Aaron Reich, senior director of technology innovation at Avanade, told iTWire in an interview that what was powerful about AI and its cognitive computing capability was that it was more than just direct language translation. "Machines today can understand intent and nuances, making translation much more natural than in the past," he said. "However, it's not just about the tool; it's also about how it is embedded in an organisation's culture." Reich (below) is part of the innovation and incubation team at Avanade, a global professional services company providing IT consulting and services focused on the Microsoft platform. For the past few years he has been responsible for growth of Avanade's Windows Azure business.

If you're still debating whether a Blade Runner sequel was a good idea, you might want to see it anyway. Unlike the teaser we got back in December, Blade Runner 2049's first real trailer has more than vanity footage of Rick Deckard's return. Though it's edited to suggest Ryan Gosling's android hunter is about to ask the veteran Blade Runner the series' most haunting question, we'll have to wait until the film premiers on October 6th to see whether Harrison Ford was a robot all along. The trailer opens heavy on the nostalgia, leaning on Vangelis' synth tones from the original film's iconic score. There's a lot of imagery to chew through while we wait to see if director Denis Villenueve (Arrival) pulls off a miracle following up on arguably the top science fiction film of all time.

You can use Google's Home to cast Spotify (and other streaming music services) to your sound system with Chromecast using voice commands. The instructions for how to do this provided by both Google and Spotify assume you have either a Chromecast-equipped TV or Chromecast Audio. You can use the base Chromecast to cast both audio and video. Here's how to do it. If it's a new Chromecast, set it up using the Google Home app on a mobile device or laptop.

Harman Kardon's Invoke speaker, the Microsoft Cortana-powered answer to the Google Home and Amazon Echo, will ship this fall according to a preview page with the first official images of the tabletop device. Though pricing hasn't yet been revealed, Harman Kardon said that the Invoke will perform three major tasks: make and receive calls with Skype, control popular music services like Microsoft Groove, and "get things done" with Cortana, Microsoft's digital assistant. Microsoft said it would team up last year with Harman Kardon as part of a new Internet of Things initiative powered by Cortana. Though the initial partnership was expected inside connected cars, it appears both companies will leap into homes first. Harman was showing off the new Invoke on a preview page on its website that's since be unpublished, inviting potential buyers to sign up.

Mark Wahlberg gave fans an overview of his upcoming film, "Transformers: The Last Knight," at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday night. Wahlberg, who is reprising his "Transformers: Age of Extinction" role in the new movie, took the stage at the awards night to introduce a sneak peek from the Michael Bay-directed flick. Here's the synopsis: Giant badass robots kicking the crap out of each other, and I do some cool things, too," Wahlberg said (via Deadline) of the science fiction action movie before the clip was shown to the audience. The sneak peek shows a meeting between Wahlberg's Cade Yeager and Anthony Hopkins' Sir Edmund Burton, who is running a retirement home for Transformers in England. Also seen in the snippet are Laura Haddock's Vivian Wembley and Bumblebee among many others. READ: "Transformers: The Last Knight" director Michael Bay unveils new original character In "Transformers: The Last Knight," which is the fifth installment of the live-action "Transformers" film series, humans and Transformers are at war. With Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen) taking a dark turn in the film, the only key to saving humanity's future lies buried in the secrets of the past, most particularly in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. In addition to running a retirement home for Transformers, Edmund also happens to be an astronomer and historian, who is well-aware about the history of Transformers on Earth. And that's probably the reason why Cade pays him a visit as seen in the sneak peek. In the official trailer for the fifth installment of the franchise, Optimus is seen chained up in a ship in space and faced with a female Transformer, whom he addresses as "my maker." "Optimus Prime, you destroyed your home.

One of the most difficult parts of limiting the spread of fake news is that humans have a hard time filtering what is legit from what is bogus. But if humans can't tell the difference between what's real and fake, could machines do any better? In an attempt to answer this question, UC Santa Barbara computer scientist William Wang created LIAR, the largest ever database of fake news in an effort to train machines to automatically detect deception. Comprised of 12,836 examples of statements culled from a decade's worth of short statements from the Pulitzer prize-winning politifact.com, LIAR is an order of magnitude larger than any other fake news database that has been created in response to the 2016 election. To help a machine learning algorithm understand the statements, each of the 12,836 quotes was tagged with information about the truthfulness, subject, context, speaker, state, party, and prior history of inaccurate statements, in addition to a "lengthy analysis report" for the statement.

Directed by Oscar Sharp and starring Baywatch icon David Hasselhoff, It's No Game takes us to an alternate reality where, in midst of heated writer's strike in Hollywood, AI script writers have gradually began to replace human ones. Using an advanced nanobot technology, producers have found a way to channel the inner thoughts and mannerism of the AI writers directly to human actors, causing them to act out borderline non-sensical lines put together by various algorithms trained on Shakespeare, Aaron Sorkin and Golden Age Hollywood movies. To crank out the script for the movie, Benjamin's creator Ross Goodwin trained the AI according to six different models, sourcing dialogue lines from classic movie and television titles like Knight Rider and Baywatch. Unlike last time however, Goodwin fed the AI solely with subtitle files, and not raw scripts, in order to avoid the uncanny stage directions and character names from Sunspring.

Facebook has announced new measures for tackling fake news in the UK, ahead of next month's general election. The social network is set to treat the issue like clickbait, using algorithms to crack down on misleading articles. "We've found that if reading an article makes people significantly less likely to share it, that may be a sign that a story has misled people in some way," it said. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

The composer starts with a well-known tune which is sung by the soprano and then composes three harmonies sung by the alto, tenor, and bass voices. That raises an interesting question: could a machine create chorales in the same style of Bach? Hadjeres and Pachet begin by creating a data set to train their neural network. "This method is not only applicable to Bach chorales but embraces a wide range of polyphonic chorale music, from Palestrina to Take 6," say Hadjeres and Pachet.

Hi all, I'm seeing mostly technical approaches, i want to create a critical discussion here. The main idea is, since the training data is created by humans, can our cognitive biases become a part of the system. For me the main issue is how we approach ML. The tech we are used to is deterministik, so its objective, unbiased, and most of the time right. But ML and AI is stocastic. But we are willing to deploy without much questoining.