SpaceX and Tesla Motors boss Elon Musk has open-sourced OpenAI Gym, which is a kind of training gym for artificial intelligence programs. The virtual gym is created to help computer programmers improve their AI systems. The gym is under Musk's OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research organization supported by over 1 billion in commitments. OpenAI is Elon Musk's nonprofit dedicated to releasing cutting-edge AI research for free. It is also backed by other Silicon Valley heavies, including LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, Y-Combinator founders Jessica Livingston and Sam Altman, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel and Stripe's Greg Brockman.

And that's probably the reason he's into the Google service that automatically generates replies to incoming messages. Smart Reply, as my editor will tell you, is pretty smart (It is!--Ed.). Having analyzed millions of messages from across Google's Gmail service, it can guess how you might respond to a particular missive. That may sound impersonal, but it's useful. It lets you instantly reply to someone when you don't have time to open a laptop or even tap out a message on your smartphone.

Hey Siri, call my date and tell them I'm just not that into them.

Science is slowly inching its way to discovering the secret to immortality. Human enhancement, as defined by transhumanists, is everything that "encompasses a range of approaches that may be used to improve aspects of human function." Human enhancement is currently being researched in institutions such as Stanford University, which has recently devised a mathematical algorithm, called ReFIT, that can decipher neurological signals in the brain that convey movement, speed and accuracy. While the public justification of the study is to improve "prosthetic system performance and robustness in paralyzed people," its implications are far-reaching. The FDA has approved ReFIT for human clinical trials as researchers work to create neuroprosthetics for mind–controlled robotic limbs.

He spoke alongside a series of images projected onto the wall that once held a movie screen, and at one point, he showed off a nearly 500-year-old double portrait by German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein. The portrait includes a strangely distorted image of a human skull, and as Agüera y Arcas explained, it's unlikely that Holbein painted this by hand. He almost certainly used mirrors or lenses to project the image of a skull onto a canvas before tracing its outline. "He was using state-of-the-art technologies," Agüera y Arcas told his audience. Neural networks are not only driving the Google search engine but spitting out art for which some people will pay serious money. His point was that we've been using technology to create art for centuries--that the present isn't all that different from the past.

Robotics scientists at the US's Stanford University have achieved a remarkable first: they have successfully sent an automated avatar – which they describe as a robo-mermaid – down to an ancient shipwreck to retrieve a vase from the sunken vessel. La Lune, the flagship of Louis XIV of France, sank 20 miles off the south coast city of Toulon in 1664. Only a few dozen of the hundreds of men on board survived. The wreck, which lies at a depth of 100 metres, had never been disturbed until the OceanOne robot craft reached it two weeks ago and recovered the grapefruit-size vase. The humanoid diving robot was piloted, using virtual reality techniques, by Oussama Khatib, professor of computer science at Stanford.

The trouble with developing'artificially intelligent' trading systems is that a mass market for the technology has yet to develop. "Potential clients that might want to use a system like ours usually would want it on an exclusive basis," said Guillaume Vidal, the CEO of Paris-based startup Walnut Algorithms. "They would want to own us or buy us out." San Francisco-Based Tech Trader also found a similar environment when it launched in 2012, according to CEO William Mok. Both firms found it was much easier to rely on the trading revenue generated by their AIs to fund their businesses.

Consulting, technology, and next-generation services company, Infosys, has launched its knowledge-based artificial intelligence platform. Named Infosys Mana, it is a platform that brings machine learning together with the deep knowledge of an organisation, to drive automation and innovation, enabling businesses to continuously reinvent their system landscapes. Mana, with the Infosys Aikido service offerings, aims to lower the cost of maintenance for both physical and digital assets; captures the knowledge and know-how of people, and fragmented and complex systems; simplifies the continuous renovation of core business processes; and enables businesses to bring new user experiences by leveraging technology. Infosys Mana is comprised of three integrated components all of which are based on open source technology – the Infosys Information Platform; Infosys Automation Platform; and Infosys Knowledge Platform. Infosys managing director and CEO, Dr. Vishal Sikka, said Infosys has recognised the need to bring artificial intelligence to the enterprise in a meaningful and purposeful way; in a way that leverages the power of automation for repetitive tasks and frees people to focus on the higher value work, and on innovation.

Our selection process is highly competitive because we only hire the best, most enthusiastic candidates. Openness, flexibility, creativity, ownership, and accountability are our main pillars. We love solving challenging problems and creating solutions that have real impact on people- at scale. We're on a mission to revolutionize healthcare and when you join us, you'll have the opportunity of having real, tangible impact not only on individuals directly using our technology, but also on how drugs are tested and brought to market across the world. That means everyone on the planet will benefit from what you do.

Currently I'm concerned about incredible overheating of "Artificial Intelligence" boom in Japan - while "Data Scientist" has gone. Google Trends shows Japanese people are getting just less attracted by statistics that is believed to be expertise of Data Scientist, and now they are enthusiastic about Artificial Intelligence. I feel this situation looks much puzzling. So, what's going on in 2015?... yes, I think not a few data science experts in Japan must agree that "Artificial Intelligence" explosively gets popular. Indeed we see a lot of media coverage whose title include "????" (artificial intelligence in Japanese) almost every day.