Building the AI'butler' is Zuckerberg's personal challenge for 2016 The 31-year-old said: 'You can think of it kind of like J.A.R.V.I.S in Iron Man' His plans include teaching the assistant to let friends into his home by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell, for example Building the AI'butler' is Zuckerberg's personal challenge for 2016 The 31-year-old said: 'You can think of it kind of like J.A.R.V.I.S in Iron Man' The AI is able to do everything from recognise friend's faces at the door to work out who is asking it questions - and Zuckerberg said he's even connected up a 1950s toaster and a t-shirt cannon to it. Watch as Nasa shake tests the Orion capsule that could take... Airlines add'fire containment bags' for overheating phones... Google and Facebook to install giant 8,000-mile internet... EXCLUSIVE: Royal Navy trials robot spy boats that can scour... Watch as Nasa shake tests the Orion capsule that could take... Airlines add'fire containment bags' for overheating phones... Google and Facebook to install giant 8,000-mile internet... EXCLUSIVE: Royal Navy trials robot spy boats that can scour... Zuckerberg also programmed the system to play music. Zuckerberg's daughter, Max is also able to use the AI to play. The project is modelled on the J.A.R.V.I.S. stands for (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System) system used by Tony Stark in the Iron Man films. 'I'll do in a heartbeat if Bettany gets paid and donates it to a cause of Cumberbatch's choosing...that's the right kind of STRANGE!' the Iron Man actor responded.

Sex bots could KILL: Experts warn owners'risk over-exertion' as 40% of men admit they would use one Study found that 40% of men said they'd buy a sex robot now or within 5 years The researchers surveyed 263 heterosexual men between ages 18 and 67 But, experts have warned they could cause humans to over-exert themselves Study found that 40% of men said they'd buy a sex robot now or within 5 years Nearly half of men could see themselves buying a sex robot in the near future. But, if they aren't careful, the tireless robots could push their human lovers over the edge, experts have warned. Is the treatment for woodworm the secret of why the £36... How many dots do YOU see? Try the'blind spot' optical... How safe is your fitness tracker? Hackers could steal your... Elon Musk's plan to tackle traffic: Billionaire says he'll... Is the treatment for woodworm the secret of why the £36... How many dots do YOU see?

As "Sherlock" Season 4 gets closer, fans are getting new looks at the PBS series. The drama released a new behind-the-scenes video that shows the cast hard at work. While it doesn't contain any spoilers, it does reveal the scheduling problems facing the show. In the video, executive producer Mark Gatiss reveals that their very tight schedule forced the cast to read the scripts aloud in the evening. "Then we had the read throughs, all back to front, but it was the only way we could do it. Evening read throughs can be very tricky because, if you do them on a day when everyone has been working, they can be very flat. But everyone had come to it fresh, so it went extremely well."

The machine has taken its first steps, after two years secretly in development Robotics company'Korea Future Technology' is behind the machine Avatar-style robot is controlled by a pilot sitting inside making limb movements The robot is so heavy it makes the ground around it shake when it takes steps A 13-foot tall robot that walks like a human, making the ground around it shake, could become a reality. Seoul-based robotics company'Korea Future Technology' has completed the first tests of its giant human-like robot, called METHOD-1 (pictured) Move over Skype: Facebook trials group audio calls for... Think you have blue eyes? They are actually BROWN: Optical... The biggest map of our universe yet: Chart shows billions of... Was Einstein WRONG about gravity?Controversial new theory... Move over Skype: Facebook trials group audio calls for... Think you have blue eyes? They are actually BROWN: Optical...

They always said that being a father wouldn't be easy. I knew I'd have to deal with dirty diapers, shuttling my son to and from school and sports practices, and college tuition. But I never anticipated that I'd have to grapple with my son not telling me which of the robots from Daft Punk he is. I guess it's a father's burden not to know if his son is the gold-domed robot or the silver-visored robot in a world-famous electronic-music duo. My father probably had the same trouble with me.

When Apple pulled the headphone jack off the iPhone 7, it also unveiled a new set of wireless earbuds called AirPods, that it claimed were so great that users wouldn't mind the missing headphone jack. Then the AirPods didn't come out for nearly three months after the iPhone, but now that they're here, they've solved every problem an iPhone 7-using music lover could have, right? Like so many Apple products before them, the AirPods bring with them as big of a problem as they're solving. With no onboard buttons, the AirPods require users to ask Siri to do everything from changing a track to adjusting the volume, and Siri just doesn't have the same abilities in all music apps--an arbitrary restriction set by Apple to steer you toward Apple Music. But let's start with the first question everyone has about the AirPods.

This weekend marked the opening of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the latest entry in the nearly 40-year-old film series, and the first "standalone" release to take place outside of the episodic Star Wars installments--that is, of course, if you don't count those WTF (Way Too Fuzzy) Ewoks movies. Rogue One, as you likely know by now, tracks a group of Rebels (played by Felicity Jones and Diego Luna, among others) as they attempt to steal information vital to the Empire's brand-new Death Star. Along the way, they witness daring dogfights and catty robots, and occasionally find themselves face-to-face with beloved galaxy-questers from previous Star Wars films. Rogue One Relatives: 10 More Star Wars Standalone Movies Disney Should Make The Alt-Right Hates Rogue One, Because of Course It Does Want to Really Get Rogue One? Read the Prequel Novel Want to Really Get Rogue One? Read the Prequel Novel Want to Really Get Rogue One? Read the Prequel Novel But as Rogue One chugs along to certain box-office domination, we can't help but wonder: Is this latest Star Wars story really necessary? Or is it merely a temporary diversion--an escape pod--from the dauntingly gargantuan ongoing narrative that is the traditional saga? WIRED's Brian Raftery and Angela Watercutter discuss the movie below--and, lest we be accused of Dianoga-like stealth and sneakiness, we should be upfront about the fact that spoilers are everywhere.

The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is expected to be worth more than $70 billion by 2020 and will undoubtedly influence our lifestyles and the way we consume data. Put simply, AI is a field of computer science that enables computers to do things that humans would consider "intelligent". Well, companies such as Shazam have been using AI since their founding embedded in their "fingerprint" technology. Shazam holds an extensive catalogue of songs with detailed "spectrograms" that contain the various frequencies that a song emits. Once the user tags a song, the application will take that signal, cross reference it with their database and return a match.

What better way to create a movie trailer about an artificially enhanced human than to use the reality behind the premise; artificial intelligence (AI). That's just what a partnership between IBM Research and 20th Century Fox recently set out to do, when they used machine learning techniques to produce what they described as the "first ever cognitive movie trailer." You'll have to judge the merits of the result yourself, but what is beyond doubt is this is just one example of the many ways AI and machine learning techniques are already changing the face of the entertainment industry. It's only makes sense that creative industries are leading the pack when it comes to the adoption of and experimentation with AI. Media, entertainment, and advertising are all the on the cutting edge when it comes to the adoption of AI and machine learning.

This year's news about what artificial intelligence (AI) can do in the arts has been both exciting and scary. Neural networks have learnt to paint like masters and compose sophisticated music. Those of us in creative endeavours might be as endangered by technological advances as blue-collar workers are often said to be - though we are protected by certain limitations that technology is never likely to overcome. Last summer, a team of Russian developers released Prisma, a mobile app based on the work of some German AI researchers. The neural network behind it could redraw an image using techniques it had learnt from studying the oeuvre of a number of painters, including Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch. The end product was impressive: Prisma could reproduce brushstrokes and palettes, using only a photo for guidance, almost the way a human painter could have.