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The AI field continues to move at a breathtaking pace, with near-weekly announcements of surprising breakthroughs and mind-bending research - broadcast via blog posts, conference papers, web videos and media interviews. AI today is a global phenomenon. There is no AI Winter in our near future. The world moves briskly forward with object recognition, universal language translation, conversation and humanoid robots that talk, gesture and dance. Building human level machine intelligence, or AGI, embodied as robots continues to be the holy grail. Fervent believers, defiant contrarians, radical experimenters and centrist thought leaders populate this new AI ecosystem.