In the 2004 film I, Robot, Detective Del Spooner asks an A.I. named Sonny: "Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?" Scientists have been working on answering Spooner's question for the last decade with striking results. Researchers from Rutgers University, Facebook, and the College of Charleston have developed a system for generating original art called C.A.N. (Creative Adversarial Network). They "trained" C.A.N. on more than 81,000 paintings from 1,119 artists ranging from the 15th century to the 20th century.

We use Redis because Redis can be a bridge between Node.js Also, you can use zeroMQ, RabbitMQ to make pipelines. PingFirmata must be loaded onto Arduino-compatible boards to enable this component. The most straightforward method for enabling this module is to use the Ping I2C Backpack. With your Arduino plugged in, issue the following instruction, using the serial port your arduino is plugged into.

The "America's Got Talent" Season 12 contestants have certainly learned a thing or two since joining the hit NBC reality TV competition. A few days before the semifinals, some of the contestants shared one important lesson learned from their fellow contestants on the show. Dog act Sara & Hero has wowed the crowd since the judge cuts round. Despite not receiving rave reviews during their first audition, Sara & Hero have made it to the semifinals with flying colors. In the clip released by network, Sara jokingly says that she and her dog, Hero, learned how to become escape artists from Demian Aditya.

Artificial intelligence finds T. rex couldn't run A popular YouTube artist has an unusual collaborator on her new album -- artificial intelligence. Pop artist Taryn Southern, who appeared on American Idol in 2004, created the lyrics and melodies for "I AM AI" but left most of the other work to software programs. The album's first song "Break Free," which was released on Monday, was developed with the help of startup Amper Music. Amper is one of several AI music services Southern is working with on the album, which will debut later this year. Southern has only basic piano skills, so she turned to the program to deliver the instrumental part of the song.

Throughout the latter half of the 1990s, video games were often talked about as a looming threat to cinema. The advent of CD-Rom technology promoted the medium's blocksome characters from avatars to actors, complete with lines of dialogue written by professional scriptwriters and spoken by performers loaned from TV and film. Soaring orchestral soundtracks backed three-act structures and, as games popped from 2D to 3D, the composition of scenes, lighting and lines of sight became concerns for digital directors as well as film. At some point the trajectory shifted. Games still borrow filmic techniques, but the truly cinematic video game – that which seeks to mimic the characterisation, structure and run-time of a blockbuster movie – is endangered, squeezed out by world-conquering, team-based eSports on one side and, on the other, everlasting online worlds where the game's geography expands to match the player's wanderlust. Naughty Dog remains one of the few purveyors of the filmic game.

Machine learning, task automation and robotics are already widely used in business. These and other AI technologies are about to multiply, and we look at how organizations can best take advantage of them. In the movie "2001" I found the scariest moment was when astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole met in the EVA pod to discuss the artificially intelligent HAL 9000 computer's behavior -- and HAL reads their lips. In the paper Lip Reading Sentences in the Wild, researchers Joon Son Chung, of Oxford University, Andrew Senior, Oriol Vinyals, and Andrew Zisserman, of Google, tested an algorithm that bested professional human lip readers. Soon, surveillance videos may not only show your actions, but the content of your speech.

It used to be that the term "automation" meant robotic arms in factories doing repetitive tasks -- fastening one part to another, drilling a screw, folding a piece of material. These days, the word means a lot more. AI means automation beyond the physical. It means automation of the tasks that previously took a living brain to complete -- things like conversation, data analysis, even driving. And ultimately, AI isn't anything new; computer scientists have been discussing and building it for decades now.

I have implemented backprop before, but never quite understood it. After much hard work I finally found out how to derive the backprop equations, in a way that I could understand. Wanted to share my approach.

It is Saturday, Sept. 2. Here's what you don't want to miss this weekend: Democratic civil war: At a time when the Democratic base is more restive than it has been in decades, Sen. Dianne Feinstein ignited a firestorm earlier this week when she refused to back the impeachment of President Trump and instead called for "patience" over his presidency. Her statements could become an albatross because of the state's shifting demographics and political leanings, as the 84-year-old decides whether to seek a sixth term. New mission: After six months in an immigrant detention facility, the taquero whose daughter recorded his arrest as he took her to school has walked out as an activist. L.A.'s identity: So much of Los Angeles' dark pop culture identity was formed by the classic sci-fi movie "Blade Runner." The director of the reboot says his movie will be distinct from the original.

Artificial intelligence is the single most-hyped trend of 2017. If you're lived through big data and digital transformation, you may be skeptical that something else will come around next year, too. AI is really a bigger deal than what has come before and it's hard to believe that it will be just another fad. Amazon Echo has established a foothold in over 10 million U.S. households (and is catching up to Siri's 41.4 million users.) Do you really think that next year all of those users are going to put their Echos in storage?