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Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, had its first female robot news anchor cover its first story on Sunday. According to the The Daily Mail, the first female robot news anchor gave its first news report Sunday in China. The robot named Xin Xiaomeng was designed by Xinhua and programmed by Sogou.com to "read texts as naturally as a professional anchor." It was designed to resemble real-life journalist Qu Meng. The robot gave a presentation on a news story about politicians appearing in Bejing for the annual legislative session in China, which is widely considered to be the biggest political event of the year in China.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) or futuristic tech as we may call it, is one innovation that is only developing to get bigger and better. AI flaunts the capabilities of technology and how it can mimic or eventually perfect tasks humans do. AI also comes with possible benefits of making human lives easier. At the same time, this technology also has the potential of risks if entered in the wrong hands. There are many platforms where AI takes part, starting with the most popular device – smartphones.

The artificial intelligence robot named "Xin Xiaomeng" sported a short haircut and wore a pink blouse and earrings in a one-minute video presentation by Xinhua. The robotic news anchor named'Xin Xiaomeng' presents news in China's Xinhua. Singapore: China's Xinhua state news agency on Sunday used a lifelike robotic news anchor that mimics human facial expressions and mannerisms to present a story about delegates attending an annual parliament meeting arriving in Beijing. The artificial intelligence robot named "Xin Xiaomeng" sported a short haircut and wore a pink blouse and earrings in a one-minute video presentation by Xinhua. Xin Xiaomeng is modelled after real-life Xinhua news anchor Qu Meng and was developed by Xinhua and tech firm Sogou Inc. Xinhua displayed two AI news anchors dressed in men's clothes last November at the World Internet Conference in the eastern Chinese town of Wuzhen.

In 1997, David Bowie partnered with an insurance company to create Bowie bonds – a kind of asset-backed bond that gave him (and investors) a share of the current and future royalties of his music. Bowie correctly predicted that his music would only become more popular, but he didn't want to wait years into the future to reap the rewards. But maneuvers like this are pretty much only open to superstars, like Bowie. For a struggling musician hoping to break into the industry, the way that it's all set up can be a massive headache. When musicians get signed to a record label, they can get an advance on future royalties, in order to finance renting equipment or studio space, or even shooting music videos.

An autonomous rover named Zoë, designed and built by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, drilled into the soil of Chile's Atacama Desert in 2013 and discovered unusual, highly specialized microbes. The NASA-funded mission demonstrated how robots might someday find life on Mars. The astrobiology mission was led by the Robotics Institute and the SETI Institute to test technologies for searching for life underground. The microbial analyses of the soil samples recovered by Zoë were published Feb. 28 in the journal Frontiers of Microbiology. Zoë was equipped with a one-meter drill that recovered samples several times each day.

When drivers disengage the autonomous systems, they often may be doing it out of caution rather than due to a technological flaw, she said. "It may actually be a positive sign of conservative safety procedures in the camp. Unfortunately, when you report disengagements to the lay public, it may (be) reinterpreted as substandard technology or that is not ready for testing on the public streets."

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are an increasingly integral part of many industries, including marketing. But while we often talk about using or incorporating AI in marketing, what do we really mean by that? What does it look like in practice? Here are 15 examples of AI and machine learning in action in the marketing industry (P.S. remember to check out Econsultancy's Marketer's Guide to Machine Learning and AI). The practice of clustering customer behaviours to predict future behaviours began way back in 1998, with a report on'digital bookshelves' by Jussi Karlgren, a Swedish computational linguist at Columbia University. In the same year, Amazon began using "collaborative filtering" to enable recommendations for millions of customers. Fast forward to 2019, and some of the most successful digital companies have built their product offerings around the ability to provide highly relevant and personalised product or content recommendations – including Amazon, Netflix and Spotify.

Artificial intelligence-based forgery reached a watershed moment. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) point to an age where forgery of documents, pictures, audio recordings, videos, and online identities will occur with unprecedented ease. AI is poised to make high-fidelity forgery inexpensive and automated, leading to potentially disastrous consequences for democracy, security, and society. As an AI researcher, I'm here to sound the alarm, and to suggest a partial solution. In February, AI-based forgery reached a watershed moment–the OpenAI research company announced GPT-2, an AI generator of text so seemingly authentic that they deemed it too dangerous to release publicly for fears of misuse.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 16: Steven Spielberg attends the 55th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards at InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on February 16, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Considered by many as the best film director of all time, with three Oscars under his belt and countless more awards over the course of his career, Steven Spielberg seems an unlikely candidate to illustrate the difficulties some people have in accepting disruption. Acclaimed as one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and producer or director of legendary science fiction movies as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", AI Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report or Ready Player One among many others, Spielberg is clearly someone who not only understands the impact of technology on society, but is also able to interpret it on the big screen in a way few others have managed. Imagine my surprise then, when I read over breakfast this morning that in light of Roma's three Academy Awards, Spielberg is backing proposals that would try to exclude streaming companies like Netflix or Amazon from the Oscars. "Once you commit to a television format, you're a TV movie. You certainly -- if it's a good show -- deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar."