This new service brings many of the machine learning smarts Amazon has developed in-house over the years to devs outside the company. For now, the service only makes three different tools available, but the plan is to add more over time. The first of these new services under the Amazon AI umbrella is an image recognition service called "Rekognition." It allows you to recognize objects and scenes, similar to services already available from Google, Microsoft and others. The second is Amazon Polly, a text-to-speech service that uses a lot of machine learning smarts under the hood. The third, and probably most important new service is called "Lex."

Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying to evolve its own method to crack the AI-generated crypto. The study was a success: the first two AIs learnt how to communicate securely from scratch.

Google announced a new machine learning platform for developers. The company is also open-sourcing tools such as Tensorflow to allow the community to take its internal tools, adapt them for their own uses, and improve them.

Should they have the right to love humans and other AIs equally? What about the right to equal work opportunities and protection from discrimination? Will "unplugging" an AI being be considered murder? By unplugging a self-aware AI, wouldn't we be violating its basic right to live?

Should all conscious AI have access to the same kind of information? Should they have the right to love humans and other AIs equally? What about the right to equal work opportunities and protection from discrimination? Should AIs have the right to privacy? Should they be protected from being re-programmed by humans?

While CRISPR, nanobots and head transplants are making headlines as medical breakthroughs, a number of new technologies are also making progress tackling some of the toughest age-old diseases still plaguing millions of people in the poorest parts of the world.