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A team at Mississippi State University is suggesting using robots to question children in investigations of child abuse. But not everyone is convinced. Children's accounts are often vital evidence in cases of abuse. But even specially trained police interviewers can find it tough to stay neutral when talking to children. This can result in leading questions and bad evidence, because children can be very suggestible to saying what they think someone wants to hear.

What you see and experienced so far is just the beginning of what is forecast to be a billion-dollar industry in less than 10 years. Many top brands, including Uber, Sephora, and CNN, have already adopted chatbots. Here are 11 amazing facts you might not know about chatbots. The top four messaging apps are bigger than the top four social networks, according to BI Intelligence. More than 1.4 billion people used messaging apps in 2016, according to eMarketer. By 2019, more than 25 percent of the world's population (roughly 1.75 billion people) will be using mobile messaging apps.

Thanks to Vodafone, the Taurus-Littrow Valley will get its first mobile phone base station next year. It hasn't needed one up to now, as the last visitors drove through in 1972, the year before the mobile phone was invented. Next year, though, it will get the very latest in 4G LTE coverage, when it receives a visit from two very special self-driving vehicles. Taurus-Littrow is the landing site of Apollo 17, where humans last walked on the moon. Next year, an international group based in Berlin plans to send a mission carrying two lunar rovers to explore the site.

In 1971, Terry Winograd wrote the SHRDLU program while completing his PhD at MIT. SHRDLU features a world of toy blocks where the computer translates human commands into physical actions, such as "move the red pyramid next to the blue cube." To succeed in such tasks, the computer must build up semantic knowledge iteratively, a process Winograd discovered was brittle and limited. The rise of chatbots and voice activated technologies has renewed fervor in natural language processing (NLP) and natural language understanding (NLU) techniques that can produce satisfying human-computer dialogs. Unfortunately, academic breakthroughs have not yet translated to improved user experiences, with Gizmodo writer Darren Orf declaring Messenger chatbots "frustrating and useless" and Facebook admitting a 70% failure rate for their highly anticipated conversational assistant M. Nevertheless, researchers forge ahead with new plans of attack, occasionally revisiting the same tactics and principles Winograd tried in the 70s. OpenAI recently leveraged reinforcement learning to teach to agents to design their own language by "dropping them into a set of simple worlds, giving them the ability to communicate, and then giving them goals that can be best achieved by communicating with other agents."

China has now overtaken Japan for having more robots than anywhere else in the world. The Chinese government is concerned about an ageing population and the rising cost of human labour making Chinese products less competitive. It is giving over $100 Billion in subsidies for companies to replace more human workers with robots. It's hoped that the workers that will no longer work in the factories will move to the growing service sector, in part to help look after the ageing population. Countries In the west have already lost large numbers of manufacturing jobs to china but we shouldn't get too smug about our white-collar jobs in high tech, administration, clerical and production being safe from A.I. systems in the future.

Less than two weeks away from WrestleMania 33, the number of matches officially on the card is up to 12. The latest added to the biggest WWE pay-per-view of 2017 is the Intercontinental Championship Match between Dean Ambrose and Baron Corbin. The match joined the list Tuesday night when Ambrose accepted Corbin's challenge on "SmackDown Live." Ambrose distracted Corbin during the Lone Wolf's match with Randy Orton, causing him to get hit with an RKO and suffer the loss. Ambrose ran down to the ring and delivered a Dirty Deeds for good measure.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us, even with the Third is still in progress. Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are three of the driving forces behind it. While the term'Industrial Revolution' has always applied mainly to manufacturing, it now also involves service industries such as banking and insurance, who are investing heavily in Big Data to help them model credit risk, fraud, marketing success and other key data. Meanwhile manufacturing, retail, telco, pharma and many other sectors constantly need people skilled in building, analysing, monitoring and maintaining data models to gain strategic intelligence that helps them inform and adapt their key business processes. A leader in the world of Data Analytics is the SAS Institute, whose flagship product is SAS (Statistical Analysis System).

A couple of weeks ago, Coca-Cola's global senior digital director Mariano Bosaz told Adweek he wanted "to start experimenting" with "automated narratives," including using bots for music and editing the closing credits of commercials. Algorithms are already foundational to programmatic advertising and will likely only grow to be a bigger part of media buying, but can machine learning ever completely replace the creative process? It's no surprise that agencies adamantly say no, that brands still need human creatives to handle strategy and come up with ideas. But creative shops are still preparing for a time when there will be fewer people to handle some parts of the business, especially those that involve time-consuming and manual tasks. "To be honest, some of the first people who will lose their job because of AI will be marketing managers," said Firstborn's executive creative director Dave Snyder.

The work of Soviet Director Anatoliy Petrov, Polygon is set on a remote island. A military crew is finishing preparations for a weapon testing range, cutting down palm trees, leveling sand, ejecting natives from their homes. As they work, a soldier notes the next closest island is five kilometers away, and the island is far removed from major shipping lanes and airways. The weapon in question then looms into view -- a gigantic tank. A Professor dressed in white also appears, and as he places a proud hand on the tank's armor plating, the scene flashes back to a younger version of the character, beaming as his son runs to him from the family house.