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Without question, the way creative professionals "create" is evolving at a rapid pace. Now, the rise of Artificial Intelligence promises much more in the very near future. If you are a creative in either the film or video production industries, this may well be the most important podcast you will listen to this year. Artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on how you do your work over the next decade. Machines will not replace humans, at least not in the near term, but they will become very active creative partners.

The new monthly column by Texas A&M University roboticist Robin Murphy took as its first subject the beloved droids R2-D2 and BB-8, rolling robots that play a major role in "Star Wars." Murphy asked Dan Goldman, a physicist at Georgia Tech, whether a spherical robot like BB-8 would be able to move around over rough terrain like sand -- and "he just started giggling hysterically," Murphy told Space.com. Goldman described buying one of Sphero's remote-control BB-8 toys as soon as the movie came out, to set up in his lab and test robot locomotion over a variety of granular materials. "They run sand[fish] lizards through there, they run snakes, salamanders, the whole thing," Murphy said, referring to types of moving robots. "And they put BB-8 in there, and they gave it a little ramp with plywood, and it rolled in, and then -- thwump! Just buried itself into the sand. And then they tried it again -- it was a repeatable experiment. The only variation would be that occasionally it would stop so suddenly the head would fly off, which is kind of fun." "There's a reason you don't see a lot of animals with wheels," Murphy said.

The video, which appeared on the online forum Reddit, was what's known as a "deepfake" -- an ultrarealistic fake video made with artificial intelligence software. It was created using a program called FakeApp, which superimposed Mrs. Obama's face onto the body of a pornographic film actress.

While artificial intelligence may one day evolve into the godhead, right now it's being put to a more prosaic use: funny backgrounds in YouTube videos.

I am a beginner starting with ML, and I want to make a neural network that is able to recognize different artists, a bit like voice recognition. I know you need a LOT of data for neural network, so this is what I really worry and hope it doesn't overfit. I see a lot of speech recognition when googling, but so far I can't found anything voice recognition related.

It asks to use an LSTM and predict the parity of bit sequences of length 50. Naive attempts didn't work (large hidden state, different rnn cells, different optimization algos, etc). It was a fun challenge. I like that it's very easy to state but requires a bit of insight to figure out. Do you know of any others like that?

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Research by the Artificial Intelligence Group is multi-disciplinary, spanning genomics and bio-informatics, machine learning, stochastic algorithms, game theory, automated theorem proving, computer vision, and human-like computation.