Many people from different companies talk about robots and artificial intelligence, has been widely discussed Google's AI overcoming in final Go challenge. In the science and in our daily life this item is discovered, and we are interested in this theme too, that's why we decided to start overlook this topic. We wrote this introductory article with short description the key moments to get better understanding what's going on in business and other fields, because AI became an integral part of them in many cases. We will talk about AI in the medicine, business, education and e-learning in this area (in the next articles), also about artificial narrow intelligence, the bots. The information may look like surface but this is just start, the deeper discovering will be in the next articles.

Artificial intelligence has recently been trying its hand at various human creative endeavours, from cooking to art, poetry to board games, but nothing is quite as surreal as a robot writing the script for a science fiction movie – until now. The script and movie were the product of director Oscar Sharp and Ross Goodwin, a New York University AI researcher. A so-called recurrent neural network, which named itself Benjamin, was fed the scripts of dozens of science fiction movies including such classics as Highlander Endgame, Ghostbusters, Interstellar and The Fifth Element. From there it was asked to create a screenplay, including actor directions, using a set of prompts required by the Sci-Fi London film festival's 48-hour challenge. The resulting screenplay and pop song were then given to the cast, including Thomas Middleditch from Silicon Valley, Elisabeth Gray and Humphrey Ker to interpret and make into a film.

"Big data" is a very 21st-century kind of buzzword, which ambiguously invokes the idea of using large sets of data to draw computer-assisted conclusions about trends, patterns and correlations, often about people and their behavior. But if you wanted to trace the origin of using big data for health research, you'd have to go back -- way back, to 17th-century England. There, you'll find a haberdasher by the name of John Graunt, who undertook a peculiar project: He began to study so-called bills of mortality, death records kept during the plague-riddled times, and compiled death details into tables, noting age, gender, cause, location and time. This vital statistics research later turned into a 1662 tome. It marked a seminal moment in demography, the statistical study of populations, but also in epidemiology, the study of what causes diseases and how they spread among different groups of people. "It was totally groundbreaking for its time.

While the idea of tinkering with asteroids might seem like a bad idea, countries around the world are thinking of doing just that. Asteroid mining could be the next big way to harvest resources such as water, oxygen and metals. Now Nasa has awarded 100,000 ( 70,000) to a company to develop technology to direct asteroids towards Earth in order to more easily access them. Nasa has awarded the funding to Made in Space - a California-based company who manufacture technology for space environments. Nasa has awarded the funding to Made in Space - a California-based company who manufacture technology for space environments. The initial 100,000 funding gives the company nine months to prove whether a system to turn asteroids into self-propelled AI spaceships, is viable.

USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham asks a few iPhone users how a Siri update could change their experience when using an iPhone. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham asks a few iPhone users how a Siri update could change their experience when using an iPhone.

Apple is gearing up to give fans and investors a peek at what's next for the Cupertino, Calif.-based company. Starting on June 13, Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, will give the firm a chance to share updates on the iPhone, Mac, Siri and more. As usual, WWDC comes on the heels of Google's own developers conference, during which the search giant emphasized its advancements in artificial intelligence. Apple is expected to make similar announcements, including improvements to Siri that would make the virtual assistant more useful. Here's a look at what Apple might reveal during its opening keynote, set for June 13 at 10 a.m.

Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings.[1] It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but is more easily reversed than the state of hibernation or of being comatose. Mammalian sleep occurs in repeating periods, in which the body alternates between two highly distinct modes known as non-REM and REM sleep. REM stands for "rapid eye movement" but involves many other aspects including virtual paralysis of the body. During sleep, most systems in an animal are in an anabolic state, building up the immune, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems. Sleep in non-human animals is observed in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and some fish, and, in some form, in insects and even in simpler animals such as nematodes. The internal circadian clock promotes sleep daily at night in diurnal species (such as humans) and in the day in nocturnal organisms (such as rodents). However, sleep patterns vary widely among animals and among different individual humans. Industrialization and artificial light have substantially altered human sleep habits in the last 100 years.[2] The diverse purposes and mechanisms of sleep are the subject of substantial ongoing research.[3] Sleep seems to assist animals with improvements in the body and mind. A well-known feature of sleep in humans is the dream, an experience typically recounted in narrative form, which resembles waking life while in progress, but which usually can later be distinguished as fantasy. Sleep is sometimes confused with unconsciousness, but is quite different in terms of thought process. Humans may suffer from a number of sleep disorders. These include dyssomnias (such as insomnia, hypersomnia, and sleep apnea), parasomnias (such as sleepwalking and REM behavior disorder), bruxism, and the circadian rhythm sleep disorders. In mammals and birds, sleep is divided into two broad types: rapid eye movement (REM sleep) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM or non-REM sleep). Each type has a distinct set of physiological and neurological features associated with it. REM sleep is associated with dreaming, desynchronized and faster brain waves, loss of muscle tone,[4] and suspension of homeostasis[citation needed]. REM and non-REM sleep are so different that physiologists classify them as distinct behavioral states. In this view, REM, non-REM, and waking represent the three major modes of consciousness, neural activity, and physiological regulation.[5] According to the Hobson & McCarley activation-synthesis hypothesis, proposed in 1975–1977, the alternation between REM and non-REM can be explained in terms of cycling, reciprocally influential neurotransmitter systems.[6]

Asus has had a few big hits that the rest of the industry followed, like the Eee PC in 2008, which sparked the craze for netbooks. Other products have fared less well, like the PadFone, a hybrid device that includes a smartphone that docks into a tablet. But year after year, in a hardware industry that shies away from risk, Asus usually has a surprise or two up its sleeve. Last week it was a home help robot called Zenbo, whose cute antics and affordable price-tag stole the show at Computex. We sat down with Asus Chairman Jonney Shih in Taipei last week and asked him how he approaches product design, and also got his take on AI.

The year 2015 proved to be crucial in the history of artificial intelligence (AI). It was the time when AI, which would so far fall in the category of sci-fi, went mainstream. The late John McCarthy, one of the founders of the discipline, foresaw the autonomous car as long back as the 60s. In April 2015, a car designed by Delphi Automotive became the first automated vehicle to complete a coast-to-coast journey across North America. In 2015,computer-aided diagnosis and treatment was first launched and are already being tried at 16 cancer institutes working with IBM's Watson Health artificial intelligence venture.

Artificial intelligence has had a bad rap (see: Terminator), and public confidence has waned. Would you trust a machine to diagnose you? Medical professionals today faced off against health firm Babylon's'Check a Symptom' app feature, in a bid to find out who's best equipped to triage patients: man or machine? The challenge saw Professor Irwin Nazareth, former head of primary care at UCLH, examining patients with the help of either: (1) one of Britain's most senior A&E nurses, (2) an Oxford-educated Junior Doctor, or (3) Babylon's'Check' feature. It turns out that that the app came to "the same accurate assessment" as both the nurse and junior doctor, but faster, and at no cost.