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Its going to take a lot of humans to create the kind of artificial intelligence that could replace truckers , financial analysts , and customer service representatives with robots. U.S. employers will spend more than $650 million on annual salaries for 10,000 jobs in AI this year, according to a study from career and hiring data firm Paysa .

The 2-year-old firm touts itself as the only platform to use AI to deliver personalized job and salary recommendations. It was founded by Chris Bolte, Zachary Poley, Nikhil Raj and Patrick Harrington all formerly of Walmart Labs and Walmart's engineering and product teams.

The firm uses millions of data points like job openings, resumes, and compensation to determine the market value of individual skills. Once a worker creates a profile on the site, they can look at how their salary compares to others with the same job title and experience.

Bolte, the CEO, said the platform also makes suggestions on which skills have the highest value for employers or can help them move into an adjacent field. For this study, Paysa looked at the market value of skills and education listed as requirements for each of these jobs and generated a projected salary.

Unsurprisingly, large companies account for 40% of open AI positions. The list includes tech stalwarts youd expect to see like Amazon , Google[/f500link [f500link]Microsoft, Huawei and IBM .

Paysa's report also found that 35% percent of the AI positions require a Ph.D and another 26% specify that candidates should have a masters degree.

As you get higher into up into these positions that require really specific skills like neural networks and deep learning, where a Ph.D. is required or preferred, thats when you start seeing schools having their top scientists and academics poached by private companies, said Paysa CEO and co-founder Chris Bolte.

But this isnt just news for hardcore academics, he said. Theres so much demand that one in five of the listings doesnt require a degree at all.

Though Amazon is far and away making the biggest bet on AI talent, there were some surprises too. For example, Paysas top 20 list included mapping and IoT firm Here . The firm, owned by a consortium of German automakers, will spend an estimated $8.5 million to cover the annual salaries for the 50 AI jobs its looking to fill according to the study.

Also among the 20 companies is Google , Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz-backed augmented reality wunderkind Magic Leap .

If the name sounds familiar, its because this time last year Wired named it the worlds hottest startup . And more recently, a report from The Information ( subscription required) revealed that it'll take longer than expected for the company to deliver on the technology it's been promoting. The report also mentioned that the Florida-based team has had trouble making its technology small enough to be wearable, putting it behind potential competitor Microsofts HoloLens .

But it seems Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz hasnt given up the ghost yet. The AI study counted 55 open AI-based job openings at Magic Leap, and estimates the average gig will pay over $135,000 per year.

Another notable top 20 company: BAE Systems, which develops combat vehicles, ammunition, artillery systems, naval guns and missile launchers. If it fills all 52 of its open AI positions, Paysa estimates BAE would be investing an extra $8.3 million in machine learning talent each year.

BAE recently showed off a prototype of an armed robotic combat vehicle, or ARCV, at the United States Armys Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.

The ARCV is a tele-operated platform. It was designed to be operated remotely, either from another military vehicle or by a soldier on foot with a hand-held remote control.

He could either follow behind it like we drove it in here the other day, or he could be in a foxhole or under cover and operate the vehicle on the battlefield, James Miller, BAEs director of business development for combat vehicles, told National Defense Magazine.

For all the talk about automation replacing humans, recent examples have so far featured AI supplementing human capital.

Online grocery shopping startup Boxed , which offers customers wholesale sizes and prices without membership fees, just showed how an automation system can be good news for its replaced human counterparts. Boxed retrained and promoted some 100 workers that were recently made obsolete by robots in its Union, N.J. fulfillment center. Many of them even got raises.

"I will be the first to admit that it is not the smartest thing weve ever done when it comes to the balance sheet, but its what we do, CEO Chieh Huang told Fortune . Is it absolutely necessary to drive every last penny out of it at the cost of human livelihoods?

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(Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.REUTERS/Jim Young) It's true. Artificial intelligence can be used to make better Twizzlers. And sell more underwear. And ship goods around the world. And improve a bunch of other non-digital tasks that have been around for decades or centuries.

That was the message from Microsoft last week during its "Digital Difference" event in New York highlighting a bunch of new partners that have adopted the company's digital backbone to improve their businesses. Hershey's, the shipping giant Maersk, Fruit of the Loom, and more are all on board.

