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intend to open source their work, freely sharing it with the world at large. Recently, Google open sourced the core software engine, TensorFlow, that drives its deep learning services, and just this week, Facebook open sourced its deep learning hardware.

OpenAI says, its backers have committed $1 billion to the project.

Most recently Facebook has shown off a new addition for blind users

where we are right now in AI development. We're in the literal infancy

Facebook reports that it the neural net can now judge with up to 90 percent accuracy if the blocks will fall, and they claim that's better than most humans.

physical objects to understand the real world and using that information to behave intelligently, we can treat these characters in the physical world as if they were just characters in a video game

elements that make video games so engaging and fun and literally program them onto physical characters to make an entertainment experience that has never been possible before.

a massive opportunity in consumer products to change the way people interact with the physical world around them

new category of entertainment that brings these technologies to people in a familiar and fun way

Almost anything we interact with in the physical world has the potential to act with autonomy and purpose, and the challenge is in identifying the truly high-impact opportunities at the right times

Those working in sales and manufacturing will need new skills, such as technological literacy.

Making will go mainstream

not just with the creative class, but with people who would never consider themselves to be traditionally 'creative'--opening up a whole population of pragmatists who now make extremely useful 'artwork'

In the past, innovative products flowed from rich countries to poor countries. By 2020, the pipeline may start flipping

Africa embraces technology to solve health and education challenges, it may start exporting its models elsewhere

By 2020, mobile money will have spread throughout Africa, enabling some of the 2 billion people without access to financial services to come into the formal system.

dark imaginings: The end of privacy and the continued rise of surveillance. The personalization of everything and the end of serendipity. Dependence on devices. Loss of human autonomy in the face of artificial intelligence.

Machines

running our lives to a very large degree...

We actually were, I think, one of the first customers who actually requested this API

Imperson provides technology that knows how to automate this conversation in a realistic way, so the user believes he is speaking with a character or even the actor doing the character

I think there are a few different reasons why today it's more relevant and more attractive. We are taking familiar figures like celebrities; it's not just a chat bot that you speak with for the sake of your artificial intelligence curiosity. This is an entertainment experience. People chatting with Miss Piggy enjoy the experience as if they were chatting with the real Miss Piggy. In order to create the interaction, we were working with Disney people and Disney writers who actually write for Miss Piggy and make sure it's a completely authentic conversation.

neural network—a vast network of machines that approximates the web of neurons in the human brain—and this neural network analyzes the information in order to “learn” a particular task.

Google’s Smart Reply system doesn’t always get things right. But that’s part of the reason the company provides three potential replies to each email—not just one.

The system uses what’s called a “long short-term-memory,” or LSTM, neural network. Essentially, this is a neural net that exhibits something akin to human memory. It can “remember” the beginning of an email as it’s parsing the end—and that helps it, on some level, understand this natural language

Epps’s team has made a device which straps to a baseball cap that can work out the intensity of a task and when a person switches to another task – just from their head movements.

o use the data from wearables to train artificial intelligences.

Epps’s team is building a new prototype made from cheap components that can be worn on glasses, which tracks eye movement and speech as well as head motion.

In Ease mode, the car is fully autonomous, and the driver the able to sit back let the machine do the driving.

Boost mode affords the driver the opportunity to push the performance boundaries of the BMW at his or own pleasure. It's the traditional BMW driving experience. 

future of automobiles will be built upon four pillars

Artificial intelligence and intuitive technology

future cars will be able to learn, think and interact in a more human-like manner. 

future technology will be seamlessly integrated into the usage experience in way that the driver may not even know he or she is interacting with technology

According to BMW, the development of carbon fiber and composite parts along with new manufacturing techniques like 4D printing may render old-fashioned pressed steel obsolete.

mobility will remain an emotional experience

BMWs will remain driver focused

Features such as autonomous drive are key because they keep the brand at the forefront technological development. But they may threaten the driver-centric, pleasure-of-driving ethos BMW has built for itself over the past 100 years

What’s better than something that is basically a story about you?”

AI will transform business and the economy, and increasingly, some are convinced it will radically change how we do science.