NEW YORK – The masked gunman wanted in connection with the ambush shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Wednesday morning fled the crime scene using various modes of transportation before police believe he got on a bus out of the Big Apple, authorities told Fox News. Police traced his route from the crime scene near 54th Street and Sixth Avenue up to Central Park, which he exited at 77th Street and Central Park West, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told Fox News Friday. Kenny's boss, new NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, added that investigators have picked up an abundance of video and digital evidence in addition to physical evidence they hope can lead them to the killer. "We actually have a tremendous amount of forensic evidence in this case that we've collected- DNA evidence, fingerprint evidence, which is all at the lab now being processed," she told Fox News Friday. This undated photo provided by UnitedHealth Group shows UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer Brian Thompson.

From job killer to killer robot, artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly has come under the spotlight for its potentially adverse impact on human lives. Singapore, however, is advocating the need to hold off judgement whilst the technology continues to evolve and focus instead on building trust. Whilst not a new concept, AI in recent years had been garnering significant interest due to the convergence of three key factors, said S. Iswaran, Singapore's Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations. First was the ability now to amass large volumes of data, organise, and use it. Computing power in large quantities also had become more available and at lower costs.

Kristoffer Richardsson, Developer at Bitcraze in Sweden, speaks about small open-source unmanned aerial vehicle and different ways of localizing them. Michael Zillich, CTO of Blue Danube Robotics in Austria, discusses a robotics platform for picking up toys, called Kenny. He discusses how children can show the robot where to put specific toys, about how this large European project was coordinated, and about possibly commercializing this platform. Alvito discusses what it means to be remotely autonomous, the design of the robot, and how these robots communicate data.

Artificial intelligence software can recognize faces, translate between Mandarin and Swahili, and beat the world's best human players at such games as Go, chess, and poker. What it can't always do is explain itself. AI is software that can learn from data or experiences to make predictions. A computer programmer specifies the data from which the software should learn and writes a set of instructions, known as an algorithm, about how the software should do that--but doesn't dictate exactly what it should learn. This is what gives AI much of its power: It can discover connections in the data that would be more complicated or nuanced than a human would find.

Warnings of artificial intelligence (AI) posing a threat to humanity are "not helpful," a top executive at IBM has said. While critics like Tesla CEO Elon Musk have warned about the risks of developing AI, David Kenny, IBM's senior vice president of Watson and Cloud, said the technology is already proving to be beneficial. "It's making things safer in cybersecurity, it's helping doctors and nurses and patients better find health care, it's helping people be compliant and manage their tax codes, so I see all these great benefits from it. And I hate statements that make people afraid because I think that's not helpful," Kenny said in a phone interview with CNBC. Musk has called for regulation of AI, warning that the technology could creator a dictator and cause a third world war.

At last year's Business Insider IGNITION conference, David Kenny, the general manager of IBM's Watson division, discussed the AI project. According to Kenny, Watson is most advanced in the health field. "The University of Tokyo ran her genetic sequence through Watson," which found a second strain of leukemia, Kenny said. "They then treated her, and now she's healthy." "About one-third of the time, Watson is proposing an additional diagnosis," Kenny said.

IBM is taking a stand for artificial intelligence (AI). The technology giant is lobbying Washington with the hope of challenging the view of "fearful prophets envisioning massive job loss, or even an eventual AI'overlord' that controls humanity" -- as David Kenny, the vice president for IBM Watson, wrote in an open letter to congress. He went on to write that the "real disaster would be abandoning or inhibiting cognitive technology before its full potential can be realized." Kenny is also participating with the bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Caucus. Kenny's arguments center around three core principles.

Artificial-intelligence technology is all around us, in the form of voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and more. But this technology extends beyond recognizing a song or telling us the weather. At last year's Business Insider IGNITION conference, David Kenny, the general manager of IBM's Watson division, discussed the AI project. According to Kenny, Watson is most advanced in the health field. One example of its success potentially saved a life.

Earlier this week, David Kenny, IBM Senior Vice President for Watson and Cloud, told the US Congress that Americans have nothing to fear from artificial intelligence, and that the prospects of technological unemployment and the rise of an "AI overlord" are pernicious myths. The remarks were as self-serving as they were reckless, revealing the startling degree to which IBM is willing to forfeit the future for the sake of the present. Congressman John Delaney (MD-6) recently launched the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Caucus for the 115th Congress, the purpose of which is to "inform policymakers of the technological, economic and social impacts of advances in AI and to ensure that rapid innovation in AI and related fields benefits Americans as fully as possible." The caucus, which is being co-chaired by Congressman Pete Olson (TX-22), recently had tete-a-tetes with Amazon and Google. Now, it's had an opportunity to hear what IBM--the tech firm responsible Watson, an overhyped cognitive computing that made a name for itself by defeating the world's greatest Jeopardy champions--has to say.

If you ask IBM about its plans for a given business opportunity--health care, financial services, pharma, even sports coverage--the answer will likely center on Watson, IBM's take on artificial intelligence, or cognitive computing, in IBM parlance. Since beating human champions in Jeopardy six years ago, Watson has been very long on promise and generated untold numbers of headlines. It's unclear as IBM (ibm) chief executive Ginni Rometty has said the company does not break that out in order to protect this crucial but nascent business. Over the past year, critics have voiced skepticism about Watson's real-world prospects especially as AI competitors--from Google (goog) to Microsoft (msft)--have brought their AI software offerings to market. The perception now is that Watson has not met lofty expectations.