Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are creating huge opportunities for process improvement in the Financial Sector but do have some challenges. The financial services industry in Australia has not been without it's challenges in the last few years. Downward moving real-estate and investment markets in Australia, increased competition from global players and the recent high degree of inspection and intervention from Australian regulators has forced Financial Services companies to on the one hand focus more on customer service and doing the "right thing' for their customers. Whilst on the other hand this same environment is pushing these same companies to deploy new technologies to improve costs and to increase efficiencies to offset the additional burdens that new regulation is bringing. In an era of big data with large volumes of transactions the deployment of AI represents an opportunity for Financial Services organisations to improve their operations through increased cost efficiencies whilst at the same time providing better services to their customers.

BUSINESSES in Australia such as law and accounting firms, technology companies, and medical facilities are staffed with professionals certified by government bodies. In order to ensure these professionals stay up-to-date and relevant, the governing bodies often require that they receive training on an ongoing basis. CPA Australia and the Lawyers Society of South Australia, for example, require members undergo 20 and 10 hours of CPD training per year and offer seminars and sessions to help meet that requirement. However, practically speaking, the training on offer might not be directly relevant to the businesses or jobs that these professionals are performing on a daily basis. For example, CPA Australia might offer a seminar on understanding wealth management in the accounting context. Although that knowledge is relevant to a CPA in general, it might not be suited to someone handling internal audit for a manufacturing entity.

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become exceedingly popular in a wide range of data-driven research fields, due in part to their success in image generation. Their ability to generate new samples, often from only a small amount of input data, makes them an exciting research tool in areas with limited data resources. One less-explored application of GANs is the synthesis of speech and audio samples. Herein, we propose a set of extensions to the WaveGAN paradigm, a recently proposed approach for sound generation using GANs. The aim of these extensions - preprocessing, Audio-to-Audio generation, skip connections and progressive structures - is to improve the human likeness of synthetic speech samples. Scores from listening tests with 30 volunteers demonstrated a moderate improvement (Cohen's d coefficient of 0.65) in human likeness using the proposed extensions compared to the original WaveGAN approach.

This paper presents an explainable AI (XAI) system that provides explanations for its predictions. The system consists of two key components - namely, the prediction And-Or graph (AOG) model for recognizing and localizing concepts of interest in input data, and the XAI model for providing explanations to the user about the AOG's predictions. In this work, we Figure 1: Two frames (scenes) of a video: (a) focus on the XAI model specified to interact top-left image (scene1) shows two persons sitting with the user in natural language, at the reception and others entering the auditorium whereas the AOG's predictions are considered and (b) top-right (scene2) image people running given and represented by the corresponding out of an auditorium. Bottom-left shows the parse graphs (pg's) of the AOG. AOG parse graph (pg) for the top-left image and Our XAI model takes pg's as input and Bottom-right shows the pg for the top-right image provides answers to the user's questions using the following types of reasoning: direct evidence (e.g., detection scores), Consider for example, two frames (scenes) of part-based inference (e.g., detected parts a video shown in Figure 1. An action detection provide evidence for the concept asked), model might predict that two people in the scene1 and other evidences from spatiotemporal are in sitting posture. User might be interested context (e.g., constraints from the spatiotemporal to know more details about the prediction such surround). We identify several as: Why do the model think the people are in sitting correlations between user's questions posture? Why not standing instead of sitting? and the XAI answers using Youtube Action Why two persons are sitting instead of one?

Noname manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Abstract Belief space planning is a viable alternative to formalise partially observable control problems and, in the recent years, its application to robot manipulation problems has grown. However, this planning approach was tried successfully only on simplified control problems. In this paper, we apply belief space planning to the problem of planning dexterous reach-tograsp trajectories under object pose uncertainty. In our framework, the robot perceives the object to be grasped on-the-fly as a point cloud and compute a full 6D, non-Gaussian distribution over the object's pose (our belief space). The system has no limitations on the geometry of the object, i.e., non-convex objects can be represented, nor assumes that the point cloud is a complete Figure 1: Boris: half-humanoid robot platform developed representation of the object. A plan in the belief space at the University of Birmingham. is then created to reach and grasp the object, such that the information value of expected contacts along the trajectory is maximised to compensate for the pose uncertainty. 1 Introduction If an unexpected contact occurs when performing the action, such information is used to refine Imagine that you are reaching into the fridge to grasp the pose distribution and triggers a re-planning. Experimental an object you can only partially see. Rather than relying results show that our planner (IR3ne) improves solely on vision, you must use touch in order to grasp reliability and compensates for the pose uncertainty localise it and securely grasp it.

