In today's hospitals and healthcare clinics, a new doctor's new assistant is now often on the job -- in the form of artificial intelligence.

The Wizard of Oz movie is filled with classic quotes. One of them is simply, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) is developing faster than we imagined. If we look closely, our lives are being enhanced by AI or at least with technologies and applications using algorithms that monitor and learn from our behaviour. Applications such as Google, Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Netflix use machine learning to extract street names from photos, recognise and tag friends, find favourite songs, estimate arrival times and pick-up locations, and recommend movies. As AI is developed to learn and think more like humans and to replace lower-skilled roles, its impact on future employment and data privacy has become a point of contention among technology experts, organisations, governments and the general public. In response, the University of Southampton Malaysia (UoSM) will be hosting Prof Dame Wendy Hall in a public lecture on The Artificial Intelligence Revolution on Sept 30 at The Majestic Hotel Kuala Lumpur.

Would you go into business with a robot? Whatever the reason, Brits are currently loving their artificial intelligence, so much so that a new study has found that 53% of employed workers would be happy to work for a robot. Perhaps ironically, nearly 1 in 10 believe that the smart technology company would be more enjoyable company than that of a human colleague. But watch out entrepreneurs, as almost a third of Brits (32%) would welcome a robot CEO. And it seems that Millennials are the generation welcoming such radical moves with 8 out of 10 surveyed happy to bring technology into the office whereas only 6% of baby boomers would trust a robot. The news is therefore slightly at odds with a previous survey commissioned by the government who found more than 6million UK workers were afraid that their roles would be replaced by machines in the near future.

Safari's'Siri Suggested Websites' feature has been serving up links to conspiracy theories. If users typed a term like'Pizzagate' into Apple's browser, the feature would point users in the direction of a video titled'Pizzagate, Biggest Scandal Ever' by conspiracy theorist David Seaman, according to BuzzFeed. The issue, which occurred for other popular (and debunked) conspiracy theories, has since been resolved by Apple. Safari's'Siri Suggested Websites' has been serving up links to conspiracy theories. If users type'Pizzagate' into the browser, it would point them to a YouTube video promoting the theory MailOnline has reached out to Apple for comment.

ABSTRACT In this paper, we extend the sampling theory on graphs by constructing a framework that exploits the structure in product graphs for efficient sampling and recovery of bandlimited graph signals that lie on them. Product graphs are graphs that are composed from smaller graph atoms; we motivate how this model is a flexible and useful way to model richer classes of data that can be multi-modal in nature. Previous works have established a sampling theory on graphs for bandlimited signals. Importantly, the framework achieves significant savings in both sample complexity and computational complexity. Index Terms-- sampling, graph signal processing, bandlimited, kronecker product I. INTRODUCTION The task of sampling and recovery is one of the most critical topics in the signal processing community.

Microsoft has reached a milestone in text-to-speech synthesis with a production system that uses deep neural networks to make the voices of computers nearly indistinguishable from recordings of people. With the human-like natural prosody and clear articulation of words, Neural TTS has significantly reduced listening fatigue when you interact with AI systems. Our team demonstrated our neural-network powered text-to-speech capability at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida, this week. The capability is currently available in preview through Azure Cognitive Services Speech Services. Neural text-to-speech can be used to make interactions with chatbots and virtual assistants more natural and engaging, convert digital texts such as e-books into audiobooks and enhance in-car navigation systems.

The Wizard of Oz movie is filled with classic quotes. One of them is simply, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" That quote, of course, occurs when Dorothy's dog, Toto, pulls back a curtain to reveal a man at a control panel and microphone. Rather than the sought-after magical Wizard of Oz, the man is, at best, a wizard of special effects. Today, nearly 80 years after the first release of the movie version of Wizard of Oz, we live with a wizard of our own making who is now often behind the curtain in video games, movies and sporting events.

Amazon announced so many new hardware products last week that it's hard to know which one will respond the next time you shout "Alexa!" in your house. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Alexa-equipped microwave sucked up a lot of the (electromagnetic) air in the room: not only does the $60 microwave work indirectly with Alexa, but it knows when you're running out of popcorn. But the most interesting home product to emerge from the pile of Echo products last week wasn't the microwave. It was the new Echo Show. It's a glimpse of Amazon's vision for the TV of the future--whether that's streaming video, over-the-air television, or casual games played on a large screen.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the first show on American television to use the word "Google" as a transitive verb. It was 2002, in the fourth episode of the show's seventh and final season. Buffy, Willow, Xander and the gang are trying to help Cassie, a high school student who cryptically says she's going to die next week. In Buffy's dining room, they search through hard copies of Cassie's medical records and find nothing noteworthy. Willow, tapping away on a thick white iBook, turns to Buffy and asks, "Have you Googled her yet?"