper understanding of the technology trends fueling that evolving story and prioritize them based on business value." According to Donald Feinberg, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, the very challenge created by digital disruption -- too much data -- has also created an unprecedented opportunity. The vast amount of data, together with increasingly powerful processing capabilities enabled by the cloud, means it is now possible to train and execute algorithms at the large scale necessary to finally realize the full potential of AI. "The size, complexity, distributed nature of data, speed of action and the continuous intelligence required by digital business means that rigid and centralized architectures and tools break down," Mr. Feinberg said.

Augmented analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are among the top data and analytics technology trends that have the potential to significantly change business operations in the next three to five years, according to a presentation at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney this week. Data and analytics leaders must examine the potential business impact of these technology trends, and adjust business models accordingly--or risk losing competitive advantage to companies that do, Rita Sallam, research vice president at Gartner, said at the event and in a press release. "The story of data and analytics keeps evolving, from supporting internal decision making to continuous intelligence, information products and appointing chief data officers," Sallam said in the release. "It's critical to gain a deeper understanding of the technology trends fueling that evolving story and prioritize them based on business value." With digital transformation efforts underway at most organizations, businesses are collecting more data than ever before, creating challenges but also major opportunities, Donald Feinberg, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, said in the release.

On Thursday, Geisinger Health announced its CEO Dr. David Feinberg was leaving to fill a newly created leadership role at Google, a sure sign the tech giant wants to cash in on the $3.5 trillion healthcare industry. Google is not the only one. Five the world's 10 largest companies have announced major health initiatives over the past year, including: Amazon, Apple, Berkshire-Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase and, now, Alphabet, Inc. (Google). Sources close to the Google announcement said Feinberg will report to AI head Jeff Dean, who we're told led a months-long search for the right candidate. According to CNBC's Christina Farr, who first reported on the details of the transition, "Feinberg's job will be figuring out how to organize Google's fragmented health initiatives, which overlap among many different business."