White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt discusses the U.S. inflation rate, peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and more on'America Reports.' "Real Time" host Bill Maher challenged one of President Trump's central arguments as he wages a tariff war among several countries. "I have one basic question: Why do we want to bring back manufacturing?" Maher asked his panel on Friday. "It's so 70s, you know? I mean, that ship has sailed. You know, there are countries that make jeans for 11. We're never going to be that country again."

I began with a prompt in #ChatGPT "Can you write me a blog post about the recent history of coffee culture in China?" I then headed over to #DallE to create some images for the post. I used this prompt, "A watercolor of a coffee shop." I picked one I liked and had it generate some variations. Here is the blog post with images fully created by #AI.

When the robots rise up, they won't take your life. They'll take your job, particularly those in fields primed for automation, like manufacturing, trucking, and customer service. Technologists, economists, and policymakers believe this future is all but inevitable, and say it's time to begin thinking seriously about how to ensure artificial intelligence advances humanity--and improves the economy, without leaving the middle class behind. Two economists who recently left Washington say the answer lies in ensuring the government provides enough of a safety net to help middle class Americans navigate the coming transition. Jason Furman and Gene Sperling--former chief economic advisors to President Obama--prefer to think of it as a bridge, not a net, that will help people reach the future.

This is the promise made by AI Gahaku, one of the most popular artificial intelligence engines trained to generate images that resemble old paintings using our own pictures. It is simple as it sounds: You upload a photo of a face, choose the painting style, and voilà, the AI generates an image that looks like a century-old Western portrait ready to be displayed in a museum. The success of AI Gahaku follows the success of many other apps and projects that over the past few years have experimented with user pictures and AI filters. AI Gahaku claims that "various painting styles can be easily applied to it such as Renaissance, Pop Art, Expressionism and many more!" It would be too easy to deem the popularity of AI-generated portraits resembling old paintings as due to the nostalgic enjoyment of figurative art styles that are safer and easier to understand than modern art.

Technology plays a significant role in education nowadays, and it's a hot topic. Others claim artificial intelligence will revolutionize education and improve education, while others claim artificial intelligence will take over teaching at students' and teachers' expense. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is slowly making its way into education, although we haven't seen robots in the classroom yet. Specific tasks can be rendered easier with artificial intelligence. Shortly, AI will be used to make grading relatively quick and easy on computer equipment.

India's digital footprint marks its biggest strength for AI development, and established platforms like Aadhaar, UPI along with massive digital infrastructure create a "unique opportunity" for this futuristic technology to be leveraged to enhance transparency and improve governance, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Friday. Speaking at the closing session of RAISE 2020 Summit, Kant said India optimally leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve its developmental challenges will not only lead to a societal transformation within, but will also benefit other nations in the world, who face similar issues. "Data lies at the core of development of AI technologies. India's digital footprint is its biggest strength for AI development," he said. Noting India's digital prowess - humongous amounts of data generated at "cheapest possible cost", rising smartphone penetration and rapid adoption of digital modes of payment -- Kant said, "India's digitisation efforts through platforms such as Aadhaar, UPI, GST, public finance management system and digital infrastructure has created a unique opportunity for AI to be leveraged to increase transparency and improve governance".

As AI is increasingly incorporated into our workplaces and daily lives, it is poised to fundamentally upend the way we live and work. Concern over this looming shift is widespread. A recent survey of 5,700 Harvard Business School alumni found that 52% of even this elite group believe the typical company will employ fewer workers three years from now. The advent of AI poses new and unique challenges for business leaders. They must continue to deliver financial performance, while simultaneously making significant investments in hiring, workforce training, and new technologies that support productivity and growth.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we talk with Dr. Ayesha Khanna, co-founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence solutions firm and incubator. Forbes named her one of southeast Asia's groundbreaking female entrepreneurs. Her bio is too extensive to encapsulate in a brief introduction, but she brings both depth and vision to all she does. She has been a strategic advisor on artificial intelligence, smart cities and fin-tech to leading corporations and governments around the globe. She is also the Founder of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding and artificial intelligence classes to girls in Singapore and finds time to be an advisor to the startups Octa (a chatbot for young travelers) and Arro (a delivery robot for sports).

A natural showman, Mr. Ma is usually an outsize presence at the gala--but not this year. In September, he said he plans to retire next year as executive chairman and hand the reins to Chief Executive Daniel Zhang. Mr. Ma was present at the event, but didn't take his usual star turn on stage. Instead, he appeared in a prerecorded video that showed him competing against Alibaba employees at tasks including delivering meals, taping packages and tieing up crabs. An Alibaba representative said the founder's participation in the annual gala is "different every year."

Ideology is what determines how you think when you don't know you're thinking. Neoliberalism is a prime example. Less well-known but equally insidious is technological determinism, which is a theory about how technology affects development. It comes in two flavours. One says that there is an inexorable internal logic in how technologies evolve. So, for example, when we got to the point where massive processing power and large quantities of data became easily available, machine-learning was an inevitable next step.