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Consider ethical and social challenges in smart grid research

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are increasingly seen as key technologies for buildin g more decentralised and resilient energy grids, but researchers must consider the ethical and social implications of their use E nergy grids are undergoing rapid changes, requiring new ways both to process the large amounts of data generated from the power system, but also - increasingly - to take smart operational decisions [1]. On the data side, the UK and most EU countries have committed to a target of offering a smart meter to every home by 2020 [ 2 ], with similar monitoring being installed in other parts of the energy network. This has led to some to refer to a "data tsunami", requiri ng development of new machine learning techniques to deal with the e nsuing challenge of extracting useful information from this data - often in real time. Another trend is the use of AI techniques (such as those from multi - agent systems, computational gam e theory and decision making under uncertainty) to take autonomous allocation and control decisions. This is driven increasingly by the moves towards more decentralised energy systems, where prosumers (consumers with own micro - generation and storage) can g enerate and source their own electricity through peer - to - peer (P2P) trading in local energy markets and community energy schemes.


Generative Temporal Link Prediction via Self-tokenized Sequence Modeling

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Noname manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Abstract We formalize networks with evolving structures as temporal networks and propose a generative link prediction model, Generative Link Sequence Modeling (GLSM), to predict future links for temporal networks. GLSM captures the temporal link formation patterns from the observed links with a sequence modeling framework and has the ability to generate the emerging links by inferring from the probability distribution on the potential future links. To avoid overfitting caused by treating each link as a unique token, we propose a self-tokenization mechanism to transform each raw link in the network to an abstract aggregation token automatically. The self-tokenization is seamlessly integrated into the sequence modeling framework, which allows the proposed GLSM model to have the generalization capability to discover link formation patterns beyond raw link sequences. We compare GLSM with the existing state-of-art methods on five real-world datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that GLSM obtains future positive links effectively in a generative fashion while achieving the best performance (2-10% improvements on AUC) among other alternatives. Keywords Temporal link prediction, sequence modeling, recurrent neural network, self-tokenization mechanism 1 Introduction Many real-world applications could be modeled as link prediction problems. Lu Bai is the corresponding author, Email: bailucs@cufe.edu.cn 1. Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, P.R. China. Two mainstream categories in link prediction are either based on the statistical patterns of the link formation behaviors of the network [10, 2, 17] or the graph representation learning [31, 33] methods which embed nodes as vectors with respect to the network topological information. Most of these methods are discriminative models that verify whether an unknown link given during the test time is rational by training a classifier on existing links and negative samples [19].


Biology and Compositionality: Empirical Considerations for Emergent-Communication Protocols

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Significant advances have been made in artificial systems by using biological systems as a guide. However, there is often little interaction between computational models for emergent communication and biological models of the emergence of language. Many researchers in language origins and emergent communication take compositionality as their primary target for explaining how simple communication systems can become more like natural language. However, there is reason to think that compositionality is the wrong target on the biological side, and so too the wrong target on the machine-learning side. As such, the purpose of this paper is to explore this claim. This has theoretical implications for language origins research more generally, but the focus here will be the implications for research on emergent communication in computer science and machine learning---specifically regarding the types of programmes that might be expected to work and those which will not. I further suggest an alternative approach for future research which focuses on reflexivity, rather than compositionality, as a target for explaining how simple communication systems may become more like natural language. I end by providing some reference to the language origins literature that may be of some use to researchers in machine learning.


SemEval-2015 Task 3: Answer Selection in Community Question Answering

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Community Question Answering (cQA) provides new interesting research directions to the traditional Question Answering (QA) field, e.g., the exploitation of the interaction between users and the structure of related posts. In this context, we organized SemEval-2015 Task 3 on "Answer Selection in cQA", which included two subtasks: (a) classifying answers as "good", "bad", or "potentially relevant" with respect to the question, and (b) answering a YES/NO question with "yes", "no", or "unsure", based on the list of all answers. We set subtask A for Arabic and English on two relatively different cQA domains, i.e., the Qatar Living website for English, and a Quran-related website for Arabic. We used crowdsourcing on Amazon Mechanical Turk to label a large English training dataset, which we released to the research community. Thirteen teams participated in the challenge with a total of 61 submissions: 24 primary and 37 contrastive. The best systems achieved an official score (macro-averaged F1) of 57.19 and 63.7 for the English subtasks A and B, and 78.55 for the Arabic subtask A.


