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Artificial intelligence could set off a third world war, but humans will win the battle, according to Alibaba founder Jack Ma.

"The first technology revolution caused World War I," Ma told CNBC in an interview that aired on Tuesday. "The second technology revolution caused World War II. This is the third technology revolution."

Workers and employers are increasingly defined by data unless governments show more willingness to make "hard choices."

Ma said humans will ultimately win the battle against an artificial intelligence takeover, however, as machines will never have the wisdom and experience that comes with being human.

"Wisdom is from the heart," Ma said. "The machine intelligence is by the brain [...] You can always make a machine to learn the knowledge. But it is difficult for machines to have a human heart."

The goal of artificial intelligence should be making machines that do things humans cannot do, rather than making them like humans, Ma said. While "we know the machine is powerful and stronger than us," humans will rise above the impending wave of data and artificial intelligence.

"Humans will win," Ma said. "In 30 years ... we'll see us surviving. "

CNBC's Anita Balakrishnan contributed to this report.

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Jack Ma: Artificial intelligence could set off WWIII, but 'humans will win' - CNBC

Artificial intelligence may still be in its nascent stage, but the technology has a bright future ahead as companies big and small continue to invest in it and develop their expertise, according to the a senior executive at Chinese tech giant Tencent.

In an interview with CNBC, Dowson Tong, senior executive vice president and social network group president at Tencent, said he was very bullish about A.I. and a big proponent of offering A.I. as a service.

"I am very optimistic (and) I am very bullish about the future of A.I. I think by having all these players, big and small, and each with their own expertise, we're going to see the whole industry prosper," Tong said.

Tong oversees business operation for Tencent's social networking platform QQ and Qzone, the music entertainment group and cloud computing.

A.I. encompasses a number of different technologies, including robotics and autonomous vehicles, machine learning and natural language processing, and deep learning. For example, Microsoft has a team of researchers in India that are working on ways to make a virtual assistants effectively bilingual.

Tong said beyond the recognizable tech names in China Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent there are opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses in China. Some such businesses are "very active, pushing the envelope of the technology (and) coming up with new services everyday as well."

Last month, Tencent opened a new A.I. lab in Seattle and appointed a former Microsoft scientist to oversee operations and drive the company's research on speech recognition and natural language processing.

Among other big names in China, Baidu already has an A.I. lab set up in Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, Alibaba recently expanded its big data and A.I. cloud offerings in Europe the product handles huge amounts of data that lets organizations make real-time predictions. Uber rival Didi Chuxing in March announced an R&D center in Mountain View, California, to look into A.I. in security and intelligent driving technologies.

Experts agree that A.I. is set to unleash a new wave of digital disruption as adoption across various industries begins to pick up.

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Director of robotics at GE Global Research looks over his team's Euclid aerial inspection system autonomous drone Tuesday June 20, 2017 in Niskayuna, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)

Director of robotics at GE Global Research looks over his team's Euclid aerial inspection system autonomous drone Tuesday June 20, 2017 in Niskayuna, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)

GE Global Research advanced robotics' Euclid aerial inspection system autonomous drone during a test flight Tuesday June 20, 2017 in Niskayuna, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)

GE Global Research advanced robotics' Euclid aerial inspection system autonomous drone during a test flight Tuesday June 20, 2017 in Niskayuna, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)

Pilot in command Doug Forman monitors GE Global Research's Euclid aerial inspection system autonomous drone during a test flight Tuesday June 20, 2017 in Niskayuna, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)

Pilot in command Doug Forman monitors GE Global Research's Euclid aerial inspection system autonomous drone during a test flight Tuesday June 20, 2017 in Niskayuna, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)

Members of GE Global Research advanced robotics team pose with their Euclid aerial inspection system autonomous drone Tuesday June 20, 2017 in Niskayuna, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)

Members of GE Global Research advanced robotics team pose with their Euclid aerial inspection system autonomous drone Tuesday June 20, 2017 in Niskayuna, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)

GE mixing drones and artificial intelligence in Niskayuna

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In a picnic area at General Electric Co.'s Global Research Center, a group of scientists and engineers are working on a new industrial revolution that will involve robots, drones and artificial intelligence.

