Have you ever wondered what the Weeknd thinks about your taste in music? But I can now officially inform you that he loves my choice of tunes, thanks to a new Spotify microsite. According to the streaming giant, Alone With Me is "a personalized generative experience powered by deep learning and your Spotify listening data." The site introduces you to a digital avatar of the Canadian crooner, who greets you by name. You can also distort his body with your cursor, which feels like the digital equivalent of smudging ink.

The global artificial intelligence market is expected to rise with an impressive CAGR and generate the highest revenue by 2026.

The technology uses artificial intelligence to detect weeds and other crop pests while passing over a field.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are helping automate an ever-increasing array of tasks, with ever-increasing accuracy.

Three mummified animals from ancient Egypt have been digitally unwrapped and dissected by researchers using high-resolution 3D scans. The snake, bird and cat, from the Egypt Centre's collection at Swansea University, are at least 2,000 years old. Ancient texts suggest they were offerings to the souls of the departed, but little was known of their fate. Researchers said the details revealed by the scans were "extraordinary". Using micro CT scanners, which generate 3D images with 100 times the resolution of medical CT scans, the animals' remains were analysed in previously unseen detail, giving an insight into how they were killed and the ritual behind it.

The tools include machine intelligence to search large databases and optimize solutions (search algorithm, mathematical optimization, evolutionary algorithm), logic-based programming (automated reasoning, logic-based decisions), probabilistic tools (bayesian networks, kalmann filtering, decision theory, utility theory), classifiers (classical mathematics, machine learning, statistical classification), neural networks (Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), connectionism), deep feed-forward neural networks (deep learning, image processing, computer vision, speech processing, natural language processing), deep recurrent neural networks and intelligent control systems with a hierarchy based approach.

Right now, AI music services are all the rage, and rightly so. The technology, data, and demand is there. As a producer, if you can use online tools to help inspire or improve your productions, why wouldn't you use them? And with platforms such as TikTok and YouTube, the demand to license straight-up beats and background music has never been larger. In this piece, we'll outline the AI services that you can work along side to create new formulas, sounds, and ultimately, songs.

Machine Learning, a sub-branch of Artificial Intelligence, has established itself as the new go-to technology for businesses worldwide. Whether it is e-commerce or healthcare, almost all the industries are using Machine Learning extensively to make futuristic solutions and products. Machine Learning depends heavily on programs and algorithms that help machines self-learn without having to be instructed explicitly. Machine Learning is pretty much dictating our daily lives- how, you wonder? Let's look at the top applications of Machine Learning to understand how it is shaping the digital economy.

Multi-room audio specialist Sonos is back with the Arc, the firm's first Dolby Atmos-enabled soundbar that totally transforms your TV's sound. It is a single box of tricks that combines a smart speaker, wifi music sound system and home cinema kit in one, but like most soundbars of this type it can be dogged by audio-picture syncing issues when used with TV set top boxes – more on that later. The Arc looks deceptively simple. It is a sleek, one metre-long cylinder that is surprisingly compact considering there are eight separate woofers, three tweeters and a collection of electronics all hidden behind the matt metal mesh. Four of the woofers face you directly through the front of the Arc.

Artificial intelligence has been used to upscale the oldest film in existence, recorded in a garden in Leeds 132 years ago. Roundhay Garden Scene is a short film shot on October 14, 1888, showing four people strolling around the garden of Oakwood Grange in the Leeds suburb of Roundhay. The original black and white video, recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince, is only 1.66 seconds long and comprises just 20 frames. But YouTuber Denis Shiryaev has posted a new version of the legendary video on his site, which is now in 4K quality at around 250 frames per second. Using a neural network to fill in the blanks and artificially generate additional frames, Shiryaev has been able to upscale the 20 original frames to give a much smoother sense of motion.