Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner has the latest on the president's focus amid calls for an impeachment inquiry on'Special Report.' Lawmakers on the Senate Energy Committee were warned on Thursday about both the threats and opportunities that come with artificial intelligence being integrated into the U.S. energy sector and everyday life as a whole. The committee held a hearing on the rapidly advancing technology, and experts present spent a significant amount of time not only discussing AI but the ever-looming threat of China and its efforts to steal and recreate emerging U.S. capabilities. "China released their new generation of AI Development Plan, which includes [research and development] and infrastructure targets. The U.S. currently does not have a strategic AI plan like this," Committee Chair Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said at the hearing's outset.

Tech developers began moving beyond artificial intelligence to "emotional intelligence" and empathy with robots that can recognize people and their feelings, and respond in a more human manner. Those on display included a ping pong-playing robot from Japan's Omron Automation which adapts its …

Recently, Narrative Science attended the Compliance Week "AI, Tech Innovation and Compliance" one-day conference in New York City. The event attracted a room full of leaders to speak on the future of compliance and audit programs. Attendees discussed how technology innovation could help grow their businesses and strengthen their compliance functions, the practical ways they are already applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their organization, and more. Perhaps the greatest challenge mentioned at the event regarded data quality - how do we ensure the data is clean, accessible, and up-to-date? How will it be used? Attendees concluded that instead of unearthing every data point in the organization, you should first develop an understanding behind what you want to know, a strategy for accessing the data you will leverage, and a plan for how you will take action using the data.

A team from Appen, a global leader in speech and search technology services, recently attended the inaugural AI World Conference & Expo in San Francisco, where over 2,000 attendees from a variety of industries convened to hear from business leaders who are using Artificial Intelligence to drive growth for their companies. According to the conference organizers, "more than 55% of our attendees came from global 2000 organizations, including innovation leaders from Google, General Electric, Nielsen, McKinsey, Schlumberger, Facebook, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, NTT, IBM, SRI and Baidu." While the concept of AI is not new, the technology is experiencing a rebirth in the form of machine learning and cognitive computing, with companies from startups to enterprises looking to benefit from AI's potential. While AI may replace some human effort, it won't eliminate it. Dr. Neil Eklund, Chief Data Scientist, Schlumberger who spoke in the day 1 executive panel, suggested that human experts are still a necessity for fine-tuning AI. Further, Dr. Eklund recommended that as a best practice to set acceptable accuracy rates and when data shows a drop below those thresholds, human intervention is necessary.

Tesla hit a big milestone Wednesday as it said it's finally turned a quarterly profit after a three-year drought. Investors were buoyed by the news, but chief executive Elon Musk had a few other thoughts to share that shouldn't go unmentioned. Here are a few highlights. So many people have signed up early for Tesla's mainstream electric car, the Model 3, that the company has enough work to fill a whole year of production already. "We're sold out for the first 12 months of production," he told investors on a conference call.