Robots are getting smarter, and, if you listen to high-ranking digital execs at Coca-Cola and other major brands, they're coming for your advertising jobs. No one knows that better than the tech geeks at Team One's newly launched AI Lab, who are vowing to stay ahead of the machine-learning curve by surrounding themselves with all things futuristic in a stylish nook of the agency's cavernous Playa Vista, Calif., headquarters. The lab, a scaled-down re-creation of a smart home designed to look like a midcentury modern crash pad, is outfitted with Google Home, Amazon Echo, Philips Hue and a trunk full of cognitive toys. "It's a dedicated space to experiment and brainstorm," said Alastair Green, executive creative director, digital, who launched the agency's tricked-out, gadget-heavy VR Lab onsite last year. "We want to spark ideas and create better work with AI. And to answer the brands' question: 'What's the business case for it?'"

Advancement in computers and technology have been incredibly positive for music creators around the globe. You can learn how to produce music on YouTube, purchase the same sample libraries as your favorite composers and create epic scores from your laptop, anywhere in the world. As a result, there are more music producers than ever. Computers helping humans create original music has become today's standard, but there are several companies looking to turn the tables on this process. Computer-generated songs are a fast-growing sector of the industry, looking to disrupt creation, licensing and access for musicians and non-musicians alike.

Futurist (and current director of engineering at Google) Ray Kurzweil has made a lot of predictions about the future--and many of them have come true. In his 1990 book "The Age of Intelligent Machines," Kurzweil foresaw things like the Internet's fast and widespread adoption, wearable devices, the cloud, and artificial intelligence being able to beat the world's best chess players by 2000. Overall, Kurzweil claims to have an 86 percent accuracy rate on his predictions from that book. Kurzweil's daughter, Amy, is a cartoonist and children's book author, and the two shared a stage at South by Southwest on March 13 to discuss the future of art, storytelling, and creativity in general. Here are four predictions the elder Kurzweil made about where those things are going.

Stephen Hawking, widely considered to be the most accomplished theoretical physicist in the entire world has made no secret of his fears that the technology behind artificial intelligence is developing faster than human beings can keep up with, and could eventually lead to a destruction of the human race. Now he has proposed a solution to this terrifying potential problem although he believes the solution could prove to be an even greater threat to the world. Speaking to The Times, Professor Hawking explained his fears about the threat posed by artificial intelligence. "Since civilization began, aggression has been useful since it has definite survival advantages, " he said, "It is hard-wired into our genes by Darwinian evolution. Now, however, technology has advanced at such a pace that this aggression may destroy us all by nuclear or biological war. We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason."

This story appeared in the March 15, 2017 issue of Level Up by Forbes newsletter. Netflix led the rise of streaming; now it wants to drive interactive-watching technology. In this realm, viewers will get to choose a TV show's plot events, such as whether an Orange Is The New Black inmate chooses to join or steer clear of a gang. Cast and crew will have written and filmed multiple options, allowing fans to curate their own watching experience. The "Choose Your Own Adventure" experiment will begin later this year with a children's show, simpler to produce than the adult content that would come later, writes Forbes contributor Dana Feldman.

Trading and broking firms line up each floor of the 29-storeyed BSE building. Located on the Dalal Street, the building is also one of the tallest in'South Bombay.' A typical trading shop looks like a small cabin area housing 4 to 5 desks with computers. During market hours, traders can be seen glued to the computer monitors and TV. However, there is something happening on the 18th floor of the building which could impact the jobs of these trading houses.

When Judy Norman walks on stage for the play'Spillikin', she performs beside a somewhat different cast member - a humanoid robot. The robot can talk, make facial expressions, blink its eyes, move its hand and turn its head. It has even been described as'affectionate' by leading lady Norman, who works closely with the robot throughout the performance. When Judy Norman (right) walks on stage for the play'Spillikin', she performs beside a somewhat different cast member - a humanoid robot (left). RoboThespian is the creation of Cornish engineer Will Jackson who had an idea to develop an artistic robot that could react with its audiences. Six years ago he embarked on a project to create a robot that would save tour guides from tediously repeating the same script each day.

One of Google Home's biggest strengths is its ability to fill our homes with music on command. All we need to do is say, "OK Google, play Shape of You," and it will dutifully comply, but if you don't know what you're in the mood to hear, the boundless options can be overwhelming. A new feature in the Google Home app is looking to help make it easier. Joining Watch and Discover, there's a new Listen tab in the Google Home app that is dedicated to finding just the right music at just the right time. As Google describes, the new section "shows you curated lists of ready-to-stream, personalized albums and playlists from your favorite music apps, like YouTube, Google Play Music, and Spotify. You'll also find compatible music and audio apps you already have on your phone or tablet, as well as a section to discover new apps to download."

The Dystopia Project is Mashable's ongoing book series reflecting on what dystopian fiction has to teach us under our new political climate. When you think of mid-20th century dystopias, most people go right to Brave New World (1932) or Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948). What you're unlikely to think of? Possibly because you've never read it. Even though it hails from the faded age of gee-whizz atomic-powered sci-fi stories, Isaac Asimov's classic has a lot to offer 21st century America.

Facebook is finally adding Stories to its news feed, completing its project to steal Snapchat's most famous picture. The company had already added the feature to the rest of its other apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. But the addition to the Facebook news feed is the biggest of all of those changes, shaking up the way that the app works entirely. At the top of the news feed, instead of the posts or the status update box, users will now see a series of circles with their friends faces in them. It will work the exact same as Instagram stories, which was added to the app last summer, and has gone on to become as big as Snapchat itself and taken many of the smaller app's most popular users. 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.