What if we delegated so much to autonomous AI and intelligent machines that They passed a law that forbids humans to carry out a number of professions? We conceive the plot of a new episode of Black Mirror to reflect on what might await us and how we can deal with such a future.

When we think of cutting-edge technology, it's usually in a positive context. New technologies are exciting, futuristic and belong in Hollywood's biggest blockbusters. So why has artificial intelligence (AI) gained such a bad reputation? Jaywing Intelligence recently conducted research into Twitter conversations about AI - exploring whether the negative media content around'robots stealing our jobs' was fake news. It found that data scientists are principally concerned with the development and techniques of AI and, while aware there will be an impact on jobs, they aren't displaying significant concern.

On the Internet, every day is April Fool's day. "Citizens need to become aware that the internet is a different media environment than TV and newspapers. There are no editors and no gatekeepers," the report's author, Žiga Turk, writes. After having tried other approaches, like partnering with fact-checking organizations, big tech companies like Facebook and Google seem to be now particularly keen on solving the fake news issue by implementing technical solutions, such as scoring web pages or using artificial intelligence to detect them. Other efforts are more focused on improving the media literacy of users as a prerequisite to fight misinformation.

But Nvidia could make protecting photos online much harder with a new advancement in artificial intelligence that can automatically remove artifacts from a photograph, including text and watermarks, no matter how obtrusive they may be. In previous advancements in automated image editing and manipulation, an AI powered by a deep learning neural network is trained on thousands of before and after example photos so that it knows what the desired output should look like. But this time, researchers at Nvidia, MIT, and Aalto University in Finland, managed to train an AI to remove noise, grain, and other visual artifacts by studying two different versions of a photo that both feature the visual defects. Fifty-thousand samples later, the AI can clean up photos better than a professional photo restorer. Practical applications for the AI include cleaning up long exposure photos of the night sky taken by telescopes, as cameras used for astrophotography often generate noise that can be mistaken for stars.

Epic Games has release its second teaser image before Thursday's big Season 5 launch. While yesterday we saw what might be a Japanese cat mask, today the theme is incredibly clear: Vikings are landing in Fortnite: Battle Royale. A viking-themed harvesting tool is the latest clue to Fortnite's fifth season.Credit: Epic Games While yesterday's cat-mask is a little ambiguous I think we can all agree this is a viking axe. Clearly, the anchor found near Snobby Shores and Greasy Grove was also viking-made. And while a Wild West stagecoach popped up near Moisty Mires, indicating that area might transform into a cowboy desert, it seems likely now that this area of Fortnite's shoreline is going to be transformed into a viking-themed area---the game's own little Kattegat.

GUESS?, Inc. ("GUESS") (NYSE: GES) has reached another major milestone in its partnership with Alibaba Group ("Alibaba") (NYSE: BABA) to bring artificial intelligence to the fashion world to provide customers with a more enriching shopping experience that combines online and offline shopping behaviors. Rounding out a comprehensive partnership that began in 2013 with the launch of GUESS in Tmall, this year, GUESS also became a global strategic partner of Alibaba's FashionAI project, an initiative to give shoppers a glimpse of what the future of fashion retail will look like powered by artificial intelligence. With the launch of the interactive concept shop driven by Alibaba AI, GUESS and Alibaba saw the implementation of the O2O (online-to-offline) project come to life, marking the maturity of the unified customer experience concept. On July 4, 2018, Alibaba launched the pilot FashionAI concept shop on the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) campus, pairing GUESS' extensive retail knowledge and latest collections with advanced Alibaba AI and other technologies on the sidelines of the 2018 Fashion and Textile Conference. Besides the FashionAI concept store's futuristic appeal, the project was aimed at providing a better retail experience for shoppers and to help brands better use analytics in ordering and maintaining inventory.

If you just started playing Fortnite recently, you might be a little confused about why people are freaking out right now. The game is currently in the final moments of Season 4, with Season 5 right around the corner and a bunch of in-game events starting to tie into whatever is coming next. But, of course, that might not make any sense it all, leaving yopu with a lot of questions about why a straightforward PvP game has a giant crack in the sky. What does it all even mean? Season 5 is tied to the Season 5 battle pass, and it translates to a whole lot of different things about the experience of Fortnite: Battle Royale.

Reddit has seen its biggest ever ban, with more than 350,000 kicked out of a subreddit. What's more, those people specifically wanted to be banned – and many had joined in the hope of doing so. The event all took place because the subreddit in question was themed around the villain from Avengers: Infinity War. The forum advanced the idea that Thanos wasn't actually a villain at all, with the name /r/thanosdidnothingwrong. 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.

"President Trump is a complete and total dipshit." So announced Barack Obama, in a video released on YouTube earlier this year. Uncharacteristic, certainly, but it appeared very real. It was, however, a falsified video made -- by BuzzFeed and the actor and director Jordan Peele -- with the help of artificial intelligence. Deepfakes, as they have been dubbed, are the most recent -- and perhaps most troubling -- manifestation in the evolving arms race of digital disinformation.