If that sounds kind of boring, that's because it is. But it also highlights the budding trend of digital technology touching everything we do and how humans who used to do those jobs need to adapt to this new economy.

Take Twizzlers, for example.

In an interview with Business Insider last week, Microsoft'sCVP of DigitalAnand Eswaran explained how Hershey's is using a network of sensors connected to Microsoft's Azure cloud to adjust the Twizzler-making process and produce better results.

Eswaran said a one-point change in temperature can change the entire batch of Twizzlers, so monitoring temperature during the process can keep mistakes to a minimum.

"Now we have sensors in the manufacturing supply chain connected to Azure cloud," Eswaran said. "It knows the optimum set of conditions and constantly adjusts the temperature. The commands come from the cloud and AI on top of it is constantly learning."

But wait, isn't that kind of quality control a job humans used to do?

Yes, but it also hints at how human workers are adapting and learning new skills to work with the machines doing what people used to do.

"The role of people are going to change over time," Eswaran said. "Many different analysts say it's going to eliminate jobs. But it's going to eliminate a certain kind of job. I feel strongly that the net impact will be positive for jobs. The onus is on us and the government to train the next generation of people differently."

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BB&T Corp. has a well-earned reputation for being deliberate when it comes to adopting technological advances.

Thats why BB&T executives enthusiasm for plugging artificial intelligence and robotics into its back-office, customer service and compliance operations has raised eyebrows with analysts and economists.

BB&T joins Wells Fargo & Co. and other national and super-regional banks in spending hundreds of millions of dollars to pursue what they believe will be significant future cost savings from data mining of customer patterns.

We are investing in improving processing cost a big opportunity for us and frankly all banks by the use of artificial intelligence and robotics, Kelly King, the banks chairman and chief executive, told analysts during its first-quarter earnings report April 20.

We will be pretty aggressive about that. We just think there are huge ways to reduce cost in the backroom by the use of that.

Forbes magazine called artificial intelligences potential for financial institutions immense because of its broad operational reach, such as: including natural language processing (improving interactions between computers and human languages); machine learning (computer programs that can learn when exposed to new data); and expert systems (software programmed to provide advice) that help machines sense, comprehend and act in ways similar to the human brain.

According to analysts, financial institutions have been slower adapters of AI and robotics.

Yet, research firm The Financial Brand said those companies are recognizing the potential for cloud computing and machine learning algorithms, along with rising pressures brought by new competition, increased regulation and heightened consumer expectations.

They all have created a perfect storm for the expanded use of artificial intelligence in financial services, such as product delivery, risk management and marketing.

New cognitive-based solutions also enable a more pro-active and personal customer experience at a lower cost than was ever possible before, The Financial Brand said.

The group said its 2017 retail bank trend report determined that increasing use of AI and robotics was the second most popular expectation of financial institutions.

The drawbacks cited to AI and robotics are familiar ones when it comes to new technology, according to a survey conducted by Narrative Science in conjunction with the National Business Research Institute.

About 12 percent of participants said they hadnt put AI to use because they felt it was too new, untested or werent sure about the security.

King said BB&Ts use of AI is sort of in the first inning. Weve actually tested some areas to be sure that we are so comfortable with the whole concept of AI and robotics working.

King told analysts of one example conducted by Daryl Bible, its chief financial officer, that impressed BB&Ts management team.

Daryl did a test in his financial reconcilement area, King said.

We took one process where a human working with a computer took two hours to do the track and solve the process. Once we applied AI and robotics, it was only 15 minutes.

So, we are engaging some people specialized in this area to help us over time. We will learn how to do this for ourselves, but we are using outside expertise.

King said incorporating AI and robotics is a big deal.

When we get our methodology being fine-tuned, well boost up the entire company, starting with the most sensitive opportunities and then moving down.

BB&T said it plans to spend between $400 million and $500 million in capital expenditures, the grand majority frankly would be technology spends, said Chris Henson, BB&Ts president and chief operating officer.

King said the bank plans to use the cost savings from AI and robotics to invest in digital products, new markets and really keep a tight lid on the background expenses.

