I thought I'd struck lucky on a dating app but invited a monster into my life Handsome, charming, a gentle giant - Katie Yates believed Jason Smith was a real catch after meeting him on a dating app. But within months he had subjected her to relentless physical and mental abuse before raping her and attempting to drown her in the bath just before Christmas. Katie, 42 and from Cardiff, has waived her anonymity as a victim of sexual assault to warn women to be wary of strangers they meet on dating apps who may pose as nice guys in an attempt to lure them in. You scroll on all the profiles with smiling photos and slick words but there are some people who should be looking for a therapist, not a girlfriend, she said. Katie had been single for five years when she signed up to a dating app in February 2018.

Catchy Christmas songs can now be created by a special songwriting AI, taught by studying existing festive tunes. The system came up with catchy jingles with names like'Syllabub Chocolatebell', 'Peaches Twinkleleaves' and'Cocoa Jollyfluff'. Researchers from Made by AI trained a neural network by inputting one hundred Christmas tunes in the form of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files. It then picked out recurring themes, motifs, instruments and rhythms to generate its own hits. Scientists have trained an AI system to write its own catchy Christmas songs by teaching it existing festive tunes.

One of the behaviors considered to be uniquely human is our creativity. While many animal species create visually stunning displays or constructions -- think of a spider's delicate web or the colorful, intricate structures built by bowerbirds -- they are typically created with a practical purpose in mind, such as snagging prey or seducing a mate. Humans, however, make art for its own sake, as a form of personal expression. And as computer engineers attempt to imbue artificial intelligence (AI) with humanlike capabilities and behaviors, a question arises: Can AI create art? The AMC series "Humans," which returns June 5 for its third season, is populated by Synths -- intelligent robots that resemble people, save for their unnaturally green eyes.

Whether „Driving Home for Christmas", „Winter Wonderland", „Let it snow!" or „Last Christmas" – every year christmas songs are taking over the charts again. While average Joe is joyfully putting on the next christmas song, the data scientist starts his journey of discovery through the snowy music history. The data set comes from 55000 Song Lyrics, which contains over 55,000 songs. Our goal is to perform a comprehensive analysis of the song texts to identify the Christmas songs. In order to do so, first we add an additional column to the data frame to give each song a label of either Christmas or Not Christmas, where every song which contains the words Christmas, Xmas or X-mas will be labeled as Christmas and otherwise as Not Christmas. This is just the initialization of the labels, later we will apply Naive Bayes to a training set to identify the other Christmas songs.

You might find yourself wishing for a silent night after you hear the first Christmas carol written by artificial intelligence. The new tune makes its holiday season debut courtesy of a team of computer scientists in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. The researchers fed 100 hours of pop songs to a type of artificial intelligence (AI) known as a recurrent neural network, which learns and performs by building connections between input data, much like the human brain does. In this case, the uploaded songs taught the neural network about the general structure of pop music. The researchers then tested its ability to generate a song about an image -- a decorated Christmas tree surrounded by wrapped presents -- using a process called "neural story singing," which they described in a study currently under review for a conference presentation. To write the song, the researchers first had the computer produce a story about the festive image.

You might find yourself wishing for a silent night after you hear the first Christmas carol written by artificial intelligence. The new tune makes its holiday season debut courtesy of a team of computer scientists in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. The researchers fed 100 hours of pop songs to a type of artificial intelligence (AI) known as a recurrent neural network, which learns and performs by building connections between input data, much like the human brain does. In this case, the uploaded songs taught the neural network about the general structure of pop music. The researchers then tested its ability to generate a song about an image -- a decorated Christmas tree surrounded by wrapped presents -- using a process called "neural story singing," which they described in a study currently under review for a conference presentation. To write the song, the researchers first had the computer produce a story about the festive image.

Artificial intelligence is growing by leaps and bounds, but it won't be replacing humans any time soon, at least if a newly penned-by-AI Christmas jingle is anything to go by. The song starts out like any Christmas jingle, and you may even find yourself tapping your foot along…until the lyrics register and you wonder what kind of dystopian Christmas wonderland you've stumbled upon. The new jingle -- which has been set to music and is sung by a computer itself -- was recently released by the University of Toronto. The work was performed by the university's associate and assistant professors of computer science Raquel Urtasun and Sanja Fidler, as well as graduate student Hang Chu. The team trained the artificial intelligence -- called recurrent neural networks -- to create a "singalong and dance-along" based on a digital image of Christmas-related things.

University of Toronto researchers tasked an A.I. with looking at a picture of a Christmas tree, writing a song about it, and then singing the results for the world to hear. The song that came out of it is definitely a Christmas song, but it's an extremely unsettling one. It's no "Santa Baby," but it does show just how far A.I. has come. Nvidia revealed some more details about the project, which runs on its hardware, on Wednesday. The company said the neural network used to create the video was trained on 100 hours of online music.