In the fall of 2016, a pop song was released in Japan. "Daddy's Car," derivative of a Beatles tune, had a soothing beat and vaguely uplifting lyrics: "Good day sunshine in the backseat car / I wish that road could never stop." The ditty was distinctive for its authorship. Sony's Computer Science Laboratories in Paris produced the song, which was written by an artificial intelligence (AI) system called Flow Machines. The melody and harmony were composed by AI, and a human musician mixed the sound and wrote lyrics for the track. AI -- the new set of technologies that perform tasks that require human intelligence, such as speech recognition, decision making, and learning -- is rapidly working its way into business operations within many global industries. Some members of the entertainment and media (E&M) industry have downplayed its potential. After all, these are creative industries in which both the germ of the business and the value added to it stem from the contribution of human ingenuity and people exchanging ideas. The most successful E&M products and services rely on connecting creative content, brands, and experiences with audiences.

Each time I move my arm, the frog on screen extends his. I drop into a low splits and the frog follows suit, even mirroring me when I transition into a handstand. Yes, his hands float a little over the ground, but that's because he's been calibrated as someone six inches taller than me. Finally, I take my headset off, and the frog reacts like I've decapitated it, head hanging backward, reminiscent of Shakespeare's Macbeth. But even in its death throes, it's still uncannily accurate, following my every move perfectly -- with zero cameras involved in this motion capture.

Most of the infotainment systems that come with cars are terrible. Voice recognition feels like it's from the 1980s, and the navigation scheme would fail most usability tests. Android Auto was supposed to fix that. Problem is, automakers have been driving in the slow lane when it comes to actually building it into their cars. So Google opted to take matters into its own hands and update Android Auto to operate in a standalone mode that lets you run it on your phone.

It's a startling figure but it's nevertheless one that every business needs to be aware of. Up to 30 per cent of existing British jobs are susceptible to automation from robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) by the early 2030s, according to research undertaken by accountants and business advisors PwC. But PwC maintains that, in many cases, the nature of jobs will change rather than disappear. The likelihood of automation appears highest in sectors such as transport, manufacturing, and wholesale and retail and lower in education, health and social work. What's more, men are at greater potential risk of job automation than women and education will be the key differentiating factor for individual workers.

Sadly i didn't find any paper. Have you heard of it? Looks easy to manipulate, especially for the data layers (wink wink, Caffe). It's another framework to learn but i think the initiative's interesting.

Ever wished your Amazon Echo was more than just a smart speaker? Well, you may soon get that wish. The Amazon Echo is finally on sale (Photo: Reviewed.com) According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is preparing a new Amazon Echo, complete with a 7-inch touchscreen and video camera for video calling. The Journal says that an announcement could happen as early as Tuesday, with the new device going on sale as soon as next month.

Media seems to have become more partisan, often providing a biased coverage of news catering to the interest of specific groups. It is therefore essential to identify credible information content that provides an objective narrative of an event. News communities such as digg, reddit, or newstrust offer recommendations, reviews, quality ratings, and further insights on journalistic works. However, there is a complex interaction between different factors in such online communities: fairness and style of reporting, language clarity and objectivity, topical perspectives (like political viewpoint), expertise and bias of community members, and more. This paper presents a model to systematically analyze the different interactions in a news community between users, news, and sources. We develop a probabilistic graphical model that leverages this joint interaction to identify 1) highly credible news articles, 2) trustworthy news sources, and 3) expert users who perform the role of "citizen journalists" in the community. Our method extends CRF models to incorporate real-valued ratings, as some communities have very fine-grained scales that cannot be easily discretized without losing information. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first full-fledged analysis of credibility, trust, and expertise in news communities.

Nicolas Vuignier is perpetually reinventing the wheel. As a professional skier and filmmaker, he is in two professions in which ingenuity thrives. Last year, he tied his iPhone to a string and spun it around as he skied, creating impressive 360-degree footage. Now, Vuignier has returned with a new device that allows for yet another unique shot. The camera, based on a Kickstarter project called AER, is essentially a Nerf football with a GoPro taped to the back.

I've been working on a tutorial series for creating self-driving cars in Grand Theft Auto 5 for a bit now. The most recent creation is the result of day or so worth of collecting training data, and about 4 days of actual training of the model. It's currently a 30-layer convolutional neural network, it works purely on a frame-by-frame basis with no preprocessing other than an image resize and grayscale. It makes actions based on the current frame's pixel data, with no memory of what it's been doing. I plan to eventually incorporate some form of memory with something like recurrent layers, but...baby steps at a time!

"The key to the future is finally unearthed," Jared Leto somberly intones in the moody new trailer for "Blade Runner 2049," teasing mysteries yet to be revealed in the upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 dystopian sci-fi film. Fans will have to hold out five more months to learn what those mysteries may be when the film hits theaters on Oct. 6. But with the new trailer and a live-streamed Q&A Monday morning featuring stars Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling and director, Denis Villeneuve Warner Bros. pulled the curtain back a bit more on one of the year's most anticipated films. Set three decades after the events of the original movie, "Blade Runner 2049" centers on a young LAPD blade runner named Officer K (Gosling), who is tasked with hunting down renegade androids called "replicants." K uncovers a secret that leads him on a quest to find Ford's Rick Deckard, a blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.