Many readers will recognize that line from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film in which the onboard computer, HAL 9000, perceives an astronaut to be a threat to its "existence" and refuses to open the airlock to allow the crew member back into the ship. Other films like Ex-Machina, i-Robot, Terminator sow similar fears of Artificial Intelligence systems with cognitive capabilities taking control from humans, rendering us defenseless. Of course, there are also films that focus on the positive aspects of AI, such as Bicentennial Man. My view is that AI systems are increasingly necessary to augment what we do in our everyday lives -- whether that means... Partly because there is so much misinformation and hype -- and some people just like to sell fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD). And it's true that there will always be people who seek to exploit technology to do bad things -- the dark side vs. the light side (Star Wars fans).

How artificial intelligence can be used creatively is an often asked, and perpetually unsolved, question. Of course, the term "AI" itself can be somewhat misleading; serving, as it does, as a catch-all phrase for anything involving machine learning and/or algorithms. What is possible, however, is to explore in general terms what levels of creativity we can currently see from the people and technology working in this space. Beginning with the most publicised stories, we have IBM's lighthouse project Watson, which created a movie trailer for the film "Morgan", (a film about an artificially intelligent robot child – spoiler alert: it doesn't go well), and Sony using a system of machine learning algorithms called "Flow Machines" to compose a pop song, ("Daddy's Car"). Further back, we also had Oscar Sharp and Ross Goodwin put a recurrent neural network to work writing a screenplay for a film called "Sunspring", which they subsequently shot in a single day, (it is a must-watch).

Once you have some basic algorithms/examples to work with, you can use them to explain the main issues of over/underfitting. Based on the level of the people, this can be used for discussing learning theory: what ERM is and why SRM might be better. From there you could easily cover the VC-Dimension and dive into SVMs.

If I were to tell you this in the year of 2000, that there is a mug that can control the temperature of your Coffee and you can set the temperature using your mobile phone. Or, there is a ring that can store all your personalized details like credit card info, bus pass and it only responds if it recognizes your finger print while you put it on, you would probably assume that I am a Sci-Fi movie director and I am pitching you my ideas to woo the public with these unrealistic technology gadgets. But in the last decade, there is a technology that has disrupted the world with its ability to connect physical devices with Internet and has given them the power to become a smart device to better serve the cosmopolitans. Yes, I am talking about IoT and the products stated above, are few of the amazing IoT products that are developed and commercialized. In fact, the smart mug is already in mass production and will be shortly available for all the caffeine addicts in one of the biggest brand of the world, Starbucks!

We are living in an era driven by algorithms and more specifically deep learning algorithms which are beginning to pervading and potentially intruding every single facet of our personal and professional lives. When algorithms begin playing a commanding role in our everyday personal choices including clothes, shoes, movies, music, content, jobs, whatever and start dictating what is best for us and what is not, we have to concede that we are already in the midst of algorithms driven enlightenment, based on whichever camp we want to be in. Consider their application in myriad esoteric use cases - sorting and grading cucumbers; creating movie trailers; writing news articles; measuring productivity of cows; predicting students likely to drop out; optimizing soil nutrient levels and many more such use cases. To a battle for supremacy on the'senses' dimension against the human race including vision, speech and text, these algorithms are proving their mettle in every walk of human life. So it is really high time that we bow to the powers of these very powerful algorithms and be led by them in this algorithms-driven insights economy.

The second part was… a lot more difficult. To acquire the real news side of the dataset, I turned to All Sides, a website dedicated to hosting news and opinion articles from across the political spectrum. Articles on the website are categorized by topic (environment, economy, abortion, etc…) and by political leaning (left, center, and right). I used All Sides because it was the best way to web scrape thousands of articles from numerous media outlets of differing biases. Plus, it allowed to me download the full text of an article, something you cannot do with the New York Times and NPR APIs.

To commemorate the silver jubilee of FICO's use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we asked FICO employees a question: What does the future of AI look like? The post below is one of the thought-provoking responses, from Shafi Rahman, a principal scientist at FICO, working in San Diego. The most memorable scene in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey is when HAL 3000 turns off the life-support functions of the crew in an attempt to keep itself from getting disconnected. This was my first encounter with what we call artificial intelligence. Then in Terminator, we were introduced to Skynet, a neural network based AI, which raised an army of robots for self-preservation.

Google Home is becoming all sorts of useful. You can already use the family of smart speakers along with Chromecast to control your Spotify and Netflix accounts, watch CBS All Access and CW television shows, and manage YouTube's live TV service. Now, Google is updating the Google Home app with a new, more useful layout, recommended streaming content, a better search system, redesigned controller interfaces and even movie trailers. The updated app is available today in the Google Play store; the iOS app was apparently updated a few days back. The updates are all aimed at making the Home experience just a bit more intuitive, like putting important navigation buttons at the bottom of the app's screen.

If you've ever lamented that everything you hear on the radio today sounds like it was written by a machine, brace yourself for the future: The robots are coming. But artificial intelligence is already being employed to write music, and Los Angeles-based musician and YouTube video star Taryn Southern is getting in on the ground floor by recording the first album composed entirely using AI, which should leave her well placed for sympathy when the robots eventually take over -- assuming, of course, that AI is by then sufficiently advanced that robots can actually feel sympathy. Southern hears jokes like that a lot, as you might imagine. But no, she's not worried that AI will eventually render human musicians and composers obsolete. And if the day comes when AI does take over music, she says, we'll all have far bigger worries on our hands.

The Verge reported that the news around Ebola was wreaking havoc in Texas towns. It was spreading like wildfire on the social landscape and these were messages from sources that sounded like newspapers. This happened in 2014 and what followed were trails of fake news sending shock waves across the media and user world. As per The New York Times, just before the presidential elections in the US, fake news and memes became the tools for perpetrators to influence the outcome of elections. Fake news is rearing its ugly head time and time again.