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Ever wanted to know what historical images would look like in color? Rudy Marsman used a computer algorithm to add color to six black and white films from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Rudy is a master student in Information Science at the VU University in Amsterdam. The automatic coloring of moving images was part of the research he did for his master thesis at Sound and Vision. As part of my master's thesis I researched the possibilities to automatically color black and white videos.

Last week, a group of aviation leaders met in Silicon Valley in a forum orchestrated by AAAE to chart a course for the innovation and improvement of airports. I had the honor of joining leaders from Google X, Lyft, and Google Tango on a panel discussion in front of an audience of innovative Airport Directors, CIOs, and government leaders. We talked about strategies for harnessing artificial intelligence to improve the airport today. If you want more background on what modern artificial intelligence means, read this piece by The Economist. When your plane lands, a human alone does not decide which gate it should go to, just like it's not a human that sets the price of your ticket. AI is already in the airport -- but why does it matter to you as a professional?

Reportedly announced, Google DeepMind is now capable of teaching itself depending on the information it already possessed. Founded in 2010, Google's British Artificial Intelligence company DeepMind is now on the edge of a revolutionary invention. DeepMind is able to learn, or we can say, to teach itself based on data it already holds. This leads to a completely self-contained learning. According to their DNC's -Differentiable Neural Computer- anwers, it can answer questions about the relationships in a family.

Over the last several decades, technology has changed tremendously. I can't tell you how many times my father has told me about a computer science class he took in college where the computer required punch cards to function (sorry to date you Dad!). Fast-forward and we have artificial intelligence at the palm of our hands, hands-free texting in our cars and smart watches that monitor our health from our wrists. But it's not only our personal lives that have been affected by these changes in technology, it's our work lives as well. At PGi, we're always trying to innovate our products to make your work life easier, so naturally we're curious about new technology and the effect it has on our work lives. Over the next few weeks, we will be producing a blog series on just that--the future of work.

Just when you thought that 2016 was practically over as far as the big smartphones are concerned, Google drops us a bombshell of a device. The Google Pixel and Pixel XL are, indeed, groundbreaking smartphones in the history of Android, tough less because of the specs and more because of its features and implications. But for now, we set aside the conspiracies and ignore the conspiracies. For now, we dig deep into those very hardware and software features to see if the Pixel is truly a blast or just a dud. As with any smartphone, the first thing people will notice will be the device's design.

The idea of falling in love with a robot is not currently accepted in any society in the world--most likely because robots are regarded as nonliving objects. But as AI evolves, it has the potential to surpass human intelligence, so, at some point, robots may not be perceived as objects anymore, but as equivalent to humans. Many of the companies developing companion robots design them with humanlike functionality, such as the ability to identify their owner's feelings and to evolve their knowledge based on their owner's lifestyle and preferences. The ultimate goal is to ensure the human is happy and satisfied. In this report, we examine how technological advancements could revolutionize relationships and love between human beings and robots.

It is no secret that chatbots are not a new technology, but the recent interest in chatbots is playing one very important role in the evolution of Artificial Intelligence, they are helping A.I become publicly accessible and accepted. Even with all the technological advances we have seen over the last few years, there is still a fairly large disconnect between technology and the general public and businesses, particularly true in the case of A.I. A.I has been for a number of years, a taboo subject, an issue that I have had to face and tackle in my personal and business life. Through valid warnings about loss of jobs through automation, warnings from Elon Musk & Stephen Hawking, and thanks to films like the Terminator, the Matrix and iRobot, A.I has not had a very good start, with most of the world fearing the advancements of this life changing technology. Through chatbots, the world has seemed to take a step back from these fears and begun to accept that A.I is part of our lives now. Although they have been using A.I in their everyday life for many years on platforms such as Facebook and Google, they haven't seemed to really be aware of it, or turned a blind eye to it.

His main point was that current AI is narrowly defined, and not that good at anything other than the most common cases.

It's easy to say that it's a boring time for mobile phones: every company has converged on one very similar design, a sheet of glass, metal and curved edges built around a black rectangle in the middle that shows you an increasingly stagnating operating system. And that's true, but also not, because Samsung's phones are blowing up on planes and literally threatening lives. It's into this strange market of stagnation and explosions that Google has released the first phone it had made itself. The stakes have never been higher – as well as Samsung's worries, Apple is also seeing growth in sales of the iPhone slow – but the opportunity has never been bigger. Google has had phones before, of course.