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BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 28, 2018--Schwarzman Scholars yesterday hosted a high level international dialogue on artificial intelligence (AI), aimed at encouraging greater discourse and cooperation on complicated topics associated with the development of AI. The event was held in conjunction with the release of the English language version of Tsinghua University's Chinese Institute for Science and Technology Policy's Artificial Intelligence Development Report. The report outlines China's AI development from four different perspectives: technological development, market applications, policy environment and social impact. It offers a multi-dimensional comparison between China and developed countries regarding AI development, and analyzes China's strengths, weaknesses and its position in the international AI competitive landscape. "Schwarzman Scholars is pleased to have served as the convening organization for this important international dialogue. I commend Dean Xue Lan on the release of his important report and thank the participants for their insightful comments and engagement," said Stephen A. Schwarzman, Founding Trustee of Schwarzman Scholars and Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone.

The $150 Boom 3 and the $200 Megaboom 3 are portable, battery-powered speakers that are waterproof and shaped in such a way that they throw sound in every direction. The Megaboom 3 is a physically larger speaker--imagine a fatter version of those tall Arizona iced tea cans you can buy at the gas station--that weighs in at almost exactly two pounds compared to the 1.34 pound Megaboom 3. Neither of these speakers can talk to Alexa like the Blast and Megablast speakers UE released last year, but there are some benefits to make up for the lack of digital assistant for those who don't want voice control in the first place. The top of the Megaboom 3 now plays host to what UE calls the "magic button," which allows you to control the music playing on the speaker without reaching for your phone. Pressing it once plays or pauses the music, while double-pressing it skips to the next track. If you use Apple Music or Android's Deezer platforms to stream your tunes, you can use the UE app to designate up to four playlists that you can play immediately by pressing and holding the magic button for three seconds. I found myself using this a lot.

It was taken by Rover 1-B, one of two Japanese rovers currently hopping around on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. The duo detached from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft last week and quickly began sending back mesmerizing images of the asteroid's stony surface. The solar-powered rovers are small, just seven inches across and less than three inches tall, but they contain cameras and temperature sensors to give astronomers back home their best look so far at a C-type (carbon-rich) asteroid. The bots move autonomously, activating an internal motor that sends them just high enough to glide about 50 feet in 15 minutes. The hopping mechanism is carefully calibrated--Ryugu's low gravity means that a more powerful jump could send them soaring straight off into space.

This piece originally appeared on the Conversation. In 1998, Google, formally incorporated in a garage in Menlo Park, California, began humbly providing search results from a server housed in Lego bricks. It had a straightforward goal: make the poorly indexed World Wide Web accessible to humans. Its success was based on an algorithm that analyzed the linking structure of the internet itself to evaluate what web pages are most reputable and useful. But founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had a much more ambitious goal: They wanted to organize the world's information.

But hey, when your ad's copywriter is an artificial intelligence, you have to give it some credit for trying to connect with us weirdo organ-sack humans. Burger King's newest TV ad campaign claims each spot was "created by artificial intelligence," an explanation that precedes some truly bizarre voice-overs, such as, "Bed of lettuce for you to sleep on, bed of mayonnaise for extra sleep," and, "Burger King logo's chicken is the new potato." In a statement announcing the campaign--which will air during prime time on cable networks including MTV, History, TBS, Adult Swim and E!--the brand refers to as the creation of "a new deep learning algorithm that could give a glimpse into what the future of marketing and communications could look like." "AI, bots, machine learning, deep learning algorithms, blockchain, among others--these are all topical as we explore our future in marketing," says Marcelo Pascoa, Burger King's global head of brand marketing. "But we need to avoid getting lost in the sea of technology innovation and buzzwords and forget what really matters. Artificial intelligence is not a substitute for a great creative idea coming from a real person."

Cartoon Network will broadcast the 90-minute event on its YouTube channel (which is sadly geoblocked) on September 29th, Saturday, starting at at 11:30 AM ET. The livestream will feature pre- and post-show programming, community panels, costume contests, live gameplay, the latest about the game and more. According to Variety, the livestream will also show merchandise you can purchase from home. Minecon started as MinecraftCon in 2010, way before Microsoft purchased the title. In 2017, Microsoft started hosting an interactive livestream dubbed "Minecon Earth."

A machine learning system overseen by a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology has produced 100,000 new folk tunes to date, generating a diverse range of reactions from folk musicians and the public. Some of the music can even be heard on a newly-released album by an Irish folk group. Bob Sturm, associate professor of computer science in the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, says that the main idea of the project was to train computer models on folk music, so that they appear to have some musical intelligence, and then to "devise methods to unravel what they are actually doing," he says. Check out our master's programme courses The research subsequently led to creative opportunities. "Our work with many collaborators, such as composer Oded Ben-Tal at Kingston University in the UK, and professional musicians, has also shown how the models can serve a wider purpose: as useful partners in creating new music," Sturm says.

Load up the homepage for e-commerce giant, Alibaba – a wholesale shopping site that's more or less China's answer to eBay – and you'll find images and descriptions of anything you could wish to buy, from kitchen sinks to luxury yachts. Every item has a short headline, but most are little more than lists of keywords: hand-picked search terms to ensure this USB phone charger or that pair of flame-resistant overalls float to the top in a sea of thousands upon thousands of similar items. It sounds simple, but there's an art to this copywriting. Yet Alibaba recently revealed that it is training an artificial intelligence to generate these item descriptions automatically – and they're not the only ones. Over the last few decades AIs have been taught to compose music, paint pictures and write (bad) poems. "Generative bots are the new chatbot," says Jun Wang at University College London.

The 25 most popular things our readers bought this year (so far) (Photo: Reviewed.com) If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA TODAY's newsroom and any business incentives. It's been a heck of a shopping year thus far, and it's only going to ramp up during the holiday season. So we thought it'd be fun to see all of the wonderful things our readers have bought so far in 2018. With the incredible sales we've seen on popular products and the crazy prices of Amazon Prime Day, we have quite the hodgepodge of items on this list.