A light gray cube with a thin blue top glides down a darkened highway, beset on all sides by dozens of green cubes. The green cubes bounce between lanes in an attempt to pass the gray cube, but the gray cube maintains a steady speed as the blackened landscape slips past into the artificial night. This is Simulation City, the virtual world where Waymo, an offshoot of Google, tests its autonomous vehicles in preparation for real-world experiences. The gray cube with the blue top represents one of the company's autonomous semi-trailer trucks, while the green cubes are all the other vehicles on the artificial highway. Waymo is unique among autonomous vehicle operators in that it has not one but two simulation programs it uses to train its vehicles.

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Bethenny Frankel took a chance on a dating app and it worked out pretty well. The Skinnygirl founder, 50, revealed she met now-fiancé Paul Bernon online and felt a spark between them immediately. "We met on a dating app," Frankel told People magazine.

Dr. Zoe Danielle Birnbaum and James Matthew Frankel are to be married Feb. 9 by Rabbi Jeffrey Sirkman at Tappan Hill Mansion in Tarrytown, N.Y. The bride and groom graduated from Colgate. Dr. Birnbaum, 30, is a third-year resident in the field of psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center, and received a medical degree from N.Y.U. She is a daughter of Dr. Lisa Turtz and Jesse Birnbaum of Larchmont, N.Y. The bride's father is a member of the quality assurance team at the Mahwah, N.J., manufacturing facility of Nobel Biocare, the Swiss-based maker of dental implants and individualized prosthetics.

Artificial intelligence is seeping into an increasing number of industries, like finance and manufacturing. Now Chicago-based Narrative Science is successfully bringing AI into writing. Founded in 2010 to automatically turn statistics into baseball stories, the organization has evolved into a powerhouse in natural-language processing. Stuart Frankel is the CEO of Narrative Science and has helped guide this transition from sports statistics to business insights. We spoke to Frankel about how technology like this is changing daily workflow in different industries and bridging the language gap between human workers and machines.

The first thing they noticed was the ears. They were just plain wrong. They seemed tiny--really, really tiny--when they were supposed to be big and pointy. That would be strike one against him: the absence of that universal trademark, his Vulcan ears. And what was he doing with that scruffy beard?

Last summer, NYU Tandon and ff Venture Capital announced the launch of their jointly run artificial intelligence incubator, AI NexusLab. The stated goal then, as ffVC founding partner John Frankel put it, was to make New York City a prime destination for technologists pursuing one of the hottest areas in the industry. Frankel reiterated that mission Wednesday at the Future Labs AI Summit, held at NYU's Skirball Center, where the incubator's inaugural class of five startups (which we'll be covering in a separate post) unveiled their work. "We had a thesis coming into this that New York should be an artificial intelligence hub," Frankel said, rattling off a series of data points about the city's tech cred. Among those data bytes: there are some 2,400 open positions in data science in the metro area right now.

As part of my research on the year ahead, I embarked on a series, 20.17 Big Ideas for 2017, to ask a number of my favorite award-winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders -- as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts -- to recommend one "Big Idea" that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2017. One of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for this series was John Frankel, Principal at ffVC. Frankel, who founded ffVC in 2008 after having been a seed-stage and early-stage investor since the late '90s, has led investments in more than 80 companies, including such success stories as Indiegogo, Plated, and 500px. Frankel's big idea for 2017: while software might be eating the world, AI is eating software. How can the typical company get ahead of the AI curve?

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are already proliferating in the enterprise. However, many business leaders don't realize they're leveraging technologies that rely on AI, according to a new study by natural language generation (NLG) specialist Narrative Science. Despite the confusion, adoption is imminent. "AI has been around for a long time," says Stuart Frankel, CEO and co-founder of Narrative Science. "While it is super-hot and very buzzy today, there are still some success stories of AI that we just don't consider AI anymore. We use it every day and we're used to it. I think that's a natural progression. Once that esoteric technology that's sort of hard to explain gets wide adoption, it's no longer AI anymore."

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are already proliferating in the enterprise. However, many business leaders don't realize they're leveraging technologies that rely on AI, according to a new study by natural language generation (NLG) specialist Narrative Science. Despite the confusion, adoption is imminent. "AI has been around for a long time," says Stuart Frankel, CEO and co-founder of Narrative Science. "While it is super-hot and very buzzy today, there are still some success stories of AI that we just don't consider AI anymore. We use it every day and we're used to it. I think that's a natural progression. Once that esoteric technology that's sort of hard to explain gets wide adoption, it's no longer AI anymore."

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are already proliferating in the enterprise. However, many business leaders don't realize they're leveraging technologies that rely on AI, according to a new study by natural language generation (NLG) specialist Narrative Science. Despite the confusion, adoption is imminent. "AI has been around for a long time," says Stuart Frankel, CEO and co-founder of Narrative Science. "While it is super-hot and very buzzy today, there are still some success stories of AI that we just don't consider AI anymore. We use it every day and we're used to it. I think that's a natural progression. Once that esoteric technology that's sort of hard to explain gets wide adoption, it's no longer AI anymore."