More broadly, we hope that MusicNet can be a resource for more creative tasks. Automatic music transcription, inferring a musical score from a recording, is a long-standing open problem in the music information retrieval community. Music streaming services traditionally make recommendations based on collaborative filtering and metadata (e.g. Recently, some services have begun to incorporate audio features into their recommendation engines. Features learned from the MusicNet labels might be useful for recommendation.

Chatting with Rose is really good fun – at least to begin with. She talks about her life in San Francisco, her two chickens and her pet cat. She comes across as funny, quick-witted and interested in what you have to say. But as the conversation proceeds, she turns out to be a rather poor conversationalist. Whenever she can't think of an answer to a question, she tries to change the subject with a question of her own.

'Humans' has returned to our TVs, and brought with it a realisation of the fear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will one day gain consciousness and run riot. In it we see the'Synths' fighting for their rights, vulnerable in their humanity. But we also see the darker, riskier side in Niska, who distrusts humans but is more volatile in her reactions. We know she has killed, and it's her representation of AI that we really fear. Humans isn't the first to bring this conscious AI danger to life; for me, the most haunting representation is Ex Machina, where (spoiler alert!) Ava successfully manipulates Caleb into falling in love with her and setting her free, then leaves him stranded. That's where the film ends; nobody knows what she goes on to do, and our imaginations run riot.

While many fans may have had sexual fantasies about their favourite celebrity, most would never have had the opportunity to act on them. But robotics could change this, according to one sex robot expert. London-based Dr David Levy, author of'Love and Sex with Robots', has said in the future it will be common to find sex robots modelled on celebrities. Earlier this year a graphic designer created a life-like replica of actress Scarlett Johansson (pictured) which is not a sex robot but winks and giggles when people tell her she's cute. Speaking to the Daily Star Online, Dr Levy said there is a demand for celebrity sex robots.

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What if the computer algorithms could tell more compelling stories than journalists, writers or business analysts? Well, this is increasingly becoming a reality. A new generation of Big Data tools are being put to automate story telling. The ideas behind this application of analytics were first put to use generating automated news reports, covering sports and financial stories. Take the recent Wimbledon tennis championships as an example.

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Sunday night's season 1 finale of Westworld was the perfect finish to a near-perfect season of television. While many fan theories came true tonight, there were some big twists that not everyone saw coming. Better still, the finale leaves plenty of loose ends flapping in the breeze, leaving the door wide open for a second season. Perhaps the biggest twist of the night was Dr. Ford's role in...well, everything. It turns out it wasn't Arnold's voice in the hosts' heads, nor was it Arnold manipulating the hosts to awaken and rebel.

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All those dire predictions about the automated economy sound like a sci-fi horror film from the '50s: Robots are coming to take your jobs, your homes, your children. And it has a happy ending. Next time you stop for gas at a self-serve pump, say hello to the robot in front of you.