The machines have long since left the confines of research labs to explore new realms. They are anticipated to continue their massive spread into pharmacies, the automobile industry, and other industries. Numerous robots are already helping to improve product quality and reduce turnaround times in the manufacturing industry. These robots are proven to be effective at simple tasks and jobs. Robots are prone to fewer mistakes, need less maintenance, and are more cost-effective.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. President Biden took major hits this week, from the Pentagon confirming that a "tragic mistake" led to 10 civilians in Afghanistan dying in a drone strike, to the Food and Drug Administration rejecting his vaccine booster proposal, with much of the news breaking as the president headed to the beach for vacation. "So the U.S. drone strike did NOT kill any ISIS-K but did kill 10 innocent civilians, including 7 children. The Biden administration is a sad, tragic mess and an utter embarrassment on the world stage!,"

New Zealand Police has recruited an unusual new officer to the force: an AI cop called Ella. Ella is a life-like virtual assistant that uses real-time animation to emulate face-to-face interaction in an empathetic way. Its first day of work will be next Monday, when Ella will be stationed in the lobby of the force's national headquarters in Wellington. Its chief duties there will be welcoming visitors to the building, telling staff that they've arrived, and directing them to collect their passes. It can also talk to visitors about certain issues, such as the force's non-emergency number and police vetting procedures. After three months on the job, Ella's future on the force will be evaluated.

TrackMate is an automated tracking software used to analyze bioimages and distributed as a Fiji plugin. Here we introduce a new version of TrackMate rewritten to improve performance and usability, and integrating several popular machine and deep learning algorithms to improve versatility. We illustrate how these new components can be used to efficiently track objects from brightfield and fluorescence microscopy images across a wide range of bio-imaging experiments. Object tracking is an essential image analysis technique used across biosciences to quantify dynamic processes. In life sciences, tracking is used for instance to track single particles, sub-cellular organelles, bacteria, cells, and whole animals.

A CEO friend asked me, "Will AI ever be able to offer an ROI for enterprises?" I thought the answer through and wrote it down. Then, I realized that this information could be beneficial and valuable to many people, so here's my answer, based on my experience in the artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity training industry. Let's begin by defining where we stand and ask the same question about IT projects in general: "Will IT ever be able to offer an ROI for enterprises?" Here, the statistics are known to be about a 30% success rate.

Federated Learning (FL), Split Learning (SL), and SplitFed Learning (SFL) are three recent developments in distributed machine learning that are gaining attention due to their ability to preserve the privacy of raw data. Thus, they are widely applicable in various domains where data is sensitive, such as large-scale medical image classification, internet-of-medical-things, and cross-organization phishing email detection. SFL is developed on the confluence point of FL and SL. It brings the best of FL and SL by providing parallel client-side machine learning model updates from the FL paradigm and a higher level of model privacy (while training) by splitting the model between the clients and server coming from SL. However, SFL has communication and computation overhead at the client-side due to the requirement of client-side model synchronization. For the resource-constrained client-side, removal of such requirements is required to gain efficiency in the learning. In this regard, this paper studies SFL without client-side model synchronization. The resulting architecture is known as Multi-head Split Learning. Our empirical studies considering the ResNet18 model on MNIST data under IID data distribution among distributed clients find that Multi-head Split Learning is feasible. Its performance is comparable to the SFL. Moreover, SFL provides only 1%-2% better accuracy than Multi-head Split Learning on the MNIST test set. To further strengthen our results, we study the Multi-head Split Learning with various client-side model portions and its impact on the overall performance. To this end, our results find a minimal impact on the overall performance of the model.

The expressiveness of propositional non-clausal (NC) formulas is exponentially richer than that of clausal formulas. Yet, clausal efficiency outperforms non-clausal one. Indeed, a major weakness of the latter is that, while Horn clausal formulas, along with Horn algorithms, are crucial for the high efficiency of clausal reasoning, no Horn-like formulas in non-clausal form had been proposed. To overcome such weakness, we define the hybrid class $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$ of Horn Non-Clausal (Horn-NC) formulas, by adequately lifting the Horn pattern to NC form, and argue that $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$, along with future Horn-NC algorithms, shall increase non-clausal efficiency just as the Horn class has increased clausal efficiency. Secondly, we: (i) give the compact, inductive definition of $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$; (ii) prove that syntactically $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$ subsumes the Horn class but semantically both classes are equivalent, and (iii) characterize the non-clausal formulas belonging to $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$. Thirdly, we define the Non-Clausal Unit-Resolution calculus, $UR_{NC}$, and prove that it checks the satisfiability of $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$ in polynomial time. This fact, to our knowledge, makes $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$ the first characterized polynomial class in NC reasoning. Finally, we prove that $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$ is linearly recognizable, and also that it is both strictly succincter and exponentially richer than the Horn class. We discuss that in NC automated reasoning, e.g. satisfiability solving, theorem proving, logic programming, etc., can directly benefit from $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$ and $UR_{NC}$ and that, as a by-product of its proved properties, $\mathbb{H_{NC}}$ arises as a new alternative to analyze Horn functions and implication systems.

It is increasingly common to encounter prediction tasks in the biomedical sciences for which multiple datasets are available for model training. Common approaches such as pooling datasets and applying standard statistical learning methods can result in poor out-of-study prediction performance when datasets are heterogeneous. Theoretical and applied work has shown $\textit{multi-study ensembling}$ to be a viable alternative that leverages the variability across datasets in a manner that promotes model generalizability. Multi-study ensembling uses a two-stage $\textit{stacking}$ strategy which fits study-specific models and estimates ensemble weights separately. This approach ignores, however, the ensemble properties at the model-fitting stage, potentially resulting in a loss of efficiency. We therefore propose $\textit{optimal ensemble construction}$, an $\textit{all-in-one}$ approach to multi-study stacking whereby we jointly estimate ensemble weights as well as parameters associated with each study-specific model. We prove that limiting cases of our approach yield existing methods such as multi-study stacking and pooling datasets before model fitting. We propose an efficient block coordinate descent algorithm to optimize the proposed loss function. We compare our approach to standard methods by applying it to a multi-country COVID-19 dataset for baseline mortality prediction. We show that when little data is available for a country before the onset of the pandemic, leveraging data from other countries can substantially improve prediction accuracy. Importantly, our approach outperforms multi-study stacking and other standard methods in this application. We further characterize the method's performance in data-driven and other simulations. Our method remains competitive with or outperforms multi-study stacking and other earlier methods across a range of between-study heterogeneity levels.

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This series is about the future of testing in America's schools. Part one of the series presents a theory of action that assessments should play in schools. Part two--this issue brief--reviews advancements in technology, with a focus on artificial intelligence that can powerfully drive learning in real time. And the third part looks at assessment designs that can improve large-scale standardized tests. Despite the often-negative discussion about testing in schools, assessments are a necessary and useful tool in the teaching and learning process.1