March of the A.I. (But April of the V.R.)

So as predicted Artificial Intelligence has moved closer to the front pages of popular daily papers and taking the headliner spots on major media.

Next month will be nothing but VR as 4 or 5 major companies will be releasing their products.
Expect to hear about little else in a few weeks.

Here are some of the stories of note regarding A.I. in the last few months alone!

A novel written by a Japanese AI passed the first round of a national literary prize

South Korean Government Announces Nearly $1 Billion in AI Funding

An AI with 30 Years’ Worth of Knowledge Finally Goes to Work

AlphaGo machine-learning program defeats top Go player in first match

The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go

Google’s AI Wins Fifth And Final Game Against Go Genius Lee Sedol

Meet Brain, the "Most Human-Like Algorithm" Ever Made

Google Officially Announces the Launch of DeepMind Health

Google's amazing neural network tells you where any photo was taken

Siri will finally be making its way to the Mac with OS X 10.12

IBM Watson AI XPRIZE announced at TED

Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence pioneer, RIP

A New AI Can Write Convincing Political Speeches

IBM's Watson-Powered Sales Associate Robots to Be Rolled out into U.S. Retailers by June 2016

Robots Coming To Retail Stores Thanks to IBM's Watson

Deep Learning Machine Beats Humans in IQ Test

Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level