Usually, host Rose Eveleth spends Flash Forward imagining a future made possible by new paradigms, like universal body-hacking or telepathy. This week, though, she gave the creative responsibilities to a recurrent neural network, who offered up a script based on every previous episode of her podcast, plus The War of the Worlds and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio play. As a result, Eveleth speculates about two futures: a post-apocalyptic world where witches go to space, and our possible future where AI regularly create our entertainment.

No doubt, this is the best-known line from Mario Puzo's book, The Godfather (1969) and the Oscar-award winning film of the same title (1972). Perhaps it may be one of the best-known lines in any film and ranks second only to "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" as the most celebrated quotation from an American film. Of course, the'offer' here is "do as I say or I'll kill you"… Corleone's preferred method of intimidating those around him and assuring that he gets exactly what he wants in an expeditious fashion. So you may be asking, what does this famous gangster line have to do with the fast emerging field of "bots" – software applications that run automated tasks and scripts over the Internet. Quite frankly, some people have a healthy fear of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the potential for unintended consequences of a future where machines have taken control of the world and reign over humans (think about the plot of The Matrix or The Terminator). So the purpose of this blog is to take a deeper look at the current state of AI applications on the Internet and to some extent, demystify what is going on with bots.

Our spandex-clad saviors rule movies. They even appear in comics occasionally. Yet some of the most interesting stories about caped crusaders right now don't come with pictures or fancy special effects. They're in good old fashioned books. A new wave of authors is bringing fun, romance, and a spirit of adventure to superheroes--and they're doing it by focusing on the sorts of saviors big-budget tentpole movies tend to overlook.

Around midnight one Saturday in January, Sarah Jeong was on her couch, browsing Twitter, when she spontane ously wrote what she now bitterly refers to as "the tweet that launched a thousand ships." The 28-year-old journalist and author of The Internet of Garbage, a book on spam and online harassment, had been watching Bernie Sanders boosters attacking feminists and supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement. In what was meant to be a hyper bolic joke, she tweeted out a list of political carica tures, one of which called the typical Sanders fan a "vitriolic crypto racist who spends 20 hours a day on the Internet yelling at women." The ill-advised late-night tweet was, Jeong admits, provocative and absurd--she even supported Sanders. But what happened next was the kind of backlash that's all too familiar to women, minorities, and anyone who has a strong opinion online. By the time Jeong went to sleep, a swarm of Sanders supporters were calling her a neoliberal shill. By sunrise, a broader, darker wave of abuse had begun. She received nude photos and links to disturbing videos. One troll promised to "rip each one of [her] hairs out" and "twist her tits clear off." The attacks continued for weeks. "I was in crisis mode," she recalls.

For this edition focused on TV content, we're very happy to be hosted at ProSiebenSat.1. They will sponsor the venue, the food and the drinks! As there will be a security check at the entrance I'd like to kindly ask everyone to register on this Eventbrite page so I have a master list of names. IF YOUR NAME IS NOT ON THE LIST YOU WON'T GET IN. So make sure to register, pretty please.

This approach tends to teach to machines what humans like to listen to, without understanding what is recommended. It is a deaf approach that's trying to mimic the record dealer's behavior. It's not a DJ that builds a listening experience. It doesn't capture what the soundtrack of your life is. Collaborative filtering also tends to make predictable and familiar recommendations. This favors the rise of a popular artist dictatorship, harmful for the beautiful versatility of music.

Rami Malek won the Outstanding Drama Actor award at the 2016 Emmys for his performance as Elliot Alderson on "Mr. It was the actor's first time to be nominated. While the actor is most popularly known for his role as the hacker-activist Elliot, there are many things about Malek that people will surely find as fascinating as the character he plays onscreen. Here are a few of them. Malek has a twin named Sami, who works as a teacher. Rami is the older twin by four minutes. It was just for one episode, and he only had three lines. Rami played one of Lane's (Keiko Agena) bible study group peers in Season 4, Episode 11, titled "In the Clamor and the Clangor," of the WB show. Rami went to the same school as Dunst, which was the Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. The actor admitted in an interview with E! News that he had a little thing for the "Fargo" actress. Rami also said that he and the actress are still friends, and his friend Garrett Hedlund is currently dating Dunst. The actor told Yahoo that he's not allergic to all kinds of cats, but when he told the production team behind "Mr.

The USA series Mr. Robot has more than just surprisingly realistic hacking scenes, as it now can claim an Emmy win. Series star Rami Malek snagged the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series award tonight, beating out Kevin Spacey, Bob Odenkirk and others. After double checking to make sure we were all seeing this too (good call), Malek said he wanted to "honor the Elliots...because there's a little bit of Elliot in all of us." The show's season finale airs Wednesday night, and if the breakdown of its hacking scenes hasn't turned you into a fan yet, take a look at our interviews with show creator Sam Esmail. Other notable winners include Tatiana Maslany's Lead Actress in a Drama win for her multiple Orphan Black characters (14 at last count), a writing award for Aziz Ansari's Master of None Netflix series, and a pair of Emmys for Amazon Prime's Transparent.

Jane Schreibman got a telephone call about 10 p.m. Saturday asking whether she was all right. Until then, the photographer hadn't realized that a bomb had exploded on 23rd Street, just four blocks from her apartment, so she bolted downstairs to take a look at what was going on. That's when she saw a strange object a few paces from her building's front door. "I thought it was a child's science experiment,'' said Schreibman, 66, in a telephone interview. It was a shiny metal pressure cooker with wires coming out and a rectangular object attached that was wrapped in duct tape. There was a white plastic bag next to it, but she couldn't tell whether it was just garbage that had blown nearby. "It was a funny-looking object.

Rami Malek took home an Emmy for best lead actor in a drama series for his role as super-hacker Elliot in Mr. Robot. "Oh my God, please tell me you're seeing this too," Malek said when accepting his award. SEE ALSO: From'Game of Thrones' to'Mr. Robot' here are our Emmy predictions Sam Esmail's techno-thriller follows Elliot, an emotionally and psychologically troubled cybersecurity expert, after the head of a secret society -- Christian Slater's enigmatic Mr. Robot -- approaches him for help in bringing down a massive company. "It's unfortunate, but i'm not sure how many of us would want to hang out with a guy like Elliot," Malek said.