The governor of Tennessee has approved a law that aims to protect musical artists from exploitation or replication by artificial intelligence. Gov. Bill Lee signed into law the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security (ELVIS) Act on Thursday at a honky-tonk bar in Nashville. "There are certainly many things that are positive about what AI does," Lee said during the event. "It also, when fallen into the hands of bad actors, it can destroy this industry." "It can rob an individual, these individual artists to whose unique God-given gifts transform people's lives," the governor added.

Natural language processing (NLP) research predominantly focuses on developing methods that work well for English despite the many positive benefits of working on other languages. These benefits range from an outsized societal impact to modelling a wealth of linguistic features to avoiding overfitting as well as interesting challenges for machine learning (ML). There are around 7,000 languages spoken around the world. The map above (see the interactive version at Langscape) gives an overview of languages spoken around the world, with each green circle representing a native language. Most of the world's languages are spoken in Asia, Africa, the Pacific region and the Americas.

In simple terms, it is the language of computers.

Hunt brilliantly describes how these processes work in "Sheep Logic"; a masterpiece. My chapter 20 contains a short version of the theory.

Artificial Intelligence is seemingly a technological Swiss Army Knife. Its applications range from locating important documents to guiding the preparation of a gourmet dinner. As useful as this may be, the real merit of AI arguably lies outside of developed economies. . . Developing areas have to work with insufficient resources, hugely affecting quality of life. AI is already proving that it can alleviate these issues, but this relies on open collaboration.

"Westworld" is HBO's latest show with potential to be everyone's new obsession. Filled with intrigue and mind-bending futurism, "Westworld" paves its own way in masterful fashion through questions that are hyper-relevant to our current exploration into robotics engineering and artificial intelligence. The show manages this while maintaining a fantastical element of late 1800s Western society and confronting viewers with questions of their own empathy and potential for cruelty. "Westworld" is based on the 1973 movie of the same name, written and directed by Michael Crichton (of "Jurassic Park" fame). The concept of the HBO show is essentially the same: In the future, humans have advanced technology to the point where anthropomorphic robots are indistinguishable from real people.