Subscribe and watch more sci-fi shorts on DUST: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh This is the dark conclusion that humans have reached in David Karlak's short film "Rise." In the near future, robots have developed advanced emotional sophistication and their human creators don't like it. What should have been a simple and violent extermination of artificial life proves harder when a captured robot demonstrates that the human aggressors are biting off more than they can chew. Our team loves the short for its impressive visual effects and character driven story.

I cannot think more than 2 hours without thinking how to introduce AI techniques into what I'm thinking about. The last time it happened was super interesting and stay with me to see how I used graph theories to crawl reddit and make a knowledge base about Magic the Gathering card relations. Long story short, I was browsing magiccardmarket.eu to check which cards to buy when I found a guy selling a 9 card for 6 . The card spiked over the week-end and I jumped on reddit to check out the reason. Is there a new deck using it?

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There are few subjects in computing as fascinating, or intimidating, as machine learning. Let's face it -- mastering machine learning isn't something you can do in a weekend, and at the very least it requires a good grasp of the underlying mathematical principles. That said, if you've got the math chops, you'll want to augment your use of machine-learning frameworks (of which there are plenty to pick from now) with a good understanding of the theory behind them. Here are five high-quality, free-to-read texts that provide introductions to and explanations of machine learning's ins and outs. Some have code examples, but most focus on formulas and theory, meaning they can in principle be applied to any number of languages, frameworks, or problems.

Everything in our online life is indexed. Every idle tweet, status update, or curious search query feeds the Google database. The tech giant recently bought a leading artificial-intelligence research outlet, and it already has a robotics company on its books. So what if Google, or Facebook, or any of the companies we entrust our information to, wanted to use our search histories to create an artificially intelligent robot? Writer and director Alex Garland's new film, Ex Machina, looks at just that.

Experts may reassure us that artificial intelligence won't take over the world anytime soon – but they just might invade the multiplex. At least that's the plot developing at IBM, where the Watson artificial-intelligence team programmed a computer to come up with a scary trailer for "Morgan," a thriller about a genetically modified, AI-enhanced super-human. GeekWire's crack team of movie critics gave "Morgan" an average grade of C – but I have to say Watson's trailer gave me the creeps. Maybe it's the way short cuts are spliced together to create a sense of ominousness without revealing what the heck is going on. Or maybe it's just knowing that a faceless piece of software helped create it.

Not many people can answer that question.

Recently I heard the strains of Bach's Sonata No 3 in G Minor (BWV 1029) Allegro, and as I pondered on the richness, harmony and texture of the sounds. I recalled I had heard this before listening to a live broadcast of the same piece of music on the BBC. It was Alissa Firsova's fantastic arrangement of the final movement of Bach's Viola da Gamba sonata in G minor performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton on 14th August 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall. I pulled out my phone and loaded Shazam I wanted to find out who had performed this particular piece. Shazam did its thing and in seconds I had the details of Glenn Gould Remastered Columbia Album, of course it had to be.

PARIS – The Champs-Elysee was the setting of a mini-air show on Sunday as amateur drone enthusiasts flew their high-tech toys over the famed Paris avenue in the city's first festival celebrating the gadgets. Concentrating intently, punters guided their remote-controlled flying machines through a brightly colored obstacle course accompanied by commentary worthy of a Formula One race. The afternoon festival included a race and demonstrations of the remote-controlled devices that are increasingly used as toys as well as for surveillance, aerial photography and -- controversially-- in the secretive U.S. counterterror campaign. "It's really magical to be at a site like the Champs-Elysees, one of the most famous places in the world," said Dunkan Bossian, 19, one of eight pilots who competed in the race. A German entrant, 27-year-old Julia Muller, added: "Events like this are important to show people that drones are not only dangerous things but you can have fun with them as well."

IBM's Watson AI (artificial intelligence) has added yet another skill to its collection. This time it has created the first-ever sci-fi AI-made movie trailer for "Morgan," that was released in theatres on September 2 by 20th Century Fox. Morgan, staring Kate Mara and Paul Giamatti, is a sci-fi thriller about scientists who have developed a synthetic humanoid whose potential has grown dangerously beyond their control. To prepare the machine for the task at hand, the IBM Research system analysed hundreds of horror/thriller movie trailers. In order to get an idea of the dynamics of a trailer, the computer then performed a series of visual, sound and composition studies.