Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how organizations operate--informing how leaders interact with technology and engage their workers. AI has become so ubiquitous it's now a staple in the lives of millions: Amazon Alexa is an established household name. Meanwhile, Google's Duplex takes things up a notch by allowing automated customer service agents to make phone calls on behalf of users and comprehend spoken instructions with near-human accuracy. However, AI is about more than just assisting customer service inquiries. Driverless cars are quickly becoming a reality worldwide, thanks to AI-based algorithms that detect objects and obstacles more rapidly than any human could.

In a major refresh of its Z Series chips, IBM is adding on-chip AI acceleration capabilities to allow enterprise customers to perform deep learning inferencing while transactions are taking place to capture business insights and fight fraud in real-time. IBM is set to unveil the latest Z chip Aug. 23 today (Monday) at the annual Hot Chips 33 conference, which is being held virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The company provided advance details in a media pre-briefing last week. This will be the first Z chip, used in IBM's System Z mainframes, that won't follow a traditional numeric naming pattern used in the past. Instead of following the previous z15 chip with a z16 moniker, the new processor is being called IBM Telum (telum is Latin for javelin).

Terence Mauri has won plaudits for his commentary on disruptive technology. He holds visiting positions at MIT and the London Business school, and his views are widely published. So when I saw an article about his predictions for the legal system I could be sure it would be thought-provoking. I wasn't disappointed: "Robotic judges that can determine guilt will be'commonplace' within 50 years"1. That's quite a claim, and as Niels Bohr quipped, "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future…".

Robots that analyse a defendant's body language to determine signs of guilt will replace judges by the year 2070, according to an artificial intelligence expert. Writer and speaker on AI Terence Mauri believes the machines will be able to detect physical and psychological signs of dishonesty with 99.9 per cent accuracy. He claims they will be polite, speak every known language fluently and will be able to detect signs of lying that couldn't be detected by a human. Robot judges will have cameras that capture and identify irregular speech patterns, unusually high increases in body temperature and hand and eye movements. Terence Mauri (pictured) is an AI expert, author and founder of Hack Future Lab, a global think tank.

Robots that analyse a defendant's body language to determine signs of guilt will replace judges by the year 2070, according to an artificial intelligence expert. Writer and speaker on AI Terence Mauri believes the machines will be able to detect physical and psychological signs of dishonesty with 99.9 per cent accuracy. He claims they will be polite, speak every known language fluently and will be able to detect signs of lying that couldn't be detected by a human. Robot judges will have cameras that capture and identify irregular speech patterns, unusually high increases in body temperature and hand and eye movements. Terence Mauri (pictured) is an AI expert, author and founder of Hack Future Lab, a global think tank.