Imagine Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as an algorithm. At our annual GTC Technology Conference in May, our video from the keynote, titled "I Am AI," featured music that was composed by AI itself. To accomplish this, we enlisted the help of Pierre Barreau and his startup, Aiva Technologies, which uses deep learning to create music. Barreau credits growing up in a "family of artists" as his reason for wanting to bring AI into music. "I'm a self-taught pianist and I also studied computer science at university," Barreau said in conversation with AI Podcast host Michael Copeland.

With his marriage to Norma Levor over, Claude Shannon was a bachelor again, with no attachments, a small Greenwich Village apartment, and a demanding job. His evenings were mostly his own, and if there's a moment in Shannon's life when he was at his most freewheeling, this was it. He kept odd hours, played music too loud, and relished the New York jazz scene. He went out late for raucous dinners and dropped by the chess clubs in Washington Square Park. He rode the A train up to Harlem to dance the jitterbug and take in shows at the Apollo. He went swimming at a pool in the Village and played tennis at the courts along the Hudson River's edge. Once, he tripped over the tennis net, fell hard, and had to be stitched up. His home, on the third floor of 51 West Eleventh Street, was a small New York studio. "There was a bedroom on the way to the bathroom. It was a boardinghouse ... it was quite romantic," recalled Maria Moulton, the downstairs neighbor. Perhaps somewhat predictably, Shannon's space was a mess: dusty, disorganized, with the guts of a large music player he had taken apart strewn about on the center table. "In the winter it was cold, so he took an old piano he had and chopped it up and put it in the fireplace to get some heat." His fridge was mostly empty, his record player and clarinet among the only prized possessions in the otherwise spartan space. Claude's apartment faced the street. The same apartment building housed Claude Levi-Strauss, the great anthropologist. Later, Levi-Strauss would find that his work was influenced by the work of his former neighbor, though the two rarely interacted while under the same roof. Though the building's live-in super and housekeeper, Freddy, thought Shannon morose and a bit of a loner, Shannon did befriend and date his neighbor Maria. They met when the high volume of his music finally forced her to knock on his door; a friendship, and a romantic relationship, blossomed from her complaint. Maria encouraged him to dress up and hit the town.

You've probably seen the Watson commercials, where what looks like a sentient box interacts with celebrities like Bob Dylan, Carrie Fisher, and Serena Williams; or doctors; or a young cancer survivor. Maybe you caught the IBM artificial intelligence technology's appearance in H&R Block's Super Bowl commercial starring Jon Hamm. "It is one of the most powerful tools our species has created. It helps doctors fight disease," Hamm says. "It can predict global weather patterns. It improves education for children everywhere. And now we unleash it on your taxes."

Almost everyone loves to spend their leisure time to watch movies with their family and friends. We all have the same experience when we sit on our couch to choose a movie that we are going to watch and spend the next two hours but can't even find one after 20 minutes. We definitely need a computer agent to provide movie recommendation to us when we need to choose a movie and save our time. Apparently, a movie recommendation agent has already become an essential part of our life.. According to Data Science Central "Although hard data is difficult to come by, many informed sources estimate that, for the major ecommerce platforms like Amazon and Netflix, that recommenders may be responsible for as much as 10% to 25% of incremental revenue."

There's a new paradigm in television laced with high-end visual effects for a more sophisticated viewing audience. "Game of Thrones" has set the bar for the visual effects award, having won five of its previous six nominations. With its absence this year, having launched its seventh season too late for Emmy eligibility, the competitive VFX field has conjured the likes of pirate battles in 1715 Nassau and androids wandering a version of the Old West. Here, a quick chat with this year's nominees. Visual effects designer Kevin Haug and VFX supervisors David Stump and Jeremy Ball focused on photographic realism to develop the look and feel of Starz's "American Gods" with director David Slade.