Thats why were optimistic in terms of longer-term operating leverage, because we will have to continue to invest in new technologies, etc., but at the same time well simultaneously reduce on the cost our traditional process-oriented activities.

Frankly, Im pretty excited about it. Its a bit early if you were to claim victory, but the concept is really sound.

Wells Fargo said its initial AI push involves launching a pilot of a customer chat experience for Facebook Messenger.

The bank has provided assistance to customers on Facebook platforms since 2009, including adopting that format in May 2016 as its main channel for addressing customers common questions and service issues.

The test involves several hundred employees before making it available to a few thousand customers later this spring.

Were very excited about the opportunity to provide more personalized services for customers, said Steve Ellis, head of Wells Fargos Innovation Group, where the companys Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Solutions team is based.

Our goal is to deliver information in the moment to help customers make better informed financial decisions. AI technology allows us to take an experience that would have required our customers to navigate through several pages on our website, and turn it into a simple conversation in a chat environment.

Wells Fargo said it plans to emphasis AI and robotics in its Payments, Virtual Solutions and Innovation group as it sees an increasing number of opportunities to better leverage data to provide personalized customer service through its bankers and digital channels.

Analysts and economists were mixed about the potential ripple effects from financial institutions increasing their use and focus on AI and robotics.

Bank margins remain under pressure and the competition from financial technology companies means margins wont return to levels seen in the past, said Greg McBride, senior financial analyst with Bankrate.com. So the pressure to reduce overhead costs is ever-present.

The consumer banking experience is becoming increasingly digital, and the organization needs to be less labor intensive to meet the demands of tomorrows customer.

Chris Marinac, managing principal with FIG Partners LLC of Atlanta, said he is encouraged that more banks are preparing to make a big splash with AI and robotics.

BB&T is very serious about this initiative; they do not mention items on the conference call without careful consideration.

This AI/robotics trend is very real in my mind and has seriously positive implications for the expense base, profit ratios and shareholder returns in the future.

Tony Plath, a finance professor at UNC Charlotte, said the AI and robotics train has long left the station, but thats true in every industry and in every advanced economy today.

Why should banking be any different?

Plath said most financial institutions have a research and development effort under way to reduce the human work force and replace it with some sort of automated delivery platform.

Human labor is the most expensive, unreliable and mistake-prone element in any product or service delivery channel, Plath said. Take out the people and you get faster, better, more reliable, more consistent and cheaper products and services.

Robotics will automate much of the back-office operations and support work of these organizations, and robo-advisors will automate the front-end of the businesses.

Talking with a human expert in any of these industries will become the exception, rather than the rule, of normal business operations.

Plath acknowledges there will be significant repercussions for the economy as more bank and credit union employees are displaced from jobs by AI and robotics advances.

Were already seeing that sort of thing in the unskilled segment of labor markets throughout the advanced economies of the world, Plath said.

Over the course of the next 20 years, it will include semi-skilled labor and then fully-skilled labor, and even advanced skilled labor, like physicians and college professors.

Plath said that technology advances, the future is gonna get here much faster than you think.

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Artificial Intelligence is slated to change our world. Indeed, many might argue that we stand on the brink of a new age of renaissance. Except that this time the impact could be even more profound. Instead of an age that will bring about thing like mass production into fashion, we are looking at an age of robots, machines that need no instructions and that can predict and see to our desires.

Even as we speak, machines and artificial intelligence are becoming even more capable, doing things that used to be the sole domain of humans. However, would these systems really be able to breach all frontiers and cross the bridge of what makesushumans?

How do you differentiate between a robot and a human anyways. At the risk of venturing into philosophy, one might say thatcreativity,the ability to come up with something brand new and original is what sets the human race apart from machines, and indeed, despite all the advances that we have made, can a machine create poetry? Can artificial intelligence produce a fresh story? Can a robot, be a journalist?

At the risk of venturing into philosophy, one might say thatcreativity,the ability to come up with something brand new and original is what sets the human race apart from machine.

