In June, Aviation Today published a great article on the state of machine learning and AI in the airline industry. The article showed that machine learning and AI are helping the industry become more lucrative in the 21st Century. The airline industry has started relying more on machine learning technology as new challenges threaten to cripple its business. They will need it to survive if things go further south. Common wisdom in the world of commerce dictates that the airline industry does not make money.

For visual-effects artists, time is always a struggle. When the call comes in to create something spectacular, artists and supervisors have to calculate how much run- way they have to get from the point of the idea for the vfx to the deadline. On "Avengers: Infinity War," the vfx crew found that a new innovation -- machine learning -- made it possible to create the character Thanos in a way that would have simply been impossible without it. The filmmakers envisioned a version of Thanos -- played by Josh Brolin -- that would be CG, but also incorporate all the subtle facial expressions and delicate hallmarks of a physical performance that could only been done by an actor. They knew that the facial tracking tech was there but asking vfx artists to manually adjust every inch of the CG version of the face of Thanos once they had all the tracking and scanning information would have been a disaster.