I'm not going to lie, friends: up until last night I thought technophobic hyperbole about the imminent rise of the machines was nothing more than the ranting of paranoid freaks. Sure, there have been huge strides in artificial intelligence in recent times, from natural language chatbots to Apple's phone robot Siri to Facebook's weirdly targeted ads. However, each of those systems have certain undeniable flaws. Musician Courtney Barnett speaks about the significance of the APRA awards to her as they honour songwriting, the success of her album and her future plans. And artificial intelligence is a popular thing about which to irrationally panic, thanks to half a century of warnings about the robopocalypse.

CHOPCHOP is an app that guides you through cooking a several-course meal with the help of Artificial Intelligence – and without sweat! The young team came a long way during their EuropeanPioneers time: In December 2015 CHOPCHOP has been launched supported by the EuropenPioneers team. We spoke with the founder JinA what happened after that. EuropeanPioneer: Hi JinA, what are you up to these days? We also have a new team member that joined us recently to make improvements to our algorithm, which is exciting.

Musician Courtney Barnett speaks about the significance of the APRA awards to her as they honour songwriting, the success of her album and her future plans. I'm not going to lie, friends: up until last night I thought technophobic hyperbole about the imminent rise of the machines was nothing more than the ranting of paranoid freaks. Sure, there have been huge strides in artificial intelligence in recent times, from natural language chatbots to Apple's phone robot Siri to Facebook's weirdly targeted ads. However, each of those systems have certain undeniable flaws. And artificial intelligence is a popular thing about which to irrationally panic, thanks to half a century of warnings about the robopocalypse.

"WHAT am I doing now? And now?" University students have been popping GoPro video cameras on their heads and filming a first-person view of their daily lives, then asking a computer to interpret it. Vain though it may sound, the exercise has a point. Researchers want artificial intelligences to understand us better – and teaching them to see the world through our eyes is a good place to start. "It allows us to indirectly tap into human minds," says Gedas Bertasius at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Amazon.com Inc., the largest internet retailer in the world, has acquired Artificial Intelligence-based deep learning startup Orbeus Inc. The acquisition underlines the effort made by Amazon to dig deeper into the world of smart software for its businesses in the cloud computing and connected devices spheres. This development was revealed by an Amazon insider who chose to remain anonymous as the company is yet make an official statement about the acquisition. Amazon's CEO Yi Li and other representatives of the company have not commented on the matter either. However, online search has disclosed that the domain name of Orbeus, Orbe.us, is registered in the name of Amazon Hostmaster, which is a part of Amazon technologies Inc., an Amazon subsidiary.

Shutterstock is flexing its AI muscles with the news that the stock photo giant is introducing new computer-vision search smarts to its platform. The company, which is headquartered in New York's Empire State Building, went public back in 2012 and now offers more than 70 million images for bloggers and media outlets -- which can make searching for specific assets challenging. Of course, the trusty old keyword search tool is effective to an extent, but what if you want to find images that are similar to one you have in your possession? Or what if you want alternative images based on color schemes, mood, or shapes? This is where Shutterstock's new reverse image search comes into play.

Sharon Goldwater has won the BCS Roger Needham award for outstanding work in computational linguistics. BCS is the Chartered Institute for Information Technology. Their Roger Needham Award, sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge, is awarded for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher within 10 years of their PhD. The BCS press release about Dr Goldwater's award says: Sharon Goldwater is a Reader in our Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. She is an internationally leading researcher who has made major interdisciplinary research contributions across natural language processing, machine learning, and computational cognitive science.

Rembrandt may have died in 1669 but his artistic legacy lives on thanks in part to a new piece of work created with computer data, instead of the artist's hands. Revealed in the Netherlands, 'The Next Rembrandt' is the result of an 18-month project undertaken by a group of art historians, along with software developers, scientists, engineers and data analysts – not the usual team of artists for portraits work. Don't miss our biggest TNW Conference yet! The team worked tirelessly to anyalyze all known works of Rembrandt, which amounts to over 300 paintings, using high resolution 3D scans to capture every little detail and create an algorithm that would eventually be able to accurately recreate his style. That data was then fed to a 3D printer, which recreated the painting using 13 layers of paint-based UV ink.

As CTO and co-founder, Kaheer Suleman led the creation of Maluuba's Deep-Learning based Natural Language Understanding platform and is the technology visionary behind the algorithms that power voice search across millions of devices. Kaheer's background is in information retrieval and artificial intelligence and he previously worked in the artificial intelligence and information retrieval labs at the University of Waterloo under Information Retrieval experts – Professor Pascal Poupart and Olga Vectomova. Kaheer's expertise in building language understanding and conversational systems has served as guide for Maluuba's research and development team through some of the toughest challenges in machine comprehension and spoken dialogue. Conversational Language Understanding: Recent advances in deep learning have all but solved speech recognition and image processing. The next frontier is natural language.

Building technology companies worth tens of billions of pounds often requires one or two exceptionally talented individuals with strong computer science backgrounds and entrepreneurial spirits. Finding these people can be time consuming and difficult, which is why a couple of UK organisations have turned to artificial intelligence and software. In the last month, Founders Forum, a network of successful startup founders and business leaders, and company builder Entrepreneur First, have both revealed they are using artificial intelligence (AI) and custom-built software to identify the UK's most promising founders. Founders Forum, set up by serial entrepreneur and lastminute.com "An AI simulates what a human might do but at scale; with more data and no bias," said Dr Tom Bowles, data scientist and founder in residence at Founders Factory, a startup accelerator launched by Brent Hoberman.