Andy Dufresne, the wrongly convicted character in The Shawshank Redemption, provocatively asks the prison guard early in the film: "Do you trust your wife?" It's a dead serious question regarding avoiding taxes on a recent financial windfall that had come the guard's way, and leads to events that eventually win freedom for Andy. And it's also a dead serious question being asked today with respect to AI. At this point we all recognize that successful deployment of AI is going to come down to something much more fundamental than the technical aspects of algorithms, neural networks and machine learning. It's going to come down to trust. Do we trust the black box calculations of AI? Do we trust it to drive our cars, diagnose our illnesses, and manage our finances? We have the same issue of trust with objects, but with a different set of circumstances.

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk launched another Twitter tirade on Wednesday, this time aimed at the media's coverage of his electric car company, Tesla. Musk took'big media companies' to task in a series of tweets, saying the public doesn't respect them anymore because of their'holier-than-thou hypocrisy' and because they'claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie'. After a reporter from the Verge retorted by calling him a'media-bating Trump figure,' Musk sharply replied by saying President Donald Trump was elected because no one believes the media anymore. Rumors are circling that SpaceX boss Elon Musk is planning to launch his own'intergalactic media empire.' The Daily Beast reported that he's poached writers and editors from the Onion for a secret satirical news project.

So many streaming services and so little time to find the one that suits you best. What's a music lover to do? Talking Tech has you covered. Which of the monthly streaming music services makes the best recommendations, is easiest to use and has the best prices? After the newest kid on the block, YouTube Music Premium, debuted in a soft launch this week, we set to find out, comparing YouTube to the Big 3: No. 1 Spotify (75 million subscribers,) Apple Music (50 million) and Amazon, which won't be more specific other than to say it has "tens of millions" of users. For several days, we have been searching for our favorites, looking for clues to discover stuff we didn't know about, creating playlists, looking for song recommendations and playing the music on the computer, phone and through Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod and Sonos speakers.

Chinese superstar Jacky Cheung performs onstage during his "A Classical Tour" concert at Hong Kong Coliseum on Dec. 4, 2016. Chinese superstar Jacky Cheung performs onstage during his "A Classical Tour" concert at Hong Kong Coliseum on Dec. 4, 2016. As people continue to feed more and more of their interior selves -- our likes, dislikes, wants, needs, social cartographies -- into digital networks that harvest and parse that information into profiles used to make money, a new frontier of monitoring that hones in on our physical features is ascendant. In Jiaxing, China, on Sunday evening, a man -- one of some 20,000 people attending a concert by pop star Jacky Cheung -- was arrested after being identified by an artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition system, which China built after announcing in 2015 that it was creating a facial database. "A few minutes after he passed through the security checkpoint, our system issued a warning that he was a wanted person," an official with the Nanhu District Public Security Bureau told the Qianjiang Evening News.

Artificial intelligence could contribute an additional $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, but which countries and sectors will benefit the most?

Nielsen-owned Gracenote has announced the launch of an artificial intelligence service called Sonic Style that will sort massive catalogs of music by style for the first time ever. Sonic Style will classify 90 million songs not by the genre of music the artist is known for, but rather the actual style of each individual recording. Music has typically categorized by artist genres, such as rock or hip hop. However, artist genres alone do not always tell the full story of an artist's full catalog or career. Gracenote has developed nearly 450 Sonic Style descriptor values.

Sonic Style is hoping to shake up the way music is traditionally categorized, moving past the typical overarching genres like rock or hip-hop to classify each song on a granular level. To that end, Gracenote has amassed nearly 450 Sonic Style descriptors that create a "style profile" of each recording and can pair machine learning descriptors such as tempo and mood with editorial ones, like artist genre, era, and origin. For example, the press release suggests the service can mine through Taylor Swift's catalogue to figure out which songs are more pop, more country, more pop electronica, or god help us, more R&B. That level of musical understanding will hopefully help smart speakers, voice assistants, streaming services, and, yes, even measly humans create better, more personalized playlists. "Sonic Style applies neural network-powered machine learning to the world's music catalogs, enabling Gracenote to deliver granular views of musical styles across complete music catalogs," says Brian Hamilton, Gracenote's general manager of music and auto, in a statement.

Facebook said in March that it is making progress in addressing election abuse ahead of the U.S. midterms. Its efforts include expanding its fact-checking efforts and using artificial intelligence to block malicious accounts before they can spread misinformation.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will soon be joined by a crew of free-flying mini-robots inspired by the Jedi training droids that Luke Skywalker practiced his light saber skills with in Star Wars. NASA's one-foot-cube Astrobees will be packed with cameras, sensors, and other tools and travel around the space station; its tasks will be far more mundane, however, than the movie training droids. The bots will help with tasks like measuring noise levels, testing carbon dioxide concentrations, or shooting video of astronauts at work. Ground crews will be able to remotely control the robot, sending it to various station waypoints, or even giving it a set of tasks to carry out largely autonomously, says Trey Smith, a research scientist in NASA's Intelligent Robotics Group. "In the end, it should be able to depart from its dock, do an entire survey of several modules, and then return to its dock at the end of it," he says.

RapidMiner makes analytics teams more productive through an open and extensible data science platform. Organizations can build predictive models and put them into production faster than ever, using RapidMiner's lightning fast visual workflow designer and automated modeling capabilities combined with the Informatica Data Cloud. "We're thrilled to form a partnership with Informatica," said Jeff Bashaw, Vice President of Channel and Corporate Development at RapidMiner. "We have a shared vision for the generational opportunity of artificial intelligence, and through this partnership we'll be delivering new capabilities to our customers. For example, a financial services organization is using RapidMiner and Informatica to predict consumer needs, providing their lending team with prescriptive recommendations to minimize customer churn and identify cross sell opportunities."