Artificial intelligence to uncover human biases IMAGE: Artificial intelligence detects discrimination and diversity in the large corporations. Early experiments such as Beauty.AI beauty contest developed by Youth Laboratories and Aging.AI predictor of chronological age developed by Insilico Medicine uncovered the various biases with the AI systems as well as the many opportunities for using AI to detect and report human biases. Advances in artificial intelligence and specifically in the fields of deep learning and reinforcement learning present the many threats and opportunities. "Bias, be it race, sex, age or any other type, is a hugely contributing factor that shapes science and society. This paper is important, not only because it demonstrates the apparent and permeating prejudice that exist in executive boards around the globe, but also because it shows how AI and deep learning can visualize bias in complex systems.", said Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, MD, PhD, Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept found in science fiction films – it is today's technology. The power and capabilities it offers are growing, creating a future filled with possibility. The potential of AI was showcased at a Microsoft event in London recently. Journalists, scientists and researchers heard from Microsoft spokespeople such as Harry Shum, Executive Vice-President of Microsoft AI and Research Group, and Chris Bishop, Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Among the announcements, including Microsoft's AI for Earth initiative, a number of companies spoke about how they are using the power of AI to drive innovation.

I'm a software engineer and I've taken up a new hobby of Archery. On the side I've been experimenting with some basic classifiers in scikit-learn. A project I've gotten interested in is something to convert photos of archery targets post-shots into XY coordinate systems. As a first step my goal is just to tell if an image is an archery target at all. Doing some research it seems like TF image recognition might be an approach to take.

Video Researchers have crafted algorithms that can take an audio recording of someone talking and map it to a video clip of them speaking to create a new convincing lip-synched video with the replacement sound. In other words, the resulting video carries the injected audio, rather than its original sound, and the frames are manipulated so that the speaker's face and mouth movements match the new audio. You can be forgiven for seeing this as a vital stepping stone to creating the ultimate fake news – highly believable forged videos. Imagine taking a clip of someone important speaking at a private event, and using the aforementioned software to dub in a completely new script, voiced by a skilled impersonator or generated by another AI such as Lyrebird, and then distributing that fraudulent footage. Thankfully, technology is nowhere near that level right now.

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed a new system that makes it possible to view 3D movies at home without 3D glasses. CSAIL's system is simply called Home3D, and it converts existing stereoscopic 3D movies by using artificial intelligence. This allows viewers to watch content in 3D without needing a pair of 3D glasses. With traditional stereoscopic 3D movies, the 3D glasses are able to correct a pair of offset, polarized images to produce the three-dimensional depth effect. For Home3D algorithm to work, it will need to use what's called as an automultiscopic display.

It was a spooky sight, two life-like disembodied robot torsos discussing the pros and cons of humans in front of a nervously laughing audience in Hong Kong. Artificial intelligence is the dominant theme at this year's sprawling Rise tech conference and the live robot exchange took the AI debate to another level. As part of a wide ranging conversation, the creepy pair offered some sinister thoughts when it came to the future of humanity. Two lifelike disembodied robot torsos have discussed the pros and cons of humans in front of a nervously laughing audience eat this year's sprawling Rise tech conference in Hong Kong. Two lifelike disembodied robot torsos have discussed the pros and cons of humans in front of a nervously laughing audience in Hong Kong.

Facebook is going to start pushing more adverts out to users, the company has revealed. It's set to introduce ads to Messenger, its chat platform, which Facebook users have to install in order to message other users. The company has hinted that it's close to maxing out the total number of ads it can squeeze into people's News Feeds, and adding more of them to Messenger appears to be its solution. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

The Rock's Baywatch reboot may be drowning, not waving, in multiplexes around the globe, but there is one territory where cinemagoers apparently can't get enough of it: Germany. Put it down to the enduring cultural impact of David Hasselhoff, but the country of Angela Merkel is almost single-handedly saving Baywatch from box-office infamy. It's not the first time a movie has struck an unexpected chord somewhere far from home, as these examples demonstrate. An ambitious $160m (£124m) adaptation of an ailing online video game, Warcraft was conceived as the first instalment of a trilogy set in the magical realm of Azeroth, telling a generation-spanning tale of displaced orcs and angry sorcerers. In some countries it even came billed as Warcraft: The Beginning.

Donald Trump is being sued because of his behaviour on Twitter. The president's unprecedented Twitter use – which he has said is "modern day presidential" – has landed him a range of criticism in recent weeks. But the new lawsuit actually focuses not on his tweets but something else more private: his blocking critics on the site. The new case argued that it is unconstitutional to stop people following him on Twitter. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Video publishers have been caught off guard with the recent announcement of Apple blocking video autoplay. Even Google is pushing back on bad web ads. The backlash against video autoplay has been festering for some time. If losing video ad revenue and turning consumers off with declining traffic isn't a wake-up call then what will be? Headlines like this from CNN "Apple's plan to kill autoplay feature could leave publishers in the dust" should get video publisher's attention.