Toyota's Concept-i has an artificial intelligence system that knows what you want (Photo: Nate Hassler/Toyota) Toyota introduced a futuristic concept car Wednesday with built-in artificial intelligence that not only can get drivers where they're going, but shows up as a little ball of light that can talk back to them and know their moods. The car, called Concept-i, made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and it comes with a little AI robot-like companion named "Yui." Yui (pronounced you-EE) greets the driver, showing up as a circle of light about the size of a ping pong ball when they open the door. Then, Yui shows up on the dashboard. Yui keep tabs on the driver.

Descriptions are often provided along with recommendations to help users' discovery. Recommending automatically generated music playlists (e.g. personalised playlists) introduces the problem of generating descriptions. In this paper, we propose a method for generating music playlist descriptions, which is called as music captioning. In the proposed method, audio content analysis and natural language processing are adopted to utilise the information of each track.

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Patient Number Two was born to first-time parents, late 20s, white. The pregnancy was normal and the birth uncomplicated. But after a few months, it became clear something was wrong. The child had ear infection after ear infection and trouble breathing at night. He was small for his age, and by his fifth birthday, still hadn't spoken.

In artnet's predictions for 2017, I wrote that it would be the year Artificial Intelligence would finally crack the problem of curating. That was meant as a joke--but it turns out that I was already behind the times. The whiz kids at Google's non-profit cultural arm, Google Cultural Institute, have spent the year trying to imagine just that. Head to the "Experiments" section of the Cultural Institute website and you will find a catalogue of how they have been attempting to apply "machine learning" to the question of organizing artworks. Perhaps the experiment that best showcases their particular brand of cultural gimcrackery is called "X Degrees of Separation."

In 1950, Alan Turing anticipated the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with his "Turing Test", which imagined a conversation between a computer and a human and declared that if the human couldn't tell if they were talking to a computer then it must be exhibiting intelligent behaviour. In 2014 the Turing test was finally declared "passed for the first time". Here at Intelligent Environments we've seen this opportunity emerge as increasing numbers of our clients have come to us to discuss how to capitalise on chat and instant messaging to improve their customer service offering. Live chat now delivers the highest satisfaction levels for any customer service channel at nearly 75%. The next few years is likely to see a boom in the use of chat bots in commerce and Gartner predicts that by 2020 autonomous software agents will participate in 5% of all economic transactions.

Patient Number Two was born to first-time parents, late 20s, white. The pregnancy was normal and the birth uncomplicated. But after a few months, it became clear something was wrong. The child had ear infection after ear infection and trouble breathing at night. He was small for his age, and by his fifth birthday, still hadn't spoken.

MEPs have warned European countries must "seriously" consider introducing a general basic income to prepare for wide scale unemployment that could come as a result of robots taking over manual jobs. A draft report, tabled by a socialist MEP Mady Delvaux-Stehres, warns preparations must be made for what it describes as the "technological revolution" currently taking place, including provisions for the "possible effects on the labour market of robotics". The report, which passed by 17 votes to two and will be put in front of the entire European Parliament in February, urges member states to consider a general basic income in preparation for robots taking over people's jobs. It states: "In the light of the possible effects on the labour market of robotics and AI a general basic income should be seriously considered, and invites all Member States to do so." The resolution also suggests that a system of reporting on how robotics are affecting the economic results of companies should be established "for the purpose of taxation and social security contributions".

We say this each year, but it's true -- the pace of news around the robotics industry is accelerating! See which robot stories were our most popular for the past year. Thanks to cheaper sensors, new software, and the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), mobile robots are rapidly expanding in supply chain operations. It's just in the nick of time, as robots save money, speed e-commerce order fulfillment, and come from proliferating providers. Germany and China typify central planning for encouraging the adoption of robotics, but that situation is changing worldwide, according to author Søren Tranberg Hansen.

Of course, Google knows what you've searched for. So do Bing, Yahoo!, and every other search engine. And your ISP knows every website you've ever visited. Google also knows your age and gender -- even if you never told them. They make a pretty comprehensive ads profile of you, including a list of your interests (which you can edit) to decide what kinds of ads to show you.