Contrast that with the broadest definition of what Hypergiant does in fact sell--artificial intelligence-enabled software and hardware--and you'll …

If you ever want to start an argument, ask someone whether artificial intelligence will destroy jobs or create them.

One of only two surviving prototypes of the original Apple Macintosh computer will go up for auction this week – at an asking price of £155,000. The prototype, which was made in 1983, features the aborted 5.25-inch'Twiggy' disk drive, and is going under the hammer at Bonhams in New York on Wednesday. The Macintosh began as a personal project of inventor Jef Raskin before the late Apple founder Steve Jobs took it over. The original plan was to use a 5.25-inch drive to greatly expand the capacity of standard floppy discs. But they proved unreliable, so a 3.5 inch drive, which was more robust and small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, was chosen instead for mass production.

Technology, in all its guises, is changing the way we live and what exactly it means to be humans. From artificial intelligence (AI) to cryptocurrency and e-commerce, CIOs and IT leaders must ensure they are helping their organisations adapt in this rapidly changing world. In Japan, a restaurant is trialling AI robotics technology to allow employees with limited mobility to remotely pilot robotic waiters. Companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and Ford are hosting virtual career fairs tailored to the needs of neurodiverse candidates. Enterprise Rent-A-Car has implemented braille-reader technology into its booking system for blind employees.

Amazon Web Services likes to spice things up at its annual AWS re:Invent conference with unexpected hardware announcements, with past surprises such as a semi-truck for transporting data, a machine-learning camera, and a miniature self-driving race car. Now you can add a machine-learning-enabled musical keyboard to the list. Kicking off the event overnight in Las Vegas, the company introduced AWS DeepComposer, a 32-key, two-octave keyboard that the company holds up as an early example of "generative" artificial intelligence. "Generative AI is one of the biggest recent advancements in artificial intelligence technology because of its ability to create something new," Amazon explains on the AWS DeepComposer site. "It opens the door to an entire world of possibilities for human and computer creativity, with practical applications emerging across industries, from turning sketches into images for accelerated product development, to improving computer-aided design of complex objects."

To train your models and create new musical compositions, AWS DeepComposer is priced at $99, this includes the keyboard, plus a 3-month free trial of AWS DeepComposer services to train your models and create original musical compositions. Each month of the free trail includes enough to cover up to 4 training jobs and 40 inference jobs per month, during the free trial period.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the internal communications landscape. The sci-fi revolution is upon us and AI isn't just a scary threat in Hollywood movies any more – it's already embedded in digital tools we use every single day. But if it's not all Big Brother menace, how can we harness this exciting technology to benefit our work in internal communications? I was recently invited to join the #commschat team online, alongside IBM's AI Watson Ecosystem lead Silvia Cambie and other IC pros, to share ideas and insights into how we're teetering on the brink of an AI transformation in employee engagement. Here are my five must-know takeaways from our discussion.

Over the summer, streaming giant and industry up-ender Netflix reported its first domestic subscriber loss since 2011 and its lowest quarterly subscriber growth in three years. Within hours, its stock value tanked $17 billion in a single day. You read that right: $17 BILLION. Clearly, no one is immune from disruption and this is especially true in the media and entertainment business--even those who helped create and spur them forward. Last year, we looked at digital transformation trends for media and entertainment focusing on things like the increase in video ads, a clamor for digital experience, and a rise in mobile data usage due to such high demand. All of these predictions have become a reality and heading into 2020, all of those things will likely to continue.

As consumers are going on their shopping frenzy for Cyber Monday, tech enthusiasts are spending their time in Las Vegas at the AWS re:Invent conference, where Amazon unveils the latest gadgets and gizmos it has in the works. Excitingly enough, for day one on Monday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Julien Simon announced the world's first machine-learning-enabled musical keyboard for developers--AWS DeepComposer. Powered by machine learning, AWS DeepComposer allows developers of all skill levels to learn "Generative A.I." while creating original music outputs. In the world of artificial intelligence (A.I.), the most rapidly growing areas include computer vision, natural language processing, and of course, Generative AI. Generative A.I. is one of the biggest recent advancements in A.I. technology because of its ability to create something new by utilizing "generative adversarial networks."

The modern deep learning approaches to natural language processing are voracious in their demands for large corpora to train on. Folk wisdom estimates used to be around 100k documents were required for effective training. The availability of broadly trained, general-purpose models like BERT has made it possible to do transfer learning to achieve novel results on much smaller corpora. Thanks to these advancements, an NLP researcher might get value out of fewer examples since they can use the transfer learning to get a head start and focus on learning the nuances of the language specifically relevant to the task at hand. Thus, small specialized corpora are both useful and practical to create.