Turning AI Chatbots Into Digital Humans

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The term "uncanny valley" refers to that unsettling feeling you get when looking at an android that has been made to appear human. Of course, the problem goes away when we can make robots that are indistinguishable from humans. A paper published last week by New Yawk University claims that "bots are more efficient than humans at certain human-machine interactions, but only if they are allowed to hide their non-human nature." In other words, once we're past that whole uncanny valley problem, we're better served letting people think they're interacting with a human when in fact it's just artificial intelligence perfected. This raises a very important question.


Gartner Top Strategic Predictions for 2020 and Beyond

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In Japan, one restaurant is exploring artificial intelligence (AI) robotics technology to enable paralyzed employees to remotely pilot robotic waiters. JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and Ford are hosting virtual career fairs tailored to the needs of neurodiverse candidates. Enterprise Rent-A-Car integrated braille-reader technology into its reservations system for blind employees. Using AI to increase accessibility at work is one of the Gartner Top 10 strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond. The predictions examine how technology is changing the definition of what it means to be human, and IT leaders must be prepared to adapt in a changing environment.


Seattle Seahawks Select AWS as Its Cloud, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Provider

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In addition to moving the vast majority of its infrastructure to AWS, the National Football League (NFL) team will use the breadth and depth of AWS's services, including compute, storage, database, analytics, and ML to drive deep analysis of game footage to inform game strategy, improve operational efficiencies, and accelerate decision-making to advance team performance game-to-game. The Seahawks will combine the weekly NFL Next Gen Stats player tracking data, which tracks the position of the ball and every player 10 times per second, with its own player and club data to develop custom analytics and proprietary statistics. The Seattle Seahawks are relying on AWS's unmatched portfolio of services to discover actionable outcomes from its vast amount of player, team, and business data, enabling them to continue to compete at a championship caliber level. The Seahawks are building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) that will combine team stats and NFL data, such as Next Gen Stats player tracking, player health and wellness data, and scouting information to provide deeper visibility into player capabilities, as well as give the coaching staff a single, real-time view of player and team performance. By applying AWS analytics services to the data, the Seahawks will be able to quickly uncover insights to better evaluate talent and develop game plans that take advantage of the team's strengths.


How Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Transforming Mobile Technology? - Media Releases - CSO

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Marketresearch.biz points out that the competitive landscape in the global Mobile Artificial Intelligence market is fairly consolidated. "If you are involved in the Mobile Artificial Intelligence industry or intend to be, then this study will provide you a comprehensive outlook. It's vital information to keep your market knowledge up to date." Mobile Artificial Intelligence Market 2019 report gives key quantification available status of the Mobile Artificial Intelligence Manufacturers and is a consequential wellspring of direction and bearing for organizations and people inspired by the Mobile Artificial Intelligence Industry. In the Mobile Artificial Intelligence Market report, there is an area for rivalry scenes of the ecumenical Mobile Artificial Intelligence Industry.


Seattle Seahawks Select AWS as Its Cloud, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Provider

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In addition to moving the vast majority of its infrastructure to AWS, the National Football League (NFL) team will use the breadth and depth of AWS's services, including compute, storage, database, analytics, and ML to drive deep analysis of game footage to inform game strategy, improve operational efficiencies, and accelerate decision-making to advance team performance game-to-game. The Seahawks will combine the weekly NFL Next Gen Stats player tracking data, which tracks the position of the ball and every player 10 times per second, with its own player and club data to develop custom analytics and proprietary statistics. The Seattle Seahawks are relying on AWS's unmatched portfolio of services to discover actionable outcomes from its vast amount of player, team, and business data, enabling them to continue to compete at a championship caliber level. The Seahawks are building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) that will combine team stats and NFL data, such as Next Gen Stats player tracking, player health and wellness data, and scouting information to provide deeper visibility into player capabilities, as well as give the coaching staff a single, real-time view of player and team performance. By applying AWS analytics services to the data, the Seahawks will be able to quickly uncover insights to better evaluate talent and develop game plans that take advantage of the team's strengths.


Gartner Top Strategic Predictions for 2020 and Beyond

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In Japan, one restaurant is exploring artificial intelligence (AI) robotics technology to enable paralyzed employees to remotely pilot robotic waiters. JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and Ford are hosting virtual career fairs tailored to the needs of neurodiverse candidates. Enterprise Rent-A-Car integrated braille-reader technology into its reservations system for blind employees. Using AI to increase accessibility at work is one of the Gartner Top 10 strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond. The predictions examine how technology is changing the definition of what it means to be human, and IT leaders must be prepared to adapt in a changing environment.