"This is a propaganda machine. It's targeting people individually to recruit them to an idea. It's a level of social engineering that I've never seen before. They're capturing people and then keeping them on an emotional leash and never letting them go," said professor Jonathan Albright. Albright, an assistant professor and data scientist at Elon University, started digging into fake news sites after Donald Trump was elected president. Through extensive research and interviews with Albright and other key experts in the field, including Samuel Woolley, Head of Research at Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Project, and Martin Moore, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at Kings College, it became clear to Scout that this phenomenon was about much more than just a few fake news stories. It was a piece of a much bigger and darker puzzle -- a Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine being used to manipulate our opinions and behavior to advance specific political agendas. By leveraging automated emotional manipulation alongside swarms of bots, Facebook dark posts, A/B testing, and fake news networks, a company called Cambridge Analytica has activated an invisible machine that preys on the personalities of individual voters to create large shifts in public opinion.

There is an urgent need to expand the AI epistemic community beyond the specific geographies in which it is currently clustered. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer the subject of science fiction and is profoundly transforming our daily lives. While computers have already been mimicking human intelligence for some decades now using logic and if-then kind of rules, massive increases in computational power are now facilitating the creation of'deep learning' machines i.e. algorithms that permit software to train itself to recognise patterns and perform tasks, like speech and image recognition, through exposure to vast amounts of data. These deep learning algorithms are everywhere, shaping our preferences and behaviour. Facebook uses a set of algorithms to tailor what news stories an individual user sees and in what order.

Facebook's news feed has recently been taken to task for the explosion of "fake news" that can have real consequences. Music curation has moved from record labels and radio stations to increasingly AI-based algorithms. We are all accustomed to this intrusion of machine intelligence into our lives over the past decade -- systems watching our behavior and trying to infer what we want, and then combining such information with that from other sources so as to create a complex consumer profile that is valuable to advertisers. What happens when the next generation of intelligent systems mediate our environments completely? Or, more to the point, what happens when we delegate the curation of all aspects of our lives, as well as the actual physical appearance of the world, to a pervasive network that learns about us and continually adapts to our needs and desires?

If you have a Google Analytics account, test it out free here. By 2018, Gartner predicts that 20 percent of all business content will be authored by machines. I wanted to find out more about Quill, so I reached out to Narrative Science, the company that makes the solution. Narrative Science helps enterprises use natural language generation to analyze and tell stories from their data. "We hear all the time that content is king--but what's really helping many of our customers is that AI can help automate a lot of high-quality content at scale," Katy De Leon, Narrative Science's VP of marketing, told me via a Skype interview.

Top scientists and theoreticians are expressing their concerns about how badly wrong human experimentation with highly advanced artificial intelligence programs could turn out. The renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is one of the most prominent scientists to express his disquiet about the potential of the technology, describing artificial intelligence "the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity". In the best case scenario, this technology could improve the world in unimaginable ways. But in the worst case scenario, super-intelligent robots capable of thinking for themselves could effectively take over as this planet's most dominant'species', something which might pose an existential threat to humanity itself. While the worst case scenario might seem like the stuff of science-fiction dystopic fantasy, Google's new DeepMind AI system might suggest that this terrifying story might well become a reality.

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The face of the internet is changing on a swift pace making it easier and more convenient for users to interact with them. Artificial Intelligence is being integrated into websites which is making things simpler with minimal amount of interaction from the user. There are millions of images in a stock photography agency. The way images are distinguished from each other is by keywords relevant to the image. Thanks to the Keywordsready.com, the task has been made pretty simple by fusing together a website that uses Artificial Intelligence to grab the right keywords for you.

Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017 at Javits Center, New York City, is co-located with 20th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2017 in New York and Silicon Valley.

For making a success in stock photography it is desirable on the part of the photographer to be skilled not only in taking quality images, but also to scan out all the relevant descriptive keywords which can serve beneficial in listing his image on a stock photograpy agency. Today the task of keywording has emerged out as an act of creativity which can either lead to a great sale or deprive you of buyers. As the task of manually finding the keywords can be time consuming, keywordsready.com which is a keyword suggestion tool is well versed to relieve you of this problem and retrieves within seconds a set of keywords through Artificial Intelligence and pattern recognition technology. This saves your precious time for a multitude of other tasks concerning stock photography.

The short films showed Hors Concours at Cannes 2016. Written and directed by Hanson Robotics' own Creative VP Stephan Bugaj.