AI art is taking the world by storm. For some, it is seen as a threat to more traditional art genres, but is this fear unfounded? Here we explore what is meant by AI art and highlight 7 flesh and blood artists who use AI, machine learning, GANs, and algorithms to create stunning pieces of art. Artificial Intelligence art, more accurately neural network art, is a new form of artwork created using clever algorithms. Many of them appear to have been created by a human mind, but this couldn't be further from the truth - - at least in part.

Higher expression of nine genes may help identify people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who will respond to treatment with Stelara (ustekinumab) -- an approved therapy in inflammatory disorders but not in SLE. At the 2019 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/Association for Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP) Annual Meeting, being held in Atlanta Nov. 8-13, Janssen is presenting evidence of reduced SLE disease activity with Stelara, as well as a tool to predict benefits in clinical trials. Stelara works by blocking interleukin (IL)-12 and IL-23, two pro-inflammatory molecules. It is approved in the U.S. for the treatment of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, as well as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, which are two forms of inflammatory bowel disease. Results from a Phase 2 trial (NCT02349061) showed that Stelara reduced SLE disease activity and severe flares, among other benefits, compared with a placebo.

Weather prediction has gotten substantially better over the course of the past decade, with five-day forecasts now being about 90% accurate. However, one aspect of weather that has long eluded attempts to predict it is lightning. Because lightning is so unpredictable, it's very difficult to minimize the damage it can do to human lives, property, and nature. Thanks to the work of a research team from the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) School of Engineering, lightning strikes may be much more predictable in the near future. As reported by SciTechDaily, a team of researchers from EPFL' s School of Engineering – Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory, recently created an AI program capable of accurately predicting a lightning strike within a period of 10 to 30 minutes away and over a 30-kilometer radius.

For the first time, Nasdaq is applying artificial intelligence on its U.S. stock market to detect irregular and potentially malicious trading activity. The newly launched initiative aims to strengthen and revolutionize market surveillance through machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. "The U.S. capital markets are the largest, most liquid financial ecosystem in the world and protecting our markets for retail and institutional investors alike is an important responsibility," said Martina Rejsjo, Vice President and Head of Market Surveillance, North America Equities, Nasdaq. "This means constantly evolving how we adopt and leverage new technologies to better surveil trading activity. By incorporating AI into our monitoring systems, we are sharpening our detection capabilities and broadening our view of market activity to safeguard the integrity of our country's markets."

I am an author, teacher, applied research scientist and I am the Director of UK's National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) a world-leading organisation, created with a £40 million investment from UK Government and Newcastle University, to help create a world in which we all live better, for longer. The Centre aims to bring together world-leading innovation experts, scientists, industry and the public, to develop, test and bring to market products and services which enhance and improve all aspects of life for our ageing societies. Before, I was research manager at IBM Research where I have been the Program Manager and Ethics AI lead of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a $250 million academic industry partnership for the responsible advancement of artificial intelligence. In my own research, I'm interested in understanding how technologies and AI can help mitigate factors as loneliness and isolation, fight ageism (here's my talk at TEDx) and support life of older adults while preserving independence and dignity in their life-stages progression. I am also interest in the dynamics about women, technology and the workplace serving as founding board member of amazing.community.

Washington: Researchers have developed trained AI agents capable of adopting human design strategies. Big design problems require creative and exploratory decision making, a skill in which humans excel. When engineers use artificial intelligence (AI), they have traditionally applied it to a problem within a defined set of rules rather than having it generally follow human strategies to create something new. The findings were published in the -- ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. This research considers an AI framework that learns human design strategies through observation of human data to generate new designs without explicit goal information, bias, or guidance.

The Northeastern University in Boston, USA and the company VocaliD have launched a centre which will work on preserving and recreating people's voices using artificial intelligence (AI). The centre hopes that the technology it develops will allow people to still sound like themselves even when they are no longer to speak themselves directly. Participants in the project are asked to record two to three hours of speech which are then used by the researcher to build an AI-generated voice engine that sounds like them. The digital voice is installed on an application where users can type what they want to say and the app produces the sentences replicating the user's voice. Researchers say that the technology is improving rapidly and work is being carried out on issues such as changing the intonation of the voice, giving users more choice when it comes to how phrases are expressed, or ageing an individual's voice.

James Dean, who has been dead for 64 years, is set to star in an upcoming movie about the Vietnam War. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the movie, an adaptation of Gareth Crocker's novel, Finding Jack, will feature a computer-generated image (CGI) version of Dean. "We searched high and low for the perfect character to portray the role of Rogan, which has some extreme complex character arcs, and after months of research, we decided on James Dean," says Anton Ernst, one of the film's co-directors. Dean will be constructed through "full-body" CGI using archival footage from his films – he will be physically captured through the movements of an actor and voiced by another actor. The fact that the directors couldn't find an actor of this capability in an age where much so much untapped talent is available is questionable.

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence released an interim report on November 4, 2019. The report offers a blend of deservedly bold recommendations coupled with actions that lie within the power of the Executive without all of them involving major funding. The recommendations involve investments in AI R&D; applying AI to national security missions; training and recruiting AI talent; protecting and building upon US technology advantages; and, marshaling global AI cooperation. The Commission may be somewhat less optimistic than warranted with respect to the prospects for the West to share data as US and allies' approaches to preserving privacy are converging. However, the Commission is spot on with respect to the need for high powered diplomacy.

And while we don't always know the full impact of such technological advancement, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) it's becoming increasingly clear that AI will disrupt nearly every industry in one way or another. While many people fear a future in which robots have eliminated human employees from the workforce, AI technology is not nearly that sophisticated yet. Sure, an autonomous train is already helping a company automate its mining operations in Australia, Google is making music with AI and a robot named Flippy has a job flipping burgers in Southern California, but the technology has quite a ways to go before it'll free us from all mundane and repetitive tasks. While experts argue whether AI will ultimately create more jobs than it destroys, we know it is already being used to help humans do their jobs better and augment the number of tasks they can handle concurrently. The technology has been around longer than most people realize.