I recently asked Bard, Google's conversational chatbot, whether artificial intelligence would replace teachers. Here's what it said, "It is unlikely that AI will completely replace teachers in the near future." During a poetry night, I remember joking with a friend that it takes a broken heart to nurture and heal another heart. I added, "Until AI experiences heartbreaks, we must trust human teachers to nurture the hearts and minds of the next generation." Yet it's hard to ignore the growing questions and concerns emerging from -- and about -- the teaching community on the impact of AI on their jobs, their classrooms and their very vocation.

In the first of our series of A3 interviews with AI leaders, John Lizzi, the Executive Leader - Robotics and Autonomous Systems at GE, discusses how to develop AI projects that focus on business objectives. Lizzi, who serves as the chair of the Association for Advancing Automation's Artificial Intelligence Technology Strategy Board, says that AI is enabling intelligent systems to operate in the complex and uncertain world. Check out his advice on how to craft your AI strategy. How would you advise companies to choose their artificial intelligence projects – and what questions do they need to answer before they begin? Win hearts and minds: I think it's important to note that injecting new and disruptive technology into a business is hard no matter what technology you're talking about.

Is AI finally achieving selfhood? You'll find lots of opinions about this, many of them based on loose, if-it-walks-like-a-duck parallels. Here's my opinion based on 25 years research attempting to explain what selves are and how they emerged within nothing but physical chemistry. The big difference between selves and non-selves is that we exist by persistence. We're fragile, yet we've somehow managed to survive for an uninterrupted 3.8 billion-year run.

Marketing has come a long way since the days of John Wanamaker and his famous complaint that he didn't know which half of his marketing spend was useful and which wasn't. However, as senior Forbes contributor George Bradt contends in his article, Wanamaker Was Wrong -- The Vast Majority Of Advertising Is Wasted, attribution is extremely difficult to measure, and brands would be smarter to try to spot their most loyal customers, rather than try to figure out the exact steps that should be attributed to a purchase. Although there are plenty of tools available to collect purchasing behavior, piecing together a somewhat reliable path-to-purchase is not easy, and Bradt believes the money is better spent both finding loyal customers and providing those customers with a personalized experience they will learn to covet. Today, personalization is becoming the optimum word in a radically-new customer experience environment. In her article 3 AI-driven strategies for retailers in 2019, Giselle Abramovich states "Personalization is table stakes for today's retailers, who are increasingly competing to be relevant in the hearts and minds of shoppers."

Just ask any marketing person--it's their job to keep demand for a product or service high. So they depend on advertising and other methods to create brand recognition and a sense of demand for what they sell. These days marketing firms are even more clever, recruiting social media influencers who promote a product or service directly or indirectly--sometimes without disclosing that they are a paid lackey. We're getting better at influencing humans, either by using traditional advertising methods, such as keyword advertising, or, even scarier, by leveraging AI technology as a way to change hearts and minds. Often "the targets" don't even understand that their hearts and minds are being changed.

AWS SageMaker, the machine learning brand of AWS, announced the release of SageMaker Studio, branded an "IDE for ML," on Tuesday. Machine-learning has been gaining traction and, with its compute-heavy training workloads, could prove a decisive factor in the growing battle over public cloud. So what does this new IDE mean for AWS and the public cloud market? First, the big picture (skip below for the feature by feature analysis of Studio): It's no secret that SageMaker's market share is minuscule (the Information put it around $11 million in July of 2019). SageMaker Studio attempts to solve important pain points for data scientists and machine-learning (ML) developers by streamlining model training and maintenance workloads.

During this webinar session, Jeanne Meister will share Future Workplace's latest research study on AI for HR. This research was conducted among 11,000 Global HR Leaders from 10 different countries. Register today to hear the results from the study and learn recommendations for how to incorporate artificial intelligence into your overall HR strategy. Jeanne will be accompanied by moderator Josh Anish, Head of Marketing for Spoke who will give unique insights on how AI is improving the modern ticketing systems and HR self-service desks.

The American military is desperately trying to get a leg up in the field of artificial intelligence, which top officials are convinced will deliver victory in future warfare. But internal Pentagon documents and interviews with senior officials make clear that the Defense Department is reeling from being spurned by a tech giant and struggling to develop a plan that might work in a new sort of battle--for hearts and minds in Silicon Valley. The battle began with an unexpected loss. In June, Google announced it was pulling out of a Pentagon program--the much-discussed Project Maven--that used the tech giant's artificial intelligence software. Thousands of the company's employees had signed a petition two months earlier calling for an end to its work on the project, an effort to create algorithms that could help intelligence analysts pick out military targets from video footage.

Ellen M Derrico, VP, Product Marketing, Global Technology Solutions, IQVIA, Ellen Derrico is currently leading a transformation for IQVIA Technology Solutions Global Business Unit as Vice President, Global Product Marketing.El... Customer engagement is a business communication connection between an external stakeholder (consumer) and an organization (company or brand) through various channels of correspondence. This connection can be a reaction, interaction, effect or overall customer experience, which takes place online and offline. Customer engagement management has evolved over the years, from account management and campaigns to customer journey mapping, personas, and advanced predictive analytics, with everything in between and surrounding-- including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Never have customers been more under the microscope, all in the hope of permanently winning hearts and minds. It is getting more and more difficult to maintain customer engagement, with all the new technology developments happening every day.

Some nights I flip and flip and flip through the television channels searching for something family-friendly to watch. It blows my mind that I have several hundred channels and yet there are so few choices. The same is often true when looking for a movie for the family to go see. I grew up watching shows that built my character. I watched television series about family members who clearly loved and respected each other.