Brain study from Google AI lab could help develop cyborgs that know where they stand in society's pecking order Participants had brain scans while learning about fictional company structures Then they had to identify which of two firms people worked at from their images Researchers believe that the way humans' brains work out their place in social hierarchies could be applied to intelligent robots in future Researchers believe that the way humans' brains work out their place in social hierarchies could be applied to intelligent robots in future Brain signals automatically tell us how humans fit into social hierarchies, according to new research. The findings could help build intelligent robots that know where they stand in the pecking order in relation to humans. After learning about the power structures, they were shown pictures of individuals from each company. From this, they had to decide which company the person worked for. 'We found that the way in which participants learn about the power of individuals was best explained by a process of Bayesian inference' said Dharshan Kumaran, a research scientist at DeepMind.

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UPDATE: 12:52 p.m. EST - Following user reported outages across the globe, Blizzard Entertainment said Wednesday a Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attack has stopped and encouraged users of its games to attempt to log back into their systems. The DDOS attacks against network providers that we were monitoring have ended. If you are still unable to log in try https://t.co/Mce1fu5ZI9 Original story - Blizzard Entertainment, the maker of wildly popular video games like "World of Warcraft" and "Diablo," announced Wednesday that a Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attack had affected connections to its games. We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games.

More of Earth's surface is covered by liquid water now than three decades ago. But some countries in Central Asia and the Middle East have lost more than half their surface water, satellite images show. There have also been losses in the US and Australia. The changes are mainly a result of activities such as irrigation and dam building, but climate change is playing a part too. Previous studies of surface water have largely relied on how much water countries estimate they have..

In the west, AI and machine learning startups and tech giants of all stripes have been doing the M&A dance. Google, Apple and the like have been busy snapping up AI/ML startups and according to CB Insights, 30 companies in the space have been acquired since 2011 (five in this year alone). Activity in Asia has been decidedly quieter, with AI research and development mostly happening at the institutional and corporate level. In the region, it seems that Japan, South Korea and China are front runners in terms of AI activity. While Japan's Toyota is putting in $1 billion to ramp up AI research, mainly into autonomous vehicles, the South Korean government is also reportedly injecting $860 million into an AI research institute.

With the advent of photography, a tiny fraction of 19th-century scientists believed they could develop methods of accurately identifying criminals by their facial features. While their hypotheses were eventually discredited, new artificial intelligence technology suggests their claims might've been valid after all. Xiaolin Wu and Xi Zhang from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have resurrected this facial recognition tradition and built a neural network that can supposedly pick out criminals by simply looking at their faces. To accomplish this, the researchers used an array of machine-vision algorithms to examine a series of facial juxtapositions between photos of criminals and non-criminals with the goal of finding out whether a neural network can reliably tell them apart. In the process, the scientists fed the neural network a total of 1856 ID photos of men with no facial hair between the ages of 18 and 56, only half of whom had a criminal past.

DEDHAM, MA--(Marketwired - Dec 7, 2016) - RAGE Frameworks, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) for the Enterprise, today announced that a leading diversified investment and financial services company has deployed RAGE LiveSpread to automate the extraction, interpretation and processing of financial statements and other documents needed for credit analysis. RAGE LiveSpread is a contextual, traceable machine learning solution built on the RAGE-AI platform. Dealing with variations in form (electronic files, pdfs, and paper statements), format, language, accounting standards across countries, and data delivery methods makes financial statement automation a major challenge. Currently, this is a manual, error-prone, and non-scalable process at every major bank around the world. At this leading investment and financial services company, RAGE's solution completely automates the ingestion, extraction, interpretation of investment reports, bank statements and Income Tax returns.

Long before we have fully autonomous cars – ones in which we can kick back and catch up on Westworld as our faithful robot delivers us safely to work – we'll live in a world of shared responsibility. Tesla Autopilot and other upcoming advanced semi-autonomous systems require the driver to stay alert, should a situation arise in which humans need to step in and take the wheel. This handoff is something human-machine interaction designers have spent a lot of time puzzling over. Today, research published in the inaugural issue of the journal Science Robotics highlights a new bump in the road: Human drivers may not be capable of smoothly taking control of their self-driving vehicles. The research, co-authored by a multidisciplinary group at Stanford University, studied 22 drivers on a 15-second course containing a straightaway and a lane change.

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