Are you tired of waiting for George R. R. Martin to finish his latest installment of A Song of Ice And Fire, called The Winds of Winter? Well, maybe you don't have to be. A software engineer called Zack Thoutt has used artificial intelligence (AI) to try to write the book himself, reports Motherboard. Known as a recurrent neural network (RNN), it has trawled through the 5,376 pages of the first five books, and has taken a stab at writing the sixth. The results are interesting, if not grammatically perfect. Thoutt began each chapter supplying a prime word to the RNN, and then told it how many words to write.

Dan Tepfer is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer who has played venues from Tokyo's Sumida Triphony Hall to New York's Village Vanguard. He also has a degree in astrophysics and writes computer programs. Born to a mother who sang in the Paris Opera and a plant-geneticist father who brought a Macintosh Plus home in the 1980s, Tepfer sees the worlds of art and science as entirely complementary. In his latest project, Acoustic Informatics, Tepfer uses a player piano, the automated instrument that occasionally appears in airports and Wild West saloons. Next month, he will present his first concert in New York City -- where he's lived for more than a decade -- to showcase this project at the Jazz Gallery, a venue known for its experimentation.

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Ever wonder how music-streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora find songs that you like? Or how Facebook and Google find stories that are interesting to you? Many technology companies use machine learning algorithms to give personalized product suggestions; these algorithms can be found everywhere on the internet. One such algorithm may have even led you to the Science in the News article that you are now reading. Essentially, an algorithm is a set of instructions detailing how to complete a certain task.

On Monday, "Game of Thrones" fans were stunned when a NeoGAF user spotted a listing on American retailer Target's website that seemingly suggested that Bethesda could be working on a "Game of Thrones" video game. Unfortunately, the leak has now been clarified and rumors about a possible game can now be put to rest. A Target spokesperson has come forward to say that the rumored "Bethesda: Game of Thrones" video game is not at all real. "This is not a real product -- we're sorry for any confusion," the spokesperson said without further going into detail as to why the listing appeared on Target's site. Even before Target released a statement however, Forbes was already not convinced.

If the barrier to precision medicine is data handling, then artificial intelligence (AI) may be the logical solution.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reinventing the creative landscape for marketers. One big leap: Brands are no longer merely seen as objects, but entities with personalities that can interact dynamically with people, according to Winston Binch, chief digital officer for Deutsch North America, the ad agency behind Taco Bell's award-winning taco-ordering chatbot, the Tacobot. Binch spoke to Catharine Hays, executive director of the Wharton Future of Advertising Program, on the Marketing Matters show, which airs on Wharton Business Radio, SiriusXM channel 111. Get the entire 10-part series on Ray Dalio in PDF. Save it to your desktop, read it on your tablet, or email to your colleagues.

One day, we will all have robots instead of smartphones. The life-like droids will advise you on various matters, help you buy things, and even make your coffee just the way you like it. That's the forecast from some of the top minds in robotics and artificial intelligence who gathered in Pebble Beach, California, last week to debate the future at the G-Summit conference organized by GWC. The group of scientists and researchers celebrated all the latest advances in the field of robotics, even as they acknowledged the limitations of today's specimens. A lot of people want C-3PO -- the intelligent and affable droid in the Star Wars films -- but if you're expecting C-3PO today you'll be disappointed, said Steve Carlin, the chief strategy officer of SoftBank Robotics America, which makes the 4-foot tall, human-shaped "Pepper" robot. Pepper can do some nifty things like recognize different people's faces and greet customers at Pizza Hut, but it can't wander around the neighborhood on its own.

Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances with no more than five intermediaries. Prolific character actor Kevin Bacon has become an icon for the concept of interconnectedness and popularized by the trivia game, "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Movie buffs challenge each other to find the shortest path between Bacon and an arbitrary actor. The challenge is navigating through endless sources of news to identify individual articles and a clean match-up. Using a basic API to query and uncover trends and aggregations across hundreds of thousands of articles and blogs, Watson can get there in half as many steps.

Throughout my career, and now more than ever at Intel, I have dreamed about where technology will take us next, and it's even more exciting to be creating the future. Today, that future is here with the unveiling of the Myriad X, the world's first vision processing unit (VPU) to ship with a dedicated Neural Compute Engine to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the edge in an incredibly low-power, high-performance package. In the coming years, we'll see a huge range of new products emerge that are made more autonomous by embedding real-time intelligence capabilities in devices – from drones and smart cameras to augmented reality and more – to give them the ability to see, understand, interact with and learn from rapidly changing environments. Myriad X combines dedicated imaging, computer vision processing and – thanks to the industry-first Neural Compute Engine – high-performance deep learning inference within the same chip, and the results are opening up new realms of possibility. With this faster, more pervasive intelligence embedded directly into devices, the potential to make our world safer, more productive and more personal is limitless.