GE has been developing robot and artificial intelligence technologies for many years now.

But these researchers in Niskayuna are part of GE's latest effort to monetize that technology with the launch of Avitas Systems, a new GE-created company being incubated in Boston with help from scientists here in the Capital Region.

Avitas is creating technologies that will be artificial intelligence, or AI, combined with robots and predictive data analytics and software to provide high-tech inspection services to energy and transportation companies.

On Tuesday, a team supervised by John Lizzi, director of robotics at GE Global Research, and Judy Guzzo, a project leader, were performing drone testing on a simulated oil rig flare stack.

"Really the concept for the business and the technology came out of the Global Research Center here," Lizzi said. "We've been experimenting with drones and other types of robotics for a while. Eventually that gained momentum as a real business opportunity."

Currently, oil and gas companies use human workers hooked onto harnesses to inspect flare stacks for wear and damage. The inspections are dangerous and require the drilling companies to temporarily pause their operations, costing them valuable time away from drilling.

GE's drone technology being offered by Avitas eliminates all of that human work that is so costly and dangerous. And GE's software creates so-called digital twins of industrial equipment that can predict when the actual equipment will break down or need servicing.

The technology is currently being targeted for customers of GE's oil and gas business. Guzzo spent two months in the Gulf of Mexico on an oil rig a year ago testing sensor technology that is also used by Avitas.

"Unplanned asset downtime is a top issue for the oil and gas industry, and can cost operators millions of dollars," Kishore Sundararajan, the chief technology officer of GE Oil & Gas, said. "Avitas Systems will help enhance the efficiency of inspections, and can help our customers and others avoid significant costs by reducing downtime and increasing safety."

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Thisyear's Christmas must-have toys will be life-like dolls with artificial intelligence and a Lego robot which can be controlled from an iPad, according to Argos.

But the introduction of new "pimped up" versions of classic toys mean parents can expect to takean extra largehit to the wallet, as the toys are part of a growing number which cost over 100.

Argos said the new breed of 100 gift could spell the end of children expecting a full Santa sack as they would be hoping for one or two high value items instead.

It said the most popular choice among parents this year was a "blockbuster gift", with over half (54 per cent) planning on purchasing a "gasp out loud" present alongside a couple of stocking fillers.

The Luvabella doll, which retails at 99.99, has fluid movements and responses tobeing fed and cared for like a real baby. For example she laughs when her feet are ticked, and gets upset when her eyes arecovered for too long.

Also aimed at girls is a "Tiny Treasures Twin Set" doll for 79.99, which is available as a set of twins. One boy, one girl, the dolls are weighted like real newborns and have sleepy eyes, silky newborn hair, super-soft skin and its skin is made to smell like a real baby.

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Ill call you Spockers. Hayvan uzman/CC BY-SA 4.0

For better or worse, there is a long list of things that artificial intelligence is still unable to do. But we can finally scratch naming guinea pigs off of that list, because an animal shelter in Portland, Oregon recently proved that AI may produce the cutest names of all.

As The Mary Sue is reporting, the Portland Guinea Pig Rescue (PGPR) recently tasked a neural network with naming a group of the little fuzzballs. The organization contacted scientist Janelle Shane, who had worked with teaching neural networks in the past, asking her if she could purpose such computer thinking towards coming up with guinea pig names. As Shane outlined on her blog, she entered in over 600 existing guinea pig names, provided to her by the PGPR, and ran them through an open-source neural network. The new names that the computer produced were truly delightful.

Based on the input names, which were taken from a list of all the names of the guinea pigs the PGPR has ever given over for adoption, as well as some names taken from the internet, the crude AI dreamt up names like Hanger Dan, After Pie, Fuzzable, Stargoon, Stoomy Brown, Princess Pow, and Spockers. Many of the names were immediately given to some of the PGPRs rescues (which can be adopted here).

But it wasnt all perfect cuteness forever. Some of the less popular names produced from the experiment include, Pot, Fusty, Fleshy, Butty Brlomy, and Bho8otteeddeeceul.

The hope is that by giving the guinea pigs mathematically cuter names, they will have a higher chance of being adopted, and the PGPR is expected to continue using the algorithm to devise new names. We can only hope.

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