At New York's Met Gala, guests are known for attention-grabbing outfits, from Katy Perry's human chandelier dress to Kim Kardashian's all-black body suit. But one attendant in particular has stolen the limelight this year – and he's not even human. Indian-American entrepreneur Mona Patel rocked up to the annual event on Monday night with an adorable robotic dachshund in tow. Vector the robo-dog, developed by scientists at MIT, has a 1,000-carat diamond-studded leash and his own cute little specially-fitted tuxedo. Powered by AI and equipped with sensors, Vector has customised movement patterns and'just the right amount of sass', Vogue India reports.

Monday night's'Garden of Time'-themed Met Gala was the place to be seen for the biggest names in music, film, and fashion -- even if some stars weren't really there. 'I intend to continue creating content that inspires and enchants fans, without disrespecting the artist's image,' Brazilian fan'Sali' told DailyMail.com of his work. Sali -- who also crafted an uncanny AI fake of Billie Eilish at last night's gala -- knows his work is'sparking debates about ethical AI use,' particularly in an election year that has already seen AI-faked Biden robocalls and AI images of Trump supporters. The finished product was so vivid that the fans even fooled Katy Perry's own mother Brazilian Katy Perry fan'Sali' told DailyMail.com he knows his work is'sparking debates about ethical AI use,' particularly in an election year. But this sincere and dedicated Perry fan hopes there will still be freedom for creating'positive and admirable content' with advanced AI But this sincere and dedicated Katy Perry fan hopes there will still be freedom for the creation of'positive and admirable content' with the shockingly advanced tech, as he explained to DailyMail.com the craftsman-like process he used to make his fakes.

The first Monday in May brings one of the marquee fashion events of the year -- the Met Gala. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as a benefit for the museum's Costume Institute, this year's gala comes with an unexpected high-tech twist. The theme of the evening, and the accompanying museum exhibition, is "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology." In keeping with the theme is a rather unlikely collaboration -- IBM is joining forces with the fashion house Marchesa, known for its whimsical, romantic designs. For Monday's event, Marchesa designers and co-founders Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig teamed up with IBM's cognitive computing system Watson to design a "cognitive dress" that will be worn by a yet-to-be-named model.

Officially, fashion's biggest party is a fund-raising event for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's fashion department, but ever since Anna Wintour, Vogue's high-powered editor, took over as chairwoman in 1999, it has turned into the industry's equivalent of the Oscar's red carpet, bringing together an invite-only list of dressed-up celebrities and bigwigs. This year, as everyone was asked "Who are you wearing?" one attendee--model Karolina Kurkova--got to say IBM Watson, in collaboration with high-fashion label Marchesa. Covered in fabric flowers embedded with LEDs, the "cognitive dress" was light, elegant, and romantic, as is Marchesa's signature. It continually changed color with the help of Watson's powerful analytical technology, tying it perfectly into the theme of this year's fashion exhibit at the Met, called "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology." But while the dress was beautiful, the lights were sometimes overbearing.

At last night's Met Gala, the lavish annual fashion event hosted by Vogue, model Karolina Kurkova wore a dress that was half man-, half machine-made. The "Cognitive Dress"--perhaps one of the least fashion-forward names found on the red carpet--is the product of a partnership between British design studio Marchesa and Watson, IBM's friendly cognitive computer. The gown, a white tulle design embroidered with 150 LED-connected flowers, is an interesting glimpse of how humans and machines can work together to create something that otherwise wouldn't be possible. To design the dress, Marchesa's designers first chose five sentiments they wanted the dress to express: joy, patience, excitement, encouragement, and curiosity. Then they fed two datasets into IBM's Cognitive Color Tool, a program that uses color psychology to match emotion to hues.

If you were picturing a not-so-distant future populated by ever-helpful artificial intelligence eager to kowtow to your every whim in a split second--well, think again. "I need another day," said the AI developed within algorithm editor Grasshopper to create a dress for the New York socialite Lisa Maria Falcone to wear to tonight's Met Gala. Designer Zaldy Goco, Robert de Saint Phalle of Conduit Projects (an interdisciplinary design and consulting studio), and computational designers Nicholas Jacobson and Jared Friedman all looked on in dismay. But much like the other minds behind the red carpet confections on display tonight, AI does not like to be pushed. To use logic, computation, generative algorithms, and mathematical optimization--or, simply, its artificially intelligent brain--to solve for the meticulous coding and arrangement of thousands of mirrors in 24 sizes and four colorways atop a flat grid of patterned pieces.