Charles Darwin chatting with students about evolution, primary school pupils seeing their writing transformed into images, Luton reimagined as a cool automobile – artificial intelligence is invading schools across England in surprising ways. While Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, in January called for a "digital revolution" involving AI in schools, it has already begun in places such as Willowdown primary school in Bridgwater, Somerset. Matt Cave, Willowdown's head teacher, said his pupils improve their descriptive writing by feeding their work into an AI client to generate images. "All of a sudden they've got all these pictures from different people's descriptions, and they can then discuss with their classmates whether that was the image they expected to be in the reader's head," Cave said. "It was really stimulating and thought-provoking for them to have a different audience."

``A simple handshake would give them away''. This is how Anthony Hopkins' fictional character, Dr Robert Ford, summarises a particular flaw of the 2016 science-fiction \emph{Westworld}'s hosts. In the storyline, Westworld is a futuristic theme park and the hosts are autonomous robots engineered to be indistinguishable from the human guests, except for their hands that have not been perfected yet. In another classic science-fiction saga, scientists unlock the secrets of full synthetic intelligence, Skynet, by reverse engineering a futuristic hand. In both storylines, reality inspires fiction on one crucial point: designing hands and reproducing robust and reliable manipulation actions is one of the biggest challenges in robotics. Solving this problem would lead us to a new, improved era of autonomy. A century ago, the third industrial revolution brought robots into the assembly lines, changing our way of working forever. The next revolution has already started by bringing us artificial intelligence (AI) assistants, enhancing our quality of life in our jobs and everyday lives--even combating worldwide pandemics.

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When scenes created by the AI image generator DALL-E started circulating online earlier this year, it seemed inevitable that someone would turn the technology to fashion. DALL-E is part of a new crop of AI capable of creating extraordinarily detailed and realistic imagery from a text prompt, making it easy for anyone to use. Artists have quickly begun applying these programs to creating digital art, with one piece conjured up by the program Midjourney even beating out its human-generated competition for a prize. The same power could easily be used to whip up clothing designs. The idea is already becoming reality.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Weeks of teases and vignettes featuring a white rabbit and cryptic messages paid off Saturday night at WWE's Extreme Rules pay-per-view at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. After Riddle defeated Seth Rollings in the fight pit, WWE announcers Michael Cole and Corey Graves were about to sign off the broadcast when the screen went black and shady characters began to appear in the crowd. "He's got the whole world in his hands," blared over the speakers and characters from Bray Wyatt's Firefly Fun House showed up in the crowd.

The country singer invited Wyatt McKee, an avid fan, to sing a duet with him during his concert last month as he continues to wait for a new heart. A 6-year-old awaiting a heart transplant had his dreams fulfilled last month when Blake Shelton invited him on stage to sing a duet during his concert. The avid fan and Shelton's miniature duet partner, Wyatt McKee, and his mother Harley McKee, joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" to recount the emotional rendition of one of Shelton's top hits, "God's Country." "I can't even explain how it made me feel," Harley explained Sunday. "I don't think he quite grasped how big it was. He just had a blast, and that's what he wanted to do. He always tells us he wants Blake Shelton's phone number, so he would ask Siri all the time."

It's hard to remember a non-WrestleMania or SummerSlam pay-per-view that had two bigger matches than the ones headlining WWE No Mercy 2017 Sunday night. The card features Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman and John Cena vs. Roman Reigns, both of which are WrestleMania-worthy matches. Below are predictions for every match on the WWE No Mercy card, which features wrestlers from "Monday Night Raw." It's time to put the strap on Strowman. Sure, he's gotten a big push by WWE, but his rise to the top of the card has also been an organic one. During a year in which every three-hour "Monday Night Raw" hasn't exactly been worth watching, Strowman has consistently been the best part of the show, going from a monster heel into maybe the most popular wrestler on the roster.

SummerSlam is still more than a month away, but WWE has its biggest pay-per-view since WrestleMania 33 set for Sunday night. Great Balls of Fire 2017 features a stacked card with several intriguing matches. It'd be stunning to see Joe beat Lesnar and win his first title on the main roster. That doesn't mean it's not a highly anticipated match, and the build towards Sunday's main event has been better than any of Lesnar's recent feuds. Even if Joe does get pinned to end the PPV, he should find himself near the top of the card at SummerSlam because of what he's done in the weeks leading up to this WWE Universal Championship Match.

The experts predict robots will not be taking over as surgeons until around 2053, while it could take 43 years before machines are competing with mathematicians for space in top academic journals. They also predict AI computers could be churning out New York Times bestselling novels by 2049. In reality, machines are already dipping their digital fingers into this field too. Google has been training its AI on romantic novels and news articles in an attempt to help it write more creatively, and an AI bot called Benjamin can write short sci-fi film scripts – even if they don't entirely make sense. Then there is the work of Automated Insights, which has created algorithms that churn out millions of personalised news, finance and sports articles for companies like Reuters and the Associated Press. Adam Smith, chief operating officer at Automated Insights, says this technology is intended to complement, rather than replace, human expertise. "Automated journalism is creating content that would not have existed before, but humans still need to add context to those stories."

WWE Payback 2017 certainly lived up to its name Sunday night, allowing several superstars to get retribution for recent losses. The eight matches resulted in two titles changing hands, and the main event likely set up a match for the No.1 championship on "Monday Night Raw." Braun Strowman ended the pay-per-view by defeating Roman Reigns, continuing to be the most dominant wrestler in all of WWE. He now has his eyes on the WWE Universal Championship, though Finn Balor announced his intention to reclaim the belt when he appeared on "Miz TV" as part of the Payback kickoff show. Let's take a look at the complete results of WWE Payback, including a recap and video for each match. Reigns stood little chance from the start.