Several actors of different ages, ethnicities, genders, sizes and shapes auditioned for the role of Janet on NBC's "The Good Place." But when D'Arcy Carden showed up to try out for the role, series creator Michael Schur knew right away that he'd already found his Janet. "She made the robotic language that I had written for the dummy scene seemed like a real person was doing it," Schur told Vanity Fair of why he picked Carden to play the sentient database. "She found this weird humanity inside this robotic scene." Carden told Vulture last October that her "The Good Place" audition was unlike any audition she had done before.

A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built a psychopathic AI using images pulled from Reddit. Oh, and they've named it Norman after Alfred Hitchcock's Norman Bates. This is how our very own Terminator starts... The purpose of the experiment was to test how data fed into an algorithm affects its "outlook". Specifically, how training an algorithm on some of the darkest elements of the web – in this case, images of people dying grisly deaths sourced from an unnamed Reddit subgroup – affects the software.

Asus just showed the world Project Precog at Computex 2018, and I'm drooling all over my keyboard. Imagine a slim laptop with dual touchscreens, one of which can transform into an adaptive keyboard and trackpad combo that can dynamically change the position of keys based on where your fingers are. Imagine a laptop that learns your work routines and can conserve battery life to anticipate an upcoming video conference. Asus' Project PreCog in Stand Mode Asus is also making waves at Computex with their recently announced ROG Phone. Project Precog (likely named after the precognitives from the film Minority Report) will ship with Microsoft Cortana and Amazon Alexa built in, and can function in 4 different configurations: stand mode, book mode, tent mode and flat mode.

Samantha, a sex robot stands, in the home of robotics expert Dr Sergi Santos and his partner of 16 years, Maritsa Kissamitaki. The couple deisgned the artificial intelligence-driven robot that they say is capable of enjoying sex. Want to have sex with no strings attached? How about sex with wires attached (or at least wires involved)? Sex robots (or so-called sexbots) are not just coming, they are already here.

Within AI, deep learning is the fastest growing field and is being used to solve a wide range of problems.

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