So writing is one of the jobs that have been listed assafe. And is journalism but not an extension of writing? Well, that may be true but it is no reason for us to preen our feathers and celebrate. Notwithstanding what the report says, robots are already encroaching upon journalism as well and given a few years, we might find ourselves changing our minds about whether or not they can replace human journalists. See, journalism is a job that requires skills like quick response time, creativity, the ability to sift through data and so on. An AI would arguably be better than a human at most of them.

For instance, the wordsmith software that has been developed by the Associated Press (AP), can automatically generate new stories pertaining to college sports. AP is also using the AI to generate quarterly earnings reports of corporations. And already, it is churning out up to 10 times the number of reports that human reporters were earlier generating.

So yeah, as robots get better, we can expect them to take over journalistic duties like preparing reports, press releases. On the other hand, jobs that require investigation, deep analysis like writing editorials, doing profile storiesand so on will remain the domain of humans, at least for a few decades.

It will be good for journalism in a way too, as reporters will be freed up from the more mundane, data crunching jobs and will be able to focus on the core creative aspect of their jobs.

In conclusion, we would like to draw you attention to a few attributes: such as curiosity, motivation, passion and a sense of justice. Ironically, jobs that require these human emotions, these human attributes, will remain free from encroachment by robots. However, even that wont be perpetual.

AP is also using AI to generate quarterly earnings reports of corporations. And already, it is churning out up to 10 times the number of reports that human reporters were earlier generating.

The thing with AI, and that sets them apart from all other machines and technologies in much the same way that humans are different from all other animals is their ability to take up data, go through it and eventually get better.

A few decades down the line and systems that can mimic even these emotions and maybe even generate them, who knows? may come up. That will be the time when journalists might well have to start looking for other jobs. For now though, I think I will sit back, relax, sip some lemonade and think about what I can write next.

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (also known simply as A.I.) is a 2001 American science fiction drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. The screenplay by Spielberg was based on a screen story by Ian Watson and the 1969 short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss. The film was produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg and Bonnie Curtis. It stars Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson and William Hurt. Set in a futuristic post-climate change society, A.I. tells the story of David (Osment), a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love.

Development of A.I. originally began with producer-director Stanley Kubrick, after he acquired the rights to Aldiss' story in the early 1970s. Kubrick hired a series of writers until the mid-1990s, including Brian Aldiss, Bob Shaw, Ian Watson, and Sara Maitland. The film languished in protracted development for years, partly because Kubrick felt computer-generated imagery was not advanced enough to create the David character, whom he believed no child actor would convincingly portray. In 1995, Kubrick handed A.I. to Spielberg, but the film did not gain momentum until Kubrick's death in 1999. Spielberg remained close to Watson's film treatment for the screenplay.

The film divided critics, with the overall balance being positive, and grossed approximately $235 million. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards at the 74th Academy Awards, for Best Visual Effects and Best Original Score (by John Williams). A.I. is dedicated to Stanley Kubrick.

In the late 22nd century, rising sea levels from global warming have wiped out coastal cities such as Amsterdam, Venice and New York, and drastically reduced the population. A new type of robots called Mecha, advanced humanoids capable of thoughts and emotions, have been created.

David, a Mecha that resembles a human child and is programmed to display love for its owners, is sent to Henry Swinton and his wife Monica as a replacement for their son Martin, who has been placed in suspended animation until he can be cured of a rare disease. Monica warms to David and activates his imprinting protocol, causing him to have an enduring childlike love for her. David is befriended by Teddy, a robotic teddy bear who cares for David's well-being.

Martin is cured of his disease and brought home; as he recovers, he grows jealous of David. He makes David go to Monica in the night and cut off a lock of her hair. This upsets the parents, particularly Henry, who fears the scissors are a weapon.

At a pool party, one of Martin's friends accidentally pokes David with a knife, activating his self-protection programming. David grabs Martin and they fall into the pool. Martin is saved from drowning, but Henry persuades Monica to return David to his creator for destruction. However, Monica instead abandons both David and Teddy in the forest to hide as an unregistered Mecha.

