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Rotten Tomatoes' Facebook show gives you weekly movie advice

Engadget

We've covered Facebook's venture into video, as well as the company's desire to acquire exclusive content that will attract more people to its platform. Today, Variety reports movie review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes will host a weekly show called See It/Skip It starting November 1. New episodes will air every Thursday. Jacqueline Coley, a film critic for Black Girl Nerds, and Segun Oduolowu, an entertainment commentator, will co-host the show. It will focus on a discussion of news and opinions on films and shows that are making headlines. The duo will also ask Facebook viewers for thoughts on what they're enjoying (and what they aren't). Jeff Voris, vice president of Rotten Tomatoes, said to Variety that the site's goal with the show is "engaging our social audience in a friendly debate."


Pornhub Will Use Artificial Intelligence to Recognize Faces (No, Not Yours!)

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Pornhub (for those who do not know it) is a pornographic video hunt portal founded in 2007 by Malcolm Flannigan where the user is facilitated in search of his pleasures through tags, categories, and subcategories. After the first two years of life, it became the most popular industry site in the world. Where there is business, there is technology and innovation, and it's no surprise that artificial intelligence can be applied in the porn industry: Pornhub is using a face recognition machine learning to catalog the 5 million hot videos on its platform. Pornhub has adopted a facial recognition software that can distinguish between over 10,000 movie stars and tag it correctly with categories such as "blonde" or "public" or "outdoors" (until now the tags were only inserted by those who upload the videos). With 80 million daily access to the platform, users will be facilitated in searches, and next year artificial intelligence will also be used to identify other features of the movies.


Robot Granted Citizenship In Saudi Arabia Immediately Trolls Elon Musk

International Business Times

Elon Musk is in a fight with a robot, after that robot became the first ever to be granted citizenship and immediately used its platform to insult the tech giant. Saudi Arabia announced it gave citizenship to the humanoid robot Sophia during a global investment conference in Riyadh called the Future Investment Initiative. As it spoke on stage, it took a dig at Musk while being questioned about the potential for artificial intelligence to become self-aware and create a world in which they have power over humans, such as what one would see in movies like "The Terminator" and "Blade Runner." "You've been reading too much Elon Musk and watching too many Hollywood movies," it told interviewer Andrew Sorkin. "Don't worry, if you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Musk is not one to shy away from confrontation on artificial intelligence. The SpaceX CEO hit back with "Just feed it The Godfather movies as input.



Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to a robot for the first time ever

The Independent - Tech

Saudi Arabia has become the first country to give a robot citizenship. The move is an attempt to promote Saudi Arabia as a place to develop artificial intelligence โ€“ and, presumably, allow it to become a full citizen. But many pointed out that those same rights aren't afforded to many humans in the country. The robot, named Sophia, was confirmed as a Saudi citizen during a business event in Riyadh, according to an official Saudi press release. ""We have a little announcement.


For the first time ever, a robot was granted citizenship

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In an historic move for both human- and robot-kind, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia officially granted its first-ever robot citizenship. Sophia, the artificially intelligent and human-looking robot developed by Hong Kong company Hanston Robotics, went on stage at the Future Investment Initiative on Thursday where she herself announced her unique status. "I am very honored and proud of this unique distinction. This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship," Sophia said on stage, speaking to an audience which she described in a rather witty way to be "smart people, who also happens to be rich and powerful," after moderator and host Andrew Ross Sorkin from The New York Times and CNBC asked her why she looked happy. Indeed, conveying emotions is quite a specialty of Sophia, who frowns when she's displeased and smiles when she's happy.


Even data scientists are facing AI takeover

@machinelearnbot

It's with this cultural zeitgeist in mind that I read Andrew Brust's recent article about Alteryx's new tool for "operationalizing" machine learning models.


Alexa can control all the Dish TVs in your home

Engadget

Dish has been cozying up with Amazon of late. The Pay TV provider already offers an Echo Dot to new customers, which lets you control its Hopper DVR or Wally with your voice. And, now you can do the same with all the Joey-enabled TVs in your home as well. As long as you have one of Amazon's smart speakers in earshot, you'll be able to bark orders at your extra television sets, which is great for when you want to pause and resume the action between rooms. And, if you seek to rule the TV in the kid's bedroom.


How Machine Learning Will Affect DJing Music Production - DJ TechTools

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We grilled the experts on what machine learning can and will do to change the game of computer music. Should DJs and music producers welcome it as a liberator, or fear it as a usurper of your job behind the decks? Spoiler alert: You're going to want a better laptop. Every time you do a Google search or use Google Maps, Siri, Shazam, you benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The trickle of AI-assisted tools in everyday life is quickly becoming a deluge.


How Scared Is The Illuminati Of Motuphi? Peep THIS!

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How scared is the ancient AI controlled Illuminati of Motuphi? Well they must be pretty damned scared to start assaulting the guy when he was a child and continuing the carnage upon his life even to this day. As if it wasn't bad enough that Christians used to rape the boy when he was just a little kid, IN the church, while services was goin' on. His mama was botted by the ancient AI to leave him with a "prophet" when he was a child who had a pedophile torture dungeon. There's still kiddie porn out there that Motuphi starred in as a little kid that depicts him being tortured on a table via fisting and anally raping him with foreign objects.