You don't have to be a Go champion to have artificial intelligence change your game. You get in your car and your Apple iPhone tells you what traffic looks like where you're going--before you ask. We're all on the road with Tesla's self-driving cars, which are redefining what driving means. The artificial-intelligence, calendar-assistant "Amy" emails three of your friends to figure out a meeting time that works for everyone--and nails it. Thankfully, chatting with Amazon's Alexa is a lot more entertaining than, say, chatting would be with Hal, the fictional artificial intelligence from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

For much of the past two decades, Qi Lu, a search-technology whiz, waged losing battles against Google, first at Yahoo Inc. then at Microsoft Corp.'s Bing.

Some of the sounds are reminiscent of a vintage synthesizer, but what's happening here is much more modern. A powerful neural network is helping to create these tones in the hopes of offering musicians a cutting-edge new tool for their creative arsenal. Over time, the machines will learn to create music themselves. The classroom is being led by Adam Roberts and Colin Raffel, two Google engineers working on the Magenta project within the rapidly expanding Google Brain artificial intelligence lab. First unveiled to the public last May at the Moogfest music and technology festival in Durham, NC, Magenta is focused on teaching machines to understand and generate music and building tools that supplement human creativity with the horsepower of Google's machine learning technology.

The music industry has been rapidly transforming with technology as the accelerant. Ten years from now the music industry will change significantly due to the rise of streaming, the proliferation of digital distribution, the marginalization of terrestrial radio, the rise of cloud-based personalization with artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms fed by Big Data, and the emergence of new distribution channels such as social media and virtual reality. Video didn't kill the Radio Star, and neither will Streaming… Yet Similar to the collapse and shakeout of the print media industry (newspaper and publishing), terrestrial radio has undergone consolidation (Media Life Magazine. Even with the consolidation, the remaining big players are struggling. The nation's largest owner of radio stations with 850 AM and FM stations in the US, IHeartMedia, is saddled in debt (Shaw, Lucas and Keller, Laura.

The Somalis received five drones, some of which have infra-red or night vision capabilities, from Brett Velicovich, whose service with the U.S. military features in a "Drone Warrior", a book to be published next month. His life story is also being developed as a movie by Paramount Pictures.

The biggest hardware and software arrival since the iPad in 2010 has been Amazon's Echo voice-controlled intelligent speaker, powered by its Alexa software assistant. But just because you're not seeing amazing new consumer tech products on Amazon, in the app stores, or at the Apple Store or Best Buy, that doesn't mean the tech revolution is stuck or stopped. They are: Artificial intelligence / machine learning, augmented reality, virtual reality, robotics and drones, smart homes, self-driving cars, and digital health / wearables. Google has changed its entire corporate mission to be "AI first" and, with Google Home and Google Assistant, to perform tasks via voice commands and eventually hold real, unstructured conversations.

Datavail just released a white paper on the Top 10 Trends in Database Administration for the coming decade. The white paper is based on global surveys of hundreds of IT managers and input from Datavail's hundreds of DBAs. The paper predicts a new kind of IT arising from cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and mobile devices -- an IT that is "instant, invisible, and intelligent." This post looks at some of the findings from the Datavail white paper related to machine intelligence. With the Internet of Things (IoT) creating billions of information trails as data is exchanged between devices, Big Data is going to get much, much bigger.

If Disney Parks are where dreams come true, Jon Snoddy is the man in charge of figuring out what to dream up next. And, yes, that includes bringing "Star Wars" droids to life in front of you. Snoddy leads the research and development studio for Walt Disney Imagineering. He detailed two projects aiming to use artificial intelligence to make park robots more lifelike, in an interview with CNET Saturday at the SXSW Conference and Festivals here in Austin, Texas. The projects are part of Disney's legacy of innovation that stretches back to the company's beginning.

Automation will force most people out of a job and society will eventually be forced to adopt some form of universal basic income. What are people going to do when they no longer have to work? Initially, it seems like a nice problem to have as it will free people to do what they really want to do with their lives. But we define ourselves by how we contribute to society, for most people their career is the answer to who they are and what they do. Some will spend all that extra time doing more of the things they already do with their free time: surfing the internet, watching movies and TV shows, and playing video games.

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