Apple chief executive Tim Cook is among the leading industry experts touting artificial intelligence as a tech on the cusp of world domination. Talking about the evolution of the smartphone, Cook told the Washington Post: "AI will make this product even more essential to you. It will become even a better assistant […] where you probably aren't leaving home without it today – you're really going to be connected to it in the future." But how so – will we soon be permanently wired to the web? Not quite, but we will have something that is, and is set to be very smart indeed.

Humans may live longer and longer, but eventually we all grow old and die. This leads to a simple question: Is there an intrinsic maximum limit to human lifespan or not? There are two equally simple answers. Either there is a limit or there isn't. Soft pretzels are one of the best things to come out of concession stands, but homemade pretzels are a million times better.

Artificial intelligence has been a trope of science fiction for decades. From the unsettling and double-crossing HAL in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey to the oppressive robots enslaving humanity in The Matrix and The Terminator, the concept of sentient machines outsmarting and overthrowing their creators has long permeated popular culture. If these movies are anything to go by, credit risk managers should be worried. Machine learning, a subset of AI that allows computers to answer simple questions...

Star Trek got it right: In the future, we'll use computers by talking to them. Google held an event this week and new hardware got most of the attention. Google unveiled a couple of Google-built Pixel phones, Google Wi-Fi home mesh routers, the Google Home virtual assistant appliance, a new 4k Chromecast Ultra streaming media box and the Daydream View VR headset. Critics say Google is copying and competing directly with Apple with the Pixel phones and with Amazon with Home. But this misses the point.

I speculate/talk about Artificial Intelligence (the way the robots work in the movie i,Robot, Siri in your iPhone, or the AI in the Avengers: Age of Ultron) and a possible scenario which could cause AI to become self-aware and start making self decisions for it's self and us humans. I don't know, I also express my interest in the future of social interactions between humans and machines!

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The "creepy clown crisis" is a case study in the science of the heebie-jeebies. Clowns are creeping across America, lurking in the woods and generally freaking out the general public. Over the past few months, "clown sightings" have become a thing, occupying a dark crevice in the popular imagination that was once filled by UFO or Slender Man sightings. And like all viral trends, this one is spreading, with creepy-clown alerts popping up in England, Australia, Canada, and Scotland. Whether they're teenage pranksters, a movie-marketing ploy, figments of the imagination, or really out to do harm (all possibly true in some cases), the clowns are universally described with one word: creepy.

Have people not been doing this up till now? Seems fairly obvious to me. A similar technique I've used for fun is applying k-NN to each layer to see how well the classes are separated at this layer based on the Euclidean distance (or whatever other metric one wishes to employ). Note that technically k-NN doesn't need any training at all!

In the Season 2 finale of Mr. Robot, Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallström) tells our troubled protagonist Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) about a William Carlos Williams poem called "The Red Wheelbarrow," but that's not the first time we've come across the phrase. Eagle-eyed viewers likely noticed that the words were scrawled across the front of Elliot's journal from his time in prison earlier in the season, before fellow inmate "Hot Carla" burned it. Now, thanks to series creator Sam Esmail and writer Courtney Looney, fans can peel back the pages and learn what was really going on inside Elliot's head during that time period on the show, as well as getting a hint about the significance of those words moving forward. Robot' Season 2 was overly ambitious, but that's what made it great in the first place Robot: Red Wheelbarrow," will hit shelves on Nov. 1, and in a panel at New York Comic Con, Esmail gave fans a few hints about how the tie-in book links to the series as a whole. "Tyrell, in the final episode of Season 2, quotes this poem to Elliott and there's a bond formed between these two, which is actually a moment that happens in Season 1 after the scene between Mr. Robot and Tyrell," Esmail explains. "That poem, that phrase, 'Red Wheelbarrow,' sticks in E's mind and becomes a code word that he'll later explore in Season 3, but that becomes the inspiration for the book.