Meta's chief technology officer has called it "the great honor of my life" to be enlisted in a new US army corps that defence chiefs set up to better integrate military and tech industry expertise, including senior figures from top tech firms that also include Palantir and OpenAI. Andrew Bosworth, a long-term lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg known widely as "Boz", is one of several senior Silicon Valley executives commissioned to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the corps, called Detachment 201, which the US army says will "fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation". Bosworth, who joined Facebook in 2006, was sworn into the army reserves earlier this month alongside Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer of Palantir, a technology firm with extensive defence contracts, Kevin Weil, chief product officer of OpenAI, and Bob McGrew, an adviser at Thinking Machines Lab, a 10bn AI company. They wore military fatigues at the swearing-in ceremony but will not be full-time soldiers. The recruitment is a sign of the increasing importance of technology in modern warfare and growing commercial and research links between some of the largest tech firms and the military.

Alex Galvagni, CEO of Age of Learning and a former artificial intelligence researcher with NASA, says advances in AI now make it possible to deliver to children "a personalized and supportive" experience in education. Artificial intelligence delivered advances to the U.S. space program and to medicine decades before it made headlines. Now, AI is poised to bring major improvements to American education, tech entrepreneur Alex Galvagni said in an exclusive interview in New York City with Fox News Digital. Galvagni is CEO of Age of Learning, the California-based company behind popular school-room products such as ABCmouse Early Learning Academy. "AI has been with us a long time. Research was happening as early as the 1950s," he said.

The technology industry and policymakers need to address public concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) which are "not the fault of AI" itself, a tech executive said Tuesday. "It is the fault of developers, so we need to solve this problem," said Song Zhang, managing director for China at global software consultancy, ThoughtWorks. Consumer worries relating to AI include concerns about personal privacy and how the systems may get out of control, said Zhang during a panel discussion discussing the "Future of AI" at CNBC's East Tech West conference in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, China. It is the duty of the tech industry and policymakers to focus on, discuss and solve such problems, said Zhang in Mandarin, according to a CNBC translation. Indeed, while consumers are curious about AI when they first come into contact with the technology, their mindset changes over time, said Rong Luo, chief financial officer of TAL Education Group.

One reason AI is getting easier to deploy is that enterprises are creating and managing more data than ever before, driven in part by plummeting storage costs. This data is a key ingredient for training machine learning algorithms. At the same time, advanced algorithms are becoming standardized and made available to anyone via open source software and programming languages like Python. Varma said these trends make it possible for virtually any business to get started with AI. Recommendation engines and personalized website experiences are the first areas in which Varma expects businesses to get involved.

Just what artificial intelligence will be able to do in the future is almost impossible to know.

US insurance company Lemonade are continuing their rise to the top using Artificial Intelligence, after revealing their research which shows they are gaining a large share of the New York market. The organisation only opened their doors to applications 8 months ago, and have quickly caught traction with customers as they put the user experience above all else. Lemonade's unique catch is that their insurance is powered off of AI and behavioural economics, removing the annoying and unnecessary paperwork and providing almost immediate approvals. Their Google Surveys revealed that in less than a year, Lemonade has captured almost 5% of the market share in renters insurance. Their ascent is even more incredible when considering that the average market share for the top 10 homeowners insurance is 6.3%, while being in business for 104 years.

One example of this is Japanese insurance company, Fukoku Life. They recently announced they will be introducing automation and AI to calculate payouts for clients, resulting in the unemployment of 34 of their employees. "In the future, adaptability is key, and people are more adaptable."-

The race for autonomous cars is starting to heat up after Ford announced they will be investing a billion dollars over the next five years into Argo AI, an artificial intelligence company. Ford have previously made it clear to the public they will be releasing a self-driving car in 2021 and this monumental investment into developing the best AI technology only reinforces their commitment to the cause. Argo AI, founded by former Google and Uber leaders, will be sharing their robotics and AI expertise with Ford to further develop Ford's already advanced virtual driver system. Ford President and CEO, Mark Fields, compares autonomous vehicles to Ford's previous accomplishments in terms of their impact. "The next decade will be defined by the automation of the automobile, and autonomous vehicles will have as significant an impact on society as Ford's moving assembly line did 100 years ago," he said.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often discussed in terms of the threat it poses, whether real (automation disrupting numerous industries) or imagined (AI taking over the human race). The AI for Good Foundation, however, is committed to helping the world through AI, and has partnered with Syngenta, an agrochemical company, to launch the Syngenta AI Challenge. Participants are required'to develop a model that could be used to help scientists analyse large amounts of seed data more efficiently and effectively'. They will be tasked to find out'which soybean varieties will perform better in farmers' fields in 2015 & 2016?'. To do this, entrants will be provided with a large range of data over a four-month period, before officially submitting their efforts by June 1 of this year.

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