AI Music, a British startup, uses AI to make smart adjustments to music, such as syncing the tempo with the movements of the video it's being played on. Image generated by deep neural networks.

The sometimes glamorous job of modeling may be going the way of elevator operator. Online fashion tech startup Vue.ai is selling technology that analyzes pieces of clothing and automatically generates an image of the garment on a person of any size, shape, or wearing any kind of shoes. The company is currently talking to retailers to replace the continuous stream of photo shoots fashion retailers arrange for each new run of clothing. Instead of hiring a professional photographer, models, and a studio, retailers only have to take a picture of the garment laid out on a plain surface. The AI can generate a human figure, then predict how the garment would fit.

We hear a lot about the under-representation of women in so-called STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and maths. But the proportion of women in economics is by some measures smaller. In the US, only about 13% of women hold permanent academic positions in economics; and in the UK the proportion is only slightly better at 15.5%. Only one woman has ever won the Nobel Prize in economics - American Elinor Ostrom in 2009. And there wasn't even a single woman on some of the lists floating about guessing who this year's prize winner would be - it went to the behavioural economist Richard Thaler.

I'll bet you can quote 10 different movies, where people have to fight for the fate of humanity against machines. My all-time favorite is 2001: A Space Odyssey, with HAL's famous quote (maybe because it reminds me of how my mother would talk to me during my adolescent years) "I am, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."[i] Reality and fiction are not the same, we are very far from having a super-intelligent computer that can take over humanity, but people are still hesitant to adopt AI technology. In this blog, I will explore the reasons, and identify the methodology we at Informatica use to address these concerns. We have the zeroth laws of Asimov: zeroth law, to precede the others: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Fresh off its AI-powered tool for countering watermark removal from photos, Shutterstock is using machine learning for something else. "This tool allows users to specify one or more keywords, or to search for copy space, and arrange them spatially on a canvas to reflect the specific layout of the image they are seeking," a press release reads. "The patent pending tool uses a combination of machine vision, natural language processing and state of the art information retrieval techniques to find strong matches against complex spatially aware search criteria." So, dragging "pen" to the lower left corner of the search box, and "desk" to the upper right corner will come back with photos where the pen is in the lower left of the frame, and a desk is in the upper right. At least that's how it's supposed to work in theory.

As part of the study, a mother plays with her child at the Princeton Baby Lab. Mothers across languages change the timbre of their voice in similar ways when they speak to babies, Princeton University neuroscientists report today in the journal Current Biology. This finding will help researchers understand what kind of speech keeps a baby's attention, which could improve how we teach children. Timbre is the flavor of music and speech. It's not a distinct pitch or loudness, but rather the unique collection of frequencies produced by a person or instrument.

This is because it can be hooked up to multiple Google accounts and is capable of recognising the different users' voices. As well as being good for privacy, this means each member of a household gets an experience that has been personalised to their preferences and interests. To add an account to Home, open the Google Home app, make sure your phone is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as the Google Home you want to connect to, tap the Menu icon, Devices and find the device card of the Google Home you'd like to link to your voice. From the device card, tap the blue banner labelled Multi User is Now Available or Link Your Account, hit Continue and follow the prompts to teach Google Home to recognise your voice. To invite other people to link their Google Account & voice for tailored results, tap Invite.

The latest movie by Guillermo del Toro is the genre-hopping "The Shape of Water," which manages all at once to be a romance, an espionage thriller, a period story, a monster movie and even make time for a full-fledged musical number. His previous feature, "Crimson Peak," was a gothic romance and horror tale. A trilogy of novels he co-wrote became the basis for the television series "The Strain." The "Trollhunters" book he co-wrote became an animated series. And Del Toro often expresses an ongoing interest in video games.

It's a custom mixtape of 30 songs they've never listened to before but will probably love. It's called Discover Weekly, and it's pretty much magic. It makes me feel seen. It knows my musical tastes better than any person in my life ever has, and I am consistently delighted by how it satisfies me just right every week, with tracks I myself would never have found or known I would like. As it turns out, I'm not alone in my obsession with Discover Weekly--the user base went crazy for it, which has driven Spotify to completely rethink its focus, investing more resources into algorithm-based playlists.