At a time when two of the world's most powerful tech titans are looking to have a cage fight, you'd surely think that life can't get any crazier. But the'world's first robot CEO', speaking exclusively to MailOnline, hints that artificial intelligence (AI) could run Twitter and Meta far more efficiently than both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Mika, who heads up the Colombian spirits firm Dictador, believes that more CEOs just like her will soon crop up around the world as AI blends into businesses. As an employee who'never asks for a raise or takes a vacation', Mika boasts that she is a'game-changer for profit-making', helping on numerous fronts including communication, strategy planning and even package design. 'Both Musk and Zuckerberg's impact extends beyond their respective companies.

In the distant future, a couple must come to terms with the loss of the eldest child, actually an A.I. purchased as an ethnically programmed companion for their adopted South East Asian daughter – SF mystery drama is on Sky Cinema from Thursday, September 22nd Memory is one of the great themes of cinema because when you point a moving image camera at someone, you capture and preserve their moving image for posterity. Or even if you write down their words on paper, a simpler, more primitive form of recording.) Memory is also one of the elements which defines us as human beings. As described in the parlance of the distant future world in which this is set, Yang is a technosapien (i.e. a robot), a purchased elder sibling of a family comprising father Jake (Colin Farrell), mother Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja). Mika is adopted, and her ever so Hollywood liberal parents – he a white man who has built a business around his passion for tea, she a black woman who is a hard-working, highly motivated high-flier in a demanding corporate business that's never really defined – are concerned that she connect with her South East Asian heritage.

Someone at a robot company once told me a story about one of its bomb disposal machines. The soldiers who had been using the robot in Afghanistan were dismayed after it returned from repairs. They said that the robot's shiny new parts and casing--lacking the bullet holes and blast scars they knew--made it seem as if the machine itself had, in a sense, died. It might seem odd, grieving a robot. But for anyone who's seen After Yang, the beautiful and strange new movie by the South Korean filmmaker Kogonada, it won't.

Comparisons between Kogonada's new film, "After Yang," and his earlier one, "Columbus," are inevitable, and their differences obscure the big idea that unites them. "After Yang" is a science-fiction film, set in a vague future time at an unspecified place, seemingly in the United States; its title character is an android, or "technosapien." "Columbus," his first feature, from 2017, is set in its own present day, in the real-life city of Columbus, Indiana, and centered on a young woman played by Haley Lu Richardson. "After Yang" is a synthetic work of dystopian imagination, and "Columbus" is a carefully realistic view of its place and time. Nonetheless, the two films are propelled by the same impulse: the artistic basis of mental life, the politics of aesthetics.

"After Yang," the second feature by Kogonada, takes place in a speculative future that looks uncannily like our listless present, with holograph-like phone calls that resemble Zoom and domestic interiors that could have been lifted from an Architectural Digest slide show. The technology has improved in this world, populated with clones and friendly robots known as "technosapiens," which are practically indistinguishable from biological humans. Looming in the background is the hint that some catastrophic geopolitical conflict has ignited between China and the U.S., but the central crisis of the film takes place much closer to home. Based on a short story by Alexander Weinstein, "After Yang" follows the everyday lives of a couple, Jake and Kyra (Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith), and their beloved technosapien, Yang (Justin H. Min), whom they purchase to help their adopted daughter, Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), connect to her Chinese heritage. Early on, however, Yang starts to malfunction--suddenly glitching in the living room, in the middle of a multiplayer game reminiscent of Dance Dance Revolution.

In the film After Yang, a father goes to great lengths to save his daughter's best friend. It just so happens this bestie is a humanoid robot, or technosapien, named Yang. Can he be easily replaced, and what's the value of his artificial life? Like a cross between Black Mirror and Spike Jonze's Her, After Yang explores humanity and existence through the lens of technology, while director Kogonada (Columbus) crafts a vision of the future that feels truly distinct. After a virtuoso opening sequence, where families compete in a virtual dance contest in their living rooms, Yang (Justin H. Min) malfunctions. He's not just some robotic butler; he's a culture technosapien meant to help Jake's adoptive daughter, Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), learn about her Chinese heritage.

We know more about A.I. namely Mika, Ash, and Roz because they tell us what they like. Ash likes band shirts and records; Mika likes historical replicas and small precious things; Roz enjoys bright colors. Well, Roz is an A.I., and also simultaneously a corporate email help-desk, Mika's friend, and a forklift, because like many of our real-world A.I.s, she's a network made up of a few physical devices (phones and robots) and an unknown number of distributed digital programs. These systems are intended to be low-bias statistical processors, like "There is a 70 percent chance that is a green polo shirt." At the same time, they don't know what "green" or "polo" is, or even what a "shirt" is for.

Kate Compton, an expert in artificial intelligence, responds to Holli Mintzer's "Legal Salvage." I've begun collecting vintage brooches. I started after reading a theory that Queen Elizabeth was communicating secret political shade through her choice of accessories. They also reminded me of my grandmother, a woman with that refined 1950s hostess style that I learned to associate with being an adult. I can wear one to feel like the sort of formidable grand dame that I imagine myself growing into as I age.

We can't deny that artificial intelligence assistants have come flooding in the market lately. You have Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple's Siri, and Microsoft Cortana. Finnish tech company Nokia is also getting in on the AI Assistant bandwagon. Its name is Multi-purpose Intuitive Knowledge Assistant or simply MIKA. The announcement for Nokia's new AI voice assistant comes a month before Nokia's expected appearance at the Mobile World Congress.

Amid Nokia's planned comeback in the smartphone scene, there were reports that the Finnish company was also interested in joining the digital assistant trend. However, it seems Nokia does not have any intention of joining the major players in the growing market. In fact, the formerly top cellphone maker is not planning to position its voice-activated assistant as a direct rival to Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google's Google Assistant. Nokia's smart assistant's name, MIKA, has a nice ring to it mainly because it is an acronym that stands for what it is and what it does. Short for Multi-purpose Intuitive Knowledge Assistant, MIKA is not like any of the digital assistants that are being marketed as commercial services at present.