An AI research lab owned by Google is going to start meeting NHS patients as it looks to be more open and transparent about how it helps doctors and clinicians to do their jobs. DeepMind, as the startup is known, intends to hold four patient meet ups a year at Google's new London office in King's Cross, with the first "patient engagement forum" taking place in September in an event that will be streamed on YouTube, alongside a live Twitter Q&A. The patient meet ups are taking place because DeepMind wants to get the public on side as it looks to expand its relationship with the NHS. The events will give members of the public the opportunity to ask DeepMind staff about its NHS partnerships and to learn how the Google-owned company intends to improve their healthcare. Founded in 2011 by Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman and Shane Legg, DeepMind faced criticism from privacy campaigners and some patients after it emerged in May that it had access to millions of NHS patient records for a kidney monitoring project.

Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg reveal he is dedicating his year to making a home AI butler. Now, he has revealed the project is already coming to fruition - and promised to reveal it soon. He told The Verge it can already control his home, and even makes his breakfast. Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg reveal he is dedicating his year to making a home AI butler. Now, he has revealed the project is already coming to fruition - and promised to reveal it soon. 'It's going well, and I'm planning on doing a demo soon,' he said.

Is Honda's walking robot Asimo marrying Pepper, the chattering robot from SoftBank? Automaker Honda Motor Co. and internet company SoftBank said they will work together on artificial intelligence to develop products with sensors and cameras that can converse with drivers. Asimo, first shown in 1996, walks, runs, dances and grips things. Asimo (left), first shown in 1996, walks, runs, dances and grips things. Pepper (right), which went on sale last year, doesn't have legs but is programmed to recognize mood swings in people it interacts with.

The amount of energy consumed by big data centers has always been a headache for tech companies. Keeping the servers cool as they crunch numbers is such a challenge that Facebook even built one of its facilities on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Well, Google has a different solution to this problem: putting its DeepMind artificial intelligence unit in charge and using AI to manage power usage in parts of its data centers. A 40 percent reduction in the amount of electricity needed for cooling, which Google describes as a "phenomenal step forward." After accounting for "electrical losses and other non-cooling inefficiencies," this 40 percent reduction translated into a 15 percent reduction in overall power saving, says Google.

Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service, if it ever gets off the ground, could one day use the top of street lights, cell towers, and even church steeples as docking stations for its flying machine. The stations would serve as charging points for the drones, enabling them to stop off at multiple points for a battery boost thereby giving them a much greater flying range. Such a system could, in theory, open up pretty much the whole of the country to the possibility of drone delivery, as a single drone could hop from point to point on its way to an address. The docking stations could also shelter the drones from harsh weather conditions that may develop after they leave the distribution center to begin their delivery run. The new ideas are outlined in a patent awarded this month by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under the title, "Multi-use UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) docking station systems and methods."

It's been a big year for the humanoid robot'Pepper,' who recently landed a job in Pizza Hut locations in Asia, and announced a partnership with Honda's robot Asimo. Now, the ambitious bot can add life insurance sales to its resume as well. Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co will be deploying 100 Pepper robots across 80 branches in Japan to help out on the sales floor by 2017. Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co will be deploying 100 Pepper robots across 80 branches in Japan to help out on the sales floor by 2017. It's been a big year for the humanoid robot, who recently landed a job in Pizza Hut locations in Asia, and announced a partnership with Honda's robot Asimo According to The Yomiuri Shimbun, Pepper will accompany employees and explain insurance products and services to customers.

For Google, the massive network of data centers that powers the web giant's operations run up a similarly massive energy tab. The company has been improving server farm efficiency for years, but it recently adopted a novel technique for trimming usage: letting the robots take control. In particular, Google is giving the reins to an artificial intelligence system developed by its subsidiary DeepMind. The AI overlord succeeded in shaving several percentage points off of data center energy consumption, Bloomberg reported. This led to a 15 percent improvement in power-usage efficiency, the metric of how much power goes to the actual computing as opposed to auxiliary services at the data centers.

Thanks to an abundance of digital data, and powerful GPUs, we are now capable of teaching computers to read, see, and hear. Just this year, a handful of high-profile experiments came into the spotlight, including Microsoft Tay, Google DeepMind AlphaGo, and Facebook M. These experiments all relied on a technique known as deep learning, which attempts to mimic the layers of neurons in the brain's neocortex. This idea – to create an artificial neural network by simulating how the neocortex works – has been around since the 1980s. During the training process, the algorithm learns to discover useful patterns in the digital representation of data, like sounds and images.

You've seen AI achieve incredible things like defeat world champions at Go, describe photos for the visually impaired and operate an elevator. But now, a startup in London has finally figured a genuinely useful application: brewing quality beers. IntelligentX offers four basic beers, including a classic British golden ale, a British bitter kissed with grapefruit, a hoppy American pale ale and a smokey Marmite brew. Once you've tasted them, you can chat with the company's Messenger bot to share your feedback, which its AI (built using IntelligentX's own machine learning algorithm) uses to improve on its recipes. Our new event for New York is focused on quality, not quantity.

There is more to this tiny paper house than meets the eye. When three balls are placed on the roof and do not roll down the sides, one would think the creator has found a way to defy both geometry and gravity. But what's happening is your brain assumes the roof is constructed in a descending motion, when in fact it is ascending – which is revealed once the house's true form is shown. When three balls are placed on the roof and do not roll down the sides, one would think the creator has found a way to defy both geometry and gravity. But what's happening is your brain assumes the roof is constructed in a descending motion, when in fact it is ascending Kokichi Sugihara is famous for building 3D optical illusions that make viewers question the laws of nature, but are then blown away once the structure's true form is revealed.