David is captured for an anti-Mecha "Flesh Fair", where obsolete and unlicensed Mecha are destroyed before cheering crowds. David is nearly killed, but tricks the crowd into thinking he is human and escapes with Gigolo Joe, a male prostitute Mecha who is on the run after being framed for murder. The two set out to find the Blue Fairy, who David remembers from The Adventures of Pinocchio and believes can turn him into a human, allowing Monica to love him and take him home.

Joe and David make their way to Rouge City, where "Dr. Know", a holographic answer engine, leads them to the top of Rockefeller Center in ruined Manhattan. There, David meets a copy of himself and destroys it. David then meets his creator Professor Hobby, who tells David that he was built in the image of the professor's dead son David, and that more copies, including female versions called Darlene, are being manufactured.

Disheartened, David falls from a ledge, but is rescued by Joe using their amphibicopter. David tells Joe he saw the Blue Fairy underwater and wants to go down to meet her. Joe is captured by the authorities using an electromagnet. David and Teddy use the amphibicopter to go to the Fairy, which turns out to be a statue at Coney Island. The two become trapped when the Wonder Wheel falls on their vehicle. David asks repeatedly to be turned into a real boy until the ocean freezes and is deactivated once his power source is drained.

Two thousand years later, humans have become extinct and Manhattan is buried under glacial ice. The Mecha have evolved into an advanced, intelligent, silicon-based form. They find David and Teddy and discover they are original Mecha that knew living humans, making them special.

David is revived and walks to the frozen Fairy statue, which collapses when he touches it. The Mecha use Davids memories to reconstruct the Swinton home and explain to him that they cannot make him human. However, David insists that they recreate Monica from DNA in the lock of hair. The Mecha warn David that the clone can only live for a day, and that the process cannot be repeated. David spends the next day with Monica and Teddy. Before she drifts of to sleep, Monica tells David she has always loved him. Teddy climbs onto the bed and watches the two lie peacefully together.

Kubrick began development on an adaptation of "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" in the late 1970s, hiring the story's author, Brian Aldiss, to write a film treatment. In 1985, Kubrick asked Steven Spielberg direct the film, with Kubrick producing.[5]Warner Bros. agreed to co-finance A.I. and cover distribution duties.[6] The film labored in development hell, and Aldiss was fired by Kubrick over creative differences in 1989.[7]Bob Shaw served as writer very briefly, leaving after six weeks because of Kubrick's demanding work schedule, and Ian Watson was hired as the new writer in March 1990. Aldiss later remarked, "Not only did the bastard fire me, he hired my enemy [Watson] instead." Kubrick handed Watson The Adventures of Pinocchio for inspiration, calling A.I. "a picaresque robot version of Pinocchio".[6][8]

Three weeks later Watson gave Kubrick his first story treatment, and concluded his work on A.I. in May 1991 with another treatment, at 90 pages. Gigolo Joe was originally conceived as a GI Mecha, but Watson suggested changing him to a male prostitute. Kubrick joked, "I guess we lost the kiddie market."[6] In the meantime, Kubrick dropped A.I. to work on a film adaptation of Wartime Lies, feeling computer animation was not advanced enough to create the David character. However, after the release of Spielberg's Jurassic Park (with its innovative use of computer-generated imagery), it was announced in November 1993 that production would begin in 1994.[9]Dennis Muren and Ned Gorman, who worked on Jurassic Park, became visual effects supervisors,[7] but Kubrick was displeased with their previsualization, and with the expense of hiring Industrial Light & Magic.[10]

Stanley [Kubrick] showed Steven [Spielberg] 650 drawings which he had, and the script and the story, everything. Stanley said, "Look, why don't you direct it and I'll produce it." Steven was almost in shock.

