The US Open pits 256 players against one another, competing for more than $50 million in prize money in this year's Grand Slam event. A quarter-million points will be scored during the two-week tournament in Queens, in New York City, and at any given time, 17 matches can be in progress. To make sense of all that, and serve up better, quicker digital access, the U.S. Tennis Association is using a special weapon: IBM Watson. The artificial intelligence system will help the USTA sort through thousands of highlights each day, selecting the best ones using its own scoring system. Fans not in front of a TV will then be able to see those highlights almost instantly.

You've probably seen the Watson commercials, where what looks like a sentient box interacts with celebrities like Bob Dylan, Carrie Fisher, and Serena Williams; or doctors; or a young cancer survivor. Maybe you caught the IBM artificial intelligence technology's appearance in H&R Block's Super Bowl commercial starring Jon Hamm. "It is one of the most powerful tools our species has created. It helps doctors fight disease," Hamm says. "It can predict global weather patterns. It improves education for children everywhere. And now we unleash it on your taxes."

This particular solution finds the most exciting parts of a match by analyzing the crowd's cheers, as well as the players' gestures and facial expressions. It then automatically generates videos of the most thrilling moments, which are then posted on Facebook and published on the US Open apps. Noah Syken, IBM VP of Sports & Entertainment Partnerships, explained that USTA turned to Watson for help, because there could be as many as 18 matches going on at the same time. Even the fastest video team will have a hard time analyzing matches and stitching the best moments together as they happen. It probably also helped that IBM tested Cognitive Highlights as a proof of concept at the Master's Tournament earlier this year, and Wimbledon also used the technology to generate some videos. In addition to Cognitive Highlights, the US Open is also using Watson's Conversation API to power its Cognitive Concierge app.

I spoke with Tanmay Bakshi all about machine learning, how he got into developing software so early on, what he thinks about the Singularity and more in this interview outside the IBM Watson Summit in Sydney! Tanmay Bakshi is an IBM Champion, IBM Honorary Cloud Advisor, Algorithmist, machine learning and Watson developer, author, speaker and YouTuber! Thank you for your time Tanmay! A very big thank you to the team at the IBM Watson Summit in Sydney for helping organise this interview and supporting Dev Diner in its goal of helping developers get into emerging tech! Thank you to Heartbeat Intensity for putting together the fantastic music for this and for her work behind the camera!

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We are excited to join forces with Slack to host a series of workshops across Europe. These are one-day workshops, focused on making software that improves the workplace. The workshops will begin with API overviews from both companies during which Watson developer advocate Yacine, will dish out some handy tips on getting started quickly with many of the Watson services. We'll then stay to help you brainstorm, scope, and eventually build out your projects. Everyone can expect to walk away with a working prototype built on top of Slack and Watson Developer Cloud APIs.

PC Mag recently interviewed Rob High, IBM Watson's Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Thanks to High's experience with Watson, IBM's artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer, he is one of the preeminent thinkers in the AI space. In his interview, High spoke about how technology, and AI in particular, is transforming jobs, culture, and life for humanity. For High, one of the biggest misconceptions the public holds about AI is the sort of dystopian worldview we see in Hollywood and, in some cases, from other thinkers in the field. He points out that AI is not replacing the human mind, but augmenting human intelligence and amplifying its reach: "[I]f you look at almost every other tool that has ever been created, our tools tend to be most valuable when they're amplifying us, when they're extending our reach, when they're increasing our strength, when they're allowing us to do things that we can't do by ourselves as human beings."