Artificial intelligence has had its share of ups and downs recently. In what was widely seen as a key milestone for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, one system beat a former world champion at a mind-bendingly intricate board game. But then, just a week later, a "chatbot" that was designed to learn from its interactions with humans on Twitter had a highly public racist meltdown on the social networking site. How did this happen, and what does it mean for the dynamic field of AI? In early March, a Google-made artificial intelligence system beat former world champ Lee Sedol four matches to one at an ancient Chinese game, called Go, that is considered more complex than chess, which was previously used as a benchmark to assess progress in machine intelligence.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Your math teacher lied to you. Sometimes getting your sums wrong is a good thing. So says Joseph Bates, cofounder and CEO of Singular Computing, a company whose computer chips are hardwired to be incapable of performing mathematical calculations correctly. Ask it to add 1 and 1 and you will get answers like 2.01 or 1.98. The Pentagon research agency DARPA funded the creation of Singular's chip because that fuzziness can be an asset when it comes to some of the hardest problems for computers, such as making sense of video or other messy real-world data. "Just because the hardware is sucky doesn't mean the software's result has to be," says Bates.

As we recently mentioned, a team of BigMLers are on their way Prague this week. Even tough our main motivation has been to participate in this weekend's Machine Learning Prague 2016 Conference, we will also be taking part in other events sprinkled during our time in this jewel of Europe: We hope that you can catch one or more of the above activities, so we get to find out what you have been working on and how we can collaborate going forward.

We're excited to invite you to our first Talking Tech with Microsoft event in London. Our engineers from Microsoft Research, Bing and Aria will be talking to you about some breakthrough technologies we are developing and sharing their technical best practices. Come, join us to learn from and get inspired by Microsoft professionals! It won't be just us talking, you will also have the opportunity to ask questions, network with like-minded people and explore opportunities to join the teams in our offices should you be open for new challenges. Oh, and there will be refreshments… don't worry, we know how to treat our guests:) Innovative, real world, high scale machine learning applications developed at Microsoft Research Cambridge will be described and demonstrated.

The world has seen numerous major cyber attacks in the past couple of years, with targets ranging from government agencies to health insurers to entertainment companies. A group of scientists at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) are working to create a line of defense against these threats to privacy and security. They've developed an AI that can detect attacks on networks as they happen, 85 percent of the time. Some of the biggest names in tech are coming to TNW Conference in Amsterdam this May. AI2, short for Artificial Intelligence Squared, looks at data to detect suspicious activity.

The world has seen numerous major cyber attacks in the past couple of years, with targets ranging from government agencies to health insurers to entertainment companies. A group of scientists at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) are working to create a line of defense against these threats to privacy and security. They've developed an AI that can detect attacks on networks as they happen, 85 percent of the time. Our biggest ever edition of TNW Conference is fast approaching! AI2, short for Artificial Intelligence Squared, looks at data to detect suspicious activity.

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On November 15th, my credit risk analytics course will be available as e-Learning. Send me an email at Bart.Baesens@gmail.com Bart Baesens holds a master's degree in Business Engineering (option: Management Informatics) and a PhD in Applied Economic Sciences from KU Leuven University (Belgium). He is currently an associate professor at KU Leuven, and a guest lecturer at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). He has done extensive research on data mining and its applications.