The Seattle tech titan hired eBay's head of artificial intelligence, Hassan Sawaf, to lead its own A.I. operation in Palo Alto, Calif.

A 100-year project conceived by Microsoft Research's Eric Horvitz to trace the impacts of artificial intelligence has issued its first report: a 28,000-word analysis looking at how AI technologies will affect urban life in 2030. Put away those "Terminator" nightmares of a robot uprising, at least for the next 15 years – but get ready for technological disruptions that will make life a lot easier for many of us while forcing some of us out of our current jobs. That assessment comes from Stanford University's One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, or AI100, which is Horvitz's brainchild. Horvitz, a Stanford alumnus, is a former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond lab. Horvitz and his wife, Mary, created the AI100 endowment with the aim of monitoring AI's development and effects over the coming century.

VENICE Wim Wenders shot "Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez", an adaptation of a play by Austrian writer Peter Handke, in 3D to draw viewers more intimately into a dialogue about how men see women and how women see men, the veteran German director said on Thursday.

For years, science-fiction moviemakers have been making us fear the bad things that artificially intelligent machines might do to their human creators. But for the next decade or two, our biggest concern is more likely to be that robots will take away our jobs or bump into us on the highway. Now five of the world's largest tech companies are trying to create a standard of ethics around the creation of artificial intelligence. While science fiction has focused on the existential threat of AI to humans, researchers at Google's parent company, Alphabet, and those from Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft have been meeting to discuss more tangible issues, such as the impact of AI on jobs, transportation and even warfare. Tech companies have long overpromised what artificially intelligent machines can do.

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Compared to the introduction of software as a service (Saas), which is more like a cosmetic change, this radical turnaround will be triggered and driven by Artificial Intelligence, or more specifically, by Machine Learning . Machine Learning allows computer programs to process data automatically in real-time to develop predictive models from data. With programs that are capable of performing this process, companies could ascend to new levels of data analysis to draw patterns and predictions from existing data. The opportunities arising from this are endless. Software solutions that rely on Machine Learning hardly require human input.

IRIS.TV, a video personalization company that enables publishers and marketers to maximize the value of their video inventory by streaming custom programming to individual users across all devices, announced a partnership with Vemba, a premium video distribution and content discovery platform. Vemba is a uniquely publisher-focused platform, enabling content publishers to directly control all components of video distribution, ingestion and monetization. Content from Vemba's discoverable marketplace works with any video player technology, and offers real time video analytics across all player environments. "Our proprietary prescriptive analytics enables publishers using the Vemba platform to make actionable decisions based on data-driven insight and provides real-time performance data to understand asset value and to maximize return on video syndication," says Field Garthwaite, CEO of IRIS.TV (pictured top left). The Vemba partnership with IRIS.TV enables publishers to maximize revenue from their video content libraries by providing users with personalized content using both owned and external video content sources.

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Dmitry Malioutov can't say much about what he built. As a research scientist at IBM, Malioutov spends part of his time building machine learning systems that solve difficult problems faced by IBM's corporate clients. One such program was meant for a large insurance corporation. It was a challenging assignment, requiring a sophisticated algorithm. When it came time to describe the results to his client, though, there was a wrinkle. "We couldn't explain the model to them because they didn't have the training in machine learning." In fact, it may not have helped even if they were machine learning experts. That's because the model was an artificial neural network, a program that takes in a given type of data--in this case, the insurance company's customer records--and finds patterns in them. These networks have been in practical use for over half a century, but lately they've seen a resurgence, powering breakthroughs in everything from speech recognition and language translation to Go-playing robots and self-driving cars.

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