As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to move from the summer of hype to the fall tech conference news cycle, mass confusion has begun on what AI can be used for. From fears of SKYNET, to hopes for the computer in StarTrek and Jarvis in Iron Man, the value will come from defining the proper outcomes. AI is more than just a fad. With a market size of $100B by 2025, Constellation sees the AI subsets of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing taking the market by storm (see Figure 1). The disruptive nature of AI comes from the speed, precision, and capacity of augmenting humanity. Perception describes what's happening now.

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Facebook is warning people about a fake explosion in Bangkok, falsely suggesting that the entire city is at risk. The site has activated its "Safety Check" feature across Thailand's capital. That means that anyone it thinks is in the area will see a message informing them that there has been "an explosion", and encouraging them to mark themselves safe from it. But no such explosion actually happened and the fake alert seems to be the result of changes that the company has made to its Safety Check feature. It appears to have been activated by a minor incident, reported only in the local news, where a man took firecrackers to a government building in an apparent protest.

You'd think the proliferation of smartphone photography would have sparked a revolution in digital cameras. Sure, cameras are more connected now than ever, and mirrorless technology has helped make them smaller and lighter. But the basics -- shoot as much as you want to a memory card and access the photos when and wherever -- have remained. So new ideas are welcome, however bizarre they might be. Enter Relonch, a startup that wants to upend the way we use digital cameras.

Perhaps you saw the recent story about Mark Zuckerberg's new housemate: Jarvis, an artificial intelligence assistant that the Facebook founder created to control appliances, play music, recognize faces, and even entertain his toddler. Apparently Zuckerberg spent 100 hours creating his virtual helper -- it's name is taken from the artificial intelligence system in the movie ''Iron Man'' -- and Jarvis's skills include adjusting the thermostat, turning on the lights, and operating the toaster. It's also able to text Zuckerberg pictures of people who stop by the house, and it can open the front door for anyone it recognizes. Talking about it on -- where else? -- Facebook, Zuckerberg said Jarvis can tell when Zuckerberg's 1-year-old daughter, Max, wakes up ''so it can start playing music or a Mandarin lesson.'' This is all very interesting, but it's not exactly new. Indeed, Brookline-based software engineer Chad Barraford created a digital life assistant several years ago -- and his is also named Jarvis.

Call it moviegoers hungry for a sassy robot and some daring acts of galactic rebellion. For the second Christmas movie season in a row a "Star Wars" franchise film has dominated the holiday box office. Also for the second year in a row, North American ticket sales are projected to exceed $11 billion, according to the entertainment data firm ComScore. And as the year comes to a close, 2016 is expected to see a 1.5% increase in ticket sales over 2015 ($11.3 billion versus $11.1 billion). That puts the Gareth Edwards-directed action flick, set just before the events of George Lucas' 1970s trilogy, well above the Disney film's approximately $200-million production budget.

While many models are purposed for detecting the occurrence of significant events in financial systems, the task of providing qualitative detail on the developments is not usually as well automated. We present a deep learning approach for detecting relevant discussion in text and extracting natural language descriptions of events. Supervised by only a small set of event information, comprising entity names and dates, the model is leveraged by unsupervised learning of semantic vector representations on extensive text data. We demonstrate applicability to the study of financial risk based on news (6.6M articles), particularly bank distress and government interventions (243 events), where indices can signal the level of bank-stress-related reporting at the entity level, or aggregated at national or European level, while being coupled with explanations. Thus, we exemplify how text, as timely, widely available and descriptive data, can serve as a useful complementary source of information for financial and systemic risk analytics.

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Today's tech buzzword, artificial intelligence (AI), can be a difficult concept to wrap your head around. AI technology, which holds vast potential to revolutionize the way the world works, is often used to paint an apocalyptic view of the future. We now live in a world where talking computers and self-driving cars are no longer a thing of the future -- but are we also at risk of developing computers so smart that they can replace humans? Influential tech figures such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have cautioned the industry against diving head-on into AI because the technology's implementation could do more harm than good if we aren't careful. While there's no arguing that some of the cautionary tales around AI hold merit, our current reality is far from the robot-run society we've seen in the movies.

Call it moviegoers hungry for a sassy robot and some daring acts of galactic rebellion. Buena Vista's "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" vanquished all others in its second week of wide release, hauling in $64.4 million over the three-day holiday weekend, and is expected to pull in nearly $32 million more on Monday, which for many is also a holiday. That should bring its four-day holiday take to an estimated $96.1 million and its total domestic box office to $286.4 million -- with an additional $237.4 million from international screens. The Gareth Edwards-directed action flick, set just before the events of George Lucas' 1970s trilogy, is already well above its approximately $200-million production budget. Universal's "Sing," an animated musical comedy about the adventures of a singing pig named Rosita (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) and a koala bear who is in over his head (Matthew McConaughey), pulled in $35.3 million in domestic box office over the three-day weekend.