Seasons in live service games typically lasts for a handful of months. The first season of "Halo Infinite," however, will have lasted six months by May 3, an unusual amount of time in the marketplace. "Halo Infinite" launched with the promise of speeding up seasonal updates, and Staten said work on the third season is also underway.

This article is sponsored by IBM. It is a new concept in which creators can apply passion and creativity to make money, instead of simply relying on likes and views. It focuses on bringing more life and meaning to the traditional media landscape in a way that empowers creative people worldwide to bring out the best in themselves, entirely driven by their passion. According to EMarketer, the creator economy is defined as follow: "We define creators as people or entities that develop original content for digital properties, and who consider creating that content to be either their full-time or parti-time career or livelihood. Of course, there is some overlap between many of these groups; for instance, celebrities can also be creators and vice versa. What's more, few successful influencers today are purely sales-oriented, and many of them are also creators, developing digital or, at times, physical products."

Machine-learning specialists are highly sought after right now. Recruiters and experts told Insider they were facing an acute shortage of machine-learning skills as the demand for specialists in artificial intelligence moved beyond tech and into sectors such as healthcare and finance. Machine learning is a commonly used form of artificial intelligence that involves the use of self-learning programs and algorithms. It underpins a lot of services, from the movies Netflix recommends to fraud detection for banks. The technology allows computers to process and draw patterns from huge amounts of data, which makes it useful in a variety of fields.

Savin Goyal is CTO and co-founder of Outerbounds, a startup building infrastructure to help teams streamline how they build machine learning applications. Prior to starting Outerbounds, Savin and team worked at Netflix, where they were instrumental in the creation and release of Metaflow, an open source Python framework that addresses some of the challenges data scientists face around scalability and version control. The machine learning universe is really fast moving. So how can we make sure that we're not making a bet, that would hinder our progress, two years or four years further down the line. Deep learning is super popular, but tomorrow there could be a new way of doing machine learning.

Data Science offers lucrative career opportunities in this day and age. Data scientists produce actionable business insights using data and implement mathematical algorithms to solve complex business problems. In fact, Amazon product recommendations, Netflix movie suggestions, Google Maps traffic predictions are some of the prime examples of data scientist work that we use every day in our lives! Data scientists' algorithms are helping many companies generate more revenue and enhance the customer experience of their products and services. Owing to these reasons, everybody aspires to be a data scientist these days.

Although it's been around for a long time in the film industry, it's still a rather perplexing term, especially where video games are concerned. Essentially, it's a technique that makes light behave in a realistic way. The idea is to make games more realistic and immersive. Wouldn't you be spellbound by the light bouncing off of objects in a natural way? The indistinguishable line between reality and fantasy is no doubt appealing.

News is essential to a functioning society. It keeps people informed on important subject matters and enables them to formulate an opinion on those topics. Thus, the information people consume can be immensely influential. While this puts the onus on media outlets to establish trust and credibility, these values are only part of the equation when it comes to discerning real news from fake news. Unfortunately, there is no cure for fake news.

NEW YORK--The Associated Press has released a wide-ranging report on local news outlets' understanding and use of artificial intelligence and their readiness to use AI to meet their journalism and business needs. The report is based on survey results from nearly 200 newsrooms across all 50 states and more than two dozen in-depth interviews with local news leaders. Print, radio, television and digital outlets are represented, as well as commercial and nonprofit operations. "With this report, AP aims to raise awareness and also begin to level the AI playing field for local newsrooms," said Jim Kennedy, AP senior vice president of strategic planning. "The goal is to help them harness innovative technology to improve their operations." Although the report found that usage of AI in local newsrooms had not been widely adopted and was still in the early stages of development, the report also found that TV managers tended to be more interested in the use of AI.

ANJA KASPERSEN: Today I am very pleased to be joined by Pascale Fung. Pascale is a;rofessor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is known globally for her pioneering work on conversational artificial intelligence (AI), computational linguistics, and was one of the earliest proponents of statistical and machine-learning approaches for natural language processing (NLP). She is now leading groundbreaking research on how to build intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans. I have really been looking forward to this conversation with you. Your professional accolades are many, most of which we will touch on during our conversation. However, for our listeners to get to know you a bit better, I would like us to go back to your upbringing during what I understand to be a very tenuous political period in China. I was born, spent my childhood, ...

Using algorithms and artificial intelligence, a research team led by Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has designed a tool which, in its initial trials, proved capable of predicting those areas with best access to potable groundwater in Africa, with a success rate of close to 90%. In specific terms, the papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Science and Geocarto International describe the hydrogeological mapping performed by the MLMapper software in the regions of Bamako and Koulikoro (Mali) and the region of Ouaddaï (Chad), respectively. "Ensure access to water and sanitation for all" is Sustainable Development Goal 6. In sub-Saharan Africa, groundwater plays a fundamental role in the supply of drinking water, but the percentage of wells that strike water is very often lower than 30%. "This is mainly because of a lack of hydrogeological knowledge, with the practical consequence that millions of euros of humanitarian aid are lost in fruitless drilling operations", underlines Víctor Gómez-Escalonilla Canales, a researcher at UCM's Department of Geodynamics, Stratigraphy and Palaeontology.