Here are 10 upcoming ones that focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Researchers analyzed the brain signals and eye and facial movements of people engaged in lucid dreaming "conversations." In the movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio enters into other people's dreams to interact with them and steal secrets from their subconscious. Now, it seems this science fiction plot is one baby step closer to reality. For the first time, researchers have had "conversations" involving novel questions and math problems with lucid dreamers--people who are aware that they are dreaming. The findings, from four labs and 36 participants, suggest people can receive and process complex external information while sleeping.

Over time, machine learning can turn speech recognition into a powerful tool. That's how speech recognition works for humans. But does it work for cats?

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Like the animated paintings that adorn the walls of Harry Potter's school, a new online tool promises to bring portraits of dead relatives to life, stirring debate about the use of technology to impersonate people. Genealogy company MyHeritage launched its "Deep Nostalgia" feature earlier this week, allowing users to turn stills into short videos showing the person in the photograph smiling, winking and nodding. "Seeing our beloved ancestors' faces come to life ... lets us imagine how they might have been in reality, and provides a profound new way of connecting to our family history," MyHeritage founder Gilad Japhet said in a statement. Developed with Israeli computer vision firm D-ID, Deep Nostalgia uses deep learning algorithms to animate images with facial expressions that were based on those of MyHeritage employees. Some of the company's users took to Twitter on Friday to share the animated images of their deceased relatives, as well as moving depictions of historical figures, including Albert Einstein and Ancient Egypt's lost Queen Nefertiti.

As advancement in Artificial Intelligence continues, experts in various fields are coming up with new ways of utilising the technology. Interestingly, a company has used the mechanics to create hyper-realistic AI-generated virtual hands to accurately recreate songs played by professional pianists. A video, which has now gone viral, features the original soundtrack and the AI hands playing the tunes simultaneously. Created by Canadian-based Massive Technologies, the AI is programmed to understand the musical composition and recreate the same with 3D rendered virtual hands. According to the video description, the AI extracted the notes from the raw audio and generated the exact playing technique, perfectly mincing the hand and body motion.

Picture: military interrogators are talking to a local man they suspect of helping to emplace roadside bombs. The man denies it, even as they show him photos of his purported accomplices. But an antenna in the interrogation room is detecting the man's heartbeat as he looks at the pictures. A UK research team is using radio waves to pick up subtle changes in heart rhythm and then, using an advanced AI called a neural network, understand what those signals mean -- in other words, what the subject is feeling. It's a breakthrough that one day might help, say, human-intelligence analysts in Afghanistan figure out who represents an insider threat.

It is also doing the function of making people aware of the potential that artificial intelligence and machine learning hold.

AI-enabled synthetic media is being used as a tool for manipulating real emotions and capturing user data by genealogy service MyHeritage, which has just launched a new feature -- called "deep nostalgia" -- that lets users upload a photo of a person (or several people) to see individual faces animated by algorithm. The Black Mirror-style pull of seeing long-lost relatives -- or famous people from another era -- brought to a synthetic approximation of life, eyes swivelling, faces tilting as if they're wondering why they're stuck inside this useless digital photo frame, has led to an inexorable stream of social shares since it was unveiled yesterday at a family history conference… This is my great-grandmother, Kathleen. I've always felt so close to her even though she died when I was 2 years old. This #DeepNostalgia video brought tears to my eyes to see her move, almost like seeing her as she was posing for this photo. MyHeritage's AI-powered viral marketing playbook with this deepfakery isn't a complicated one: They're going straight for tugging on your heart strings to grab data that can be used to drive sign-ups for their other (paid) services.

A new plan by Amazon to use artificial intelligence (AI) to dub films could spell the end for voiceover actors. The technology giant has patented a system that would see computers learn the voices of Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise by studying their films. Amazon's computer systems could then automatically generate foreign language versions without any need for voiceover actors to dub the audio. The company used the example of "The Last Samurai" as an example use of the technology in its patent filing. By analysing how Cruise sounds in other films such as "Mission Impossible" and "Rain Man," Amazon could recreate his lines from "The Last Samurai" in French or Polish while still sounding recognisable.