This supercomputer will support businesses with the goal of developing artificial intelligence.

At the China Online Literature conference last week, Chinese search engine Sogou announced plans to create artificial intelligence-powered avatars that look and sound like two of the country's most famous authors--taking the experience of listening to an audiobook to an entirely new level. The first authors to get the A.I. avatar treatment will be Yue Guan and Bu Xin Tian Shang Diao Xian Bing. But if the project is successful, it could be a jumping off point for the industry to create avatars of even more authors. The audiobook industry is already big business in China and is expected to be worth more than $1 billion in the country by next year, according to iiMedia Research Group. A.I. avatars have the potential to give that an even greater boost.

Netflix is reportedly testing an all-new recommendation system that harnesses the power of employed biological neural networks – that's humans if you insist on dumbing it down. Dubbed'Collections,' the new system works like every collection of anything did before about 10 years ago – people sort it out so you don't have to. I think this is a fabulous idea and so should you. The way Netflix does things now involves artificial intelligence and necromancy. The company gathers data on everything its users do on the platform, and then feeds that data to a bunch of machine-learning algorithms that continuously funnel users into titles that'll keep them watching.

Everyone loves a good story. Scheherazade, that ingenious noblewoman in Arabian Nights, knew that a gripping tale could save lives.

Advances in artificial intelligence, coupled with an ongoing labor shortage, have construction companies looking for options to the traditional laborer.

OpenAI, a nonprofit focused on creating human-level artificial intelligence, just released an update to its GPT-2 text generator. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that, after trying it, I'm legitimately terrified for the future of humanity if we don't figure out a way to detect AI-generated content – and soon. GPT-2 isn't a killer robot and my fears aren't that AI is going to rise up against us. I'm terrified of GPT-2 because it represents the kind of technology that evil humans are going to use to manipulate the population -- and in my opinion that makes it more dangerous than any gun. Here's how it works: you give it a prompt and it near-instantly spits out a bunch of words. What's scary about it is that it works.

At RADAR, journalists develop templates for AI to fill in with local data. These templates include "fragments of text and logical if-then-else rules for how to translate the data into location-specific text," according to its website. Data journalists have to come up with various angles and storylines, and then do some reporting to "add broad-strokes background information and national context, which are written into a template with a basic story structure." The result is stories with a similar core structure but with local details. Using AI, one data journalist can produce around 200 regional stories for each template every week, RADAR said.