Bleeding edge: the best of emerging tech

IF YOU GET your kicks from quirky groundbreaking technology, then you’re in the right place. This month we see gun-toting humanoid robots being sent to the ISS and the Google affiliated startup Wing delivering The Iconic packages via drones. VR is turning your thoughts into patterns (reminiscent of music visualisation) in order to help you sleep while AR is hoping to release interactive mixed reality board games. AI has been studying journalism, marketing and law with new machine learning software showing that it is more than capable of writing articles, tailoring marketing content and making legal decisions. A pretty big step forward, all things considered.

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Netflix AI movie trailers

AI LEARNS TO CUT TRAILERS TO PULL ON YOUR HEART STRINGS.

Netflix has announced that it intends to start experimenting with AI-made trailers for the service’s, and it has proven useful in creating match highlight reels for summary coverage of the Wimbledon tennis tournament.