But they must be something, otherwise dating apps like Tinder and Bumble wouldn't be having nearly as much success as they are. Unfortunately, you can't tell just from someone's appearance whether you're likely to get along with them--and equally importantly when it comes to the world of swiping, whether they find you attractive in return. A new AI could throw a wrench in the already-overwhelming world of dating apps. Developed by a team from the University of Helsinki and Copenhagen University, the artificially intelligent system was able to generate images of fake faces that it knew particular users would find attractive--because those same users' brain activity played a part in training the AI. It sounds creepy, futuristic, and like the ultimate catfishing opportunity, right?

On TikTok, for instance, AI sorts the posts so that the first ones you see are likely to be those you'd prefer. AI serves up the useful results of every Google search. When you ask Siri to play Taylor Swift, AI turns your speech into a command to start her songs. But before an AI can do any of that, developers must train it. In fact, that training's appetite for energy could soon become a huge problem, researchers now worry.

Dr Lara Martin wants to teach artificial intelligence how to tell a tale and tell it well. Lara is a Computing Innovation Fellow postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches AI to generate stories and produce language that is natural and human-like. She reveals why we need to train machines how to be storytellers and what Dungeons & Dragons has to do with it all. People have been telling stories since before we could write; we're natural storytellers. So if machines were able to tell and understand stories as well, we'd be able to communicate with them more naturally.

Artificial intelligence is no more the future of marketing; it is pretty much at the moment. Consider all the ways AI technology has already started contributing to our everyday lives. Artificial intelligence is progressively becoming a central part of numerous industries and has various use cases, particularly in marketing. All businesses, big or small, have begun using AI to some extent to upgrade their website, products, and customer experience over time. If reports are to be believed, the top-performing organizations are more than 2x likely than their peers to use AI for marketing purposes.

It was a good week to grab the latest Amazon Echo devices as many of them were discounted to near-record lows. The sale that started over the weekend continued and saw prices slashed on the latest Echo, Echo Show 5 and Echo Dot, among others. Apple's MacBook Pro M1 fell to its lowest price yet thanks to coupons that accompanied sale prices, and the Apple Watch SE remains on sale for $259. And through Sunday, Best Buy has a limited-time sale on a bunch of gear, including the latest Samsung smartphones, Surface tablets and OLED TVs. Here are the best tech deals from this week that you can still get today.

What is the true face of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Can it bring many benefits? Can it bring any harm? A thorough and detailed study of the most prominent AI interfaces from Google to Uber was conducted by us. The study highlighted familiar, and widely used and accepted AI such as IBM's Watson, Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google Assistant. It shows us exactly how alarming this state of affairs has become. The situation is serious and it may prove good advice to regain control before it's too late.

We all use facial recognition to unlock our phones. And we all view online content automatically suggested to us. But some of us have rather more success with artificial intelligence (AI) than others. A study of face recognition AIs discovered that systems from leading companies IBM, Microsoft and Amazon misclassified the faces of Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama and Serena Williams, while having no trouble at all with white males. Even the voices of digital assistants such as Cortana or Google Assistant have female voices by default, perhaps unconsciously reinforcing the stereotype of female subservience in the minds of millions of users.

Riva Health, founded by scientist Tuhin Sinha and Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus, wants to help people measure their blood pressure in a clinically approved way. Blood pressure can help indicate at-risk patients before they are actually at risk, showing early signs of heart disease. While other hardware solutions on the market promise the same end goal, Riva wants to be a purely software solution that integrates with hardware that it thinks its end user has anyway: their smartphone. The company, launching out of stealth today, has raised $15.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from True Ventures. Greg Yap of Menlo, who talked to Sinha for three years before investing, will be joining the board.

At Pearson, we're committed to a world that's always learning and to our talented team who make it all possible. By embracing a massive digital transformation that includes highly experiential and personalized learning, we are always re-examining and continuously improving the way people learn best, whether it's one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who are mission-driven and motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. We are currently looking for a hands-on Senior Manager to lead our Machine Learning Engineering team to work with our new and existing learning product platforms. The Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering will report to the Director of Adaptivity and Machine Learning Engineering and work with cross product and engineering teams to build real-time adaptive and personalized learning services that optimize learner interactions and behavior to allow more efficient and effective study and engagement.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking over the technological world. There are many ways AI is being adopted in our day-to-day lives. It is applied in almost all the sectors from agriculture and healthcare to banking, manufacturing, and production. Artificial Intelligence acts as the main driver of emerging technologies like robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and data and will continue to be the technological innovator for the future. The objectives of AI include perception, reasoning, and learning.