That said, there is currently one privately-funded, short-term pilot program being run by the Silicon Valley accelerator, Y Combinator, in California. The goal is to see how people react in the U.S., says Sam Altman, President, Y Combinator Group. The program gives "unconditional" payments to selected residents of Oakland. The administrators write, "we hope basic income promotes freedom, and we want to see how people experience that freedom." If it is successful, the plan is to follow up the pilot with a larger, longer-term program.

The Game Awards 2016 take place on Thursday, Dec. 1 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The show will be streamed live -- and you can watch here. Game titles nominated for the Game of the Year award include Doom, Inside, Overwatch, Titanfall 2 and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End . The award will be giving to the game that "delivers the best experience across all creative and technical fields." Uncharted 4 has the most nominations, with eight, including Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Narrative and three nominations for Best Performance for voice actors Nolan North, Troy Baker and Emily Rose.

WHAT is the collective noun for a group of economists? Options include a gloom, a regression or even an assumption. In January, when PhD students jostle for jobs at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, a "market" might seem the mot juste. Or perhaps, judging by the tendency of those writing economic papers to follow the latest fashion, a "herd" would be best. This year the hot technique is machine learning, using big data; Imran Rasul, an economics professor at University College, London, is expecting to read a pile of papers using this voguish technique.

Are consciousness and emotion essential components for creating music? Johann Sebastian Bach never completed his 18th-century work "The Art of Fugue," but now a computer might do it for him. University of Washington researchers on Wednesday released MusicNet, a large-scale classical music dataset aimed at helping machines understand the basic structure of classical music -- and even predict the next notes in a recording. The publicly available dataset includes 330 classical music recordings, along with more than a million annotated markers, verified by trained musicians, that indicate the timing of each note, the instrument that plays it and the note's position in a composition's metrical structure. "At a high level, we're interested in what makes music appealing to the ears, how we can better understand composition, or the essence of what makes Bach sound like Bach," Sham Kakade, a UW associate professor of computer science, engineering and statistics, said in a statement.

Question: can AI vision systems from Microsoft and Google, which are available for free to anybody, identify NSFW (not safe for work, nudity) images? Can this identification be used to automatically censor images by blacking out or blurring NSFW areas of the image? Method: I spent a few hours creating in some rough code in Microsoft office to find files on my computer and send them to Google Vision and Microsoft Vision so they could be analysed. I spent a few hours over the weekend just knocking some very rough code. Yes, they did reasonably well at (a) identifying images that could need censoring and (b) identifying where on the image things should be blocked out. Follow on question: Why aren't sites like Facebook and Instagram automatically deploying this technology to identify images and allowing users to choose whether they wish to see such images? How do we know how much of our internet is already censored invisibly?

What can your face say about you? Face recognition technology can pick up on things like your age, gender and maybe even your mood. Now, two researchers say it could even tell whether you're a criminal. They are claiming to have developed a system that, when shown a series of faces it has never encountered before, can pick out the ones belonging to convicted criminals. But other researchers have criticised the results, and say the work raises ethical questions over what face recognition technology can and should be used to detect.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will emerge as a key marketing point in the smartphone industry next year, with the world's leading handset manufacturers scrambling to add more AI functions to their upcoming flagship devices. The move comes as big data technology, allowing devices to make human-like predictions, has been identified as a core feature for a paradigm shift in the global handset market which has stagnated in recent years. The weak growth has been attributed to toughened rivalry among existing players and a slowdown in terms of technological innovations from industry-leading handset makers ― such as Samsung Electronics and Apple ― according to observers. According to market researcher Gartner, the smartphone market has reached 90 per cent penetration in key global markets this year - including the United States, Europe and Japan ― where lifecycles for premium handsets are extended to 2.5 years on average. The trend will prolong over the next five years, added the firm.

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cylance Inc., the company that is revolutionising cybersecurity with the practical application of artificial intelligence to prevent the most advanced cyber threats, today announced that it has selected Arrow Electronics, Inc. as its distributor in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). This year, Cylance announced its initial launch into Australia to service market growth across Asia Pacific. Arrow will support Cylance in expanding its regional footprint and providing customers with cyberattack prevention technology where traditional anti-virus software has failed. According to Andy Solterbeck, vice president of Cylance Asia Pacific, Arrow was selected because of its extensive security experience and credentials in the local region. "We are excited to work with Arrow as a distributor that is recognised for its proven track record of releasing highly disruptive technologies into the Australia and New Zealand markets. We look forward to leveraging Arrow's infrastructure and reseller programs to scale the business and enable our customers to upskill quickly," said Solterbeck.

Businesses and business units of all sizes can benefit from cloud computing, but many don't want the cost, performance and security concerns of public cloud nor the complexity of building their own private clouds. Today, some cloud vendors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify cloud deployment and management. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ajay Gulati, Co-founder and CEO of ZeroStack, will discuss how AI can simplify cloud operations. He leads ZeroStack's innovative team and corporate strategy. He was a senior architect and R&D lead at VMware where he designed flagship products including Storage I/O control, Storage DRS and DRS.

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