We all love Westworld, but its main premise -- that we'll be able to build robots identical to human in the near future -- still seems impossibly far-fetched. That said, a company called Engineered Arts is definitely exploring the edges of the uncanny valley. It has built a number of life-sized, humanoid robots that look incredibly realistic and move smoothly, quietly and relatively naturally. The company's robots have been sold for research, education and entertainment purposes. However, it recently unveiled its top-of-the line "Mesmer" series, realistic down to the pores and individual hairs. They're "skinned by the best in the TV and film business," Engineered Arts explained in the (Westworld-like) promotional video, below.

The British glove manufacturer Cornelia James is often in the public eye. Since 1979, it has provided gloves by royal appointment to the Queen of England, and more recently it has dressed megastars including Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Madonna. All those high-profile customers are great for publicity, but nobody drives sales quite like Kate Middleton, said Genevieve James, the company's creative director. "We get far more of a spike in sales when someone like Kate wears them. But when it's somebody like the Duchess of Cambridge, the public, particularly in the US, can relate to that," James told IBM. James first confirmed that fact in 2012 when, at a ceremony for Remembrance Sunday, Middleton wore a pair of Cornelia James' merino wool gloves.

For genre un-enthusiasts, it's easy to dismiss science fiction as a land of make-believe--a place where androids can become sentient and no one bats an eye. But for those who are willing to suspended disbelief and don't mind looking beyond CGI, the best sci-fi titles are filled with more than enough action, drama, comedy, and even romance to keep any movie fan glued to the screen. You just need to know where to look. Below is a selection of the best sci-fi movies you can currently stream on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. We hate to state the obvious, but with a seemingly infinite number of new films in the works, the Star Wars franchise is getting dangerously close to oversaturation.

Written on 18 May 2018. The tiny image sensors in most modern cameras can only absorb a small amount of light, which often results in dark, grainy images. To try to solve this problem without inventing a new image sensor, researchers at Intel and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champlain taught an artificial intelligence algorithm how to take the data from darker images and reconstruct them so that they're brighter and clearer, according to research published this month and to be presented in June at an industry conference. To train the algorithm, the researchers showed it two version of more than 5,000 images taken in low-light scenarios: One set that was taken to be purposefully too dark, and one set that was taken with a longer exposure time, meaning the sensor is given more time to collect light and better expose the image. The Intel and UIUC team claims the algorithm can now amplify low-light images the equivalent of up to 300 times the exposure, without the same noise and discoloration that programs like Photoshop might introduce or having to take two separate images. While the team did build a custom algorithm to do the task, the most innovative aspect of the work is the dataset they created.

I am trying to optimize an agent in a simple simulation. For now, I do not want the agent to take the current state into consideration. Instead, it should just react to the environment. My idea is to model the agent as a neuronal network. The simulation results in a score, which I want to maximize.

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Getty Images has announced a partnership with AI platform Cortex, to create a solution for creatives that recommends the best Getty Images content for social media campaigns. The program launched last month and has allowed creatives to better scour the database's 80m still images and illustrations. This has been possible through the AI's analysis, which has already allowed over 33,000 brands to predict what color schemes, imagery, and keywords perform best on social media. Cortex currently has a list of customers across several industries that includes Heineken, Hulu, Jack Daniels and Marriott. Results have come in from the launch already: Cortex has said in a statement that marketers using the tool to create content outperformed their industry benchmarks by up to 300% and save an average of 8.5 hours per user per week.

Ed Newton-Rex, who composes for choirs, says JS Bach demonstrated how the greatest creative artists draw on a wide range of qualities. "It wasn't just his knowledge of music, although that was a big part of it," he says. "It was also his fervent religious belief and very high sense of academic rigour." Until machines can encompass these, they are not likely to compose anything rivalling the Goldberg Variations. Nevertheless, as the founder of AI music composer Jukedeck, Newton-Rex thinks computers are capable of creativity.

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