Artificial intelligence is the future. Artificial intelligence is science fiction. And it is already part of our everyday lives. All these three statements are true, it all depends on what flavor of AI you are referring to. For instance, when Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program defeated the South Korean Master, Lee Se-dol in the board game "Go" earlier in 2016, the terms AI, machine learning and deep learning were used in the media to describe how DeepMind won.

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Anatole France famously opined: "It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly." As a species, we're innately designed with -- as far as our awareness extends -- the highest, most profound levels of intellect, knowledge, and insight in our vast, infinite universe. But this does not equate to omniscience or absolute precision. Humans are by no stretch of the imagination perfect. We feel pressured, we get stressed, life happens, and we end up making mistakes.

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Sony Corp. has launched Sony AI, a new organization to pursue advanced R&D in artificial intelligence. With this move, the Japanese consumer electronics giant intends to go head-to-head with Google and Facebook, competing for AI talent and projects, and targeting a much bigger role in an ever-accelerating global AI race. The new organization will be worldwide from day one, with research sites in Tokyo, Austin, Texas, and an unnamed city in Europe. Sony AI will formally start operation next month. Hiroaki Kitano, president and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., will run Sony AI globally.

Welcome to the BYTE, where we serve up the latest home and tech news from the last week for you to sink your teeth into. This week we're taking a BYTE out of a battlefield tested skincare, A.I. device that can detect unattended children, VR and labor, and an app that can track drones. If it's military-grade, it's bound to be top of the line, right? And the number one skincare product that service members pack for deployment is baby wipes. So why not create wipes that are specifically geared towards active duty service members?

Omar Costilla Reyes reels off all the ways that artificial intelligence might benefit his native Mexico. It could raise living standards, he says, lower health care costs, improve literacy and promote greater transparency and accountability in government. But Mexico, like many of its Latin American neighbors, has failed to invest as heavily in AI as other developing countries. That worries Costilla Reyes, a postdoc at MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. To give the region a nudge, Costilla Reyes and three other MIT graduate students -- Guillermo Bernal, Emilia Simison and Pedro Colon-Hernandez -- have spent the last six months putting together a three-day event that will bring together policymakers and AI researchers in Latin America with AI researchers in the United States. The AI Latin American sumMIT will take place in January at the MIT Media Lab.

"Death Stranding" earned the most nominations in the Game Awards, which will be given out Dec. 12 in Los Angeles. The new game from famed designer Hideo Kojima ("Metal Gear Solid") collected nine nominations, including Game of the Year, Best Action/Adventure Game, Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction and Best Score. Actors Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen, who portray Sam Porter Bridges and Cliff, respectively, in the PlayStation 4 game, earned nominations for Best Performance. They were joined by Ashly Burch as Parvati Holcomb in "The Outer Worlds," Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden in "Control," Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz in "Gears 5" and Matthew Porretta as Dr. Casper Darling in "Control." Considered the Oscars of the video game industry, the Game Awards began in 2014, established by longtime video game journalist Geoff Keighley.

The Nazca lines of Peru have fascinated archaeologists for centuries and now scientists say they have discovered 143 new drawings previously hidden in the soil. Featuring hundreds of pictures of animals, plants and patterns, the miles of figurative drawings are only visible from nearby clifftops and the air. Researchers from Yamagata University in Japan spent years searching through high-resolution images of the lines taken from space and studying them on site in Peru. This led to the discovery of previously unknown figures depicting a range of living creatures including birds, monkeys, fish, reptiles and humanoid characters. Researchers worked with IBM's Artificial Intelligence team to discover a humanoid character within the soil (pictured) Known as geoglyphs, they were created about 2,000 years ago, at the same time as the previously discovered lines and are between 16ft and 320ft across.

This week, a Sydney-based electric bicycle company Bolt Bikes officially announced its expansion into the US and UK. Unlike other e-bike companies, Bolt Bikes wants its primary customers to be gig workers instead of pedestrians looking to save a little time. For a $39 a week, subscribers will get their own e-bike, a battery charger, a smartphone mount for their handlebars, a U-Lock, and full maintenance and repair coverage. But most importantly, they'll get a shot at becoming an on-demand delivery person for any number of apps that have become popular in recent years, including Uber Eats, Instacart, Deliveroo, and Door Dash. Since June, Bolt Bikes has been running a pilot program in San Francisco with Postmates, a food delivery app first founded in 2011.

Singapore, ranked the smartest city in the world in certain polls, has warned cities they must get a handle on artificial intelligence (AI) if they are to succeed as'smart cities', trusted by citizens and enterprises to manage data correctly. The warning came at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona today (November 19), as Singapore, awarded city of the year at the 2018 show, shared the stage with local politicians from Barcelona and Madrid at the 2019 kick-off. Vivian Balakrishnan, minister for foreign affairs for the government of Singapore, set out Singapore's own AI strategy, as a geographically-constrained but tech-savvy city state. "This technology will change the world, and cities that master AI will get ahead -- those that don't will be left behind," he said. "The fact computers and systems can now see hear, speak and understand is transformational. It will transform our economy, disrupt our politics, alter the nature of our jobs -- and it will define the next phase of our'smart nation' journey."