In July 2013, an up-and-coming artist had an exhibition at the Galerie Oberkampf in Paris. It lasted for a week, was attended by the public, received press coverage, and featured works produced over a number of years, including some created on the spot in the gallery. Altogether, it was a fairly typical art-world event. The only unusual feature was that the artist in question was a computer program known as "The Painting Fool." Even that was not such a novelty.

This ANN introduction only covers the basic fundamentals. In the next chapter, we will learn about the computing strategies that enable ANN's predictive capabilities.

What's striking in these discussions is regardless of whether you fear or love AI bots, our future with them is inevitable. People are excited about Bots, both physical and digital, because they are the next wave of industrial revolution. Industrial revolutions are not defined by individual technological improvements, but changes in labor and distribution. During the 1st and 2nd industrial revolutions, many things were invented; from looms to steam engines to new smelting iron techniques. It was an Industrial Revolution because goods were no longer produced by human hands, but could be primarily outsourced to machines and manufacturing processes.

Popular chat app Kik may not have quite the clout of Facebook Messenger or Snapchat, but what they do have, as of Tuesday, is bots. Specifically, Kik now has multi-functional bots that allow you to do things like shop, play games and check the weather, similar to features offered by Skype. The humble chat bot, a marvelous curiosity of early artificial intelligence technology, saw a small surge a few years back, with bots like SmarterChild gaining a bit of internet fame and making for an afternoon of oohs, aahs and laughs. More sophisticated bots, such as the award-winning Mitsuku chat bot, are coming dangerously close to being able to pass a Turing Test, a test where a human chats with the bot and decides if the person they're talking to is a bot or a human. Some bots, however, have been developed in a different direction.

This is a NAO robot asking a human to touch its hand for science. Robots can't feel shame, which saves them from any awkwardness when they ask a human to touch their buttocks. Humans are not so lucky, and when asked by a robot to touch part of its body, humans will get uncomfortable if that body part is generally thought of as private. In a new study, Stanford researchers found that people get weirded out touching "low-accessible" parts of the robot's body (crotch, butt, that sort of thing). The paper will be presented this week in Fukuoka, Japan, at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association.

WASHINGTON – A Boeing company manager convicted of child pornography charges in December says he has a right to know what arguments the government used to obtain the warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Now, the Los Angeles case is testing a defendant's ability to access information about himself presented to the nation's secretive intelligence court, which issued the warrant that let agents scour his computers. At issue is how the government uses evidence derived through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and under what circumstances that information should be seen by defendants, particularly when it's repurposed for a routine criminal prosecution that has nothing to do with national security. Gartenlaub and his lawyers say they have a right to know the government's arguments that were used to obtain the warrant, and fight them. "You can't base a search on lies," the 47-year-old said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Along with the tools out there for blind programmers to use, artificial intelligence might be something else that they can add to their tool belt. With recent developments at Microsoft, it could even help them see what is happening in the world around them. Saqib Shaikh is a London-based software developer who is working for Microsoft on the firm's Bing search engine, according to Forbes. He has been personally involved in the development of an application for cognitive computing, image recognition, and mobile headset technologies. The intelligence comes from "Seeing AI," a research project that helps people who are blind.

BENGALURU: Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, on Monday announced that it will provide a corpus grant worth 24 crore over the next three years to the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi to establish the Infosys Centre for Artificial Intelligence on its Okhla campus. The centre will initially be headed by Srikanth Saripalli, an expert in robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), currently spending his sabbatical at IIIT-Delhi. The centre will facilitate work on both fundamental and applied aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and focus on areas such as robotics, machine learning, computer vision, AI for software systems, large-scale data analytics, among others. Several faculty members of IIIT-Delhi will be associated with the centre, and research will be conducted by PhD scholars, post-docs, students, and visiting researchers. The centre will start a specialised MTech course.

The first GTC took place in a set of hotel ballrooms a few blocks away. That's up from 4,000 last year, a growth rate that's tracked pretty steady since the start of the show. The stage is about five feet off the ground. And on the vast screen is an NVIDIA-green moving image that, as it scans looks like a multi-level rendering of the brain's neural network. With some electronics thrown in between. A great many of those here, though, are scientists and analysts of the computational sort -- those who rely on NVIDIA GPUs to help them crunch the rising sea of data that's engulfing us. A lot are associated with universities, close to 200 of them. Virtually every one of the top 100 university comp sci departments are here. There are also hundreds of companies represented--certainly the dozens of major web-services companies that use artificial intelligence. But also industrials, oil and gas, retail. Err, less so this time. But folks don't seem to mind.

A study conducted by researchers at Stanford University and published in Science Daily found that humans get physiologically aroused by touching a robot's intimate areas. The researchers used Aldebaran Robotics' NAO, a humanoid robot, for their study. The robot instructed participants in the study to either touch or point at 13 different parts of its body. They then monitored the participants' responses as they carried out each command. The study found that participants more hesitant to touch more intimate parts of the robot, such as its eyes and buttocks, and they were physiologically aroused when touching these areas.