Lee Sedol, the South Korean Go champion who lost to a computer earlier this month, has said he would like a rematch. Lee, a top-ranking Go player who has 18 international titles under his belt, lost a five-game match to AlphaGo, a computer program developed by British artificial intelligence company DeepMind. However, Lee is ready to take on the machine once again. Speaking to Yonhap News, he said: "I will have to consider it carefully, but if AlphaGo wants a rematch, I'd like to face it again, on the condition it will take place in the near future." He also hinted that he may have discovered the program's secrets, saying: "I figured out AlphaGo to some degree during our last meeting."

Andy Grove, the refu gee from Hungary who became one of the pillars of Silicon Valley and, as both scientist and executive, was a principal figure in the rise of the Intel Corp. and a symbol of the world-wide computer revolution, died Monday. The death was announced on the company's website. It did not give a cause or a location. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease. In a statement, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said that Mr. Grove "made the impossible happen, time and again, and inspired generations of technologists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders."

Stop-start journeys punctuated with annoying queues at traffic lights could become a thing of the past. In the city of tomorrow, traffic lights will be replaced by intelligent intersections enabling cars with sensors embedded to automatically weave around each other, town planners have claimed. Such smart junctions, where lanes of cars merge harmoniously from one to the next, would cut traffic jams while enabling twice as many vehicles to use a road. The concept was developed by researchers at MIT's Senseable City Lab who believe such junctions will become a reality with the take up of cars fitted with sensors that enable them to'talk' to one another. Connected and self-driving vehicles are predicted to lead to safer and more efficient cities, for example.

Being an analyst working on statistical analysis, more often than none, there is almost always a need to "explain" how did you come up with the conclusion with the techniques applied? The most demanding part of all this is: " you must explain this like I am 5 years old." Oki, so let me try to explain one machine learning algorithm called "randomforest" for a classification problem that is recognised as a black-box algorithm! Let's get started with a metaphor that hopefully is as close to everyday life as possible... In a congress, say that there are 100 members in total, they need to vote to decide whether they are going to pass a new law or not.

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Well, now I am just wondering how I've lived so long without a holographic butler. See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world's fastest electric car is made in... Croatia? Ignoring my deep disappointment of living sans digital manservant aside, the concept actually makes some sense. That's because Bentley imagines a future when elite drivers won't want simply speak commands to a faceless digital assistant à la Siri. Instead, they'll want to have a personalized experience when in their ultimate luxury machine.

Until now, medicine has been a prestigious and often extremely lucrative career choice. But with intelligent machines now used to diagnose diseases, in the near future, will we need as many doctors as we have now? Are we going to see significant medical unemployment in the coming decade? Dr Saxon Smith, president of the Australian Medical Association NSW branch, said in a report late last year that the most common concerns he hears from doctors-in-training and medical students are, "what is the future of medicine?" The answers, he said, continue to elude him.

What is the time lag from Science Fiction to reality? Arthur C. Clarke wrote about geostationary satellites in 1945 and it became reality 20 years later, but Clarke's work was more grounded in science than the Kubrick classic 2001 featuring the Hal AI computer. That was released in 1968 – 48 years ago. It is such an easy fiction trick to imagine a machine as smart as a human, but the reality of AI has been much harder. It is now getting a lot easier.

Amazon Echo has already taken over my home -- it was only a matter of time before it took control of my finances, too. On Friday, Amazon announced a new "skill" you can download to your Echo device. If you bank with Capital One, you can access information about your checking and savings accounts, check your balance, and more. Capital One is the first company to provide people's banking information through Amazon Echo. According to Capital One, here's a sample of some questions you can ask: "Alexa, ask Capital One for recent transactions on my checking account."

Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Daisy Ridley has confirmed talks to take on the role of Lara Croft in a forthcoming Tomb Raider reboot. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter at the Empire awards in London, the British actor said there had "been conversations" about her taking on the part of the English archaeological explorer made famous by Angelina Jolie in two early noughties films. "I'm waiting for someone to say'I want you, let's do it'," she said. It is understood no script yet exists for the project, which is in its early stages. Related: Star Wars' Daisy Ridley says: 'I will not apologise for how I look' Ridley, 23, who is set to return as Rey in Star Wars: Episode VIII suggested she would have enough time to shoot different projects.