In the film, Goertzel emerges as part visionary, part mountebank. He can always attract partners and excite investors but he struggles to hit deadlines. A company he set up in New York "pissed away" 20 million (as his former business partner puts it.) There is an excruciating scene in the documentary in which he and his colleagues demonstrate their A.I. "child" robots to their Chinese investors in Hong Kong. The robots let them down.

Today's reminder that you are definitely living in the future - 3,000 engineers have an "uncertain future" after Holmes, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool at Wipro which can automate these projects. According to the Mint, it will free up 3,000 engineers from "mundane" software maintenance jobs, and save save the company about 46.5 million. The software goes live on the company's'fixed-price' projects. "Hyper-automation is one of the six themes [CEO Abidali Neemuchwala] has outlined," a Wipro executive told Mint. Another Wipro source told the media: "We will move out 1,300 engineers from on-site [fixed price contracts] and about 2,000 people from off-site this year."

FILE - In this May 25, 2016, file photo, an Afghan man reads a local newspaper with photos the former leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. A senior U.S. defense official says the administration is moving toward a decision to expand the military's authority to conduct airstrikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The official says a final decision has not been made. But there is a broad desire to give the military greater ability to help the Afghan forces.

Researchers in Japan have used a machine-learning method to cut the time it takes to predict the catalytic potential of different metals. Binding between a metal surface and an adsorbate mainly depends on the electronic structure of the metal. More energy at centre of the metal's d-band creates a stronger bond between its surface and the adsorbate. Based on this theory, scientists have long regarded a value called the d-band centre as a key indicator of a metal's catalytic activity. Researchers normally compute this value independently for each metal using first-principles calculations.

A lab at University of Colorado Boulder studies the fluid mechanics of fragrances, as part of a nationwide project to build a robot that can smell. Boulder smells of peppermint…and crisp snow. The frozen water smells pure, as if still trapped in the clouds hanging just overhead. The sun glints off the Rocky Mountains, their iron musk mixes with mountain pine. Before crossing the road to enter the University of Colorado Boulder, a truck dashes by, muffling these scents with sulfuric exhaust.

Apple is set to unveil a new and improved Siri, the personal digital assistant, and widen its reach, to Mac computers and third-party apps. Philips Hue is now compatible with Apple Home Kit, meaning you can use Siri to control your lights. LOS ANGELES -- Siri is expected to expand beyond the iPhone and iPad to third-party apps and Macs, a move designed to hike the usefulness and IQ of Apple's personal digital assistant. Analysts who cover Apple predict an expanded role for Siri will be one highlight of Apple's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, which begins Monday in San Francisco. Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

Robots are helping to keep the lights on in China's Anhui province. The robots look remarkably like Disney's lovable "Wall-E." Don't let that fool you, though. The machines are hard at work. Humans tell the robots what to keep an eye on, but the inspector bots do their job on their own.

You can almost hear the whooshing sound as the technology industry is sprinting to the marketplace with new solutions to help the enterprise garner useful and intelligent insights from their data. Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) delivered in a simplistic form is what companies are demanding. To meet this mandate, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) has developed Haven OnDemand, which offers the latest technology in a simplified platform for developers. Jeff Veis, VP of Big Data Platform Solutions, HP Software, at HPE, spoke to John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover 2016 Las Vegas to discuss Big Data and the needs of the enterprise. Furrier began the interview by asking Veis about the driving force behind the need for machine learning.

Whether the Orcs and humans of "Warcraft" can appeal to American moviegoers remains an open question, but there's little doubt about their pull in China. The Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures film has grossed up to 92 million in China in its first two days of release, according to studio estimates. In local currency terms, the movie is outpacing last year's blockbuster "Furious 7," which eventually scored 391 million in the country. "Warcraft," based on the popular "World of Warcraft" game from Blizzard Entertainment, pulled in more than 44 million in Chinese ticket sales Thursday, its second day in release, easily topping the previous record set by local production "The Mermaid" earlier this year. The new movie accounted for 81% of the China box office on Thursday.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has flown beneath the radar for the first six decades of its development, and just recently it's exploded into public consciousness, according to Neil Jacobstein. The AI & Robotics co-chair at Singularity University and former CEO of Teknowledge Corporation believes the combination of humans, AI, and good business processes is disrupting the very ground we stand on in financial technology (Fintech) and beyond as we already use machine learning tools to augment the power of the human brain. At Singularity University's Exponential Finance conference today, Jacobstein pointed to examples like Google's AlphaGo wiping the floor with world champion Lee Sedol, and how quickly the world shifted from a state of shock to seizing the scientific opportunity. Soon after seeing its human champion so thoroughly beaten by a machine, South Korea announced a plan to spend 840 million by 2020 to boost AI research and development (R&D), and to create a research institute where six of the country's highest profile tech companies--Samsung, LG, SK Telecom SKT, KT, Naver, and Hyundai--will each invest up to 3 billion in AI R&D. He also mentioned Facebook's DeepText AI language comprehension and categorization, as well as Viv, saying that calling it another personal assistant misses the point.