Amazon, YouTube and Facebook had a message for parents this week. Kids want to watch hours of YouTube, but many parents feel conflicted about non-kid friendly videos showing up in their feeds. They also have an issue with the Amazon Echo speaker and the Alexa personal assistant. And what youngster doesn't want to join a social network, which often have a minimum age requirement of 13? A look at the revamped YouTube Kids app.

Open any broadsheet newspaper and you will find at least one reference to the fact that we are in a productivity crisis. Organisations are not keeping up with what is possible and the gap is worsening. So what is causing this gap? Will the growing capabilities in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning help or hinder and how can we as the leaders of organisations help to close it? There are many contributing factors, but for me one stands out; the organisational hierarchy.

Listen to Episode No. 206 of Slate Money: Slate Plus members: Get your ad-free podcast feed. On this week's Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, and Meredith discuss how students get into schools. Meredith Broussard teaches data journalism at New York University. Felix Salmon is a journalist. Anna Szymanski is a political risk consultant and board member at the Metropolitan Society for International Affairs who formerly worked in emerging-markets investment.

We grew up watching movies like The Terminator, Star Wars, and The Matrix; weaving our AI dreams since our childhood. The term'Artificial Intelligence' was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy, but it is in the recent years that AI has experienced a resurgence as we are now being introduced to its real-world applications. Today, artificial intelligence is all around us, at times we don't even realize it; all of us at some point have been assisted by Siri or Google Assistant, have heard about a self-driving car, and have definitely received product and movie recommendations from Amazon and Netflix respectively. AI is already a part of our daily lives and its realm is likely to grow in the coming years. Now, terms like'Machine Learning' and'Deep Learning' have also started gaining ground.

The rise of artificial intelligence in general, and machine learning in particular, has been an emerging theme at DIS for several years now. In 2018 the topic hit the mainstream as it was analysed in no fewer than five sessions with eight experts giving their views. The topics the presenters ran through ranged from the general impact AI will have on society, through to advice on how to harness the technology to monetise content now. The hunger for knowledge about the topic seems to be fuelled by a number of elements. On many levels there is a wider discussion about how AI will change society, and this has sparked some publishers interest in working out how it can used in the media.

It sounds paradoxical: can something artificial help us understand what's real and what isn't? Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are pinning their hopes on this possibility in their fight against "fake news." Recently, I had the good fortune to visit an exhibition in Paris entitled "Artists and Robots" with my wife, a former art teacher. As a former artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, it's not often we get to attend an exhibition that can appeal to both artists and scientists. Art is not my strong suit, but I do understand it's not meant to display "reality," but rather, as my good wife instructed me, the artist's "interpretation of reality, designed to appeal to his or her audience."

I have tough news, everybody--sometimes Rotten Tomatoes is wrong. It's a shocker, but the review aggregator is an imperfect system rather than a universal beacon of filmic quality. See, for instance, the officially "rotten" Duck Butter, which had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last week and is the latest film from Beatriz at Dinner director Miguel Arteta. The Hollywood Reporter calls the film "surprisingly banal," and Slant Magazine claims it's "difficult to fall in love with." "Duck Butter gets props for its creative story, for its queer women-centered storyline," Bust conceded.

In the original film "Westworld" (1973), written and directed by an up-and-coming novelist named Michael Crichton, the Delos corporation operates a kind of Disney World for depraved adults, a series of amusement parks where they can interact with uncannily lifelike robots in various environments. The parks include Medievalworld and Romanworld, but the bulk of the movie's action takes place in Westworld, where visitors are invited to shoot at android attractions like the Gunslinger (Yul Brenner) without fear of retaliation. All that changes when a technical glitch spreads through the parks like a virus, and suddenly the hosts are attacking the guests, not the other way around. Of the many differences between Crichton's "Westworld" and the HBO version, which started its second season last Sunday, the most telling is the hands. For all their technical brilliance, the engineers in Crichton's film could never get the hands right: If visitors needed to tell who is and isn't a robot, they could look at the conspicuous silicon rings around the joints and know they weren't about to shoot (or otherwise violate) a human being.

David Gogan, a former vice-president at record label EMI Ireland and son of the legendary DJ Larry Gogan, believes the traditional era of A&R is over and artificial intelligence (AI) is best placed to find "the next U2 or Picture This". Gogan, who ran marketing at EMI Ireland for six years until its closure in 2013, has teamed up with Zach Miller-Frankel and Neil Dunne – the founders of Andrson, a startup which uses analytics and "audio AI" to connect unsigned artists directly with industry executives. Gogan, who was brought on board for his industry nous and to open some doors, said the reaction so far had been "very positive" for an app that is still at the prototype stage. "The music industry was one of the first to be disturbed – people forget one of the few things you could do on a first-generation smartphone was play music, so it had to adapt, evolve and embrace that change," he says. "In today's market it is vital to be data-driven, but it always comes back to the music. Apps like Andrson are a fantastic tool to utilise that new technology to help both the industry discover new talent and artists present themselves on a world stage."

Bangalore: India has been ranked on the third spot after the USA and China in terms of artificial intelligence (AI) implementation, according to BCG study- "The Ghost in the Machine: Artificial Intelligence in the Factory of the Future." The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study surveyed manufacturing and technology managers from about 1100 industrial companies worldwide about their applications of and willingness to invest in AI. Almost 90 percent of executives said that they aim to integrate AI in their processes in the next three years. Nonetheless, so far only 28 percent have created a clear strategy for AI in manufacturing. Nine out of ten executives' worldwide plan to apply artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing in the next three years.