The BPI has embraced the post-human era, with a report of the use of AI in music by consultancy MusicAlly. "AI is enabling the creation of hyper-personalised playlists using contextual data and deep analysis of the relationship between songs, while artists and labels are now using chatbots to engage fan-bases in campaigns," we learn. "Gut instinct, passion for the music and human experience remain fundamental qualities in A&R and marketing, but the music sector should not ignore new tools that allow it to reach fans in exciting, new ways," the report suggests. We learn that: "Dance artist Hardwell's bot, for example, encourages fans to interact: voting for his Track Of The Week and submitting shout-outs to his radio show. In its first two weeks, 60,000 fans chatted to the bot, generating more than 1m interactions according to developer We Make Awesome Sh." [is that a word? - Ed] The report does caution that the bots may not be very intelligent.

It's the perfect time of the year to gather your family, consider what you're grateful for and watch way too much TV. Even if you're already a television connoisseur, there's a good chance you haven't been able to keep up with all of the great viewing options available today. And once you've exhausted this list, check out our recommendations from the past few years. The Twilight Zone of our era is back on Netflix with a bigger budget, more episodes, and plenty of familiar faces aboard. This season, Black Mirror explores scenarios where your entire life is based your social media score; a game company that's developed all too realistic augmented reality; and your mind can be backed up forever.

Now you can use Chatbots to get news and information in a personalized pattern. Famous media companies like CNN and Fox news have already launched their Chatbots on platforms like Facebook Messenger, Line and Kik as well as on voice-activated devices like Amazon's Alexa. Facebook has unveiled new capabilities for businesses and publishers on Messenger, enabling users to chat with CNN to get breaking news and personalized stories. People will now be able to chat with the companies and publishers like they would do with their friends. CNN is using chatterbots for Facebook Messenger to interact with users in a natural and human-like way.

The BPI has embraced the post-human era, with a report of the use of AI in music by consultancy MusicAlly. "AI is enabling the creation of hyper-personalised playlists using contextual data and deep analysis of the relationship between songs, while artists and labels are now using chatbots to engage fan-bases in campaigns," we learn. "Gut instinct, passion for the music and human experience remain fundamental qualities in A&R and marketing, but the music sector should not ignore new tools that allow it to reach fans in exciting, new ways," the report suggests. We learn that: "Dance artist Hardwell's bot, for example, encourages fans to interact: voting for his Track Of The Week and submitting shout-outs to his radio show. In its first two weeks, 60,000 fans chatted to the bot, generating more than 1m interactions according to developer We Make Awesome Sh." [is that a word? - Ed] The report does caution that the bots may not be very intelligent.

Amplyfi, a start-up that specialises in mining and interpreting data from the Deep Web using artificial intelligence, is to create forty new jobs in Cardiff following support from the Welsh Government. A £400,000 0% interest loan from the Welsh Government's Repayable Fund for SMEs will enable Amplyfi to take on more highly skilled staff to support and refine its business intelligence platform, DataVoyant. The funding follows an August 2016 investment by SME investors Finance Wales Group to accelerate the growth of high-potential businesses in Wales. Amplyfi moved to Cardiff in December 2015 where it has been developing and piloting DataVoyant their flagship product. DataVoyant combines Surface and Deep Web data mining, artificial intelligence and data visualisation in a single user-friendly platform - an industry first.

We're hitting you with the Weekend Edition a few days early in honor of the holiday -- and so we can enjoy some turkey, too -- but we'll be back to our regular schedule starting next Monday. I'd like to take this opportunity to let you all know how thankful I am, and the entire staff is, to have you as readers. The work we do wouldn't be possible without your support, and you have our gratitude for reading, watching and contributing to Engadget. Before you sit down to give thanks and break bread with those close to you, here are our finest cuts -- and best conversation starters -- from the week that was. For the philosophical thinkers out there, Aaron Souppouris tackled a difficult conundrum: Can and should the politics of an individual affect our ability to appreciate and enjoy his or her work?

The boss of Reddit deleted comments from a Donald Trump-supporting community on his site, he has admitted. Steve Huffman, who co-founded the site and posts on it under the username spez, has said that he removed comments from Reddit's "The_Donald" community. That page has been one of the most prominent communities supporting Donald Trump online. In particular, he deleted comments that took issue with him. When users wrote "fuck u/spez", he changed the name to those of the managers of the subreddit – essentially meaning that any criticism was altered so that it lookde like it was being made towards the subreddit's own moderators.

THERE IS SOMETHING familiar about fears that new machines will take everyone's jobs, benefiting only a select few and upending society. Such concerns sparked furious arguments two centuries ago as industrialisation took hold in Britain. People at the time did not talk of an "industrial revolution" but of the "machinery question". First posed by the economist David Ricardo in 1821, it concerned the "influence of machinery on the interests of the different classes of society", and in particular the "opinion entertained by the labouring class, that the employment of machinery is frequently detrimental to their interests". Thomas Carlyle, writing in 1839, railed against the "demon of mechanism" whose disruptive power was guilty of "oversetting whole multitudes of workmen".

There is growing concern about artificial intelligence (AI) taking away jobs. All three scenarios have strong arguments, but the fact that we are debating and talking about it now suggests that, in the end, the more plausible scenario is going to be a mix of all three futures. Tractica's own analysis suggests that while AI capabilities today are mostly limited, it is a mistake to brush off AI advancement as another hype cycle heading toward an AI winter. Tractica's recently published report, Artificial Intelligence Market Forecasts, suggests that revenue will reach $36.8 billion by 2025, with almost every industry seeing an impact from AI. In this blog post, we try to go a step further by understanding the ratio and mix of how these three scenarios could play out.

He studied English Literature and History at Sussex University before gaining a Masters in Newspaper Journalism from City University. Businesses are often data-rich but information-poor. Machine learning (ML) is changing that. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to let computers learn independently through algorithms without being explicitly programmed can help companies process vast quantities of complex data to improve analytics, predictive accuracy and decision-making. Machine learning is already being used in everything from fraud detection to self-driving cars, and in sectors from marketing to government.