The financial sector has been among the fastest adaptors of AI algorithms, which are well suited to the industry's complex and fast-moving …

"Deep learning is usually very data hungry," said Farruque. "You basically need to feed your machine a lot of examples of what you're trying to teach it.

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Eventually, many conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) include HAL. An acronym for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, HAL played a prominent and disconcerting role in Stanley Kubrick's mind-bending 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the film, sentient computer HAL learns that the humans suspect it of being in error and will disconnect it should that error be confirmed. Of course, HAL is having none of that, and terror ensues. So influential was Kubrick's adaptation of an Arthur C. Clarke short story that HAL is now a part of the ways in which AI is often conceived.

This is the web version of Data Sheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the top tech news. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. The number of transistors packed onto a modern chip inside your phone or PC runs into the billions but it's still sometimes amazing to comprehend the computing power you can easily hold in the palm of your hand. When I met Intel vice presidents Gadi Singer and Carey Kloss on Wednesday, they showed me a new circuit board the company has created for speeding up artificial intelligence apps. The board is the size of an SSD drive, made to plug into a standard PC or server.

It's the year 2019--and the rise of the machines is transforming digital marketing. Nowadays, AI makes it much easier to generate information for online shoppers directly from a website or in the search results. Yes, that horror movie recommended in your streaming library is generated from AI. Artificial intelligence can both generate and curate content to personalize the user experience. The system is able to generate content based on matching data and information that has been indexed through the internet. For instance, you may notice this as a pop-up that appears as soon as a user visits your website.

Recent news has reported on the release of an artificial intelligence system that is able to generate realistic stories, poems and articles, as though they were written by a human hand. This system was made available for public use despite fears that it was'too dangerous' because of its alarming potential to create abusive content, fake news and spam. But now the text-generator is making waves for the streamlining effect that it could have on the field of journalism. This story has provoked many to question whether the AI system, by removing the need for human intelligence to author news articles, leaves any room for human journalists in curating content for readers. It's a catchy headline, indeed…except that AI journalism has already been happening for quite a while now, with no catastrophic effect on the field.

It's getting easier and easier to use AI to generate convincing-looking, yet entirely fake, pictures of people. Now, one company wants to find a use for these photos, by offering a resource of 100,000 AI-generated faces to anyone that can use them -- royalty free. Many of the images look fake but others are difficult to distinguish from images licensed by stock photo companies. Icons8 is a designer marketplace for icons and photographs. The AI-produced images are intended to be used as design elements in anything from presentations to websites and mobile apps.

MIT graduate student Justin Swaney is applying machine learning to music production. Rhythmic flashes from a computer screen illuminate a dark room as sounds fill the air. The snare drum sample comes out crisp and clean by itself, but turns muddy in the mix, no matter how the levels are set. Welcome to the world of modern music-making -- and its discontents. Today's digital music producers face a common dilemma: how to mesh samples that may sound great on their own but do not necessarily fit into a song like they originally imagined.