As Artificial Intelligence is applied to car audio, the system can start to sense competing noise ... [ ] and adjust the experience dynamically. Hollywood has perennially portrayed Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the operating layer of dystopian robots who replace unsuspecting humans and create the escalating, central conflict. Or maybe you recall Robin Williams's voice as Bicentennial Man who, once again, is a self-aware robot attempting to thrive who (once again on the spoiler alert), ends up being his only victim. And, of course, there's the nearly cliché reference to Terminator and its post-apocalyptic world with machines attempting to destroy humans and, well, (not-so-spoiler alert) lots of victims over a couple of decades. In none of these scenarios, however, do humans coexist with an improved life, let alone enhanced entertainment and safety.

Thorpe Park has a new attraction based on the Netflix series Black Mirror – and it's so horribly creepy and panic-inducing that I had to escape through the fire exit. Black Mirror: Labyrinth is an entirely new adventure that puts the park's visitors at the centre of the action – but there are enough nasty surprises to give grandma a heart attack. I'm a huge fan of Charlie Brooker's sci-fi anthology series, which explores a twisted alternate reality in the near-future where technology and'humanity's darkest instincts collide'. But the fun of watching an episode of Black Mirror is that all the nasty stuff is happening to someone else – you're just a witness to it. With Labyrinth, you become the unfortunate victim to the antagonist – in this case, an evil artificial intelligence (AI) system that harvests all your personal data.

Sherry Turkle: Well, I think the first thing is to admit that there's no such thing, really, as the best one. Things that give you comfort is because it's your one. And, not having your one is the thing that you miss. It turns out that readers of the book will find out that I didn't have the best birth father. But, by having the one that I had taken away from me meant that every Chanukah, that every birthday, I went and stood and waited for the postman, and nothing came.

Welcome to the first article in TNW's guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we'll examine some of the most popular doomsday scenarios prognosticated by modern AI experts. You can't have a discussion about killer robots without invoking the Terminator movies. The franchise's iconic T-800 robot has become the symbol for our existential fears concerning today's artificial intelligence breakthroughs. What's often lost in the mix however, is why the Terminator robots are so hellbent on destroying humanity: because we accidentally told them to.

In Donut County, you control a giant, mobile hole in the ground that gets bigger the more it swallows. In Donut County, the main character is a hole. That's what you play as. A hole that swallows stuff and gets bigger so it can swallow bigger stuff. Donut County is not about the hole.

The World Cup 2018 has officially begun--which means, if you're a hardcore soccer fan, you're pretty tied up for the next month watching the matches. For those who can't or don't want to follow the action, here's a major spoiler: Germany is going to beat Vegas-favorite Brazil in the final, and Spain and France will round out the tournament's final four teams. That prediction comes courtesy of Unanimous A.I., an artificial intelligence startup that performs a kind of complex crowdsourcing. Founded by scientist and engineer Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous can be used to better understand the nuanced opinions of a population, which makes it useful for tasks like performing market research, diagnosing diseases, or making predictions about the future. Launched in 2014, the company's technology already has an impressive résumé of accurate forecasts.

With two weeks to go until Google's big end-of-year event on October 4, we already know everything that's going to be announced. After months of rumors and speculation, especially about the Pixel 2 flagship phone, Droid-Life dropped a bomb yesterday and published images and prices for everything Google is about to release. You might remember that the same thing happened right before the iPhone X event last week, reducing the presentation to a checklist rather than a show. Granted, Apple relies more on the wow factor than Google does, but yesterday's massive leak must have rankled CEO Sundar Pichai just a little. We already had a pretty good idea about what was coming, but now there's little reason to get excited.

A new artificial intelligence system can take still images and generate short videos that simulate what happens next similar to how humans can visually imagine how a scene will evolve, according to a new study. Humans intuitively understand how the world works, which makes it easier for people, as opposed to machines, to envision how a scene will play out. But objects in a still image could move and interact in a multitude of different ways, making it very hard for machines to accomplish this feat, the researchers said. But a new, so-called deep-learning system was able to trick humans 20 per cent of the time when compared to real footage. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pitted twoneural networks against each other, with one trying to distinguish real videos from machine-generated ones, and the other trying to create videos that were realistic enough to trick the first system.

A new artificial intelligence system can take still images and generate short videos that simulate what happens next similar to how humans can visually imagine how a scene will evolve, according to a new study. Humans intuitively understand how the world works, which makes it easier for people, as opposed to machines, to envision how a scene will play out. But objects in a still image could move and interact in a multitude of different ways, making it very hard for machines to accomplish this feat, the researchers said. But a new, so-called deep-learning system was able to trick humans 20 per cent of the time when compared to real footage. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pitted two neural networks against each other, with one trying to distinguish real videos from machine-generated ones, and the other trying to create videos that were realistic enough to trick the first system. This kind of setup is known as a "generative adversarial network" (GAN), and competition between the systems results in increasingly realistic videos.

Do you get squeamish when someone dies on Game of Thrones? Or maybe you're worried your favorite character is about to get killed, and you can't bear to watch. Researchers at MIT have developed an algorithm that can predict what's going to happen next in a video, giving you an opportunity to look away first. The algorithm, developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is slowly trying to learn a skill that humans spend their entire lives refining and perfecting. Through countless interactions and experiences with others, we're able to accurately predict what will happen when two people meet or depart--be it a handshake, a hug, or a kiss.