Access Facebook from the western half of North America and there's a good chance your data will be pulled from a computer cooled by the juniper- and sage-scented air of central Oregon's high desert. In the town of Prineville, home to roughly 9,000 people, Facebook stores the data of hundreds of millions more. Rows and rows of computers stand inside four giant buildings totaling nearly 800,000 square feet, precisely aligned to let in the dry and generally cool summer winds that blow in from the northwest. The aisles of stacked servers with blinking blue and green lights make a dull roar as they process logins, likes, and LOLs. Facebook has lately added some new machines to the mix in Prineville.

Artificial intelligence is making miracles happen. A group of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently developed an AI that predicts social interactions. The core algorithm of their research is able to predict whether a person will go for a hug, handshake, high-five, or kiss. Like every AI, this algorithm also needs some data to train itself. The researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) used television shows like "Desperate Housewives" and "The Office" to train the algorithm.

Techcrunch Disrupt is where some of the world's most game-changing technologies and innovations are first revealed. Didn't get a chance to go? Fear not. The clever folks at We Are Social have identified six of the most interesting themes and talks from this year's event in a Curiosity Stop Special. Here's a little taster of what we've included in the report. Security & Privacy The more we share on social, the more users freak out about companies using their personal data.

Artificial Intelligence is making its way into different fields in our technological world, this includes manufacturing, medical, construction and many others. U.K.-based company IntelligentX Brewing Company is creating beer using a combination of data science and artificial intelligence to brew the World's first beer brewed by artificial intelligence. IntelligentX Brewiing Company is a collaboration between machine learning startup Intelligent Layer and creative agency 10x. As of now, the company has created 4 variants of beer: Golden, Amber, Pale and Black. To be able to create this, they are using some cutting edge technology to do so.

The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests. The test currently can't determine if a person is talking to another human being or a robot if the person being interrogated simply chooses to stay silent, new research shows. While it's not news that the Turing test has flaws, the new study highlights just how limited the test is for answering deeper questions about artificial intelligence, said study co-author Kevin Warwick, a computer scientist at Coventry University in England. "As machines are getting more and more intelligent, whether they're actually thinking and whether we need to give them responsibilities are starting to become very serious questions," Warwick told Live Science. "Obviously, the Turing test is not the one which can tease them out." The now-famous Turing test was first described by British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950 to address questions of when and how to determine if machines are sentient.

Even before the blockbuster success of Instagram, there was never a shortage of photo-filtering apps for iOS. To this day, the app store is chock-full of them. But every once in a while, a photo-effect app comes along that generates buzz. Using artificial intelligence technology, the app goes beyond merely filtering by letting your photos mimic the work of modernist masters like Van Gogh and Picasso. Starting Up The free app, for all its wizardry, is just a tiny 15MB download; that's because it performs its magic in the cloud (which can have its own downside, however, as I'll explain later).

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Where we're going we don't need roads, just a large database of pictures. A team at New York University have taught a machine learning system to drive off-road by showing it photos of different landscapes. It's one thing to train driverless cars to navigate city streets or highways. But taking robot drivers off-road is tricky because the surroundings are highly variable, says Karl Iagnemma at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who wasn't involved in the work. It is hard to give a robot an exhaustive set of driving rules for every environment.

H2O is the leading open source big data machine learning platform. This talk will cover the distributed parallel in-memory data storage and compute architecture. We will then move on to examples of using H2O from R, Python, Java and Scala. Depending on interest we can also cover Deep Learning in H2O, integration of H2O into smart applications, and/or the optional integration with Spark.

July 6, 2016 – Romonet today announced it is filing for a number of new patents for the next phase of its data center intelligence platform, utilizing the applications of Machine Learning. The company is known as the leader in data center analytics and this development enhances the value of Romonet's already patented solution. Like Google, Amazon, Cisco and Netflix, who already use Machine Learning to personalize services and business intelligence, Romonet's industry-leading platform is revolutionizing the booming global data center market. With Romonet, Hyperscale and Multi-Tenant Data Center (MTDC) operators are improving the services they provide to their customers while strengthening financial management through investment, cost and margin analysis.