Music writers and composers take influence and inspiration from the world around them, including the music they listen to in their off time. Sometimes, completely unintentionally, these writers create their own music too similar or nearly identical to existing pieces of music and open themselves up to gung-ho legal teams willing to make a buck on their naivete. In order to combat this and give songwriters a leg up, Spotify has invented and filed a patent for a "Plagiarism Risk Detector And Interface" technology, which pertains to "Methods, systems and computer program products..for testing a lead sheet for plagiarism," according to documents obtained by Music Business Worldwide. The concept would allow for lead sheets to be fed through the detector and analyzed against an existing cache of lead sheets for potential plagiarism conflicts. "A set of messages would then be displayed," writes MBW, "describing a detected level of plagiarism regarding'a plurality of elements' such as a chord sequence, melodic fragments, harmony, etc. of a song (see fig 7 below)."

In 1993, Peter Steiner published a cartoon in The New Yorker with the caption, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." It grew to be an internet meme and captured many of the benefits – and drawbacks – of internet anonymity. The benefits include internet businesses not being capable of discriminating against individuals the same way brick-and-mortar might. There can be more freedom to express diverging opinions. The downsides, of course, are becoming more apparent every day: the rise of fake news, disinformation, and the ability for people to say things they really ought not to say, with impunity.

The vehicle Elon Musk sees as the key to fast travel around the Earth and multiplanetary living has only taken short hops so far, but its next trip will reach 50,000 feet. The plan is to test out its aerodynamic capabilities and attempt a landing flip maneuver. SpaceX's stream begins at 7 AM, but stay tuned for more information on exactly when the test will go down if you want to watch live -- this could be historic. After multiple delays, CD Projekt Red's highly anticipated RPG (based on the table-top game of the same name) arrives on PC and consoles, and Jessica Conditt has spent about 20 hours in the world on Night City. The game is too deep for that to give a comprehensive view of what it contains (she took six hours to get beyond the prologue and meet Keanu Reeves) but more than enough to see if its 80s-tinged vision of the future holds up.

Machine learning is a fast-growing and successful branch of artificial intelligence. In essence, machine learning is the process of allowing a computer system to teach itself how to perform complex tasks by analyzing large sets of data, rather than being explicitly programmed with a particular algorithm or solution. In this way, machine learning enables a computer to learn how to perform a task on its own and to continue to optimize its approach over time, without direct human input. In other words, it's the computer that is creating the algorithm, not the programmers, and often these algorithms are sufficiently complicated that programmers can't explain how the computer is solving the problem. Humans can't trace the computer's logic from beginning to end; they can only determine if it's finding the right solution to the assigned problem, which is output as a "prediction."

Google and Apple have announced that Apple Music is now available to stream on all Google Nest smart speakers without needing to resort to Bluetooth pairing. To get started, you'll need to make sure you have the Google Home app, which you can download from either the App Store (iPhone/iPad) or the Google Play Store (Android). After you log in to the Google Home app with your Google account, head over to the Assistant Settings inside your account and tap Music. Under More music services, select Apple Music, then Link account on the next screen. Follow the prompts to sign in to your Apple Music account (if your Apple Music account is different than your main Apple ID, you'll need to switch accounts first) and you'll see Apple Music appear in your list of music services.

Hi, we just started our new series of chats with ML practitioners. However, learning about the experience gained by researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs doing real machine learning work can result in a great source of knowledge and inspiration. Please meet Justin Harris, the Senior Software Developer at Microsoft Research who recently published the paper Decentralized & Collaborative AI on Blockchain. Justin is currently using his experience in machine learning and crowdsourcing to implement a framework for ML in smart contracts in order to collect quality data and provide models that are free to use. We asked him why decentralization is important for the future of AI.

It's hard to imagine Apple and Google playing nice on a device, but that can be the case starting today. That is, for music streaming, anyway. Google announced today that Apple Music is now rolling out to Assistant-enabled speakers and displays like the Nest Audio, Nest Hub Max, Nest Mini and more. Apple Music subscribers can ask the Assistant to find and play your songs, albums and playlists using their voice after they link their accounts in the Google Home app. You'll be able to set Apple Music as your default music streaming service, and then when you ask your speaker to "play K-Pop Hits playlist," it will stream from Apple's library.

Musk explained while artificial intelligence was a key priority among his various projects, "it's important to have some kind of government oversight."

Moody's Analytics has won Best AI Technology Initiative at the 2020 American Financial Technology Awards. We earned this award for our QUIQspread solution, which helps financial institutions automate the spreading of financial statements. This press release features multimedia. Every bank has its own unique lending criteria. But all banks start the loan origination review process by gathering and standardizing the loan recipient's financial records, a process known as financial spreading.

Together, these five new machine learning services help industrial and manufacturing customers embed intelligence in their production processes in order to improve operational efficiency, quality control, security, and workplace safety. The services combine sophisticated machine learning, sensor analysis, and computer vision capabilities to address common technical challenges faced by industrial customers, and represent the most comprehensive suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services available. This is why more than a hundred thousand customers are using AWS for machine learning, and why customers of all sizes and across all industries are using AWS services to make machine learning core to their business strategy. Companies are increasingly looking to add machine learning capabilities to industrial environments, such as manufacturing facilities, fulfillment centers, and food processing plants. For these customers, data has become the connective tissue that holds their complex industrial systems together.