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Folk music is part of a rich cultural context that stretches back into the past, encompassing the real and the mythical, bound to the traditions of the culture in which it arises. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, has no culture, no traditions. But it has shown great ability: beating grand masters at chess and Go, for example, or demonstrating uncanny wordplay skills when IBM Watson beat human competitors at Jeopardy. Could the power of AI be put to use to create music? This is not entirely unprecedented: an artificial intelligence co-wrote a piece of musical theatre, from the storyline to the music and lyrics.

Next month will mark the 47th anniversary of Apollo 13. The film that recounts the story is a favorite of mine, probably because it so masterfully captures the incredible suspense, fear, and hope felt by people everywhere, that I personally recall very well. I also know how an organization's digital transformation can generate similar reactions! Apollo 13 was likely a casualty of the space program's incredibly aggressive schedule. NASA, with U.S. political and military leaders, was motivated by competition from the U.S.S.R. and fear of the potential consequences of not being first.

Robotics technology is no longer limited to industry. Climate Controls, 3D printers, surveillance robots, drones, household and even sex robots are entering the private market. The more autonomous they become, the more difficult it becomes to resolve conflicts, such as those between humans and software. The law currently recognizes individuals, like you and me. Also companies, organizations and governments can negotiate agreements and liability. These non-natural persons are represented by real people (they should be controlled after all).

Tom Reilly, CEO, Cloudera and Khalid Al-Kofahi, VP of Research & Development, Thomson Reuters gave the opening keynote on one of the hottest public concerns – fake news. In their talk titled "Becoming smarter about credible news" they described the solution prepared by their joint effort. Khalid mentioned that an independent survey found that today 20% of news stories are breaking first on Twitter. So, social media is clearly a valuable source of breaking news as well as for additional information on a currently running news story. However, social media is also filled with fake news, advertisements disguised as news, rumors, etc.

On the roster: Trump's re-election bid collides with policy problems - Witness: Russians targeted Rubio - Report: Trump aides told Nunes what Nunes told Trump - I'll Tell You What: Kidding, not kidding - Paging Tara Reid TRUMP'S RE-ELECTION BID COLLIDES WITH POLICY PROBLEMS It's too soon to say how President Trump's agenda will fair, but we do know his re-election bid is in trouble. That may sound preposterous to say in the 10th week of an administration, but here we are. Trump, who filed for re-election before he took office, is getting a boost from his most important donors, hedge-fund tycoon Robert Mercer and his family. It comes in the form of a $1.3 million ad blitz targeted at swing states as well as states represented by vulnerable Democratic senators. Trump is doing his part by renewing his war with his fellow Republicans, blasting House conservatives for defeating his health-insurance overhaul last week.

Word leaked Monday via The Wall Street Journal that Tesla / SpaceX industrialist Elon Musk has been funding a company called Neuralink-- allegedly with some of his own money -- attempting to connect computers directly into human brains. This is the same Musk profiled in this month's Vanity Fair, where he tells journalist Maureen Dowd in all seriousness that humanity needs a Mars colony to which we can escape'if AI goes rogue and turns on humanity." In short, Musk is one of many big thinkers who believe a human-computer hybrid is essential to allowing humans to keep their own machines from marginalizing them. Neuralink's technology is said to be a neural lace, which Musk has spoken about for over a year. But for most people, the first question isn't whether artificial intelligence will usurp our planet.

Angelina Jolie is one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood, but even she did not receive any special treatment while auditioning for the role of Lara Croft in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." Instead, Jolie's troubled past spoke for itself. In the excerpt written by "Tomb Raider" executive Sherry Lansing for The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed that Jolie's troubled past was what helped her get cast in the 2001 movie. "This troubled and dangerous aspect in her reputation actually helped the character," director Simon West said in "Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker." West also recalled Jolie's determination to play the lead role in the movie. At that time, the award-winning actress just won an Oscar for "Girl, Interrupted."

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud-computing arm of Alibaba Group, is making artificial intelligence (AI) technology more accessible to businesses and organizations with the debut of an upgraded machine-learning platform. Called PAI 2.0, the platform, which launched in 2015, will "help customers easily deploy large-scale data mining and modeling," Alibaba Cloud said in a statement. Machine learning is a branch of AI that gives computers the ability to absorb information, discern patterns in data and adapt to new input without explicit programming. China's first publicly available machine-learning platform, PAI is a suite of tools and AI software algorithms that allows businesses without an AI background to make practical use of Alibaba Cloud's ET program, an "artificial brain" that the company is using to solve complex problems such as predicting the winner of a popular Chinese reality TV show and helping to ease traffic congestion in the city of Hangzhou, China. "In the past year, Alibaba Cloud has implemented a number of real-life AI applications for customers across industries," said Alibaba Cloud Chief Scientist Dr. Jingren Zhou.

When Andrew Ng, one of the world's leading thinkers on artificial intelligence, announced he would be stepping down from his position as chief scientist at Chinese Baidu, the company's stock dropped nearly 3 percent in just a few hours. It was a reflection not only of Ng's prominence and fame, but also of the importance investors have placed on the search giant's focus on AI. The technology has become a key element of the company's strategy, and Ng's departure comes at a time when Baidu is determined to double down on its AI efforts. Baidu has quickly reaffirmed its commitment to AI, naming Wang Haifeng, an expert in natural-language processing, as Ng's replacement. CEO Robin Li has recently written numerous opinion pieces in Chinese newspapers about the importance of developing AI expertise.