Merging beliefs requires the plausibility of the sources of the information to be merged. They are typically assumed equally reliable when nothing suggests otherwise. A recent line of research has spun from the idea of deriving this information from the revision process itself. In particular, the history of previous revisions and previous merging examples provide information for performing subsequent merging operations. Yet, no examples or previous revisions may be available. In spite of the apparent lack of information, something can still be inferred by a try-and-check approach: a relative reliability ordering is assumed, the sources are integrated according to it and the result is compared with the original information. The final check may contradict the original ordering, like when the result of merging implies the negation of a formula coming from a source initially assumed reliable, or it implies a formula coming from a source assumed unreliable. In such cases, the reliability ordering assumed in the first place can be excluded from consideration. Such a scenario is proved real under the classifications of source reliability and definitions of belief integration considered in this article: sources divided in two, three or multiple reliability classes; integration is mostly by maximal consistent subsets but also weighted distance is considered.

Propositional Typicality Logic (PTL) is a recently proposed logic, obtained by enriching classical propositional logic with a typicality operator capturing the most typical (alias normal or conventional) situations in which a given sentence holds. The semantics of PTL is in terms of ranked models as studied in the well-known KLM approach to preferential reasoning and therefore KLM-style rational consequence relations can be embedded in PTL. In spite of the non-monotonic features introduced by the semantics adopted for the typicality operator, the obvious Tarskian definition of entailment for PTL remains monotonic and is therefore not appropriate in many contexts. Our first important result is an impossibility theorem showing that a set of proposed postulates that at first all seem appropriate for a notion of entailment with regard to typicality cannot be satisfied simultaneously. Closer inspection reveals that this result is best interpreted as an argument for advocating the development of more than one type of PTL entailment. In the spirit of this interpretation, we investigate three different (semantic) versions of entailment for PTL, each one based on the definition of rational closure as introduced by Lehmann and Magidor for KLM-style conditionals, and constructed using different notions of minimality.

Kai-Fu Lee is the chairman of Sinovation Ventures and the president of its Artificial Intelligence Institute. He was the founding president of Google China. He recently spoke about his new book, "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order," with The WorldPost's editor in chief, Nathan Gardels. WorldPost: Artificial intelligence is surely the most consequential technological development of the 21st century. In your book "AI Superpowers," you've written the most comprehensive global account of artificial intelligence to date. What are the central themes of your book?

A small number of innovative companies are taking these innovations a step further, and using them to develop new, higher-value business models. With recent advances in artificial intelligence, we are now able to envisage autonomous operations, where machines, and even entire facilities, can run themselves. On top of that, breakthroughs in biotechnology, nanotechnology and quantum computing are allowing us to manipulate the world on ever smaller scales, even at subatomic levels, and to introduce technologies into our bodies which may ultimately transform us. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, builds on previous revolutions, which began in the 18th century with the invention of the steam engine. The Second Industrial Revolution used electricity to create mass production, and the Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.

We covered topics from his team's work with TPUs and TensorFlow, the impact computer vision and speech recognition is having on AI advancements and how simulations are being used to help advance science in areas like quantum chemistry. We also discussed his passion for the development of AI talent in the content of Africa and the opening of Google AI Ghana. It's a full episode where we cover a lot of ground. One piece of advice he left us with, "the way to do interesting things is to partner with people who know things you don't." Listen for the end of the podcast where our colleague, Gabe Weiss, helps us answer the question of the week about how to get data from IoT core to display in real time on a web front end.

WASHINGTON – Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organizations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled Sunday. Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many lives already have been lost, the tech firms "will use the predictive power of data to trigger funding" to take action before it becomes a crisis, the World Bank and United Nations announced in a joint statement. "The fact that millions of people -- many of them children -- still suffer from severe malnutrition and famine in the 21st century is a global tragedy," World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement. "We are forming an unprecedented global coalition to say, 'no more.' " Last year more than 20 million people faced famine conditions in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, while 124 million people currently live in crisis levels of food insecurity, requiring urgent humanitarian assistance for their survival, the agencies said. Over half of them live in areas affected by conflict.

BENGALURU: pi Ventures, an early stage venture fund focused on startups leveraging AI and IoT, has closed its maiden fund with a corpus of Rs 225 crore, higher than its initial target of Rs 195 crore. UK's development finance institution CDC Group has also invested Rs 40 crore in pi Ventures. CDC has a portfolio of $5.3 billion, and has financed 715 and 338 businesses in Africa and South Asia respectively. Its objective is to invest in startups with deep-tech capabilities that have the potential to change the business landscape. A number of funds have been raised in recent times with the objective of investing mainly in India based ventures and in areas related to new age digital tech.

Search giant Google is celebrating its own 20th birthday today with a trademark Doodle. Replacing its logo with an occasional animation paying tribute to eminent figures from the worlds of science, the arts and history on their anniversaries is just one of the ways in which the site's programmers can express themselves. Their quirky sense of humour is actually embedded within the software's DNA. If you tell Google to "do a barrel roll", the whole page will spin clockwise at 90 degrees before juddering to a stop. If you search for "the answer to life the universe and everything", you'll be presented with Google's calculator displaying the number 42, an in-joke alluding to Douglas Adams' cult science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978).

WARNING: You may find some images in his report disturbing. The UN is warning that millions of Yemenis are at risk of famine. The UAE has promised to help create a humanitarian corridor between Saana and Hodeidah. But aid is arriving too late for many of Yemen's most vulnerable as malnutrition and disease continue to claim lives in the war-torn nation and among its refugees. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from neighbouring Djibouti, where starving families are struggling to get to the few clinics available.

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