"AI is the new UI" may be a cliché now. But back in 2011 when Apple first released Siri, the capability to control a mobile device by talking to it through an intelligent assistant was revolutionary. Granted, Siri wasn't as smart as HAL in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" or Eddy, the shipboard computer in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," but it made enough of an impact on consumer technology to spawn a stream of similar intelligent assistants. And these will likely be joined soon by many others, including Samsung's Bixby, which is based on technology Samsung acquired when it bought Viv, a company founded by the people behind Siri. And just as the iPhone took off when Apple opened it up to third-party app makers, the key to the success of these intelligent assistants may well be the ability for third-party developers to access them and employ them as a user interface to their applications.

Facebook has added a new icon to some people's home screen – and not explained why it is there. Selected users are now seeing a small rocket at the bottom of their screen, without any clue about what to do with it or what it means. Clicking on the rocket appears to lead to an altered version of the news feed, but the traditional one still exists alongside it. The button is appearing for selected users on iOS and Android at the bottom of the app's view. It sits between the normal news feed and the friends option.

Eighty percent of marketing leaders say that AI will "revolutionize" marketing by 2020, but many CMOs remain paralyzed on the sidelines, questioning how this kind of bleeding-edge tech should be used and if it will provide a marked return on investment. Ironically enough, at the same time we talk about the uncertainty that an artificial intelligence-powered future could bring, we are increasingly adopting these experiences into our day-to-day lives. From Siri and self-driving cars to connected devices like Amazon Echo and customer service chatbots, experiences powered by artificial intelligence will soon be the norm. Even though marketers generally accept AI's growing influence, they hesitate to adopt it (though they may not realize that if their brand invests in programmatic media buying, for example, they're already deeply immersed in the world of AI). But although marketers are liberally leaning on AI to drive media buying and automate customer service, they struggle when it comes to its role within the creative puzzle.

What are some cool things we can do now that we couldn't 5 years ago because of science? This is like the prequel to I, Robot or The Terminator. When I was a kid, there were standard jobs: doctor, lawyer, banker, engineer, maybe programmer, journalist, etc. And I would read science fiction novels about robots. I'd watch Star Trek and Star Wars and read Dune and be amazed at the imaginations of their creators.

A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox. March is a month for change and new beginnings. The new UK Budget promised hundreds of millions of pounds to scientists and researchers to develop solutions to hi-tech challenges, including artificial intelligence and robotics, next generation batteries and new techniques for manufacturing medicines. The government is expected to allocate more than £500 million from the National Productivity Investment Fund so that UK companies might lead the way in the new technologies set to transform the world.

The new single by the superstar Compton rapper arrived suddenly last week, and on it he sounds like he's been storing this venom since birth. Lamar lunges at anyone in his way on the fourth installment of a song series he started in 2010. In one set of couplets, he slams the president with rhymes about complicity and truth: "Donald Trump is a chump/ Know how we feel, punk/ Tell'em that God comin'/ And Russia need a replay button/ Y'all up to somethin'." Big Sean?) and derides disgraced former L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca -- "tables turned, lesson learned" -- who was recently convicted of obstructing a federal investigation and then lying about his actions. Musically, "The Heart, Part 4" features contributions from producers the Alchemist, Axl Folie, Syk Sense and DJ Dahi, who collaborate on a track that rolls through a few different movements and tempos.

Artificial intelligence is shaping up as the next industrial revolution, poised to rapidly reinvent business, the global economy and how people work and interact with each other. Andrew Ng, chief scientist at Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. and co-founder of education startup Coursera, and Neil Jacobstein, chair of the artificial intelligence and robotics department at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University, sat down with The Wall Street Journal's Scott Austin to discuss AI's opportunities and challenges. What is Baidu focused on? NG: For large enterprises like Baidu, AI creates two big pockets of opportunities. One is our core business.

Netflix is finally bringing downloads to the desktop. The company added the much-requested feature, which allows users to save TV shows and films for offline viewing, to the Android and iOS versions of its app last November. Netflix has now added the same functionality to the Windows 10 version of the its app, under the label'Download & Go'. 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.

Various publications claim that AI knows what we want to buy, that it can create Netflix series, cure cancer, or that it eventually take our jobs or even destroy mankind (2). The problem–and at the same time opportunity-with the label AI is that its definition is not rigorous and very broad. A person living in the 1980s would probably consider the navigation system of our car as a form of Artificial Intelligence, whereas nowadays we don't. We see the same happening with speech and image recognition, natural language recognition, game engines and other technologies that are becoming more and more common and embedded in everyday technology. On the other hand, various technology solution providers are rebranding their existing solutions to AI to take advantage of the huge hype in the market, to attract press coverage.

NEW YORK – The taskmaster toddler of "The Boss Baby" dethroned Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" at the box office with a $49 million debut, handing its star Alec Baldwin what President Donald Trump might call a "huge" no. 1 opening. Paramount Pictures suffered another flop with its controversy-plagued "Ghost in the Shell." The DreamWorks Animation release from 20th Century Fox, starring Baldwin as a suit-clad baby, narrowly edged out the previous two-week leader, according to studio estimates Sunday. The live-action "Beauty and the Beast" took in $48 million in its third weekend. Final North American ticket sales will be released Monday. "We expected a decent opening.