Cameron Willden supports engineers and scientists across many different product lines at W.L. Gore, focusing on manufacturing and new product development. He responds to some of the learning objectives covered in a keynote by author David J. Hand and provides his own perspective based on years in industry. You can watch the keynote and the panel discussion at any time. Need some help demystifying machine learning and artificial intelligence? We have upcoming livestreams and on-demand videos on this topic.

Summary: There have been several stories over the last several months around the theme that AI is about to hit a wall. That the rapid improvements we've experienced and the benefits we've accrued can't continue at the current pace. It's worth taking a look at these arguments to see if we should be adjusting our plans and expectations. There have been several stories over the last several months around the theme that AI is about to hit a wall. That the rapid improvements we've experienced and the benefits we've accrued can't continue at the current pace.

When his daughters were young, Nader Hamda says, they were really into apps and computers. But now that they're a little older, their interest is waning. "They're not an exception," he says. According to numerous studies, young girls are moving away from computer science, not towards it. And Hamda says this is why his company, Ozobot, is now offering an educational robot called Evo.

'He is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor' – it's one of many bizarre lines from a new science fiction screenplay called Sunspring, written entirely by an AI. The short film is barely nine minutes long and is strangely captivating as it gravitates between dark and cryptic to outright hilarious, with blocks of nonsensical dialogue. Sunspring was created for the annual film festival Sci-Fi London, and debuted today on Ars Technica. 'He is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor' – it's one of many bizarre lines from a new science fiction screenplay called Sunspring, written entirely by an AI. To produce the film, director Oscar Sharp and collaborator Ross Goodwin, an NYU AI researcher, fed dozens of scripts to a long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network that has named itself Benjamin.