There have been machines that move themselves for millennia. In the first century C.E., the Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria designed dolls that could be used to act out miniature theatrical scenes. The original treatises he wrote about these automata were lost to history. But a group of Sicilian scholars discovered Arabic translations in the thirteenth century. Translating into Latin, the monks coined a new term for automata that looked human: androïdes, from andros, the Greek word for "man."

Tesla Motors (TSLA) partner Nvidia (NVDA) rocketed late Thursday after the maker of graphics chips beat Q1 sales expectations and topped earnings views by a penny, led by faster adoption of artificial intelligence technology that utilizes Nvidia graphics chips. In after-hours trading after its earnings release, Nvidia stock was up nearly 6%, rebounding from a 1.4% dip, to 35.57, in the regular session. Shares are up 8% for the year. For Q1, Nvidia reported 1.3 billion in sales and 33 cents earnings per share, up a respective 13% and 38% vs. the year-earlier quarter, and topping the consensus of 26 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters for 1.26 billion and 32 cents. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang credited accelerated growth of deep-learning, or AI, technology for the Q1 beat.

Google filed a report with the California DMV Feb. 23 stating that a Lexus it was testing had tried to pass some sandbags in a wide lane and ended up hitting the side of a bus on Valentine's Day. No one was hurt, Google said in a written statement. FILE - In this Wednesday, May 13, 2015, file photo, Google's self-driving Lexus car drives along street during a demonstration at Google campus on in Mountain View, Calif. As Google cars encounter more and more of the obstacles and conditions that befuddle human drivers, the autonomous vehicles are likely to cause more accidents, such as a recent low-speed collision with a bus. PHOENIX -- Do you have a clean driving record and type 40 words per minute?

A fire has destroyed a 90-foot-long lifelike robotic dinosaur that was set to be part of an exhibit at a New Jersey theme park. Exhibit creator Guy Gsell tells The Record newspaper (http://bit.ly/1T90hJZ The Field Station: Dinosaurs exhibit is moving to the park this month after operating in Secaucus (sih-KAW'-kuhs) since 2012. Its creator says a welder was putting finishing touches on the Argentinosaurus when a spark started the blaze. The dinosaur was burned to its skeleton.

"Tom Clancy's The Division" was the biggest launch of a new video game property ever, which helped Ubisoft report a profit for its fiscal 2015-2016, the company said Thursday. Ubisoft reported a decrease in sales but a rise in profit for its fiscal 2015-16. Sales were 1.8 billion, down 4.8 percent compared to the previous year, but the 147 million profit was up from the 128 million posted the previous year. "The Division" has amassed 9.5 million registered players since its launch on March 8. Active players are spending around three hours daily on the open world third-person shooter. Bolstering Ubisoft's earnings report was the better-than-expected release "Far Cry Primal," which had the biggest February launch.

Yorgos Lanthimos makes enigmatic films that exist in universes all their own. His latest, "The Lobster," is at once cerebral and emotional, an abstracted allegory on power, love and the power of love. His films can also be so cryptic and inscrutable that they remain mysterious even to their maker. Few filmmakers are as reticent to give definitive answers, open to outside interpretations or willing to simply respond to questions with an "I don't know." "Well, what am I going to do, fake it?"

While CRISPR, nanobots and head transplants are making headlines as medical breakthroughs, a number of new technologies are also making progress tackling some of the toughest age-old diseases still plaguing millions of people in the poorest parts of the world. In low income countries, over 75% of the population dies before the age of 70 due to infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, lung infections, tuberculosis, diarrheal diseases, malaria, and increasingly, cardiovascular diseases. Over a third of deaths in low income countries are among children under age 14 primarily due to pneumonia, diarrheal diseases, malaria and neonatal complications. In the developed world, those living in extreme poverty, such as homeless populations, also die on average at age 48. Over the last year, artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnology have all generated a number of new solutions that have the potential to dramatically reduce these problems.

IBM is teaming up with eight North American universities to further tune its cognitive system to tackle cybersecurity problems. Watson for Cyber Security, a platform already in pre-beta, will be further trained in "learning the nuances of security research findings and discovering patterns and evidence of hidden cyber attacks and threats that could otherwise be missed". IBM will work with eight US universities from autumn onwards for a year in order to push forward the project. The universities selected are California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Pennsylvania State University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; New York University; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); the University of New Brunswick; the University of Ottawa; and the University of Waterloo. The project is ultimately designed to bridge the cyber-security skills gap, a perennial issue in the industry.

Fifteen years of technology craziness and we've finally arrived squarely in the year 2001. We're back to the future because Silicon Valley in particular (and tech in general) has hyped Big Data for several years without answering the vital question, "To what end?" Having vast amounts of data was at first a problem, then an opportunity, before it settled in as an über-talked-about way to sell just about any variety of software. You Valley types know exactly what I'm talking about. So why 2001, and June 29, 2001 to be more specific? That's the moment that the hype over artificial intelligence hit its high water mark with the release of Spielberg's film, A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

The nature of artistic style is something of a mystery to most people. Think of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night, Picasso's work on cubism, or Edvard Munch's The Scream. All have a powerful, unique style that humans recognize easily. Deep neural networks are revolutionizing the way machines recognize and interpret the world. Machine vision now routinely outperforms humans at tasks such as object and face recognition, something that was unimaginable just a few years ago.