Artificial intelligence image by Sean Davis, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC by 2.0) Sony announced last week at they have created two brand new pop songs. While this doesn't appear to be a great feat at first, they've actually done this using artificial intelligence. Check out the first song titled Daddy's Car created in the style of The Beatles. This song was created over at Sony CSL Research Laboratory using their Flow Machines software. How does it work, exactly?

Some of Apple's iPhone 6s handsets are shutting down for no reason, the company has said. Apple will now replace any phones that display the issue, which the company says only happens on a small number of them. People affected by the issue will find that their handsets tend simply to shut themselves off for no reason and without warning. The problem appears to be related to an issue with the batteries in those phones. A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Across the globe, energy systems are changing and creating unprecedented challenges for the organisations tasked with ensuring the lights stay on. In the UK, National Grid is facing shrinking margins, looming capacity shortages and unpredictable peaks and troughs in energy supply caused by increasing levels of renewable penetration. At the Reinventing Energy Summit, Michael Bironneau, Head of Technology Development at Open Energi, will explore how the same machine learning techniques that have let machines defeat chess and Go masters, can also be leveraged to orchestrate massive amounts of flexible demand-side capacity – from industrial equipment, co-generation and battery storage systems – towards the one goal of creating a smarter grid; one that is cleaner, cheaper, more secure and more efficient. For World Cities Day 2016, I asked Michael a few questions to learn more about utilising data science in energy, creating a smarter grid, political challenges, and more. What are the main transformative technologies that will help create a smarter grid?

Jason Tan is the co-founder and CEO of Sift Science. He's also held leadership and engineering roles at BuzzLabs, Optify and Zillow. Facebook recently fired the entire Trending Topics team of human editors amid accusations they were promoting specific agendas and biasing what news was deemed "important." Now the company is relying on machine learning algorithms to manage Trending Topics -- and finding that keeping the results free of hoaxes and fake news isn't always easy. The social media giant recently assured an audience at TechCrunch Disrupt that it was working on new technology that would help prevent untrue or satirical stories from being labeled as legitimate news we should follow.

This guide is a sample of what will be in Joe's upcoming book: The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots. If you enjoy this article and want to supercharge your bot, consider signing up for the book's waitlist. The incredible potential of chatbots lies in the ability to individually and contextually communicate one-to-many. One-to-many communication: There are plenty of tools out there that allow us to communicate one-to-many at this point in history. These tools, including everything from basic mailers to email marketing to social media, make it easy to reach a large audience and target groups within that audience all at the same.

And see also this great piece from Mashable on what manufacturers are up to next. In the near future, sensing algorithms will achieve super-human performance for capabilities required for driving. Automated perception, including vision, is already near or at human-performance level for well-defined tasks such as recognition and tracking. Advances in perception will be followed by algorithmic improvements in higher level reasoning capabilities such as planning. Beyond self-driving cars, we'll have a variety of autonomous vehicles including robots and drones.

Dutch carrier KLM has begun using artificial intelligence (AI) to better serve the many customers who communicate with the airline via social media. "Applying AI, KLM can handle a greater volume of questions while still maintaining its personal approach and speed," Tjalling Smit, senior vice president, digital at Air France-KLM, said recently when announcing the technology. The carrier's move comes as flyers around the world increasingly use services such as Twitter, Facebook Messenger, WeChat and Instagram to submit comments, complaints and questions to airlines. Carriers have had to adapt, employing teams of customer service agents to respond to postings both public and private. KLM has been a leader in that area.

BellHawk Systems Corporation announces the availability of a new white paper "Artificial Intelligence and the Smart Industrial Warehouse." This white paper is available for download from the front page News section of www.BellHawk.com. In the popular press, there is much ado made about Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used in robots that buzz about high volume retail warehouses, automatically picking consumer products that are being shipped overnight in response to orders made over the Internet. But this misses all the ways that AI can be used to inexpensively improve the operation of industrial warehouses without a major investment in robots or other expensive materials handling equipment by providing the information and advice that managers, supervisors, and material handlers need to do their jobs efficiently. This white paper examines how AI based operations tracking and management systems, such as BellHawk, can be used to improve the efficiency of industrial warehouses, prevent mistakes, and enable customer orders to be shipped on time.

From customer service bots, self-driving cars and playing ancient Chinese board games, AI seems to be making breakthroughs in all industries. However despite the huge amount of media interest in this technology, the phrase AI is all too often used as a catch-all term for many different technologies. In order to provide a useful critique of the developments in the healthcare sector, it is important that we take a look at what AI means when referring to different aspects of the industry. Across healthcare and pharmaceutical development, AI brings with it the possibilities of significant improvements through marginal gains. The key to generating the maximum value of the technology is to identify where real problems lie and where real business opportunity exists.

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-ethical... Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can't completely avoid accidents altogether. How should the car be programmed if it encounters an unavoidable accident?