In early 1994, the film was in pre-production with Christopher "Fangorn" Baker as concept artist, and Sara Maitland assisting on the story, which gave it "a feminist fairy-tale focus".[6] Maitland said that Kubrick never referred to the film as A.I., but as Pinocchio.[10]Chris Cunningham became the new visual effects supervisor. Some of his unproduced work for A.I. can be seen on the DVD, The Work of Director Chris Cunningham.[12] Aside from considering computer animation, Kubrick also had Joseph Mazzello do a screen test for the lead role.[10] Cunningham helped assemble a series of "little robot-type humans" for the David character. "We tried to construct a little boy with a movable rubber face to see whether we could make it look appealing," producer Jan Harlan reflected. "But it was a total failure, it looked awful." Hans Moravec was brought in as a technical consultant.[10] Meanwhile, Kubrick and Harlan thought A.I. would be closer to Steven Spielberg's sensibilities as director.[13][14] Kubrick handed the position to Spielberg in 1995, but Spielberg chose to direct other projects, and convinced Kubrick to remain as director.[11][15] The film was put on hold due to Kubrick's commitment to Eyes Wide Shut (1999).[16] After the filmmaker's death in March 1999, Harlan and Christiane Kubrick approached Spielberg to take over the director's position.[17][18] By November 1999, Spielberg was writing the screenplay based on Watson's 90-page story treatment. It was his first solo screenplay credit since Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).[19] Spielberg remained close to Watson's treatment, but removed various sex scenes with Gigolo Joe. Pre-production was briefly halted during February 2000, because Spielberg pondered directing other projects, which were Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Minority Report and Memoirs of a Geisha.[16][20] The following month Spielberg announced that A.I. would be his next project, with Minority Report as a follow-up.[21] When he decided to fast track A.I., Spielberg brought Chris Baker back as concept artist.[15]

The original start date was July 10, 2000,[14] but filming was delayed until August.[22] Aside from a couple of weeks shooting on location in Oxbow Regional Park in Oregon, A.I. was shot entirely using sound stages at Warner Bros. Studios and the Spruce Goose Dome in Long Beach, California.[23] The Swinton house was constructed on Stage 16, while Stage 20 was used for Rouge City and other sets.[24][25] Spielberg copied Kubrick's obsessively secretive approach to filmmaking by refusing to give the complete script to cast and crew, banning press from the set, and making actors sign confidentiality agreements. Social robotics expert Cynthia Breazeal served as technical consultant during production.[14][26] Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law applied prosthetic makeup daily in an attempt to look shinier and robotic.[3] Costume designer Bob Ringwood (Batman, Troy) studied pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip for his influence on the Rouge City extras.[27] Spielberg found post-production on A.I. difficult because he was simultaneously preparing to shoot Minority Report.[28]

The film's soundtrack was released by Warner Sunset Records in 2001. The original score was composed by John Williams and featured singers Lara Fabian on two songs and Josh Groban on one. The film's score also had a limited release as an official "For your consideration Academy Promo", as well as a complete score issue by La-La Land Records in 2015. The band Ministry appears in the film playing the song "What About Us?" (but the song does not appear on the official soundtrack album).

Warner Bros. used an alternate reality game titled The Beast to promote the film. Over forty websites were created by Atomic Pictures in New York City (kept online at Cloudmakers.org) including the website for Cybertronics Corp. There were to be a series of video games for the Xbox video game console that followed the storyline of The Beast, but they went undeveloped. To avoid audiences mistaking A.I. for a family film, no action figures were created, although Hasbro released a talking Teddy following the film's release in June 2001.[14]

In November 2000, during production, a video-only webcam (dubbed the "Bagel Cam") was placed in the craft services truck on the film's set at the Queen Mary Dome in Long Beach, California. Steven Spielberg, producer Kathleen Kennedy and various other production personnel visited the camera and interacted with fans over the course of three days.[29][30]

A.I. had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2001.[31]

The film opened in 3,242 theaters in the United States on June 29, 2001, earning $29,352,630 during its opening weekend. A.I went on to gross $78.62 million in US totals as well as $157.31 million in foreign countries, coming to a worldwide total of $235.93 million.[32]

Based on 190 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 73% of the critics gave the film positive notices with a score of 6.6 out of 10. The website described the critical consensus perceiving the film as "a curious, not always seamless, amalgamation of Kubrick's chilly bleakness and Spielberg's warm-hearted optimism. [The film] is, in a word, fascinating."[33] By comparison, Metacritic collected an average score of 65, based on 32 reviews, which is considered favorable.[34]

