Humans are amazing creatures – driven by curiosity, intellect, ambition. The Olympic Games this month and the Nobel Prize Awards are examples of how our society reveres those who push their limits to achieve the seemingly impossible in both work and life. Digital advancements and new technologies are quickly redefining what is possible by accelerating human potential beyond the physical and intellectual capabilities of just a few years ago. But what can humans achieve with a little help from artificial intelligence? According to Erik Brynjolfsson, economist at MIT and the co-author of The Second Machine Age, "The accumulated doubling of Moore's Law, and the ample doubling still to come, gives us a world where supercomputer power becomes available to toys in just a few years, where ever-cheaper sensors enable inexpensive solutions to previously intractable problems, and where science fiction keeps becoming reality."

Robot" has been renewed for another season by USA. The hit series created by Sam Esmail is currently in the middle of its second season, but an order for another installment has already been given, according to Deadline. The follow-up has been slated for a 2017 run, although a definite date has not been given. While it has not been confirmed, there is a possibility that the third installment will not come as soon as fans would expect since Esmail had already mentioned that he would like to take a long break in between seasons. "Personally, I think this is another weird, archaic judgment on television shows, where you have to bring them back at a certain schedule or you're going to lose your audience," the producer, who also directed all episodes of the current season, told Entertainment Weekly. "I'm just going to say this: I think it's bull**t, especially at the cost of the quality of the show." Esmail is also not fond of the idea of stretching storylines just to prolong a series' life. The producer said that he does not intend to make his series run for longer than four or five seasons. He created the show originally as a feature film, so he already knows how the story flows and where it will end. The producer also said that he does not want any outside force to end the show; he does not want the network to cancel it or let it die without good reason. Esmail maintained that he has a clear direction for the series, and he knows exactly how to tell the story of Elliot (Rami Malek), the vigilante hacker who wants to take down the biggest conglomerate in the world, E Corp. Robot" has been renewed for season 3 at USA.

"In order for a program to improve itself substantially it would have to have at least a rudimentary understanding of its own problem-solving process and some ability to recognize an improvement when it found one. There is no inherent reason why this should be impossible for a machine. Given a model of its own workings, it could use its problem-solving power to work on the problem of self-improvement. The present programs are not quite smart enough for this purpose; they can only deal with the improvement of programs much simpler than themselves. Once we have devised programs with a genuine capacity for self-improvement a rapid evolutionary process will begin.... Whether or not we could retain some sort of control of the machines, assuming that we would want to, the nature of our activities and aspirations would be changed utterly by the presence on earth of intellectually superior beings. "The audience is tense with excitement as the hero in the film play struggles frantically with the control apparatus of a submarine that is fast sinking to the ocean bottom.

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Artificial intelligence is being used in amazing ways these days. Let's be honest, it's just a matter of time before A.I. affects our lives in huge ways. How would you feel about your business being run by A.I.? How about your books and even films being written by artificial intelligence? Well, one of those is now a reality. Impossible Things, that's a film title you are going to want to remember.

At an artificial intelligence conference in New York City last week, Professor Alexi Samsonovich from the Moscow-based National Research Nuclear University (MEPhl) Cybernetics Department told Sputnik News, "We are on the verge of a major breakthrough" in AI. In the past six months, we've seen AI master the board game Go, write a short film script, and infiltrate Snapchat filters. Each of these achievements is impressive in its own right. Together, they show just how quickly AI is advancing. But what was this breakthrough Samsonovich hinted at in NYC? Digital Trends reached out to him to find out.

The DGX-1 is a 129,000, desktop-sized box with eight NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs, 7TB of SSD storage and two Xeon processors. That nets 170 teraflops of performance, equivalent to around 250 servers. Moreover, the parallel architecture is ideal for OpenAI's deep learning algorithms. NVIDIA said it cost around 2 billion to develop. OpenAI, founded to ensure that machines don't destroy us, will use the DGX-1's extra power to read the nearly 2 billion Reddit comments in months, rather than years.

Woodside is Australia's largest independent oil and gas company. For more than 60 years it's been a critical thread in the nation's fabric: if its gas doesn't arrive promptly in Perth to fuel power generation the city goes dark in two days. The company no longer relies purely on gas and oil for its success, however; it relies on data. According to Woodside senior vice-president and chief technology officer Shaun Gregory: "Our people understand that data is king, that knowledge is king." However; it used to be a burden, he says.

Not long ago, artificial intelligence was something you read about in science fiction; today it's all around us. The smartphone or tablet you hold in your hand is jam-packed with artificial intelligence. Whenever you use a mobile device to pull up Google and perform a search, you're using advanced algorithms that help you find the information you're seeking. When you open Netflix, or Spotify, or Amazon, AI is predicting the shows, movies, music, and merchandise you'll like based on your previous behavior within those apps. These are just a few examples of weak (or narrow) AI and they literally surround us.