If you're not into fashion, you may not recognize that name, but Karl Lagerfeld is to fashion as Wayne Gretzky is to hockey as Mick Jagger is to rock and roll as Steve Jobs is to consumer tech. He is, according to industry insiders, nothing less than a fashion god. Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1938, he designed his first line of clothing at the tender age of 17. His meteoric rise is legendary among creative directors and today at 83, he still has tremendous influence in the fashion world as creative director at Chanel and Fendi. Lagerfeld proved over decades that he had the creative vision to know what consumers would want next before they even knew themselves. He once said, "I am not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions.

Rather than creating a whole 3D model, the agency has crafted a photorealistic version of the presenters and simply animated their facial features. Michael Wooldridge, a Professor at the University of Oxford, said the result is mixed. He explained: "It's quite difficult to watch for more than a few minutes. It's very flat, very single-paced, it's not got rhythm, pace or emphasis. "If you're just looking at animation you've completely lost that connection to an anchor." Noel Sharkey, a robotics professor at the University of Sheffield, was slightly more impressed. He said it was a "good first effort.

That artificial intelligence (AI) is dramatically transforming the human resources industry is somewhat ironic, given the growing global clamour for robots, usurping millions of jobs. HR, though, is not traditionally associated with pioneering nascent technology, and failure to deploy and develop AI could prove a fatal mistake. "When so much time is spent debating how AI and automation might replace roles, it's easy to forget that these very same technologies have a huge role to play in finding, securing and retaining employees," Andrew Lawson, executive vice president and general manager of Salesforce in the UK, points out. "In this era of constant change and digital skills shortages, finding the right talent is more challenging than ever. By using AI and automation, businesses can identify a diverse range of top candidates quickly and easily, and at a pace that keeps stride with the frenzied speed of modern business."

Amazon has released its Alexa app for Windows 10, which is now available from the Microsoft Store. Alexa was already on some Windows 10 machines, but now all users in the US, UK and Germany can grab the app, with availability expanding next year. If you have a compatible computer, you'll be able to use Alexa hands-free. For everyone else, it's a matter of clicking a button or hitting a keyboard shortcut to activate the voice assistant. As ever, you can use Alexa to control music and your smart home devices, find out the weather forecast, check your calendar and carry out most tasks for which you'd call on the voice assistant.

It's a far cry from robots trying to take over the world in the 2004 Will Smith film I, Robot. But now scientists claim actual eye robots could one day be used to deliver drugs in human eyes to prevent blindness. Fascinating footage shows miniscule machines driving through the eye and carrying medication directly where it needs to go. The devices, called micropropellors, are 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair and use spiral tails to spin through the eye's jelly. Experts, who have only tested the microrobots on dead pigs' eyes, say they could be more effective and faster than using eye drops or injections.

Before a child becomes a teenager there are 1,300 pictures of them online and they post up to 70,000 times before they turn 18, claims a new report. Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England, said that a child's digital footprint now starts before they are born when parents post scans on social media. In a startling report, she also warns about the danger of internet-connected children's toys such as CloudPets and Amazon's Echo potentially harvesting data, without parents' knowledge, and storing it online. Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England, said that a child's digital footprint now starts when they are still in the womb when doting parents post scans on social media (stock) CloudPets are soft animal toys that allow children to record voice messages and play the messages of family and friends. It was revealed last year that millions of these private and intimate messages were being accessed by strangers after being left unprotected online. The report also warned of internet-enabled baby cameras that stream live video of a child to an app on a parent's phone as the security is often easy to bypass for hackers.

New rules to let self-driving cars break the speed limit or mount kerbs to avoid accidents are being drawn up in a'digital Highway Code'. And in a radical legal move, it could be the car maker punished if a driverless car speeds without justification or causes a fatal accident. One key question in an official review launched yesterday is whether automated vehicles should, like human drivers, be allowed to break the rules for a greater good. Should they be programmed to mount the kerb to avoid a child in the road, let an ambulance go past, or if two cars are stuck in a narrow street? New rules to let self-driving cars break the speed limit or mount kerbs to avoid accidents are being drawn up in a'digital Highway Code'.

Artificial intelligence systems simulate human intelligence by learning, reasoning, and self correction. This technology has the potential to be more accurate than doctors at making diagnoses and performing surgical interventions, says Jörg Goldhahn, MD, MAS, deputy head of the Institute for Translational Medicine at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. It has a "near unlimited capacity" for data processing and subsequent learning, and can do this at a speed that humans cannot match. Increasing amounts of health data, from apps, personal monitoring devices, electronic medical records, and social media platforms are being brought together to give machines as much information as possible about people and their diseases. At the same time machines are "reading" and taking account of the rapidly expanding scientific literature.

The announcement was one of several at the Fujitsu Forum in Munich to feature AI developments. Fujitsu Intelligence Technology brings together the company's AI work in Japan and around the world to run it from Vancouver, Canada. The area has many research institutions such as the University of Toronto engaged in AI and quantum computing research, as well as startup technology companies. The government there is pushing the country towards AI. "In Vancouver and across British Columbia, Fujitsu will have the opportunity to collaborate with our state-of-the-art universities and research facilities to discover new ways that artificial intelligence can help solve local and global challenges," said John Horgan, Premier of the Province of British Columbia.

Awareness of the possible impacts associated with artificial intelligence has risen in proportion to progress in the field. While there are tremendous benefits to society, many argue that there are just as many, if not more, concerns related to advanced forms of artificial intelligence. Accordingly, research into methods to develop artificial intelligence safely is increasingly important. In this paper, we provide an overview of one such safety paradigm: containment with a critical lens aimed toward generative adversarial networks and potentially malicious artificial intelligence. Additionally, we illuminate the potential for a developmental blindspot in the stovepiping of containment mechanisms.