Producer Jan Harlan stated that Kubrick "would have applauded" the final film, while Kubrick's widow Christiane also enjoyed A.I.[35] Brian Aldiss admired the film as well: "I thought what an inventive, intriguing, ingenious, involving film this was. There are flaws in it and I suppose I might have a personal quibble but it's so long since I wrote it." Of the film's ending, he wondered how it might have been had Kubrick directed the film: "That is one of the 'ifs' of film history - at least the ending indicates Spielberg adding some sugar to Kubrick's wine. The actual ending is overly sympathetic and moreover rather overtly engineered by a plot device that does not really bear credence. But it's a brilliant piece of film and of course it's a phenomenon because it contains the energies and talents of two brilliant filmmakers."[36]Richard Corliss heavily praised Spielberg's direction, as well as the cast and visual effects.[37]Roger Ebert awarded the film a full four stars, saying that it was "Audacious, technically masterful, challenging, sometimes moving [and] ceaselessly watchable.[38]Leonard Maltin, on the other hand, gives the film two stars out of four in his Movie Guide, writing: "[The] intriguing story draws us in, thanks in part to Osment's exceptional performance, but takes several wrong turns; ultimately, it just doesn't work. Spielberg rewrote the adaptation Stanley Kubrick commissioned of the Brian Aldiss short story 'Super Toys Last All Summer Long'; [the] result is a curious and uncomfortable hybrid of Kubrick and Spielberg sensibilities." However, he calls John Williams' music score "striking". Jonathan Rosenbaum compared A.I. to Solaris (1972), and praised both "Kubrick for proposing that Spielberg direct the project and Spielberg for doing his utmost to respect Kubrick's intentions while making it a profoundly personal work."[39] Film critic Armond White, of the New York Press, praised the film noting that "each part of Davids journey through carnal and sexual universes into the final eschatological devastation becomes as profoundly philosophical and contemplative as anything by cinemas most thoughtful, speculative artists Borzage, Ozu, Demy, Tarkovsky."[40] Filmmaker Billy Wilder hailed A.I. as "the most underrated film of the past few years."[41] When British filmmaker Ken Russell saw the film, he wept during the ending.[42]

Mick LaSalle gave a largely negative review. "A.I. exhibits all its creators' bad traits and none of the good. So we end up with the structureless, meandering, slow-motion endlessness of Kubrick combined with the fuzzy, cuddly mindlessness of Spielberg." Dubbing it Spielberg's "first boring movie", LaSalle also believed the robots at the end of the film were aliens, and compared Gigolo Joe to the "useless" Jar Jar Binks, yet praised Robin Williams for his portrayal of a futuristic Albert Einstein.[43][not in citation given]Peter Travers gave a mixed review, concluding "Spielberg cannot live up to Kubrick's darker side of the future." But he still put the film on his top ten list that year for best movies.[44] David Denby in The New Yorker criticized A.I. for not adhering closely to his concept of the Pinocchio character. Spielberg responded to some of the criticisms of the film, stating that many of the "so called sentimental" elements of A.I., including the ending, were in fact Kubrick's and the darker elements were his own.[45] However, Sara Maitland, who worked on the project with Kubrick in the 1990s, claimed that one of the reasons Kubrick never started production on A.I. was because he had a hard time making the ending work.[46]James Berardinelli found the film "consistently involving, with moments of near-brilliance, but far from a masterpiece. In fact, as the long-awaited 'collaboration' of Kubrick and Spielberg, it ranks as something of a disappointment." Of the film's highly debated finale, he claimed, "There is no doubt that the concluding 30 minutes are all Spielberg; the outstanding question is where Kubrick's vision left off and Spielberg's began."[47]

Screenwriter Ian Watson has speculated, "Worldwide, A.I. was very successful (and the 4th highest earner of the year) but it didn't do quite so well in America, because the film, so I'm told, was too poetical and intellectual in general for American tastes. Plus, quite a few critics in America misunderstood the film, thinking for instance that the Giacometti-style beings in the final 20 minutes were aliens (whereas they were robots of the future who had evolved themselves from the robots in the earlier part of the film) and also thinking that the final 20 minutes were a sentimental addition by Spielberg, whereas those scenes were exactly what I wrote for Stanley and exactly what he wanted, filmed faithfully by Spielberg."[48]

