The SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research brings together researchers from fields such as visual computing, machine learning, robotics, human-computer interactions, intelligent systems, decision making, natural language processing, and dynamic modeling and design. The focus is on the development of innovative and impactful approaches, algorithms, and data. The approach includes research in perception, learning, reasoning, and interaction.

The self-driving rigs started their journey from different parts of Europe and ended in the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Quartz notes that if this accomplishment convinces various government in the continent, then a number of corporations like Unilever will begin using autonomous trucks to pick up cargo from the port to distribute across Europe. If you keep an eye out for autonomous vehicle news, you might have already seen the video of Daimler testing its vehicle on public roads.

In a recent interview with Managing Editor Dan Collins, legendary trader William Eckhardt talked about the battle between optimization and curve fitting. While you always hope your great idea will lead to a winning system, how you select data to test that system can equally lead to success or failure. The excerpt below is from William Eckhardt: The man who launched 1,000 systems. Bill Eckhardt: By trying to improve your system you can make it worse. You can over-fit to past data or maybe just do something that is statistically invalid.

This workshop will attempt to present some of the very recent developments on non-convex analysis and optimization, as reported in diverse research fields: from machine learning and mathematical programming to statistics and theoretical computer science. We believe that this workshop can bring researchers closer, in order to facilitate a discussion regarding why tackling non-convexity is important, where it is found, why non-convex schemes work well in practice and, how we can progress further with interesting research directions and open problems.

With AI Scry, you'll never have to wonder how your iPhone would describe the world around you if it was capable of autonomous thinking. Available for iOS, AI Scry is a new app that generates automatic descriptions of whatever appears in front of your phone's camera. Don't miss our biggest TNW Conference yet! Created by Oakland-based art/technology studio Disc Cactus (or as it's stylized), the app aims to showcase the merits and weaknesses of machine learning technologies in a fun and entertaining manner. One of the developers who worked on the project, Sam Kronik, says that to give your phone a mind of its own it uses the open-sourced neural network Neural Talk introduced by Stanford scientist Andrej Karpathy.

JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY – With the push of a button, a perfectly healthy 34-year-old museum-goer named Ugo Dumont was transformed into a confused 85-year-old man with cataracts, glaucoma and a ringing in his ears known as tinnitus. Dumont had volunteered at Liberty Science Center on Tuesday to don a computer-controlled exoskeleton that can be remotely manipulated to debilitate joints, vision and hearing and shared with the crowd what aging feels like decades before his time. Headphones muffled his hearing while goggles left him with only peripheral vision due to macular degeneration while the suit's joints were adjusted to simulate the stiffness of rheumatoid arthritis. The 40-pound (18 kg) suit also gave Dumont a taste of the weight gain people typically experience as they age. "Wow," Dumont gasped as he struggled to walk on a treadmill facing a video titled "Walk on the Beach."

A "new" Rembrandt portrait is actually the creation of a 3-D printer -- and a statistical analysis of 346 paintings by the Dutch master. A "new" Rembrandt portrait is actually the creation of a 3-D printer -- and a statistical analysis of 346 paintings by the Dutch master. A new Rembrandt painting unveiled in Amsterdam Tuesday has the tech world buzzing more than the art world. That's because the painting is the creation of a 3-D printer -- and not the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn himself, who has been dead for almost 450 years. "The Next Rembrandt," as it's been dubbed, was the brain child of Bas Korsten, creative director at the advertising firm J. Walter Thompson in Amsterdam.

Rembrandt van Rijn was one of the most influential classical painters, and the world lost his amazing talent when he died nearly four centuries ago. And yet his newest masterpiece was unveiled only yesterday. By scanning and analyzing Rembrandt's works, a computer was able to create a new painting in near-perfect mimicry of Rembrandt's style. It has been named, appropriately, 'The Next Rembrandt'. The Next Rembrandt project began when, in October 2014, the Dutch financial institution ING spoke with J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam advertising agency about creating a project that would show innovation in Dutch art.

Google's AlphaGo AI swept all of its five matches against European Go champion Fan Hui. Now, the team behind the deep-learning program is preparing for AlphaGo's upcoming match against world champion Lee Sedol in March. After soundly beating the reigning European Go champion, Google's AI computer is looking to go head-to-head with one of the best players in the world in a match set to be held in South Korea in March. In a study featured in the journal Nature, researchers from Google's London-based AI company DeepMind described how their AlphaGo program was able to win all five of its Go matches against the European champion Fan Hui. Go, a board game that was invented in China some 2,500 years ago, involves having players alternately place white and black "stones" on a grid consisting of 19 vertical and 19 horizontal lines.

Nvidia Corporation has built a new deep-learning chip, the Tesla P100, with 15 billion transistors for deep-learning computing. The Santa Clara technology firm is betting that its computer graphics expertise will aid in making a name for itself in artificial intelligence and virtual reality. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that it is the biggest chip ever made. The company also unveiled a machine that uses the chip to perform scientific computing at extremely high-speed. PC World reports that the American technology company's new massive chip packs numerous cutting-edge technologies such as second-gen high-bandwidth memory; the tech firm's own Pascal GPU architecture; 16nmFinFET transistors; and Nvidia's blazing-fast NVLink interconnect technology.