Earlier this year, Tinder began testing out a feature that serves up a list of curated profiles for users who were willing to pay a few extra bucks each month. Now, the popular dating app has announced that the feature, called'Top Picks,' is now launching worldwide. However, it's only available for paying subscribers of Tinder Gold, which costs £7.49 Tinder announced that'Top Picks' is now available worldwide. Top Picks quietly launched in the US and UK last week, after it was tested in Germany, Brazil, France, Canada, Turkey, Mexico, Sweden, Russia and the Netherlands, according to TechCrunch.

Algorithmic art has been around as a distinct discipline for decades. Hungarian artist Vera Molnár created an early form of it back in the 1960s with computer drawings fashioned according to strict algorithmic rules. And American artist Roman Verostko created algorithmic art with The Magic Hand of Chance, non-repeating digital drawings created using BASIC on a first-generation IBM PC. But in a new exhibition called Gradient Descent--now on view at Nature Morte gallery in New Delhi--a group of curators, a gallerist, and seven artists are attempting to define, both aesthetically and conceptually, a more recent development in algorithmic creativity: art made by artificial intelligence. The brainchild of brothers Raghava KK and Karthik Kalyanaraman, alongside Nature Morte co-director Aparajita Jain, Gradient Descent features artworks made by seven international artists in collaboration with AI.

Tuesday, September 11th, Rockville, MD - Today, Insilico Medicine, Inc., a Rockville-based next-generation artificial intelligence company specializing in the application of deep learning for target identification, drug discovery and aging research announces the publication of a new research paper "Entangled Conditional Adversarial Autoencoder for de-novo Drug Discovery" in Molecular Pharmaceutics, the leading American Chemical Society journal covering research on the molecular mechanistic understanding of drug delivery and drug delivery systems. The authors presented an original deep neural network architecture, Entangled Conditional Adversarial Autoencoder (ECAAE), which generates molecular structures based on various properties such as activity against a specific protein, solubility, and ease of synthesis. ECAAE was used to generate a novel inhibitor of Janus Kinase 3 (JAK3), implicated in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and vitiligo. The discovered molecule was tested in vitro and demonstrated high activity and selectivity. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) proposed by Ian Goodfellow and colleagues in 2014 and commonly referred to as AI imagination, are among the most exciting areas of AI research.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to change not only the face of technology, but produce significant and potentially life-changing gains for investors in the process. If that sounds a little over the top, consider this: a recent study estimated that AI will drive global gross domestic product (GDP) 14% higher by 2030, the equivalent of adding $15.7 trillion in productivity, according to research by PwC. The companies at the forefront of this technological evolution stand the gain the most, even as some face near-term headwinds. With that in mind, we asked three Fool.com Read on to find out why they chose NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU).

Soul Machines has discussed services for the elderly with prospective clients but has not announced any partnerships on that subject to date, says chief business officer Greg Cross. Soul Machines envisions a future in which digital instructors educate students without access to quality human teachers, and in which famous deceased artists are digitally resurrected to discuss their works in museums. Robot companions for the infirm, then, are not too far a leap. Nor is the prospect of a future in which a family converses with the lively AI recreation of a person suffering from dementia, while a caregiver--robot or human--tends to their ailing body in another room. The potential for deception is already here. A few years ago, Brent Lawson, the president of 1 AM Dolls, a manufacturer of life-sized rubber sex dolls, was on the phone with a client who wanted a specific doll he'd seen on the company's website. The man was particularly concerned that the doll's hair was just so, and peppered Lawson with questions about the color and style, Lawson told Quartz.

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, BMW today premiered its digital personal assistant for its cars, the aptly named BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant. But you won't have to say "Hey, BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant" to wake it up. You can give it any name you want. The announcement comes only a few weeks after BMW also launched its integration with Amazon's Alexa, but it's worth stressing that these are complementary technologies. BMW's own assistant is all about your car, while its partnerships with Amazon and also Microsoft enables other functions that aren't directly related to your driving experience.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a growing number of applications in the security and military areas. It facilitates manoeuvres in the field, and can save lives when things go wrong. It also boosts the performance of armies by providing robot allies to combat forces. According to some experts, Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) are creating a "Third Revolution" in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear weapons. It is time we start worrying about the day when armies of robots are capable of conducting hostilities with full autonomy, without humans to command them.

Being able to see is a major frontier in robotics and automation--crossing it is key to autonomous vehicles that can navigate obstacles, humanoid robots that can more closely integrate with humans and drones that can fly more safely. Companies world-wide are investing in computer vision-based technology. Chip maker Intel Corp. bought Mobileye NV for $15.3 billion in March 2017, in part for the Israeli company's vision-based driver-assistance technology. In April, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. led a $600 million funding round in startup SenseTime Group Ltd., which specializes in facial- and image-recognition technology. The sensing and imaging market will grow about 10-fold to $18.5 billion by 2023, market-research firm Yole Développement forecasts.

AI and Blockchain seem to be the new hammer -- making everything look like a nail, but are AI and Blockchain really necessary to solve most of the world's problems? What could AI do for Blockchain? AI LA's Third Thursday Talk Topic is Blockchain and we plan to get down and dirty discussing viable use cases and debunking all of the hype around two of the most overused buzzwords with some of the top minds working in both fields. Thank you to our amazing partners Phase Two, Semio.ai, LAtoken, and ObEN for helping us keep this event FREE!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how we commute and experience urban living. As bike share schemes grow, AI is playing an increasing role in successful schemes and enabling operators to grow efficiently in new markets. While some bike share schemes are struggling to maximise profitability and maintain market share due to increasing headcount and throwing expensive resources into their schemes as they grow, others are using new technologies to accelerate ridership growth and optimise their operations. To succeed in the long-term, they have had to rethink their approach to bike share scheme management and find ways to use the data in their schemes and turn it into actionable insights. Many operators have global ambitions and want to expand into new markets but the first step is to ensure they have the best possible operating model and can replicate it in new cities.