In 2002, Spielberg told film critic Joe Leydon that "People pretend to think they know Stanley Kubrick, and think they know me, when most of them don't know either of us". "And what's really funny about that is, all the parts of A.I. that people assume were Stanley's were mine. And all the parts of A.I. that people accuse me of sweetening and softening and sentimentalizing were all Stanley's. The teddy bear was Stanley's. The whole last 20 minutes of the movie was completely Stanley's. The whole first 35, 40 minutes of the film all the stuff in the house was word for word, from Stanley's screenplay. This was Stanley's vision." "Eighty percent of the critics got it all mixed up. But I could see why. Because, obviously, I've done a lot of movies where people have cried and have been sentimental. And I've been accused of sentimentalizing hard-core material. But in fact it was Stanley who did the sweetest parts of A.I., not me. I'm the guy who did the dark center of the movie, with the Flesh Fair and everything else. That's why he wanted me to make the movie in the first place. He said, 'This is much closer to your sensibilities than my own.'"[49]

Upon rewatching the film many years after its release, BBC film critic Mark Kermode apologized to Spielberg in an interview in January 2013 for "getting it wrong" on the film when he first viewed it in 2001. He now believes the film to be Spielberg's "enduring masterpiece".[50]

Visual effects supervisors Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Michael Lantieri and Scott Farrar were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, while John Williams was nominated for Best Original Music Score.[51] Steven Spielberg, Jude Law and Williams received nominations at the 59th Golden Globe Awards.[citation needed] The visual effects department was once again nominated at the 55th British Academy Film Awards.[citation needed]A.I. was successful at the Saturn Awards. Spielberg (for his screenplay), the visual effects department, Williams and Haley Joel Osment (Performance by a Younger Actor) won in their respective categories. The film also won Best Science Fiction Film and for its DVD release. Frances O'Connor and Spielberg (as director) were also nominated.[citation needed]

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Researchers from the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University have found a way to use artificial intelligence to fight a complication of diabetes that affects the eyes. This advance has the potential to reduce the worldwide rate of vision loss due to diabetes.

In a study published online in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the researchers describe how they used deep-learning methods to create an automated algorithm to detect diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a condition that damages the blood vessels at the back of the eye, potentially causing blindness.

"What we showed is that an artificial intelligence-based grading algorithm can be used to identify, with high reliability, which patients should be referred to an ophthalmologist for further evaluation and treatment," said Theodore Leng, M.D., lead author. "If properly implemented on a worldwide basis, this algorithm has the potential to reduce the workload on doctors and increase the efficiency of limited healthcare resources. We hope that this technology will have the greatest impact in parts of the world where ophthalmologists are in short supply."

Another advantage is that the algorithm does not require any specialized, inaccessible, or costly computer equipment to grade images. It can be run on a common personal computer or smartphone with average processors.

Deep learning is on the rise in computer science and medicine because it can teach computers to do what our brains do naturally. What Dr. Leng and his colleagues did was to create an algorithm based on more than 75,000 images from a wide range of patients representing several ethnicities, and then used it to teach a computer to identify between healthy patients and those with any stage of disease, from mild to severe.

Dr. Leng's algorithm could identify all disease stages, from mild to severe, with an accuracy rate of 94 percent. It would be these patients that should see an ophthalmologist for further examination. An ophthalmologist is a physician who specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of eye diseases and conditions.

Diabetes affects more than 415 million people worldwide or 1 in every 11 adults. About 45 percent of diabetic patients are likely to have diabetic retinopathy at some point in their life; however, fewer than half of patients are aware of their condition. Early detection and treatment are integral to combating this worldwide epidemic of preventable vision loss.

Ophthalmologists typically diagnose the presence and severity of diabetic retinopathy by direct examination of the back of the eye and by evaluation of color photographs of the fundus, the interior lining of the eye. Given the large number of diabetes patients globally, this process is expensive and time-consuming. Also, previous studies have shown that detection is somewhat subjective, even among trained specialists. This is why an effective, automated algorithm could potentially reduce the rate of worldwide blindness.

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