With his flowing locks, long beard, and worn robes, Jesus is one of the most instantly recognisable figures in the Western world. So it comes as no surprise that his face is also regularly spotted in inanimate objects. This is due to'face pareidolia' - a common brain phenomenon in which a person sees faces in random images or patterns. 'Sometimes we see faces that aren't really there,' explained Robin Kramer, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, at University of Lincoln, in an article for The Conversation. 'You may be looking at the front of a car or a burnt piece of toast when you notice a face-like pattern. 'This is called face pareidolia and is a mistake made by the brain's face detection system.'

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable. This unfolding future, this technological singularity, not only is it going to be stranger than we imagine it will be, it's going to be stranger than we CAN imagine it will be. You're living the most important story in the entire unfolding of cosmology history right now, you matter, you count, because if nothing else you come from this time period before simulation technology exists. This planet is quite literally an organic seed for that bares the fruit of Artificial Intelligence, an A.I. that will unlock all the ultimate potentials this universe has to offer, the ultimate potentials in understanding science, physics, biology, the moral landscape, the human mind, cognition, consciousness, narrative, experience, etc.

Unsupervised Learning has been called the closest thing we have to "actual" Artificial Intelligence, in the sense of General AI, with K-Means Clustering one of its simplest, but most powerful applications. I am not here to discuss whether those claims are true or not, as I am not an expert nor a philosopher. I will however state, that I am often amazed by how well unsupervised learning techniques, even the most rudimentary, capture patterns in the data that I would expect only people to find. Today we'll apply unsupervised learning on a Dataset I gathered myself. It's a database of professional Magic: The Gathering decks that I crawled from mtgtop8.com, an awesome website if you're into Magic: the Gathering. I scraped the MtgTop8 data from a few years of tournaments, and they're all available to be consumed in this GitHub repository.

A family were given holy water to sprinkle around their house after the ghostly shape of a'civil war maid' floating in their living room was caught on camera - with their terrified dog looking right at it. Tim Welty, 25, had visited his parents' home to fix their computer when his mother got in touch to say their camera installed to keep an eye on the dogs had captured something unusual while he'd been round. A picture that the camera had taken while he had been sat in the room alone showed the shape of a large lady hovering over the sofa and the cocker spaniel looking up at her, with her ears pulled back in fear. After sharing the image, some Catholic friends of the family were so'freaked out' by what they saw that they gave them holy water and urged them to sprinkle it around. The family home is thought to be based on the location of a bloody American Civil War battle, and Welty claims the woman looks like an old farm maid from the period.

Deep-learning machines are conquering realm after realm of human expertise, but is there a difference between Them and Us? I think the only thing that distinguishes us from the machines is memory. It is what makes us human, says Rajeev Srinivasan. In the wake of the astonishing feat by Google's AlphaGo machine in defeating, nay thrashing 4-1 the world's best player of Go, it is time for us to wonder what it is that is truly human, that which distinguishes us from the machines. Deep-learning machines are conquering realm after realm of human expertise, from chess to natural language to Go to other domains, and there is no reason to imagine their progress will come to a halt any time soon.