Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable progress creating images that are not only breathtaking, but astonishingly diverse in style. Ten years ago, such an achievement would have been deemed unlikely by experts. Today, AI can create images using specific artistic styles, such as Van Gogh's unique approach, with an infinite range of variations. This raises an intriguing question. A very accurate, detailed, and faithful reproduction of a scene, where realism is aimed for: Ave Caesar!

Roundup Let's get cracking with some machine-learning news. Starksy Robotics is no more: Self-driving truck startup Starsky Robotics has shut down after running out of money and failing to raise more funds. CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher bid a touching farewell to his upstart, founded in 2016, in a Medium post this month. He was upfront and honest about why Starsky failed: "Supervised machine learning doesn't live up to the hype," he declared. Neural networks only learn to pick up on certain patterns after they are faced with millions of training examples.