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Addressing knowledge loss at the UK's average rate of staff turnover (around 20% a year, including managers) means that an organizations' bank of remembered know-how and experience can be reduced to homeopathic levels in just a short space of time. Fortunately, not everyone leaves simultaneously and atypical practices like job overlapping and mentoring helps. But given that academics estimate that when employees leave, they take with them up to 90% of their employers' unique knowledge - most of it tacit and nothing of which typically gets into data banks - the compounded attrition of this distinctive component of intellectual capital is still truly massive.

Tableau helps people see and understand data

One of the hottest tools in the market right now: Tableau.

"Alder Hey, an important children's hospital in Liverpool, England, is working on integrating Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology into its operating theaters. The HoloLens is a headset that is able to overlay digital images onto a person's field of view, essentially mixing virtual reality with the real world. The hospital partnered with Black Marble, a Microsoft partner based in the UK, to implement the HoloLens so that it can be used by surgeons to easily access imaging and other data during surgery."

"​It's hard to wire a wind turbine while juggling a thick technical manual, or to ask offsite experts for help without being able to show them exactly what you see. Augmented reality can help, overlaying digital data onto the real world to give workers immediate access to vital information"

"The current scandal about the mis-use of Facebook data to manipulate elections feels like a pivotal moment in the recent history of the internet and its growing power over societies around the world. "

Microsoft Professional Program in AI, the latest learning track open to the public. The program provides job-ready skills and real-world experience to engineers and others who are looking to improve their skills in AI and data science through a series of online courses that feature hands-on labs and expert instructors.

"Some of the most promising blockchain use cases currently in development include financial instrument and trade identification, data delivery, payment systems, land registration, contract law, and even identity verification."

Use of machine learning and physical modelling for adaptive vehicle control. Data-driven decision making.

Fake news meets linked data. A useful resource.

"Google subsidiary DeepMind has accomplished some amazing things over the past couple of years, from beating humans at their own game to saving its parent company money on its electricity bill. Now, however, it's coming under major scrutiny because of the specifics of a deal with the United Kingdom's National Health Service."

Our local hospital is part of the Royal Free Trust (the body that gave Deepmind MY data). The trust has never consulted me on this. I don't care whether it has a legal duty to do so or not, I believe it has a moral obligation to tell me what it is doing and why. Deepmind may have altruistic public health motives (hmmm), but this silence is destroying trust (pardon the pun). It's about time the data Ombudsmen did their job.

"The Digital Universe Grows, and So Does The Digital Cemetery"

While AI is a master of pattern recognition, algorithms can only operate on parts of the world that humans can precisely describe to it.

"Big data's potential just keeps growing. Taking full advantage means companies must incorporate analytics into their strategic vision and use it to make better, faster decisions."

Hidden biases may be written inadvertently into the algorithms used to decide who gets a job interview or who qualifies for a loan or for parole. If a data set considers the word "programmer" closer to the word "man" than "woman," or if you build a system that learns from Wikipedia, where only 17 per cent of profiles of notable people are women, these biases will be perpetuated in the machine.

"It is somewhat safe to predict that AI will continue to be at the top of the hype cycle in 2018. But the following 51 predictions also envision it becoming more practical and useful, automating some jobs and augmenting many others, combining machine learning and big data for fresh insights, with chatbots proliferating in the enterprise."

"Hans Rosling is debunking the River of Myths about the developing world. By measuring the progress in the once labeled "developing countries", preventable child mortality can be history by the year 2030."

During the past few years, the terms artificial intelligence and machine learning have begun showing up frequently in technology news and websites. Often the two are used as synonyms, but many experts argue that they have subtle but real differences.

Artificial intelligence that can understand and answer any work-related question it is asked has been made available in the UK for the first time.