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Inside The Race To Deliver The First Self-Driving Car CNBC

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CNBC's Phil LeBeau explores who is leading the autonomous car race, and which company will have cars out on the road the soonest. About CNBC: From'Wall Street' to'Main Street' to award winning original documentaries and Reality TV series, CNBC has you covered. Experience special sneak peeks of your favorite shows, exclusive video and more. Connect with CNBC News Online Get the latest news: http://www.cnbc.com/ Find CNBC News on Facebook: http://cnb.cx/LikeCNBC


Cambridge Analytica: Facebook data breach scandal is only the latest in a series of abuses

The Independent - Tech

Facebook has a problem it just can't kick: People keep exploiting it in ways that could sway elections, and in the worst cases even undermine democracy. News reports that Facebook let the Trump-affiliated data mining firm Cambridge Analytica abscond with data from tens of millions of users mark the third time in roughly a year the company appears to have been outfoxed by crafty outsiders in this way. Before the Cambridge imbroglio, there were Russian agents running election-related propaganda campaigns through targeted ads and fake political events. And before the Russians took centre stage, there were purveyors of fake news who spread false stories to rile up hyper-partisan audiences and profit from the resulting ad revenue. In the previous cases, Facebook initially downplayed the risks posed by these activities.


Will The 'Tomb Raider' Reboot Get A Sequel?

International Business Times

"Tomb Raider" didn't exactly slay at the box office in the U.S., but that might not matter. The worldwide box office could be enough for the movie to earn a sequel. The most important thing for a movie to do is earn back its budget. As "Tomb Raider" producer Graham King explained, that means people have to buy tickets. "Sequels depend on audiences connecting with a film, and us finding the audience. This isn't a $5 million film, so people have to show up to see it," King told Metro.


'Tomb Raider' bows to 'Black Panther,' which continues to dominate in its fifth week in theaters

Los Angeles Times

Faith-based films have underperformed at the box office lately. Recent flops such as "Samson" and "Same Kind of Different as Me" both failed to crack $10 million over their entire runs. However, in advance of Easter, upcoming releases such as "Paul, Apostle of Christ" from Sony and Pureflix's "God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness" -- the latest in a successful Christian franchise -- hope to turn the tide when they open in the next two weeks.


Indie Focus: Emotions and adventures in 'Love, Simon,' 'Tomb Raider' and 'Flower'

Los Angeles Times

As some may recall, way back in the early 2000s there were two movies starring Angelina Jolie as the video game adventure heroine Lara Croft. Now comes an updated version of the story, "Tomb Raider," directed by Norwegian filmmaker Roar Uthaug and starring Oscar-winning Swedish actress Alicia Vikander. Adventure is had, tombs are duly raided, Dominic West, Kristin Scott Thomas, Walton Goggins and Daniel Wu are part of the supporting cast, and the movie has gotten better notices than many might have predicted.


IBM Tools Up 'Elite' AI SWAT Team

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Now that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has left the movie theater and started to arrive on our desktops and mobile devices, we need to create new methods to control information so that AI can really start to be smart. IBM's latest moves in the AI space reflect the need to put more fine-grained, granular, context-specific and data-type aware controls into our computing. IBM will of course tell us that it has created another a cloud-based software service designed to offer customers a route to "previously unobtainable insights from their data", when what we really want is a deeper explanation of what IBM wants to do with our data, where it thinks it needs to apply pressure to our business systems, when these functions will be exerted and how it will put this whole new more complex game play into motion. In other words, don't just tell us you're smart โ€“ please'show your work'. Diving into the IBM AI machine for answers then, general manager for IBM analytics Rob Thomas has spoken of what he calls a new'information architecture' for collecting, managing and analyzing data.


Should AI Fool You? @ExpoDX #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation

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In the 67 years since Alan Turing proposed his Imitation Game - the infamous'Turing test' for artificial intelligence (AI) - people have been confused over the very purpose of AI itself. At issue: whether the point of AI is to simulate human behavior so seamlessly that it can fool people into thinking they are actually interacting with a human being, rather than a piece of software. Such deception was never the point of Turing's exercise, however. Rather, he realized that there was no way to define true intelligence, and thus no way to test for it. So he came up with the game as a substitute - something people could theoretically test for.



Tech: it seems the AI robots won't rule after all, OK

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If you're sick of hearing how artificial intelligence (AI) is going to take over the world, good news. The geeks who claim computers will do everything -- including your job -- may be about to get their comeuppance. It comes in the form of a dull-sounding bit of EU legislation.


NVIDIAVoice: How Business Innovators are Using AI Right Now

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Every day, there are proclamations about how AI is going to change the world as we currently know it. The reality though is that AI is already transforming industries in meaningful ways from predicting weather to detecting cancer. We are no longer in the realm of future-speak, but in the early stages of vast transformation, and there are many innovators who are paving the way. These innovators are the focus of the "I am AI" docuseries, an original video series that showcases how businesses, from startups to the enterprise, are using AI to achieve what was once thought impossible. The first episode looks at the entertainment industry, specifically music, and introduces Aiva, a French AI startup that's developed an algorithm that composes original music of various styles.