Mackmyra's Intelligens is billed as the first whisky created using artificial intelligence. But have they tried using it to make whisky? We now know that they have, although drinkers in the U.S. will have to wait to judge how the AI experiment turned out. Source: How Microsoft got in on the creation of the world's first whisky formulated with AI

VSBLTY Groupe Technologies Corp. (CSE:VSBY) (OTC:VSBGF) (5VS.F) is uniquely positioned to facilitate the growth of smart city technology in the Latin American market, according to company co-founder and CEO Jay Hutton. This will be made possible through the company's just announced three-year agreement with intelligent lighting solutions provider Energetika. VSBLTY is to provide real time crowd analytics and audience measurement for Latin American communities. Hutton explained how VSBLTY's technology is ideal for the growth of smart cities in the region. "If you think of smart cities as a three-legged stool: the one leg is information, the second is analytics and the third is facial recognition for the purposes of law enforcement," said Hutton.

IRCAM, the world's largest research center dedicated to both musical expression and scientific research, is a partner of the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. The institution is also involved in the STARTS Initiative as coordinator of the STARTS Residencies and will present these activities at the STARTS Day. Hugues Vinet, head of research activities at IRCAM, told us in an interview how the institute works, why AI has social relevance and what role he and his team will play at the festival. Hugues Vinet: My background is signal processing. I worked from the mid 1980s at the Musical Research Group (GRM) in Paris on the first real-time audio workstations and I designed the early versions of the GRM Tools product which made creative audio processing tools broadly available on personal computers.

US-based with offices in Asia, Miro AI is a start-up that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to empower sports events, brands and athletes.

Homeowners often invest in energy-saving upgrades to make their homes more comfortable and lower their expenses, hoping to see reductions in their upcoming utility bills. Government-backed and utility-backed programs that provide energy-efficient home improvements share the same goal of reducing costs. But measuring the costs and effects of hundreds of different retrofits in thousands of households is a complex process, and the big picture -- which changes should be prioritized for the biggest benefit to the resident -- is difficult to put together. While energy efficiency programs have developed sophisticated models to improve decision making, documented disparities between predicted and realized savings demonstrate that there is still substantial progress that could be made. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), researchers are used to using compute power to dig for answers in piles of untamed data.

Audio Network Limited, one of the world's largest independent creators and publishers of original high-quality music for use in film, television, advertising and digital media, continues its focus on technology by partnering with Musiio to explore the power of AI to improve customer service and delivery. This industry first will equip the global music company with an added interface to their existing search platform, to make their catalogue of over 170,000 tracks even more discoverable, whilst keeping the human touch that Audio Network has always been known for. Read More: Clearsense Chooses Io-Tahoe's Smart Data Discovery to Navigate Healthcare Data Challenges Singapore-based Musiio provides a new way of "listening" to music at scale, easily searching up to one million tracks in under two seconds and supercharging a team of music researchers to increase their efficiency in responding to music briefs. "AI has been on the fringes of the music industry for the last few years, with talk of labels signing algorithms. But recently, more commercial and practical uses of this powerful computing technology have begun to surface," explained Musiio CEO and co-founder Hazel Savage.

For 30 seconds, anyone in China can now take the place of Leonardo DiCaprio in some of his most iconic roles -- and all it takes is a smartphone and a bit of personal data. The Chinese app Zao has surged in popularity over the past few days to become the country's top smartphone app, and descriptions of what it does have gone viral on social media in the U.S. The app's appeal is simple: Upload a photo and it will swap DiCaprio's face with a user's in a 30-second mashup of clips from his films. Or it can do the same with a character from "Game of Thrones," or with a performer in a music video. The app is only available in China, though some people outside the country have been able to get around that restriction. It's as easy as using a photo filter on Instagram or Snapchat, according to people who have used it, but it also demonstrates the remarkable power of advances in artificial intelligence to make fake videos.

Seaborn aims to make visualization a central part of exploring and understanding data.

In many ways the audio business was an early adopter of what could be described as artificial intelligence (AI). Sure, sound engineers like to be able to control and manipulate sounds, sometimes making minute adjustments in level and equalisation according to their ears and experience rather than what a meter or oscilloscope might be telling them. But there some jobs or processes that are time-consuming and dull so anything that can make life easier by taking over more mundane or repetitive tasks has been embraced. Total recall and Flying Faders became an integral part of music recording in the 1970s, allowing EQ settings and fader positions to be loaded into a computer attached to the mixing desk and called up at a later time when required. Less flashy and obvious is the work of the ubiquitous compressor, a unit that featured in every studio rack and now every digital audio workstation as a plug-in.