This is Episode 6 of Real Future, Fusion's documentary series about technology and society. Matt McMullen is not a normal tech entrepreneur. He doesn't wear hoodies or talk about shipping code, he doesn't work in an airy industrial loft in San Francisco, and he's never raised venture capital from a firm on Sand Hill Road. But from his factory in San Marcos, California, McMullen has spent the last two decades working on a project that could change human interactions as much as any social networking app or biotech breakthrough. McMullen is the founder and CEO of Abyss Creations, maker of the RealDoll, a hyper-realistic silicone sex doll.

July 2016 was the first time where a robot was publicly used to kill an armed suspect by Police officers during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, USA. The device was not autonomous, but in the future it could be. And although there are many cases of remote warfare within militaries, such as the case with drones, this was the first occasion where such technology was used in public. There are real concerns around artificial intelligence causing chaos like the scenarios depicted in Hollywood movies such as Terminator, Robocop, Iron Man and iRobot in the future.

Have we learned nothing from Tay, the Microsoft chatbot that spewed foul racist garbage after only a few hours of interacting with trolls on Twitter? Sure, Reddit models a colloquial tone, as Sophie Kleeman at Gizmodo points out, and its many communities discuss a wide range of subjects, but it is also frequently the boneyard where all grace and decency go to die. Will OpenAI's learning systems absorb strategies for choosing careers and college majors, or only gain expertise in nihilistic lulz and platform-specific acronyms? At least, a success from the researchers on this front would break new ground: They'd have created the only brain ever to get smarter by reading Reddit.

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Over the years, artists, writers, filmmakers and game studios have all tackled the concept of artificial intelligence. Often their vision is of machines that are brutally hostile to humans. Philip K. Dick envisioned androids that murder their owners. Of course, there's Skynet, which launches an all-out war on mankind. We could go on like this for a long time. But there are also those, like Spike Jonze, who envision us having a more complex relationship with computer-based personalities; one in which they could even be love interests.

"Intelligent system designers do have ethical responsibilities." I have interviewed John Markoff, technology writer at The New York Times. In 2013 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. The interview is related to his recent book "Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots, published in August of 2015 by HarperCollins Ecco. Do you share the concerns of prominent technology leaders such as Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, who suggested we might need to regulate the development of artificial intelligence?

Guitarist Jeff Beck revisits an old flame, a hot rod Ford he rebuilt himself before selling to a Los Angeles area aficionado. The prospect leaves the guitar legend and lifelong hot rod aficionado steaming mad. "There's driverless cars all over the place right now, with drivers in them," says Beck, cooling off before sound check on the latest stop of a tour he's co-headlining with his blues idol, 80-year-young Buddy Guy (next stops are Saturday at Maryhill Winery in Goldendale, Wash., and Sunday at the Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheater in Seattle). "Really, (autonomous cars are) the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I can't imagine wanting to buy one and those involved in building this should be locked up," says Beck, who is just getting revved up on the heels of news this week that Ford and Uber are both pushing aggressively to deliver self-driving vehicles.

What started out as a continuation of the previous episode ended with a big surprise, albeit one that has been predicted by some fans online. Edward (Christian Slater) tried to get to the same point. Elliot has been asking the image of his dead father on his head to let him know what happened the night he executed the hack on E Corp for a while now, and in the last episode, he finally budged. After asking whether he did it – "it" pertaining to killing Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallstrom) – Edward finally gave him what he wanted. Finding out that he did kill Tyrell was not enough, so Elliot asked how he did it.

BBC Worldwide has teamed up with artificial intelligence start-up Thoughtly to explore how machine learning can help it understand which genres of content are most in demand in which territories. Following an initial trial of Thoughtly's technology, the pair have completed a detailed analysis looking at synopses and descriptions of programming alongside data mining to figure out how best to categorise individual programme titles. Thoughtly's flagship platform, Ellipse, is designed to map themes, generate summaries and identify anomalies in text. It was originally designed to assist researchers in academic institutions to draw insights from very large volumes of text, such as helping medical researchers identify unexpected anomalies in large clinical data sets or help scientific researchers navigate unstructured text for automated screening of'noisy' data sets. BBC Worldwide is using the technology to identify themes that are under or over-represented in its content, to identify recurring and possibly unseen patterns across the various genres in it catalogue, identify which themes have grown and which have declined over the years and generally build a deeper understanding of its content with the objective of matching it with the most relevant audiences both for the BBC itself and for its client broadcasters, according to David Boyle, EVP of insight.

OpenAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence research company, just became the proud owner of the first ever DGX-1 supercomputer. Made by NVIDIA, the rig boasts a whopping 170 teraflops of computing power, equivalent to 250 usual servers -- and OpenAI is gonna use it all to read Reddit comments. OpenAI's researchers gather around the first AI supercomputer in a box, NVIDIA DGX-1. OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company whose purpose is to "advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." And now, NVIDIA CEO CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just delivered the most powerful tool the company has ever had at its disposal, a US 2 billion supercomputer.