You can already use your voice to control your Spotify account with Google Home. The connected speaker also works with Chromecast as a sort of voice-enabled remote control for Netflix. Now Google Home can do the same thing with your CBS All Access and CW TV accounts. Which means, of course, that you can use your voice to watch the upcoming Star Trek Discovery or the latest episode of The Flash with Chromecast built-in. The CBS All Access addition was first spotted by Android Police.

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. An edited transcript of the conversation follows. Catherine Hays: You are one of the true leaders in this space between AI and creativity.

Right now, the Windows Store (built into Windows 10) and Microsoft's online store are offering a number of movie rentals for $0.99. The offerings span everything from relatively new titles to some real stinkers. Top of the list for the movie rental sale includes the 2017 version of Ghost in the Shell--yes, that one. After that, the selection starts to get a little...interesting. There are classic gems like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Superman: The Movie; and The Shining.

Following Paul Walker's death in 2013, the Furious 7 filmmakers faced the delicate task of finishing the film using a digitally created version of the actor. To do so, they resorted to performance capture with the help of the actor's brothers, Caleb and Cody, as well as painstaking computer animation from a team at VFX house Weta. That was state-of-the-art in 2014. But imagine if, instead, a computer could have stepped in, watched all of Walker's performances in the previous Furious films, learning the minute details of how he walked, talked and even raised an eyebrow. And then imagine that artificial intelligence took over and itself helped to create a digital performance for Walker's character. Now that the use of computer graphics is commonplace in movies and TV, artificial intelligence may be the most important technology to emerge in Hollywood.

The Digital Human League, for example, recently unveiled'Digital Mike' – an artificial likeness of producer Mike Seymour. The idea, Digital Mike explains in a promo video, is'to produce a virtual human, and not only a virtual human, but one rendered in real time – puppeteered or driven in real time, rendered in real time, and not only that, at 90 frames per second, in stereo, in VR.' In a new study, researchers from Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, Yale University, and AI Impacts surveyed 352 machine learning experts to forecast the progress of AI in the next few decades. The idea, Digital Mike explains in a promo video, is'to produce a virtual human, and not only a virtual human, but one rendered in real time – puppeteered or driven in real time, rendered in real time, and not only that, at 90 frames per second, in stereo, in VR' A study from Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, Yale University, and AI Impacts released this past spring concluded that in less than 50 years, AI will beat humans at everything from language translation and truck driving to writing high-school essays.

Black Mirror is coming back to depress us all, and Netflix has revealed the cast and directors for season four's episodes. If you thought the last season was perhaps a little too happy-go-lucky, the teaser below might reassure you that showrunner Charlie Booker hasn't lost sight of what made the Twilight Zone-meets-modern-technology anthology series so compelling. Per Deadline, Jodie Foster is behind the camera for "Arkangel," which looks to focus on a family's new tablet. In terms of star power on the other side of the lens, "USS Callister" features Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad, Friday Night Lights) in the role of a very Star Trek-like starship commander. The other four episodes include "Crocodile," "Hang the DJ," "Metalhead" (which looks like it's about a killer robot) and "Black Museum."

After poking around with the object detection API and the sample tutorial code, I of course immediately wanted to train custom objects, but found myself totally lost with the available information regarding how to do it. In my searching it was pretty clear that there were quite a few other people who were totally lost. So, I stumbled through it and thought I would share a true step-by-step tutorial covering how it's done, by creating a custom macaroni and cheese object detector. Hopefully I can save some other people some time in this process. I am personally super excited about this Object Detection API from TF.

The AI takeover of jobs could soon hit the music industry, if a new album composed and produced by a robot is anything to go by. In what is believed to be a world first, software programs have provided all of the instrumentation and production for the upcoming album I AM AI. It is a collaboration between pop singer Taryn Southern and a series of machine learning apps, including Amper. The AI music composer, producer, and performer has previously released individual tracks, but never an entire album. The AI takeover of jobs previously done by people could soon hit the music industry, if a new album composed and produced by machines is anything to go by.

Fake news is both a problem for curators of user-submitted content and for ad-placement platforms. In April, Germany stated that it would fine social media €50 million for not taking down fake news. Facebook had more engagements on fake news stories during the US election than real news. Google lost millions of dollars as brands pulled ads over concerns of them appearing next to fake news and hate speech. This is why we are releasing newsbox.

Machine learning and AI have now reached a phenomenal level of capability, often resembling technology plucked right out of a sci-fi movie.