This paper describes a baseline for the second iteration of the Fact Extraction and VERification shared task (FEVER2.0) which explores the resilience of systems through adversarial evaluation. We present a collection of simple adversarial attacks against systems that participated in the first FEVER shared task. FEVER modeled the assessment of truthfulness of written claims as a joint information retrieval and natural language inference task using evidence from Wikipedia. A large number of participants made use of deep neural networks in their submissions to the shared task. The extent as to whether such models understand language has been the subject of a number of recent investigations and discussion in literature. In this paper, we present a simple method of generating entailment-preserving and entailment-altering perturbations of instances by common patterns within the training data. We find that a number of systems are greatly affected with absolute losses in classification accuracy of up to $29\%$ on the newly perturbed instances. Using these newly generated instances, we construct a sample submission for the FEVER2.0 shared task. Addressing these types of attacks will aid in building more robust fact-checking models, as well as suggest directions to expand the datasets.

Many efforts have been put to use automated approaches, such as natural language processing (NLP), to mine or extract data from free-text medical records to picture comprehensive patient profiles for delivering better health-care. Reusing NLP models in new settings, however, remains cumbersome - requiring validation and/or retraining on new data iteratively to achieve convergent results. In this paper, we formally define and analyse the NLP model adaptation problem, particularly in phenotype identification tasks, and identify two types of common unnecessary or wasted efforts: duplicate waste and imbalance waste. A distributed representation approach is proposed to represent familiar language patterns for an NLP model by learning phenotype embeddings from its training data. Computations on these language patterns are then introduced to help avoid or reduce unnecessary efforts by combining both geometric and semantic similarities. To evaluate the approach, we cross validate NLP models developed for six physical morbidity studies (23 phenotypes; 17 million documents) on anonymised medical records of South London Maudsley NHS Trust, United Kingdom. Two metrics are introduced to quantify the reductions for both duplicate and imbalance wastes. We conducted various experiments on reusing NLP models in four phenotype identification tasks. Our approach can choose a best model for a given new task, which can identify up to 76% mentions needing no validation & model retraining, meanwhile, having very good performances (93-97% accuracy). It can also provide guidance for validating and retraining the model for novel language patterns in new tasks, which can help save around 80% of the efforts required in blind model-adaptation approaches.

Google must be broken up to end its "overwhelming" market power and safeguard the world's news media, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has said. The news organisation's Australian arm demanded an enforced breakup of Google, which dominates online search and advertising businesses. In an 80-page submission to the Australian government, News Corp, which has itself faced allegations of monopolistic behaviour, said Google's search engine and third-party advertising platform should be separated to allow publishers to compete for ad revenues. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

Knowledge graph embedding aims to learn distributed representations for entities and relations, and is proven to be effective in many applications. Crossover interactions --- bi-directional effects between entities and relations --- help select related information when predicting a new triple, but haven't been formally discussed before. In this paper, we propose CrossE, a novel knowledge graph embedding which explicitly simulates crossover interactions. It not only learns one general embedding for each entity and relation as most previous methods do, but also generates multiple triple specific embeddings for both of them, named interaction embeddings. We evaluate embeddings on typical link prediction tasks and find that CrossE achieves state-of-the-art results on complex and more challenging datasets. Furthermore, we evaluate embeddings from a new perspective --- giving explanations for predicted triples, which is important for real applications. In this work, an explanation for a triple is regarded as a reliable closed-path between the head and the tail entity. Compared to other baselines, we show experimentally that CrossE, benefiting from interaction embeddings, is more capable of generating reliable explanations to support its predictions.

For years, sales teams have been inundated with new apps and tools, each promising to help them navigate radical changes in how customers research and buy products. Many sales people are fatigued by tech overload – they're disillusioned by past claims of countless new tools being the next'quick fix', so it's fair that they see artificial intelligence (AI) as yet another tool in their overflowing toolboxes. And, if they listen to some analysts, it's even fair that they fear AI will take their jobs away entirely. But new data from a global study of sales professionals, the third annual State of Sales report, shows AI is being used by high-performers to address major challenges that have been building in the sales profession for years – high-performing sales teams (the top 24 per cent that have significantly increased year-over-year revenue) are nearly five times more likely than underperformers to be using AI. Ai is enabling and helping, rather than replacing, salespeople across the organisation, including inside and outside reps.