In 2029, the human race faces eradication and extinction by its own creation, a machine powered by a self-aware artificial intelligence (AI) program called Skynet. So goes the plot of The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenneger's hit movie from the '80s. In the movie, surviving humans formed a resistance against Skynet and the machines. Their plan was to destroy the company that created the AI to prevent Skynet from being created in the first place. When the movie was released, the very concept that machines could be self-aware was a far-fetched idea and simply a figment of the writer's imagination.

The movies on AI, which have been made over the years, explore our relationship to technology. They range from tragic to romantic. This movie often leaves us with interesting questions and self-criticisms. These are the top ten movies that deal with Artificial Intelligence in thoughtful and interesting ways. You can watch them on weekends to get over the lockdown blues.

Artificial Intelligence has made a powerful technology that is useful for all businesses. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to analyze content, automate editing and make personalized recommendations in the video sector. AI-powered content analysis can identify the topics and emotions in a video. This information will improve video content and make it more relevant for viewers. AI can also edit videos by automatically identifying the most important parts and creating a summary. Businesses can save time and money through automated editing.

If you haven't hopped aboard the smart speaker train, now is as good a time as any, as there are two relatively inexpensive ones on the market today--the Google Home Mini and the Amazon Echo Dot. If you're looking for a device that can play music, give you the weather, and operate your smart gadgets, you may have been eyeballing these small-but-mighty smart speakers. The question is, though, which one is better? How do the features compare? There are distinct differences in how each speaker--the Echo Dot, left, and Google Home Mini--lights up when given a command.

Summer is coming, and like a lot of parents I'm looking for fun and affordable summer activities to keep my seven and nine-year-old sons occupied. I'm especially interested in activities that get them outside, make them think, or simply get them away from their screens. While I'm sure there will be plenty of hours spent playing video games and watching YouTube Kids, I'm hoping to keep my kids engaged with a variety of fun and affordable summertime activities. Here are 10 of our favorite summertime activities that will get your kids outside and off their devices. Gardening is a healthy and pleasurable hobby whether you live in the country or in a suburban neighborhood.

If you ordered an Echo Show on Amazon Prime Day, you aren't alone. The smart device is one of the top-selling products from Amazon's biggest shopping event of the year. Check out the 15 deals everyone bought on Prime Day.) If you're the proud new owner of an Echo Show, you may be wondering how to set it up and exactly what it can do. Make sure to download the Alexa App on your smartphone or tablet so you're able to install skills and games on your Echo Show.

You've seen the TV ads for Amazon's Alexa-enabled devices, and you know you can ask her to do, well, just about anything. What really is Alexa, though, and how can she make your life easier? Alexa is Amazon's own smart assistant and can be found on any Alexa-enabled device. This can be a smart speaker, like the Echo Dot, the Echo Plus, or the Echo; or a smart display device, such as the Echo Show or the Echo Spot. There are a handful of other Amazon devices that use Alexa, such as the Amazon Fire Stick.

Wow, educational toys have changed a lot since I was a kid. I remember inserting floppy disks (!) into a computer in order to play classic games like "Number Munchers" and "The Oregon Trail". I learned very quickly that "Dog" was not a day of the week, and that it was very easy to die of wasting diseases in the western US in the 19th century. As the world becomes more and more digitally inclined, parents and teachers alike want toys that teach kids computer-and technology-related skills, both for their future employability and for being a citizen in a society built on 1's and 0's. One emerging trend is toys that teach kids how to write computer programming code. Coding is becoming essential knowledge because the world runs on computers, and computers themselves run on code. As a person with a degree in a STEM field, I had to learn how to code later in life, and it was a miserably long learning curve (even if it's one of my favorite things to do now).

The growth of big data opens up opportunities for Investment Banks in terms of sources of information, whilst the development of Artificial Intelligence can turn this information into answers. In this webinar Leon Saunders Calvert, Sofia Spencer and Ryan Roser will discuss how machine learning can be used to predict M&A opportunity and Ryan will share the results of his work in this area.

Gartner's Hype Cycle tracks emerging information technologies in their journey towards mainstream adoption. It is designed to help companies tell hype from viable business opportunity, and give an idea when that value may be realized. This year, artificial intelligence is one of the year's three megatrends in the 2017 Hype Cycle. Gartner is calling this class of AI technologies "AI Everywhere". Unsurprisingly, many of the technologies are already at the "Peak of Inflated Expectations". Machine learning and deep learning are at peak hype, and predicted to be 2-5 years away from mainstream adoption. Cognitive computing is also at peak hype, but up to 10 years away, while artificial general intelligence (AI with the'intelligence' of an average human being) is 10 years away and in early innovation phase. Commenting on the Cycle, Gartner research director Mike J. Walker predicts that AI technologies will be the most disruptive class of technologies in driving digital business forwards during the next 10 years.