Experts found that men from wealthy western countries like the UK are more motivated to workout than their Nicaraguan and Ugandan counterparts. However, in all three countries, men that watch more television -- and are therefore exposed more to images of idealised bodies -- wanted to be muscular more. Men who are'couch potatoes' -- those spending a lot of time watching TV -- are more likely to want to be muscular and hit the gym, a study has found Psychologist Tracey Thornborrow of the University of Lincoln and colleagues examined British men's obsession with getting a muscular physique -- along with related phenomena like relying on protein shakes, unhealthy dieting and steroid use. Comparing British men with those from Nicaragua and Uganda, the team assessed each man's body mass index, along with their feelings about peer pressure and their ideal appearance. Participants also ranked the perceived level of muscularity of their current body and their ideal body on the so-called'Male Adiposity and Muscularity Scale.' Designed by the Person Perception Lab at the University of Lincoln, the new scale makes use of two-dimensional images created from 3D software, providing a more realistic range of body types and sizes based on measurements of real people.

Couch potatoes trying to get in shape could one day be helped along their fitness journey by an ankle exoskeleton that makes it easier and less tiring to run. The robotic device attaches to the ankle of joggers and was found in lab tests to slash energy expenditure by 14 per cent when compared to standard running shoes. It was created by robotics experts at Stanford University and funded in part by sporting behemoth Nike. The engineers behind the project say the equipment currently only works on a treadmill and when the device is hooked up to a machine via cables. However, they are working to make the exoskeleton portable and lightweight and easy to integrate into future running equipment.

Next, we will learn how to use pre-trained models trained on large datasets like ILSVRC, and also learn how to use them for a different task than it was trained on. ImageNet is a project which aims to provide a large image database for research purposes. It contains more than 14 million images which belong to more than 20,000 classes ( or synsets). They also provide bounding box annotations for around 1 million images, which can be used in Object Localization tasks. It should be noted that they only provide urls of images and you need to download those images.

While much of the artificial intelligence focus has been on Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL),Tesla (TSLA), and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (GOOG), there is another firm in the field making money hand over fist. That would be Netflix (NFLX), which just announced earnings up a mind blowing 64% YOY, sending the shares soaring. The company added a staggering 5.3 million paid subscribers in Q3, largely driven by international sales. Traders went gaga over the numbers. Indeed, the firm tracks every keystroke you make.

However, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) earnings rocketed, sending the shares up a ballistic 15% in minutes. Are these numbers revealing a major new trend in our society? Are we soon to have our every need catered to without lifting a finger? After spending weeks preparing a major research piece for a private client on artificial intelligence, I would have to say that the answer is an overwhelming "Yes!" Artificial intelligence, or AI, is far more pervasive than you think. Half of all apps now rely on some form of AI, and within five years, all of them will.