The newspapers have a scoop today - it seems that artificial intelligence (AI) could be out to get us. "'Robot intelligence is dangerous': Expert's warning after Facebook AI'develop their own language'", says the Mirror. Similar stories have appeared in the Sun, the Independent, the Telegraph and in other online publications. It sounds like something from a science fiction film - the Sun even included a few pictures of scary-looking androids. So, is it time to panic and start preparing for apocalypse at the hands of machines? While some great minds - including Stephen Hawking - are concerned that one day AI could threaten humanity, the Facebook story is nothing to be worried about.

When Sony nominated Kaz Hirai to lead the corporation, he laid out an ambitious strategy that he titled One Sony. Hirai identified three key markets where he wanted Sony to be a leader: digital imaging, gaming and mobile, with the trio pushed accordingly. Five years later, and Hirai's managed to hit two out of three targets, with Sony's most recent financial reports vindicating his plan. The often-troubled conglomerate saw its sales and operating revenue increase by 15.2 percent year-on-year, mostly thanks to semiconductors and financial services. In the former category, is Sony's lucrative digital image sensor business that provides the chips for pretty much every smartphone worth a damn. Bloomberg believes that Sony sensors are now found inside half the world's phones, and given that many use dual lenses on the back and one up front, that's a healthy bounty for Sony.

Tokyo-based Honda, which makes the Fit subcompact, Accord sedan and Asimo robot, reported Tuesday a 207.3 billion yen ($1.9 billion) profit for April-June, up from 174.6 billion yen the same period last year.

The result, after some work by crack film editor Alex MacKenzie, was the 45 minute documentary Singularity or Bust -- a uniquely edgy, experimental Singularitarian road movie, featuring perhaps the most philosophical three-foot-tall humanoid robot ever, a glance at the fast-growing Chinese research scene in the late aughts, and even a bit of a real-life love story. The film was screened in theaters around the world, and won the Best Documentary award at the 2013 LA Cinema Festival of Hollywood and the LA Lift Off Festival. And now it is online, free of charge, for your delectation. Singularity or Bust is a true story pertaining to events occurring in the year 2009. It captures a fascinating slice of reality, but bear in mind that things move fast these days.

Never quite got to experiment with the model further but behavioral detection on top of linux tracing infrastructere is on my todo list, but i'm gonna need to setup some containers and get my hands on some malware to test it on. Unfortunately don't quite have to resources required but my alma mater has some cooperation with AV companies so perhaps I'll get lucky and they give me access to malware db (it's my understanding that virustotal has one). Anyways, w2v seems to have bunch of use cases outside it's original scope, experiment ppls:-)

Tensorflow releases go very fast nowadays, and I noticed it's hard to keep up. This weekend I spent some time going over the changelog, searching for changed parts of Tensorflow that might be important for me and others. If you have any questions about this version update, or in general about Tensorflow, leave a comment here or under the article!

On Inside Business this week we discuss Artificial Intelligence and ask how it's going to affect our lives, and see how Northern Ireland is involved? We are joined by; Austin Tanney, head of life science at Analytics Engines; Dr Michaela Black, head of computing and intelligent systems at Ulster University; Queen's student Rachael Coulter, who has attended an AI Camp this summer; and Tom Gray, head of digital at Catapult NI. Also on the programme is Belfast-born Noel Sharkey, professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield.

Facebook shuts Artificial Intelligence system after bots create own language Days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence (AI) was the biggest risk, Facebook has shut down one of its AI systems after chatbots started speaking in their own language defying the codes provided. According to a report in Tech Times on Sunday, the social media giant had to pull the plug on the AI system that its researchers were working on "because things got out of hand". "The AI did not start shutting down computers worldwide or something of the sort, but it stopped using English and started using a language that it created," the report noted. Initially the AI agents used English to converse with each other but they later created a new language that only AI systems could understand, thus, defying their purpose. This led Facebook researchers to shut down the AI systems and then force them to speak to each other only in English.

On May 30, 2007, two of America's most brilliant minds, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, sat down for a joint interview at the All Things Digital Conference. The two pioneers of the computer world spoke fondly of the other's contribution to technology. But what preceded this historic exchange was more than three decades of rocky collaborations and rivalry. Gates and Jobs had battled to dominate a new age and, in the process, revolutionised billions of lives. "Though they never worked in the same company, they created an industry together, and we have a hippie and a nerd ... With Bill, it was always about the money. With Steve ... money was nice, but it was never about the money. And so that made them black and white. They were very, very different people," says journalist Robert Cringely, who worked with Gates and Jobs in the late-1970s.