And pretty soon, they'll come for us. That seems to be the story today, whether from Hollywood or in breathless articles in popular tech magazines about artificial intelligence and nanotechnology. Some of the biggest names in tech are coming to TNW Conference in Amsterdam this May. In a world where machines can learn, once humans push the "on" button, there's no stopping our robot overlords, right? When machines become more intelligent, humans are freed to become more creative.

Researchers have shown that an informatics-based adaptive strategy, when used with experiments, can propel the discovery of new materials with targeted properties, states a paper recently published in the journal Nature Communications. Turab Lookman, lead researcher and a physicist and materials scientist with the Physics of Condensed matter and Complex Systems group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, says that, "What we've done is show that, starting with a relatively small data set of well-controlled experiments, it is possible to iteratively guide subsequent experiments toward finding the material with the desired target." "Finding new materials has traditionally been guided by intuition and trial and error," Lookman adds."But with increasing chemical complexity, the combination possibilities become too large for trial-and-error approaches to be practical." To achieve this goal, Lookman and fellow scientists at Los Alamos and the State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials in China made use of machine learning to make the process faster. The team designed and developed a framework that employs uncertainties to guide the next experiments towards looking for a shape-memory alloy with very low thermal dissipation.

WIRE)--Cylance, the American company that is revolutionizing cybersecurity through the use of artificial intelligence to proactively prevent advanced persistent threats and malware, announced that it has signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with MOTEX to integrate MOTEX LanScope, a leading endpoint systems management solution, and CylancePROTECT, Cylance's innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning based endpoint malware prevention product. Cylance has produced the world's most advanced malware detection and attack prevention technology, which is protecting hundreds of global organizations and millions of computers today. Draper Nexus Ventures, a leading US-Japan cross border investment firm, is helping Cylance accelerate its entry into the Japanese market. "It's a global phenomenon that traditional security cannot protect endpoints from advanced threats. The Japanese market is not an exception and we have identified a great opportunity there," said Hiro Rio Maeda, managing director for Draper Nexus.

"We're going to use this technology to breathe life into the inanimate objects and devices of our life through conversation," said Siri co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus. Viv (which means "life" in Latin) offers an experience akin to the AI in the film Her. When Kittlaus asked, "Will it be warmer than 70 degrees near the Golden Gate Bridge, after 5 p.m., the day after tomorrow?" Viv quickly retrieved the correct hourly forecast from the Weather Underground app. When I posed the same question to Siri on my iPhone 6S, it pulled up the daily forecast from San Francisco for the next week, but it's unclear if it actually gave me predicted temperatures after 6pm.

Green Running was founded with a mission to use high speed energy data sampling technology and advanced Machine Learning techniques to break energy bills down to appliance level information making unknown energy bills a thing of the past. At these high speeds each appliance has its own unique'energy signature' and we were able to develop a system that recognises these signatures through self-learning Artificial Intelligent algorithms. Installing the eGenius arms you with your own consumption and usage behaviour, which can show you which appliances are consuming the majority of your bill, what a return on investment would be if you were to replace any of those appliances with the latest eco appliances and how your appliances like your fridge of freezer have worn over time. Your usage information is a great tangible asset which companies are willing to buy off you, further offsetting your energy bills. It is all calculated in real time and sent to your smartphone or tablet using our cool app!

Last summer, two professors at Dartmouth College proposed an imaginative variation: the Turing Tests in Creative Arts, challenging participants to submit algorithms that can generate human-quality art. "Specifically," Dan Rockmore (a professor of math and computer science) and Michael Casey (a professor of music and computer science) write in an essay that discusses the project, "we ask if machines are capable of generating sonnets, short stories, or dance music that is indistinguishable from human-generated works, though perhaps not yet so advanced as Shakespeare, O. Henry or Daft Punk." The competition has three parts: DigiLit, where the test is creating a New Yorker-level short story; PoetiX, where the product must be a 14-line sonnet in iambic pentameter; and AlgoRhythms, where the computer has to create a 15-minute dance set. In all cases, the software will be given a "seed" - a verbal image in the literary contest and a single track of music for the dance. Organizers will mix the entries in with human-generated work.

Translate for iOS now includes offline support, giving you a way to communicate in other languages when you don't have data service (say, on vacation). And if you regularly visit China, you'll be glad to know that camera-based Word Lens translation on both Android and iOS now supports simplified and traditional Chinese. If you've ever struggled to make sense of a Beijing restaurant menu or a Shanghai street sign, you can rest easy.

It's not the same as a visit from a clown or a star athlete, but the work of a supercomputer could help make kids' stays in the hospital less dreary and frightful. IBM on Wednesday announced a three-year partnership with Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the UK that will see its Watson supercomputer harnessed to analyze and improve every aspect of patient care. Watson became one of the world's most famous artificial intelligence systems after winning the game show "Jeopardy" five year ago and for designing Karolina Kurkova's dress for the Met Gala last week. IBM has been putting Watson's supercomputing powers to task in health care since 2011, when it started assisting doctors in making clinical decisions. Its newest challenge will be to turn Alder Hey into a "cognitive hospital," delivering insights about the patient experience through a new platform.

South Korean mobile giant Samsung now has an entire division working day in, day out on chips for self-driving cars, in an effort to push aside competitors and become the go-to supplier in this booming market. The team is mainly researchers from Samsung's semiconductor and sensor division, according to The Korea Herald, which cites a local newspaper. One of the three CEOs, vice chairman Kwon Oh-hyun, is overseeing the task force. Not much is known about Samsung's progress in building chips and sensors for self-driving vehicles. The market is currently dominated by one Japanese company, which sells 50 percent of all self-driving sensors.

A SpaceX capsule is headed back to Earth with precious science samples from NASA's one-year space station resident. The Dragon left the International Space Station in the morning, bound for an afternoon splashdown in the Pacific, a few hundred miles off the Southern California coast. The station's big robot arm set the Dragon free over Australia. The commercial cargo craft has been packed with about 3,700 pounds of cargo, spacewalk gear and biological samples for analysis on Earth. They include blood and urine samples from astronaut Scott Kelly's one-year mission. Kelly returned to Earth in March and has since retired from NASA.