Cartoon Network will broadcast the 90-minute event on its YouTube channel (which is sadly geoblocked) on September 29th, Saturday, starting at at 11:30 AM ET. The livestream will feature pre- and post-show programming, community panels, costume contests, live gameplay, the latest about the game and more. According to Variety, the livestream will also show merchandise you can purchase from home. Minecon started as MinecraftCon in 2010, way before Microsoft purchased the title. In 2017, Microsoft started hosting an interactive livestream dubbed "Minecon Earth."

A machine learning system overseen by a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology has produced 100,000 new folk tunes to date, generating a diverse range of reactions from folk musicians and the public. Some of the music can even be heard on a newly-released album by an Irish folk group. Bob Sturm, associate professor of computer science in the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, says that the main idea of the project was to train computer models on folk music, so that they appear to have some musical intelligence, and then to "devise methods to unravel what they are actually doing," he says. Check out our master's programme courses The research subsequently led to creative opportunities. "Our work with many collaborators, such as composer Oded Ben-Tal at Kingston University in the UK, and professional musicians, has also shown how the models can serve a wider purpose: as useful partners in creating new music," Sturm says.

Load up the homepage for e-commerce giant, Alibaba – a wholesale shopping site that's more or less China's answer to eBay – and you'll find images and descriptions of anything you could wish to buy, from kitchen sinks to luxury yachts. Every item has a short headline, but most are little more than lists of keywords: hand-picked search terms to ensure this USB phone charger or that pair of flame-resistant overalls float to the top in a sea of thousands upon thousands of similar items. It sounds simple, but there's an art to this copywriting. Yet Alibaba recently revealed that it is training an artificial intelligence to generate these item descriptions automatically – and they're not the only ones. Over the last few decades AIs have been taught to compose music, paint pictures and write (bad) poems. "Generative bots are the new chatbot," says Jun Wang at University College London.

The 25 most popular things our readers bought this year (so far) (Photo: Reviewed.com) If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA TODAY's newsroom and any business incentives. It's been a heck of a shopping year thus far, and it's only going to ramp up during the holiday season. So we thought it'd be fun to see all of the wonderful things our readers have bought so far in 2018. With the incredible sales we've seen on popular products and the crazy prices of Amazon Prime Day, we have quite the hodgepodge of items on this list.

Adult entertainment hub YouPorn is taking a leaf out of Spotify's book with a new weekly playlist that uses "industry-leading machine learning systems" to serve up suggested videos for users. YouPorn is one of the most visited pornography websites in the world and is among the most visited websites overall, with a current Alexa ranking of 203. It claims around 1 billion video views per month. The company is touting its new personalized video collections as something akin to Discover Weekly, a popular playlist delivered to Spotify users that's built on big data and deep learning. Called "For You Weekly," YouPorn's new video collections will be available for logged-in users only, but the company promises they will be personalized for each individual user based on their activities and other preferences.

The fundamental problem of communication is to reproduce at one point in the universe a message created at another point. The problem is made more difficult by the fact that there is always noise that distorts this message--0s get flipped into 1s, b's sound like d's, and smoke signals get, well, blown away. So the receiver of any message has to have a strategy to deal with this noise. That turns out to be entirely possible in many situations. The mathematician and engineer Claude Shannon proved that a message can always be reproduced more or less exactly, provided noise is below some threshold level.

Two-and-a-half quintillion bytes of data are created daily. This could potentially rise even more thanks to better internet access. Today, we can collect big data from every imaginable field we're able to monitor digitally. Big data refers to large sets of info that are analyzed for trends and patterns that offer useful insights. Special emphasis is placed on analyzing people's behavior and interactions online.

Will artificial intelligence change how we shop and decide which retailers succeed? Senior retail executive, Jeremy Schwartz, meets chat bots, robots and the humans behind them, to find out. He explores the impact that the AI revolution may have on jobs - not just the number of them but their nature too. As algorithms take over certain tasks, he asks how humans - and the companies that employ them - will need to respond. And he looks at the growing digital divide between retailers and asks what role AI is playing in the struggle for survival on our high streets.

TIANJIN, CHINA – The award-winning film "Tree" offers a rare multisensory virtual reality experience of becoming a rainforest tree from a seedling in just 15 minutes. Reading a short speech into a microphone analyzes your voice and tells who you are -- your sex, height, skull type, personality and emotional state. A high-resolution video camera identifies you from 500 meters away. These computational imaging and artificial intelligence-driven technologies were all on display at the World Economic Forum's conference in Tianjin, China, last week. Some 2,500 leaders from politics, academia and a range of business sectors, including many startups, from around the world gathered in the city for the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2018 -- often dubbed the "Summer Davos" -- where they experienced these advanced technologies and discussed how those such as AI and blockchain will influence society in the coming years.

"We wanted to provide our users with a collection of personalised content to save time and improve their experience" The site is also rolling out other updates including video tagging, new categories, and other filters to "increase efficiency and overall accuracy of user searches", according to a statement. But some have warned the technology will give big tech companies too much intimate personal information, building up an even more complete picture of who we are. In January, Daily Star Online reported many popular sex sites are collecting personal data including addresses. It isn't the first time adult sites have used AI.