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Dave Addey doesn't just watch movies. Addey is the creator of Typeset In The Future, a website devoted entirely to fonts in science fiction. Why yes, it is a bastion of gloriously esoteric nerdery. It all began when Addey, a developer publications engineer at Apple and lifelong science fiction fan, started noticing the same font in every movie he watched: Eurostile Bold Extended. Designed in 1960, the font is geometric, functional, and looks good on the side of a spaceship (Star Trek).

Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a machine learning algorithm with a bunch of Sci-Fi movie scripts to see what new script it would spit out. A script for Sunspring is the result, and this is the film, starring Thomas Middleditch. The thought of a machine tapping into emotion and creativity likely brings some sneers, but Goodwin argues that it's about assistance and augmentation rather than a replacement for the humans. The machine dictated that Middleditch's character should pull the camera. However, the reveal that he's holding nothing was a brilliant human interpretation, informed by the production team's many years of combined experience and education in the art of filmmaking.

A mix of artificial intelligence programs has been used to design, direct and edit a music video. Ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi commissioned the film for a song by a French electro band. It made its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival to coincide with the anniversary of AI pioneer Alan Turing's birth. However, the band - which does not want to be named - is not allowing the final edit to be made public.

Adele's record-breaking album 25 is coming to Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services tomorrow (or right now if you happen to reading from New Zealand or Australia). While there are other artists who are absent from most music subscription services--Prince and Neil Young come to mind--Adele's 25 is a unique for two reasons: First, it's the best-selling album since 2001, when music sales began their epic collapse. Secondly, 25 has not been made available on any streaming service until now. Other big name recent albums have either limited their release to certain services (Tidal, more often than not) or delayed their streaming debut all together, but these windows and exclusives typically don't last seven months. While the subscription services are undoubtedly thrilled to finally offer Adele's latest, the stunning success she achieved without their help doesn't bode well for the streaming music model.

Well until now that is. Google's AI research team have been asking just that question and have come up with a definitive research paper which explores how we should safely evolve robots into the ultra-intelligent servants we want them to be. Hinting rather subtly at the amount of attention the'rogue AI' story has gotten in the press and wider media, Google's team are hoping to throw in some empirical research into the mix.

This AI-created short is proof that original sci-fi films still exist, assuming you are okay with something as comprehensible as Terrence Malick's works. Sunspring, a short film that debuted on Ars Technica, was written entirely by an artificially intelligent system named Benjamin. It looks and feels like a sci-fi thriller, but makes absolutely no sense. The dialogue is so incomprehensible that, when paired with the film's delightfully talented and dedicated actors, provides more comedy than plot. But hidden behind the laughter is a deeply disturbing thriller with images of suicide, the coughing up of body parts, and loss.

Matt Burgess reports in Wired, "One difficulty faced by artificial intelligence is predicting what humans are going to do next. To help solve that problem, researched have trained an algorithm by making it binge-watch TV. Computer vision experts from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) made an algorithm watch 600 hours of TV shows including Ugly Betty, Scrubs, The Big Bang Theory, The Office (US) and more. In each of the clips, taken from YouTube, humans were performing tasks and interacting with each other. After analysing the videos, the AI was then made to watch a clip it hadn't seen before and predict what would happen. The system was allowed to make multiple predictions about what might happen between one and five seconds in the future. 'In some cases our model correctly predicts that a man and woman are about to kiss or hug or that men in a bar will high five,' the researchers wrote."

Remember the Jetsons' robot maid, Rosie? Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers think her future real-life incarnations can learn a thing or two from Steve Carell and other sitcom stars. MIT says a computer that binge-watched YouTube videos and TV shows such as The Office, Big Bang Theory and Desperate Housewives learned how to predict whether the actors were about to hug, kiss, shake hands or slap high fives -- advances that eventually could help the next generation of artificial intelligence function less clumsily. "It could help a robot move more fluidly through your living space," lead researcher Carl Vondrick told The Associated Press in an interview. "The robot won't want to start pouring milk if it thinks you're about to pull the glass away."

The future is folding, if the exhibits at a major New York tech exhibition are to be believed. Pocket size drones, 3D printers, phone accessories and cutting-edge wearables all took center stage at CE Week, which kicks off today. CE Week is designed to showcase products and services set to launch in the second half of 2016, which all focus around the world of technology. 'This is the year that a new ecosystem of products that communicate with other products, immersive entertainment systems and emerging technologies will really begin to take hold,' said Eric Schwartz, executive producer, CE Week. 'CE Week is a way for those most passionate about technology to see the future, now.' 'New York City, with its burgeoning finance, media and high tech industries provides a great backdrop.'