Alberto Arvelo is used to hiring composers to set music to his films. The Venezuelan director's most recent feature, "Libertador," employed none other than Gustavo Dudamel -- in his debut film score -- for that task. The roles were reversed, however, on Arvelo's new assignment: setting film to Dudamel-led concerts of Joseph Haydn's epic oratorio, "The Creation." "It's exactly what should happen with a good music in film," Arvelo said. "Good music is something that you can feel, that can create something that's not there. Basically, if music is there, it's because we have to add something to that moment, to provoke this combustion in some way. This is more or less the same concept, but exactly in a reverse way."

We are a team that unites the data analysis techniques of astrophysics and biocomputation. Our mission statement is develop bespoke machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to image analysis and data discovery problems in a wide variety of fields, from medicine to marketing. In the skunkworks spirit, we are developing Drake - an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for automatic navigation in unknown terrain. Jim is an astrophysicist specialising in galaxy evolution and observational cosmology. With a degree in physics from Imperial College London and a PhD in astronomy from Durham University, Jim has over a decade of research experience at the forefront of his field, holding a Banting Fellowship at McGill University in Montreal and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Hertfordshire.

Though deals to private artificial intelligence companies -- excluding incubator/accelerator rounds -- fell 10% in Q2'16, dollar funding reached an all-time high. That was partly thanks to 3 $100M mega-rounds by companies using AI: a $154M Series A round went to China-based healthcare startup iCarbonX (with the participation of Tencent, Vcanbio), a $100M growth equity round was raised by New Jersey-based Fractal Analytics (from Khazanah Nasional Berhad), and there was a $100M Series D round raised by California-based cybersecurity unicorn Cylance (from investors including Blackstone Group, Insight Venture Partners, and Khosla Ventures). Our AI category includes companies applying AI solutions to verticals like healthcare, security, advertising, and finance as well as those developing general-purpose AI tech. Nearly 70% of the deals went to startups in the United States in Q2'16. A majority of the startups raising funds were still in their early-stages: Nearly 60% of the deals went to startups raising seed/angel and Series A rounds, while mid-stage startups (Series B and C) received 12% of the deals.

Yann LeCun is director of AI research at Facebook and Silver Professor at New York University, affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Center for Neural Science, and the Center for Data Science, for which he served as founding director until 2014. Over his career, Yann has held a wide range of positions, including a postdoc at the University of Toronto, head of the Image Processing Research department at AT&T Labs-Research, and a researcher at the NEC Research Institute, as well as the 2015–2016 annual visiting professor chair of computer science at Collège de France. His research interests include machine learning and artificial intelligence with applications to computer vision, natural language understanding, robotics, and computational neuroscience. Yann is best known for his work in deep learning and the invention of the convolutional network method, widely used for image, video, and speech recognition. He is the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award and the 2015 IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Distinguished Researcher Award.

AI is moving at a stellar speed and is probably one of most complex and present sciences. The complexity here is not meant as a level of difficulty in understanding and innovating (although of course, this is quite high), but as the degree of interrelation with other fields apparently disconnected. There are basically two schools of thought on how an AI should be properly built: the Connectionists start from the assumption that we should draw inspiration from the neural networks of the human brain, while the Symbolists prefer to move from banks of knowledge and fixed rules on how the world works. Given these two pillars, they think it is possible to build a system capable of reasoning and interpreting. In addition, a strong dichotomy is naturally taking shape in terms of problem-solving strategy: you can solve a problem through a simpler algorithm, which though it increases its accuracy in time (iteration approach), or you can divide the problem into smaller and smaller blocks (parallel sequential decomposition approach).

In the classic science fiction series that began with "Ender's Game," the character Jane begins by using her artificial intelligence to prepare taxes for the hero Ender, but soon takes over management of his entire financial life. When it comes to otherworldly science fiction personalities, Jane is a rather prosaic figure, but Ethan Bloch had her in mind when he began his start-up Digit. Mr. Bloch's company currently creates free automated savings accounts -- and has helped customers put aside over $250 million -- but his vision is to add capabilities until Digit becomes a full-service financial assistant like Jane. There is now a lot of competition to create an automated financial assistant for the masses. Credit Karma and Mint, two popular financial applications with many millions more users than Digit, are about to roll out suites of new features that will make them feel more like robotic financial advisers, tapping customers on the shoulder when they could make better financial decisions. One feature that both Credit Karma and Mint will offer is more automated tax preparation of the sort that Jane provided for Ender (though with much less robotic charm and thoroughness).

LISBON (Reuters) - Investors believe it is "inevitable" that artificial intelligence will destroy millions of jobs and that governments are unprepared for such an impact, according to a survey published on Thursday. Artificial intelligence (AI), or the process by which computers or robots take on tasks that need human intelligence, is one of the key themes of this week's Web Summit in Lisbon. The poll among 224 venture capitalists attending the conference showed 53 percent believed AI would destroy millions of jobs and 93 percent saw governments as unprepared for this. The survey also found that 83 percent of the investors canvassed expect Britain's exit from the European Union to damage Europe's economy and 77 percent believe it will damage British startups. London is widely seen as the main tech startup hub in Europe, thanks to its large pool of talent and a much bigger pool of funding than in rival centers.

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Samsung is about to launch a new phone that will include all of the iPhone 8's biggest features. The upcoming Galaxy S7 will drop the physical home button so that the entirety of the front of the phone can be one big screen, according to reports. That will allow it to have much the same design as the one rumoured for the upcoming iPhone 8 – which is also expected to be made entirely of glass and not have any bezel. The new phone will also lose the headphone jack, according to reports. Apple dropped the headphone jack in its last iPhone, telling people to use wireless headphones instead, a decision that caused huge controversy.