To celebrate Diversity and Inclusion Week, we're inviting you to a witty yet thought-provoking Tech Talk: Is AI Inclusive? Time: 12.00pm registration for a 12.30pm start, 2.00pm close. Through ground-breaking advances in facial recognition and machine learning, AI is transforming our everyday lives. It's also helping to address critical social and health issues such as homelessness, infectious diseases and substance abuse. But is AI better for everyone?

Are AI-based testing technologies a dream or nightmare for professional software testers? How much testing can (and should) we delegate to AI? What are the true benefits…and risks? Join this webinar to watch a lively panel discussion in which Wolfgang Platz (Tricentis Founder and Chief Strategy Officer) and leaders from Gartner, Wipro and Accenture debate these and other AI-focused topics that are currently polarizing the software testing industry. Is AI real in software testing, or are we just looking at a load of "marketing BS"? How is AI really delivering business outcomes today?

This Monday, the world saw a grand finalist of 2016's World Debate Championships face off against IBM's Project Debater – a computer considered to be the world's first artificial intelligence system built to debate humans. The event was organized by a non-profit debate-hosting company with the topic "whether preschool should be subsidized. Natarajan spoke in favor whereas the Project Debater spoke against it. Even though Natarajan won, the computer provided mind blowing statements and arguments. Project Debater has been in development since 2012.

Nothing is as remote as yesterday's utopias. From the 1990s until the end of the last decade, the explosion in computing power was seen by wide-eyed optimists as a force for liberation that would lay low unaccountable authority. Their eyes have narrowed now. Democracy, justice, our very ability to earn a living, feel precarious. "All that is solid melts into air," said Marx of 19th-century capitalism.

I am a great admirer of both Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. That is one reason why the social media debate last week between them concerning artificial intelligence, a subject also near and dear, caused such dissonance. How could they disagree on such an important subject? This blog will lay out the "great debate." It is far from a private argument between Elon and Mark. It is a debate that percolates throughout scientific and technological communities concerned with AI.

Will progress in Artificial Intelligence provide humanity with a boost of unprecedented strength to realize a better future, or could it present a threat to the very basis of human civilization? The future of artificial intelligence is up for debate, and the Origins Project is bringing together a distinguished panel of experts, intellectuals and public figures to discuss who's in control. Eric Horvitz, Jaan Tallinn, Kathleen Fisher and Subbarao Kambhampati join Origins Project director Lawrence Krauss. Recorded Saturday, February 25th, 2017 Eric Horvitz is managing director of Microsoft Research's main Redmond Lab, an American computer scientist, and technical fellow at Microsoft. Horvitz received his PhD and MD degrees at Stanford University, and has continued his research and work in areas that span theoretical and practical challenges of machine learning and inference, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and more.