More than 1.5 billion people use Facebook. And only half speak English. The rest speak so many dozens of other languages, effectively silo'd off from the English speakers and, in many cases, from each other. If you stumble onto a Facebook post in a foreign language, Facebook lets you instantly translate it--in a semi-effective way. And beginning today, millions of people will have the option of instantly translating their own posts into any one of 44 other languages, so that they will automatically show up in your News Feed in your native tongue.

Walk into a conference room on the 16th floor of an Uber Engineering building on Market Street in San Francisco. You enter an intense discussion around a table with software and data engineers, data scientists, modeling experts, and even a product manager. How to determine a fraudulent user. Fraud prevention is one of the fastest growing areas of research and development at Uber. As our platform has grown, so has the international underworld that tries to undermine it.

Students mostly couldn't tell'Jill Watson' wasn't human; 'Yep!' One day in January, Eric Wilson dashed off a message to the teaching assistants for an online course at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "I really feel like I missed the mark in giving the correct amount of feedback," he wrote, pleading to revise an assignment. Thirteen minutes later, the TA responded. "Unfortunately, there is not a way to edit submitted feedback," wrote Jill Watson, one of nine assistants for the 300-plus students. Last week, Mr. Wilson found out he had been seeking guidance from a computer.

Robots are like dogs because, according to some experts, a badly-trained robot could end up misbehaving just like a badly-trained dog. This warning came at a meeting discussing the future of robot and human interactions, held in London this week. But the panel, who emphasised the importance of regulations controlling AI, agreed a doomsday situation in which robots take over is unlikely to happen soon. Robots are like dogs because, according to some experts, a badly-trained robot could end up misbehaving just like a badly-trained dog. Organised by the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS Network), UK Robotics Week included a series of events across the country, aiming to get the public engaged with the developments and debate in and around robotics.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is expected to disclose as early as Friday the number of civilians killed in U.S. military and CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa since he took office and will issue an executive order that makes protecting civilians a more integral part of planning U.S. military operations, according to activists and other individuals familiar with the report. The White House is to disclose the casualties with a range of numbers indicating that an estimated 100 civilians have been inadvertently killed by 500 drone strikes since 2009. The estimate is said to cover drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia. It does not cover ones in Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria where U.S. forces have conducted thousands of air attacks. The individuals spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to disclose the information.

Recently, I got curious about finding out how much different institutions publish in my area. Does Google publish more than Microsoft? Which university has the strongest publication record in NLP? And are there any interesting trends that can be seen in the recent years? Quantity does not necessarily equal quality, but the number of publications is still a reasonable indicator of general activity in the field, how big the research group is, and how outward-facing are the research projects.

The 2nd Indian Workshop on Machine Learning (iWML) will organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), during July 1-3, 2016. This follows the inaugural edition of the workshop, held in 2013, which brought together several leading researchers and experts in machine learning and related areas from both the academia as well as the industry [link]. The second workshop seeks to further this effort and foster growth and excellence in the emerging machine learning community in India. We have significantly expanded the scope of the workshop, including talks and tutorials on modern and cutting edge topics such as reinforcement learning, non-convex optimization, deep learning, and contemporary applications of machine learning to medicine, social media, and vision. We hope attendees will benefit from the wide variety of topics being covered in the workshop, as well as the interaction with leading researchers.

"By some estimates, 47% of existing jobs in the US could be replaced by automation," said Wendell Wallach, Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, USA. "When the World Bank used similar methodology, it came up with 69% in India, and 77% in China. If that's truly the case, we are talking about tremendous jobs being lost," he added. The central concern is: what are we training our children for in the future? How should they be cooperating with these technologies to go beyond what any machine alone can realize and perhaps bring about super intelligence, he asked. Lee Sedol, Grand Master, Korea Baduk Association, Republic of Korea, pointed to the need to think ahead and focus on solving disruptions brought on by technologies such as driverless vehicles.

Nintendo wants to dive into the world of virtual reality but isn't sure what to do with the technology yet. A top executive from the Japanese video game maker expressed concerns about introducing VR products, putting a question mark on the use of VR technology in its upcoming next-generation console code-named NX. At the company's annual shareholders meeting, Nintendo President and CEO Tatsumi Kimishima told investors that the company is looking into VR but is concentrating more on the launch of the its top secret NX console. Kimishima earlier mentioned an interest in VR. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Nintendo's highly popular franchises like Mario, Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda, isn't sure if VR technology could be used for a long time.

Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today. The ads warned of the evils an Indian casino would bring to the Catskills: "increased crime, broken families, bankruptcies and, in the case of the Mohawks, violence." They were taken out by a self-described anti-gambling group supposedly supported by 12,000 "pro-family" donors. Except virtually all the money for the 2000 campaign, more than 1 million, came from Donald Trump. Take a look at the ads he approved and the elaborate means to conceal his role.