Several years ago, you may recall a publication describing our growing dependency upon machines, devices, and "AI." On several occasions, I've attempted to bring awareness to this phenomenon of artificial intelligence's abilities in creating and/or re-creating itself... over and over again. What once was a'science-fiction' story has been brought to bear, in living color, a scientific fact. The article, "Device Machine Dependent," has described instances and descriptions where robots or robotics have been designed to emulate the actions, abilities, and appearance(s) of mankind... "Human-Like"; "The Image of Its' Creator!" How many times have you been in your car and engaged in a shouting match or argumentative interaction with your'GPS' or "onboard interface?" Aw, c'mon now... haven't you gotten angry and screamed at the device when the voice behind it gives you screwed up or wrong directions?

A few years ago, the idea of controlling your lights or even security system remotely through your smartphone would have been deemed so futuristic and only present in the minds of science fiction novelists. Artificial intelligence might conjure images of the latest Sci-fi movie that you recently watched, yet in actual sense, its actual impact in our everyday life is more understated and far-reaching than the science fiction movies and novels might actually suggest. Most of us have encountered AI in our everyday lives. Think about Netflix suggesting to you are a TV to watch. Google maps are already sourcing location data from our smartphone and aiding us with directions.

In fact, I've never been to CES. But after reading the reports on this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, I feel like I was there 50-years ago via Stanley Kubrick's 1968 motion picture phenomena "2001: A Space Odyssey." The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) did a special video they called "Bonus Report of C-Suite Radio Exec's attending CES" and some of the comments those radio executives made is what made me feel like I'd seen this "movie" before. Steve said that what he's marveled at over the years is how media is continually being integrated. He said only a couple of years ago, there was virtually no mention of smart speakers, and this year it's not only a device exploding in the home, but now is coming into the car too.

You sit down to watch a movie and ask Netflix for help. Zoolander 2?") The Netflix recommendation algorithm predicts what movie you'd like by mining data on millions of previous movie-watchers using sophisticated machine learning tools. And then the next day you go to work and every one of your agencies will make hiring decisions with little idea of which candidates would be good workers; community college students will be largely left to their own devices to decide which courses are too hard or too easy for them; and your social service system will implement a reactive rather than preventive approach to homelessness because they don't believe it's possible to forecast which families will wind up on the streets. You'd love to move your city's use of predictive analytics into the 21st century, or at least into the 20th century. You just hired a pair of 24-year-old computer programmers to run your data science team. But should they be the ones to decide which problems are amenable to these tools? Or to decide what success looks like? You're also not reassured by the vendors the city interacts with.

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A hotel chain in Tokyo is trying to be the first run by robots, albeit with a few malfunctions along the way, according to a new report. Japanese travel company H.I.S. has been opening hotels where robots man the front desk, check-in is handled by a kiosk, and face recognition opens the door to your room. The hotel name, Henn na Hotel ("henn na" means strange in Japanese) underscores the eerie presence of robots and the relative dearth of humans. The first hotel opened in 2015 and was recognized by Guinness World Records as "the first robot-staffed hotel" in the world, according to the Japan Times. H.I.S. is slowly expanding the number of robot-centric locations.

I was recently in the market for new makeup and spent some time playing around with Sephora's Visual Artist app that allows me to experiment with different looks and products through augmented reality. The app recommended products based on my purchase history, skin type and beauty preferences. It made for a great experience and was a lot of fun! The root of the app is predictive analytics. By knowing my demographics and what I had purchased in the past, Sephora could predict what I would want in the future.

The number of techy tools that brokers have access to in their toolbox is growing as broker management systems include more and more features, technology vendors offer solutions that allow for the analysis of data coming in from carriers, and insurers plan out brokerage environments of the future that are focused on the customer experience. Not all technology will prove to be useful to brokers, at least not at the outset when these tools are still being honed, and some will fail to be adopted widely – one only has to look at Segways to realize that technology is not always as transformative as it promises. In the case of one brokerage, chatbots were that tech tool that didn't quite take off. "We were one of the brokerages experimenting with chatbots and we never really got to a point where it was there for us to go all in on them," said John McClelland, broker and director of digital for McClelland Insurance, and founder of miBroker, adding that it wasn't a complete enough solution. While the firm's experiments involved using chatbots for lead generation, the next piece of the puzzle was missing.

MIT researchers have developed a New Artificial Intelligence (AI) System named as " PixelPlayer" that can look at a video of a musical performance, and isolate the sounds of specific instruments and make them louder or softer. The system, which is "self-supervised," doesn't require any human annotations on what the instruments are or what they sound like.The researchers say that the ability to change the volume of individual instruments means that in the future, systems like this could potentially help engineers improve the audio quality of old concert footage. You could even imagine producers taking specific instrument parts and previewing what they would sound like with other instruments. The system first locates the image regions that produce sounds, and then separates the input sounds into a set of components that represent the sound from each pixel. PixelPlayer uses methods of "deep learning," meaning that it finds patterns in data using so-called "neural networks" that have been trained on existing videos.