This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers hours before appearing on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. Google unveiled Auto ads, a new ad unit for AdSense, its ad placement service for publishers, to help publishers streamline ad placement on their pages. Auto ads use machine learning to determine potential ad locations, types, and number of ads, while preserving the user experience, according to Google. Auto ads include formats like in-feed, display, and full-screen mobile ads, and can be integrated into publisher pages with a single line of code.

That's because artificial intelligence bots are collecting vast amounts of data by poring over spreadsheets, contracts and accounts payable and receivables.

Artificial intelligence startups worldwide raised a record $15.2 billion in 2017, according to American research firm CB Insights. Chinese businesses accounted for 48% of the total, up from just 11.6% in 2016. The U.S. placed second with 38%.

In today's time, technology has led to a diverse change in the world from how we live to our way of communication. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of them which has improved the efficiency in our lives that many of us didn't even notice. With the emergence of this era where unique and real storytelling is valued more than ever, AI can be a powerful tool for publishers, brands and anyone else who aims to create engaging content in a sustainable, consistent and scalable way. Earlier there was a big question mark whether a computer can write a great novel or a script for a movie? However, AI is manna from heaven for sci-fi writers. There is a sentient computer called Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer (HAL) wreak quiet havoc in 2001: A space odyssey.

The roles Gina Rodriguez played in "Jane the Virgin" and "Annihilation" could not be more different. In the former, Rodriguez plays a sweet and idealistic Jane Gloriana Villanueva who has strong morals and close family ties. In the latter, she plays the foul-mouthed lesbian paramedic named Anya Thorensen who has so many complex layers. Speaking to USA Today about the two roles, Rodriguez said that it felt great to be working on something so different. While she loves Jane, she cannot help but feel excited being on Anya's shoes.

The technology of AI in the present times is witnessing'deep learning'. The futuristic applications such as self-driving cars rely heavily on deep learning and natural language processing.

Even newspaper publishers and media companies look forward to bringing AI into their arsenal. Popular media website Buzzfeed has incorporated AI in developing richer content. In mid 2016, US media company Tronc announced in an interview that they would bring more than 2,000 videos per day using AI. The digital era of publishing has certainly helped bridge the gap between consumers and the companies. Techniques such as prediction algorithms will help media giants to capture more viewership.

When I started looking at frameworks the main ones were Torch, Caffe and Theano. I ruled out Caffe for lack of flexibility and found Torch had the right level of abstraction for me (e.g. Switched to PyTorch not because of Python (was happy enough with Lua) but primarily because it made dynamic stuff (e.g. In general I like how quickly I can whip up even complex architectures in PyTorch, and no need to wait for compilation. I've seen it in use at Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter (so there are big companies using it, with more listed at the bottom of the website).

A subsidiary of British banking giant Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is running a pilot program using an artificial intelligence (AI) powered "digital human" to help customers with basic banking questions. The lifelike, virtual bank teller named "Cora" can answer up to 200 banking queries for NatWest customers in two-way conversations on a computer screen, tablet or mobile phone. The bank has been using Cora since 2017 and she's had about 100,000 conversations a month, the bank said on Wednesday. "Cora, the digital human is able to answer basic verbal questions like'How do I login to online banking?' 'How do I apply for a mortgage?' and'What do I do if I lose my card?'" said NatWest in a news release. Cora's human-like appearance includes ear piercings and facial expressions.

An image of a dog created by a deep convolutional generative adversarial network (GAN) algorithm. Back in 1999, Hany Farid was finishing his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was in a library when he stumbled on a book called The Federal Rules of Evidence. The book caught his eye, and Farid opened to a random page, on which was a section entitled "Introducing Photos into a Court of Law as Evidence." Since he was interested in photography, Farid wondered what those rules were. While Farid was not surprised to learn that a 35mm negative is considered admissible as evidence, he was surprised when he read that then-new digital media would be treated the same way.