Whether moving west down Ventura Boulevard, gliding down over Mulholland or living in Reseda with a freeway running through the yard, Tom Petty has soundtracked Southern California life for more than 40 years. Those classic songs, including "American Girl," "The Waiting," "Wildflowers," "Free Fallin'" and dozens of others, will be celebrated in February when Petty receives the 2017 MusiCares Person of the Year award. Announced Wednesday, the honor is presented by MusiCares, a Los Angeles charity that offers assistance to musicians and music professionals in need. The organization is the primary charitable arm of the Recording Academy, which presents the yearly Grammy Awards. Previous winners have included Carole King, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan.

Comic book legend and Marvel mastermind Stan Lee recently took time out of his schedule to travel to Georgia to film four cameos in a single day for upcoming Marvel films. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige discussed the filming at a Q&A session that followed a Friday screening of "Captain America: Civil War." The 93-year-old Lee, who with several artists created many of comics' most iconic characters, including Spider-Man, the Hulk and Iron Man, has had cameo appearances in nearly every Marvel live-action film, and neither Feige nor Lee seem interested in that trend ending any time soon. But neither man has any interest in attaching a generic Lee cameo to a project just to have one. "We do not shoot random ones. They're always very specific," Feige said during the Q&A.

Latina and Latin American women artists rarely get air time in U.S. museums. That will change next fall when the Pacific Standard Time series of exhibitions devoted to art from Latino and Latin American artists around the globe is set to touch down in Los Angeles. Of particular note will be "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985," at the Hammer Museum, set to take place in the fall of 2017. Today, the museum released the list of participating artists -- a lengthy lineup that includes 260 works by 118 artists (all women) from the U.S., Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. Even Paraguay, never a contender in surveys about Latin American art, has two artists represented in the show.

As millions of Americans tuned in to watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off Monday night in the first of their three scheduled presidential debates, many also turned to social media to share their thoughts on the event, including a host of celebrities. Many of Trump's most prominent celebrity advocates were quiet Monday evening, but there were a few tweets of support for the Republican candidate, specifically from Stephen Baldwin ("The Usual Suspects") and Adam Baldwin ("Firefly"), two actors who are, surprisingly, unrelated. In the absence of tweets lauding the former reality television star, Clinton's celebrity supporters more than filled the Twitter void. Here are 10 of the pithiest tweets to arise from Hollywood's debate live-tweeting. Comedians Chelsea Peretti ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine") and Billy Eichner ("Difficult People") both noted that Trump appeared to be adopting a very pro-yelling debate style as the night unfolded.

Microsoft is quickly pivoting to position itself as a leader in artificial intelligence. In his second keynote on the subject this year, CEO Satya Nadella yesterday (Sept. Quartz caught up with Nadella after he hopped off stage, to talk about the progress of his quest to make machines that assist humanity in a transparent way. You started talking earlier in the year saying we need to create transparent machines, ethical machines, accountable machines. What has been done since then, what is concrete?

Even before production began on "Fences" in April, many awards season pundits already had the film's stars on their lists of likely Oscar nominees. On Tuesday, we got to see why, when Paramount Pictures put out the first trailer for the movie starring Viola Davis and Denzel Washington, who also served as the film's director. Of course, the Broadway production of "Fences" has long been a critical darling. August Wilson, who wrote the play and adapted it for the big screen, won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1987. That year, "Fences" also swept the Tony Awards, winning for best play, direction, featured actress (Mary Alice) and leading actor (James Earl Jones).

Robots' potential to take over the world is a commonly expressed fear in the world of AI, but at least one Turing Award winner doesn't see it happening that way. Rather than replacing mankind, technology will create a new kind of human that will coexist with its predecessors while taking advantage of new tech-enabled tools. So argued Raj Reddy, former founding director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and 1994 winner of the Turing Award, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany last week. "I could not have predicted much of what has happened in AI," Reddy told an audience of journalists at a press conference. "Four or five things happened in AI in the last decade that I didn't think would happen in my lifetime," including achievements in language translation and AI's triumph at the game of Go.

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Let's be honest, stupid humans are too smart sometimes for their own good and Skynet is going to happen, at least that's what Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk think, but what do they know? In 2014, Stephen Hawking wrote: "Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history, – Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. In the near term, world militaries are considering autonomous-weapon systems that can choose and eliminate targets." In a separate interview in the same year, he warned: "humans, limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded by A.I." In a Reddit Q&A Session in January 2015 Gates said: "I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don't understand why some people are not concerned."

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