Alex Lacamoire has hearing loss. But the Tony-winning music director of "Hamilton" wants you to know, he's no Beethoven. He's heard that you can see teeth marks on the wood inside Beethoven's piano "because he would bite it to try to be able to hear the vibrations," Lacamoire said. My hearing is not that bad." When he was 2, growing up near Los Angeles' Koreatown, Lacamoire would sit in front of the stereo and stare into the speaker, drawn to music like a drug. When he was 3, his mother observed him sitting too close to the TV, following the characters on "Sesame Street" with his eyes. "I noticed that when I called him, he'd run away like he wasn't paying attention," Maria Lacamoire said. She took him for a hearing test, where it was discovered that he had mild hearing loss. "I think I was a little bit too young for it to really understand," Lacamoire said. "All I remember is, like, oh wow, they're putting this weird goop in my ear to mold me [for hearing aids] and then I walked away and I had these little apparatuses behind my ears." When he was 6, the school district recommended that Lacamoire attend a special class that combined sign-language instruction along with spoken language. "That was devastating for me," his mother said, "because I didn't notice any other problem with him, because he was very smart." She appealed the decision, and Lacamoire was given an IQ test. He not only joined a mainstream class at Commonwealth Avenue Elementary School but also skipped the first grade. "Alex was the most outstanding student I ever had," said his second-grade teacher, Dorothy Chapman, who taught at Commonwealth for 25 years and retired in 2002. Children with hearing loss, especially when that loss is identified late, often lag behind their peers because they've absorbed less vocabulary and less information. Chapman said the charming little 6-year-old would finish his assignments in five minutes, whereas it took his classmates 20, so she would give him third-grade work. "I've just always been drawn to design, whether it's uniformity or harmony -- and by harmony I mean symmetry and balance and those kinds of things," Lacamoire said. He found beauty and design in the piano, and starting lessons at age 4. After his family moved to Miami when he was 9, he attended an arts high school and then the New World School of the Arts. For Lacamoire, music was "as fluid to me as writing down words.

Today we're looking at edible robot surgeons, EVs that will go (some) distance, and free apples. Here's how Tesla's long-range Model 3 covers 310 miles A bunch of EPA certification documents have finally revealed that the long-range version of Tesla's Model 3 is equipped with a 350-volt, 230-amp-hour battery pack. Of course, that's the $44,000 version, so anyone sticking with the $35k base model will have a battery pack rated for 220 miles on a charge. 'Innerspace' was actually a documentary. In the near future, robots will no longer be cutting into us -- from the outside, at least.

Dear Journalists, I'd like to offer some advice on how to write better and more truthfully when you write articles about artificial intelligence. The reason I'm writing this is that there are a whole lot of very bad articles on AI (news articles and public interest articles) being published in newspapers and magazines. Some of them are utter nonsense, bordering on misinformation, some of them capture the gist of what goes on but are riddled with misunderstandings. No, I will not provide examples, but anyone working in AI and following the news can provide plenty. There are of course also many good articles about AI, but the good/bad ratio could certainly be improved.

I am non-technical by education, but my passion revolves only around technology, and specifically to Artificial Intelligence. Yeah, it sounds more like relating yourself to Steven Spielberg Sci-Fi, wherein everything could be controlled with just a tap or the retina identification, although most of these aspects discussed in the movie are quite possible now, just due to the invasion of Artificial Intelligence in our lives. As a layman, it is hard to understand the real mechanism of AI since it would be a glut of high technical language, which may bounce back, so in a plain language, AI stands for that idea, where certain machines are developed in a way that they can think like humans. Just to illustrate further Siri in your iPhone to those self-driving cars, all are the products of Artificial Intelligence. Let's take a look at some of the facts related to AI… Taking Care of Daily Chores We all have to perform certain tasks in our daily routine, which are too obvious but needs to be accomplished daily in personal and professional lives.

As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that many people are afraid of what AI might bring. It's perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that we might be afraid of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away, Matrix-like, as some sort of human battery. And yet it is hard for me to look up from the evolutionary computer models I use to develop AI, to think about how the innocent virtual creatures on my screen might become the monsters of the future. Might I become "the destroyer of worlds," as Oppenheimer lamented after spearheading the construction of the first nuclear bomb? I would take the fame, I suppose, but perhaps the critics are right.