In 2016 an artificial intelligence bot, "Hoffbot," used neural networks to write all of David Hasselhoff's lines for a bizarre short film called Sunspring. Just three months ago Botnik Studios used a predictive algorithm to create a four-page script performed by Zach Braff of Scrubs. By 2019, most leading AI providers will offer tools and libraries for building AI-powered natural-language generation, image manipulation, and other generative use cases. Artificial Intelligence exists as an aid to creativity across every discipline. This year more solutions will come to market--in all verticals--that use leading-edge AI approaches known as generative adversarial networks (GANs) to algorithmically create digital and analog objects of all sorts with astonishing accuracy.

Indian-American brothers look to harness artificial intelligence for greater good Google launching artificial intelligence research center in China DUBAI: With the everchanging technological landscape the world is witnessing, Artificial Intelligence's impact on the world of journalism has proved to be a double-edged sword, the Associated Press' Director of News Partnerships Lisa Gibbs explained at Dubai's Arab Media Forum on Tuesday. "The biggest issue we face today is the war on fake news. AI will be a powerful tool for those seeking to create it and those seeking to combat it," she said, adding that, "technology is getting better at creating fake images and thus we need to build tools to spot these fake images, the same goes for text and video." The rise of fake news across social media platforms pushed the Associated Press to launch a tool called "AP Verify" which allows AI to assess and verify news extracted from social media, Gibbs explained. With this, AI is being introduced to more speedily form news stories based on verified minimal information supplied – thus churning out 3,700 stories a day in comparison to the 300 done solely using human journalists.

"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Even if you've never seen the movie, you know the voice. HAL 9000, the seemingly omniscient computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey," was the film's most expressive and emotional figure, and made a lasting impression on our collective imagination. Stanley Kubrick's epic, a journey from pre-human history to a possible infinity that doesn't need humans at all, is probably the most respected, if not the most beloved, science-fiction film of all time. The story of the creation of HAL's performance -- the result of a last-minute collaboration between the idiosyncratic director Stanley Kubrick and the veteran Canadian actor Douglas Rain -- has been somewhat lost in the 50 years since the film's release in April 1968.

Artificial Intelligence has been around in various forms ever since English mathematician Alan Turing gave a lecture on the subject in 1947. But its immersion into daily life has rapidly accelerated in recent years and we all surreptitiously benefit. Think about the last time you accepted a suggested Netflix movie, Spotify music, or Amazon purchase. Regardless of whether you accepted or rejected the suggestion, the machine now knows a little bit more about you.

Munich: Fujitsu has embarked on a long-term research and co-creation program with the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria). Just one year after the start of their partnership, the two organizations have formally committed to even closer collaboration, reflecting Fujitsu's commitment to driving digital innovation in France. This new program combines Inria's expertise in AI-focused research and development with Fujitsu's technology. A joint team comprising engineers from Fujitsu in Japan and Inria will work closely together, focused on developing new Artificial Intelligence and machine learning techniques by leveraging advanced mathematics and computing. Artificial intelligence will be deployed to interpret IoT data, to generate insights for customers.

'There is no terror in the bang, only is the anticipation of it' - Alfred Hitchcock. Yet there is everything in correctly anticipating the bang a movie would make in the box-office. Movies make a high profile, billion dollar industry and prediction of movie revenue can be very lucrative. Predicted revenues can be used for planning both the production and distribution stages. For example, projected gross revenue can be used to plan the remuneration of the actors and crew members as well as other parts of the budget [1]. Success or failure of a movie can depend on many factors: star-power, release date, budget, MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) rating, plot and the highly unpredictable human reactions. The enormity of the number of exogenous variables makes manual revenue prediction process extremely difficult. However, in the era of computer and data sciences, volumes of data can be efficiently processed and modelled. Hence the tough job of predicting gross revenue of a movie can be simplified with the help of modern computing power and the historical data available as movie databases [2].

The proliferation of fake news and filter bubbles makes it increasingly difficult to form an unbiased, balanced opinion towards a topic. To ameliorate this, we propose 360{\deg} Stance Detection, a tool that aggregates news with multiple perspectives on a topic. It presents them on a spectrum ranging from support to opposition, enabling the user to base their opinion on multiple pieces of diverse evidence.

Using deep learning to generate music: Part 1 and Part 2 on The AI Show on Channel 9.

In the midst of our excitement for this week's release of Alex Garland's "Ex Machina" (which is fantastic and reviewed here), it hit us: 2015 is teeming with artificial intelligence movies. The Singularity is not far off and this swell has practically come out of nowhere, with last year's awesome Disney hit "Big Hero 6," the disastrous Johnny Depp vehicle "Transcendence," and 2013's British indie-sleeper "The Machine" amounting to most of what the subgenre has had to offer in the decade so far (though not all, as we'll mention). As a way to compensate for this human error, 2015 is going to be much more artificially and intelligently inclined, with the theme replete in a variety of mainstream and indie sci-fi films. We've already seen "Chappie" (or, we've seen it so that you don't have to, though some of us found it unnecessarily humiliated by the critics). This week comes the aforementioned Garland movie, and coming soon is Joss Whedon's "Avengers: Age of Ultron." Don't forget that "Terminator" is back this year, with'Genisys' coming to theatres in the summer.

Inside an old Palo Alto auto body shop, Stefan Avalos pushed a movie camera down a dolly track. He and a small crew were making a short film about self-driving cars. They were shooting a powder-blue 1962 Austin Mini, but through special effects the rusted relic would be transformed into an autonomous vehicle that looked more like the DeLorean from "Back to the Future." Stepping back from the camera, Avalos referred wryly to the movie he was filming as "Project Unemployment." The film was a way of testing new technology from a startup called Arraiy, which is trying to automate the creation of digital effects for movies, television and games.