Research in artificial intelligence (AI) is known to have impacted medical diagnosis, stock trading, robot control, and several other fields. Perhaps less popular is the contribution of AI in the field of music. Nevertheless, artificial intelligence and music (AIM) has, for a long time, been a common subject in several conferences and workshops, including the International Computer Music Conference, the Computing Society Conference and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. In fact, the first International Computer Music Conference was the ICMC 1974, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Current research includes the application of AI in music composition, performance, theory and digital sound processing. Several music software applications have been developed that use AI to produce music. A few examples are included below.

This event is part of a series designed to bring together artists, developers, designers, technologists and industry professionals to discuss the applications of artificial intelligence in the creative industries.

Data scientists are always stressing over the "best" approach to variable selection, particularly when faced with massive amounts of information -- a frequent occurrence these days. "Massive" by today's standards means terabytes of data and tens, if not hundreds, of millions of features or predictors. There are many reasons for this "stress" but the reality is that a single, canonical solution does not exist. There are as many approaches to selecting features as there are statisticians since every statistician and their sibling has a POV or a paper on the subject. For years, there have been rumors that Google uses all available features in building its predictive algorithms.

Japan Creates Hyperrealistic Dinobots, There May Soon Be A'Jurassic' Theme Park'Jurassic Park' could well be a reality soon, judging from the intricate and hyperrealistic dinosaur robots created by Japan's ON-ART Corp. The company recently unveiled its latest project with man-controlled robotic replicas of raptors, an allosaurus and a tyrannosaurus rex. The life-sized dinosaurs were modeled from skeletons of dinosaurs and created from carbon fiber materials. With the grand reveal, CEO of ON-ART Corp. Kazuya Kanemaru shares that he wants to create a'DINO-A-PARK', similar to the Steven Spielberg's'Jurassic Park', a franchise that remains wildly popular. See the robotic dinosaurs in action below.

It's one thing to want to protect endangered animals, but another entirely to keep track of them. Case in point: the dugong, a medium-sized marine mammal often referred to as a sea cow. Cute they may be, but spotting them in large bodies of water is easier said than done. Since marine researchers want to do so to keep tabs on population sizes, conservation status, and their important habitat areas, that poses a bit of a problem. Fortunately, this is where Dr. Amanda Hodgson of Australia's Murdoch University comes in.

I moderated a panel Tuesday night at a Fortune dinner during the LA Auto show. It was on the ethics of autonomous vehicles, a subject so broad it could fill a Ph.D. thesis, let alone a 30-minute discussion. The short version is this: Humans react to crises, and no one faults them much for the consequences. Machines, aided by artificial intelligence, may well be held to a higher standard because they will be programmed to think through the ramifications of their actions, including killing one person to save many. Panelist Patrick Lin of CalPoly created this marvelous video to illustrate the conundrum.

Now that we've welcomed Amazon Echo's Alexa and Google's Assistant into our homes, the next frontier for AI-powered personal assistants is the car. Next Thing Co. (NTC) has launched the world's first AI-powered hands-free car kit, the Dashbot. This $49 (£39) device can play music, get directions and send messages in a car, and it's all voice-powered. Demand for the device is taking off fast. NTC launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the Dashbot, which has raised $61,000 of its $100,000 goal in little over 24 hours.

A child can learn from a picture book to associate images with sounds, but building a computer vision system that can train itself isn't as simple. Using artificial intelligence techniques, however, researchers at Disney Research and ETH Zurich have designed a system that can automatically learn the association between images and the sounds they could plausibly make. Given a picture of a car, for instance, their system can automatically return the sound of a car engine. A system that knows the sound of a car, a splintering dish, or a slamming door might be used in a number of applications, such as adding sound effects to films, or giving audio feedback to people with visual disabilities, noted Jean-Charles Bazin, associate research scientist at Disney Research. To solve this challenging task, the research team leveraged data from collections of videos. "Videos with audio tracks provide us with a natural way to learn correlations between sounds and images," Bazin said.

This is how humans operate. We try something, we judge the result and modify our behavior. What some considered to be science fiction only a few years ago, AI is edging closer to reality as decades of research -- combined with advances in compute power, memory, storage, network connectivity, sensors and the software that unites them all -- is poised to enable new classes of intelligent predictive analytics. These innovations will bring benefits to multiple industries, and to society as a whole in the way we lead our everyday lives. Al is going to change our lives for the better as machines learn, reason, act and adapt -- transforming industries by amplifying human capabilities, automating tedious or dangerous tasks, and solving some of our most challenging societal problems.

It's been more than a decade since Jurassic Park hit theaters, but fans of the film have not yet given up hope that such a park could one day exist. Now, a Japanese firm is one step closer to making this a reality with an animatronic dinosaur park called Dino-A-Live where visitors see realistic replicas first hand. The theme park would contain full-sized dinosaur robots, and the firm set some of them lose in a Tokyo hotel to announce the park - to the horror of those in attendance. A Japanese firm announced an animatronic dinosaur park called Dino-A-Live where visitors see realistic replicas first hand. This fictitious Jurassic Park is the brainchild of Kazuya Kanemaru, who is the CEO of ON-ART Corp. Kanemaru and his team unveiled fully-painted man-operated robotic models of raptors, an allosaurus and a tyrannosaurus rex, in a performance at a hotel hall in Tokyo.