Justine Bateman won't name names, but a TV showrunner friend once came to her with a dilemma: their show's team was well into filming its second season when a network executive had an idea. A character in the pilot hadn't tested well with audiences, so they were just going to go in, use a little AI, and swap in someone else. The showrunner – and Bateman, an actor and director – were understandably incensed. "When you change the beginning of something, you change the creative trajectory," says Bateman. "There's going to be whiplash for the viewer when they get to episode three or four because what was set up in the pilot got messed with and now doesn't make sense." Using AI might have seemed like a simple solution to the executive, but to the showrunner, it was catastrophic.

Lifesaving Radio uses artificial intelligence to generate music at the ideal tempo for optimal surgical performance. Fox News Digital spoke to the team behind it. Artificial intelligence (AI) is indeed here and has been rapidly advancing in recent years. As such, artificial intelligence has also made its way into the doctor's office and has the potential to revolutionize the health care system in a number of ways. Machine learning can analyze algorithms and large data sets, identify patterns, and make predictions, assisting doctors in making more accurate diagnoses and treatments.

You've probably heard for years that the workforce would be supplanted by robots. AI has changed several roles, such as using self-checkouts, ATMs, and customer support chatbots. The goal is not to scare people, but to highlight the fact that AI is constantly altering lives and executing activities to replace the human workforce. At the same time, technological advancements are producing new career prospects. AI is predicted to increase the demand for professionals, particularly in robotics and software engineering.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the next exponential technology trend, and it's knocking on your front door. In fact, many organizations have initiatives well under way, according to the World Quality Report. One branch, "artificial general intelligence," is the effort to make machines that are conscious, like humans, where machines can reflect on their own existence. The other is "narrow AI"(also known as machine learning). Machine learning focuses on computer algorithms that can be trained with data and that mimic human thinking--without actually thinking.

The European Patent Office recently turned down an application for a patent that described a food container. This was not because the invention was not novel or useful, but because it was created by artificial intelligence (AI). By law, inventors need to be actual people. This isn't the first invention by AI – machines have produced innovations ranging from scientific papers and books to new materials and music. That said, being creative is clearly one of the most remarkable human traits.

Contract analytics are now a staple of the legal industry. Driven by continuing advances in artificial intelligence ("AI"), contract analytics has changed the way the legal industry thinks and works. It is no longer a question of when the disruption will arrive, but when the legal industry will reach a "tipping point" of growth and development. This will naturally result from multiple legal-tech advances, driven by contract analytics, as well as related technologies, that exert pressure on how legal pros work, which are coming together to create a bigger cumulative effect. While much of this is hard to predict, the tipping point is coming into sharper focus every day.

It seems like every single day, the media is constantly bombarding us about the dawn of the "age of A.I" and how they are going to put us all out of work and start the next apocalypse(I'm joking..or am I?). Undoubtedly, for the future and beyond we will see much more automation, this force us to ask the question "what makes us human?" Do not let the media fool you, there is a ways to go before robots can "replace" people. With that said, here are human skills robots will never replace! Robots and AI have shown continuously that they have trouble reading humans faces and determining their emotions. Think about trying to discern someone's emotions without having any yourself or any experience in diagnosing them.

For all the hype about artificial intelligence, this much is true: AI can do some pretty amazing things. Whether correctly predicting consumer tastes in television shows or music, or finding the best route home in rush hour traffic, the possibilities seem endless. But technology still can't replace the human touch or the human heart, and for the businesses that lose sight of this, AI may be a threat rather than an opportunity. The key is using artificial intelligence to augment and enhance the human element, rather than replace it. This is especially apparent in the luxury beauty industry, which has successfully married the technical science of product development with the human ability to make people feel beautiful.

AI is clearly a hot topic in any recruitment office and has been for some time. With our increasing needs for instant gratification because of social media, how does this impact on the daily culture in recruitment businesses and what does this mean for the future of recruiters. AI is a disruptor and no recruiter dare ignore the way it has already changed the way recruitment operates. However, is it a threat to our existence in the near future? I wanted to present the above premise to a handful of fellow recruiters and the reaction was fairly balanced in truly believing that in a "true" recruitment consultancy, the advent of AI can never replace human recruiters.

Michelle is Act-On's Chief Marketing Officer, Full Bio Michelle is Act-On's Chief Marketing Officer, and oversees the company's brand, demand, and customer expansion marketing efforts. Michelle comes to Act-On with 17 years' experience helping market leading companies, including Salesforce and Oracle, connect customers with technology solutions to grow their business. Most recently, Michelle was GM of Salesforce's Data.com division after having served as the VP of Marketing for the group. Prior to her tenure at Salesforce, Michelle was a Senior Director at Oracle and a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Stellent (acquired by Oracle). She holds a B.A in Business Administration from the University of Washington.