These days, sensors are everywhere: Phones know where their users have been, what music they've listened to and which events they've agreed to attend. And while the data that results is a powerful tool for businesses, they aren't always connected to material generated on laptops, tablets and wearable devices. Maybe they should be, because, already, 70 percent of Americans own two or more connected devices. A percentage like that tells us that the days of one-screen users are numbered: Already, 88 percent of millennials are engaging in second-screen behaviors while watching videos online. Clearly, businesses must keep up with the times.

Peter Clark is a senior research manager at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, overseeing Project Aristo, an effort to build an AI system with the ability to answer questions from standardized exams, starting on 4th grade science tests, with the goal of advancing to higher grades in the future. Clark was the featured speaker this week for the 2016 corporate kickoff event for Geeks Give Back, an annual philanthropic campaign presented by Bank of America in partnership with GeekWire, benefitting the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program. Clark gave an overview of the state of artificial intelligence, and his work at AI2, before fielding questions from me and members of the audience. Continue reading for highlights from the discussion, and stay tuned this fall for more information on how participating in this year's Geeks Give Back campaign. Todd Bishop: People look at artificial intelligence, and traditionally they think of a robot or a machine, but the internet is essentially the world brain.

Newly discovered brainwaves – coined Princess Leia waves – that cycle around the brain as we sleep, may help us remember the day's events. Terry Sejnowski at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, California, coined the name after discovering patterns of electrical activity that sweep through the sleeping brain in a circular motion that resembled the headphone-like hairstyle made famous by Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars movies. The waves began their journey in the hippocampus – a region responsible for memory retrieval. From there they propagated to the thalamus, an area that is known to incorporate information vital to our ability to remember events that happen to us personally, before heading to the cortex, which is responsible for complex functions such as thoughts and actions. Sejnowski discovered the circular waves by chance after analysing electrical data from eight people with epilepsy who'd had electrodes temporarily inserted into their brains to monitor activity associated with their seizures.

The publication The Drum sent out a fascinating story recently. The publication was working on an AI issue, and they wanted to know what would happen if, using IBM Watson, marketers could actually interview David Ogilvy. For you non-marketers out there, Ogilvy is kind of considered the king of marketing. He passed away in 1999 after an illustrious career in advertising. He was the kind of guy AMC's Mad Men was paying tribute to.

CANNES, France--Artificial intelligence has been one of the big themes at the Cannes Lions festival here this week, and A.I. projects have already won three Grand Prix awards: two for J. Walter Thompson and ING's "The Last Rembrandt" and one for Google DeepMind's AlphaGo. The theme continued in intriguing fashion Thursday at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase, the annual collection of mind-bending short films made by up-and-coming directors. The A.I. hook this time was this: One of the 20 films was conceived, directed and edited by a computer. The audience wasn't told which one, however--we were encouraged to go to saatchi.com to find out. Overall, the 2016 showcase was more intense than usual, with lots of disturbing visions and less humor than usual.

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Dave Addey doesn't just watch movies. Addey is the creator of Typeset In The Future, a website devoted entirely to fonts in science fiction. Why yes, it is a bastion of gloriously esoteric nerdery. It all began when Addey, a developer publications engineer at Apple and lifelong science fiction fan, started noticing the same font in every movie he watched: Eurostile Bold Extended. Designed in 1960, the font is geometric, functional, and looks good on the side of a spaceship (Star Trek).

Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a machine learning algorithm with a bunch of Sci-Fi movie scripts to see what new script it would spit out. A script for Sunspring is the result, and this is the film, starring Thomas Middleditch. The thought of a machine tapping into emotion and creativity likely brings some sneers, but Goodwin argues that it's about assistance and augmentation rather than a replacement for the humans. The machine dictated that Middleditch's character should pull the camera. However, the reveal that he's holding nothing was a brilliant human interpretation, informed by the production team's many years of combined experience and education in the art of filmmaking.

A mix of artificial intelligence programs has been used to design, direct and edit a music video. Ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi commissioned the film for a song by a French electro band. It made its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival to coincide with the anniversary of AI pioneer Alan Turing's birth. However, the band - which does not want to be named - is not allowing the final edit to be made public.

Adele's record-breaking album 25 is coming to Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services tomorrow (or right now if you happen to reading from New Zealand or Australia). While there are other artists who are absent from most music subscription services--Prince and Neil Young come to mind--Adele's 25 is a unique for two reasons: First, it's the best-selling album since 2001, when music sales began their epic collapse. Secondly, 25 has not been made available on any streaming service until now. Other big name recent albums have either limited their release to certain services (Tidal, more often than not) or delayed their streaming debut all together, but these windows and exclusives typically don't last seven months. While the subscription services are undoubtedly thrilled to finally offer Adele's latest, the stunning success she achieved without their help doesn't bode well for the streaming music model.