Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch stars in a strangely dark but hilarious sci-fi movie written by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that was created by filmmaker Oscar Sharp and his technologist collaborator Ross Goodwin. CBS News reports how the duo wanted to build a machine that could write screenplays, so they took hundreds of popular sci-fi TV and movie scripts and programmed them into an artificial intelligence Long Short-Term Memory (LTSM) neural network that they originally named Jetson. Ironically, Jetson asked to be addressed as Benjamin instead. "Sunspring" is the first movie written by artificial intelligence https://t.co/MhPA74XGm6 Benjamin is the first AI to write the script of a sci-fi film.

HBO has released the official marketing art for its upcoming sci-fi drama called "Westworld," which features an android "host" clinging on to a round beam with the show's double "W" logo on the background. It carries the new tagline "Every Hero Has a Code," and Entertainment Weekly reported that it's because the protagonists of this updated version of Michael Crichton's 1973 film are actually robots, while the humans who go to the Western theme park seem to be devoid of morality. The new trailer released by the network shows how the robotic "hosts" deal with humans' deception and shocking indulgences. The trailer shows glimpses of how humans run amok in Westworld, with violent shootings, sex scenes, a milk-drinking cowboy with holes in a body and several dead bodies scattered all over the street. Evan Rachel Wood's protagonist Dolores Abernathy seems to be right smack at the middle of the controversies hounding the theme park, but she voices over in the trailer: "Sometimes I feel like the world out there is calling me." Dolores is deemed as an anomaly in the world created by Anthony Hopkins' Dr. Robert Ford, and the trailer ends with her questioning him if they are friends.

"Young Frankenstein" will come alive in theaters once again on Oct. 5, with a live introduction from writer-director Mel Brooks, who will pay tribute to the classic spoof's late star Gene Wilder. The intro will be broadcast from the 20th Century Fox Lot in 500 theaters nationwide, according to an announcement from Fathom Events Tuesday.

Amazon's Fire TV devices just became much more useful if you prefer to talk to your media hub. An update rolling out to the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick gives you dramatically improved search: you can now use voice to search over 75 apps and services, including Netflix and (soon) HBO Now. If the show you're looking for is available on multiple services, you'll see all your choices. You now have voice control of playback with Amazon's service, so you can skip to your favorite Transparent scene without using the fast forward button. Much like on Apple TV, you can get game scores and other sports updates with a voice command -- you'll have to specify your favorites, but you won't have to disrupt your show to get the scoop.

I'm going to get it out of the way right at the start. Having watched the trailer, I want to go and see this movie. This trailer tells us absolutely nothing about what the movie's about, but every cut pulls me in more. Until the guy starts talking at the end of the trailer, I've no idea that the movie is "an AI horror thriller". But these are the kind of trailers I grew up with.

At the same time, it's upping its old-school manufacturing capabilities with technology that will allow it to quickly punch out industrial components, for airlines or anything else, to satisfy any client's whim.

Artificial intelligence helps profits surge at Shop Direct Very.co.uk generated sales of more than 1 billion for the first time as parent company Shop Direct announced a 44 per cent increase in profits before tax. Liverpool-based Shop Direct grew underlying profit to 150.4 million as sales increased by 4.3 per cent to 1.86bn. The 12-month period to June 30 represented its first full financial year as a pureplay digital retailer, having ceased catalogue production in January 2015. The group, which also operates digital department stores VeryExclusive.co.uk, That was realised on the back of new features such as push notifications and touch ID to its MyVery app, which is nearing a million downloads.

In the latest episode of #CoffeeWithAGoogler met with Christine Robson of Google's Machine Learning teams. We spoke about what was new and exciting in the realm of Machine Learning, including Project Magenta. We see how Magenta came up with a machine-generated piece of music, and how some artists jammed along with it! In this piece of music, we trained the model using the first four notes of'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star', and using a recurrent neural network, trained with everything from the Beatles to Bach, it came up with the tune. Listen to a great conversation with an expert on Machine Learning -- where Christine steps us through some pretty advanced concepts, but makes it so clear that even I could understand it!

"Empower bottom-up innovation and amazing things will happen." He was responsible for one of those amazing things: a way to help Spotify users discover new music called Discover Weekly. This tool launched about a year ago; it now has 40 million users and is helping to build the careers of new artists. Newett joined Spotify in 2013, initially working on a team developing a web page with personalized information, news about artists, album releases, and local concerts, along with a recommender system that offered suggestions of albums a user might find appealing. The recommendation feature, Newett recalled, seemed like a good idea, but wasn't heavily used.

I guess it could be an older version, but here's a single PDF: https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/