The grinding trial-and-error process that precedes world-changing scientific discoveries doesn't really lend itself to dramatization. Instead of our heroes chasing bad guys down dark alleys, the exciting story action involves them standing in front of a blackboard or gazing into a microscope. So dramatic tension is injected by financial or political forces threatening to derail a project of urgent importance (Oppenheimer); the scientists fighting for credibility in the face of belonging to a marginalized group (Hidden Figures, The Imitation Game, any biopic of a female scientist); or the old reliable of the main scientist being a difficult, maverick genius (Oppenheimer again). Joy: The Birth of IVF, Ben Taylor's new film out now on Netflix, about the arduous path to develop a viable technique for fertilizing human eggs outside the body and implanting them in the womb, aka in vitro fertilization, hits many of these notes. There's the irascible pioneer, here played by Bill Nighy at his most crotchety but sympathetic as gynecologist Patrick Steptoe, who introduced laparoscopy to the U.K. He's teamed with the driven visionary--physiologist Robert Edwards, played by James Norton, who, like Jude Law, is always required to conceal his innate gorgeousness under an unbecoming wig or glasses to convince as an ordinary guy.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is expected to join the team as they begin their offseason program on Monday, just a little over a month after undergoing surgery to repair a torn UCL in his throwing arm. Purdy, 23, underwent surgery on March 10 to repair the UCL in his right elbow, which he injured during the NFC Championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Despite not being expected to start throwing until June, Purdy told The Athletic on Friday that he still intends to participate in the voluntary offseason program.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is feeling like a new man after he completed successful UCL surgery stemming from an injury he suffered against the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship. Purdy will be competing for the starting quarterback job as the 49ers will enter offseason workouts and training camp with him, Trey Lance and Sam Darnold in the room. As Purdy goes through rehab, he remarked last week about appearing to have a "robotic arm" because of the brace he's wearing.

The remote distributed workplace of today is already vastly different from what we could have imagined just a couple of years ago, but this is nothing compared to the changes being ushered in by the metaverse. The 3D internet and the technologies surrounding it promise radical new levels of social connectedness, mobility, and collaboration inside a virtual workplace that still sounds like science fiction to actually come true. "Imagine a world where you could have a beachside conversation with your colleagues, take meeting notes while floating around a space station, or teleport from your office in London to New York, all without taking a step outside your front door," invites Mark Purdy, an economics and technology advisor writing in the Harvard Business Review. The implications of the emerging metaverse for the world of work have received little attention, he contends, yet companies everywhere need to get ready or get bypassed by talent and innovation. He identifies four major ways future work will morph.

The ability of digital storytelling agents to evaluate their output is important for ensuring high-quality human-agent interactions. However, evaluating stories remains an open problem. Past evaluative techniques are either model-specific--- which measure features of the model but do not evaluate the generated stories ---or require direct human feedback, which is resource-intensive. We introduce a number of story features that correlate with human judgments of stories and present algorithms that can measure these features. We find this approach results in a proxy for human-subject studies for researchers evaluating story generation systems.

Under the hot Florida sun, hundreds of strawberry pickers dot the rows of Wish Farms. It is back-breaking labor as the pickers fold their bodies to lean over the plants. Their hands skim through the leaves to find the bright ripe strawberries. With a flick of their wrists they pop the berry from the stem, carefully making sure not to tear the plant. A strawberry plant has a ripening cycle that's much different from other fruits; every three days it will give off new ripe fruit.

For many, considering the effects artificial intelligence (AI) may soon have on society is a source of both anxiety and wonder. Agriculture, as much as any industry, is in line for big changes. Farm equipment may soon have a mind of its own. The term AI, as it relates to agriculture, is often lumped in with other emergent technologies like autonomous equipment and field sensors. But, AI-based equipment is distinct in that rather than being programed to perform a function, it's being designed to interpret data pulled from the field, act on it and teach itself best practices in the process.

Mobile systems are relying more on cloud-based services that, themselves, are becoming more intelligent. Machine intelligence is now able to learn from experience and objectives. The next decade will be full of major benefits to society. When I was a young graduate student in computer science at Stanford University in 1968 to 1972, I took a class from one of the most famous professors in artificial intelligence at the time, John McCarthy. Our assignments were often to write small programs in LISP, a language most noted for nesting of statements that began and ended with a parenthesis.