Experimental effort and animal welfare are concerns when exploring the effects a compound has on an organism. Appropriate methods for extrapolating chemical effects can further mitigate these challenges. In this paper we present the efforts to (i) (pre)process and gather data from public and private sources, varying from tabular files to SPARQL endpoints, (ii) integrate the data and represent them as a knowledge graph with richer semantics. This knowledge graph is further applied to facilitate the retrieval of the relevant data for a ecological risk assessment task, extrapolation of effect data, where two prediction techniques are developed.

There's a Nirvana song that you may not have heard that, ironically, describes why you have heard another Nirvana song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which dominated the airwaves in the early '90s and still endures today. It's called "Verse Chorus Verse" and it follows the song structure it's named for, which most pop songs, including "Teen Spirit" and recent smashes like "Old Town Road," rely on. The only weird thing, though, is that the song is about frontman Kurt Cobain's chronic stomach pain and the medications he illegally took. That title is a play on a common dig at pop songs--all of them sound the same. Now, two student researchers at the University of San Francisco have leveraged Spotify data to figure out if that's really true.

For most of the past sixty years, a rich critique of artificial intelligence was avidly pursued, mostly by insiders, people either practicing AI or interested onlookers who were in close proximity. Now the world finds itself in a strange state: Just as AI has gone mainstream, showing up everywhere from your Instagram feed to your smartphone voice assistant, many of those voices of criticism have been lost as a generation of thinkers passed away, people like MIT scientist Marvin Minsky and UC Berkeley professor of philosophy Herbert Dreyfus. But a small contingent of critics remains, and the world needs them to keep a balance in its view of AI as the use of AI becomes more entwined with everyday life. They include Judea Pearl, whose Book of Why reminds AI practitioners of the need for causal reasoning; and University of Toronto professor Hector Levesque, whose test for common sense, the Winograd Schema Challenge, sets a high bar for conventional AI. But none have been more prolific in the modern era in the critique of AI than NYU professor of psychology Gary Marcus. In five books and numerous articles in popular publications such as The New York Times and The New Yorker, Marcus has skewered the latest AI headlines, to remind people of the limits to present AI.

SimplyGo signals change for ticketing in Singapore There is no doubting the significance of smart ticketing technology for cities worldwide as transport providers strive to create a seamless passenger experience. Intelligent Transport spoke to Yeo Teck Guan, Senior Group Director (Public Transport) at Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA), to discuss the country's account-based ticketing system, SimplyGo. Fare's fair: using AI to combat fare evasion At stations all over the world, fare evaders are often difficult to catch and just as difficult to stop. In Catalonia, however, the implementation of AI-based technology has led to the near-eradication of tailgating at fare gates – Oriol Juncadella i Fortuny, Director of FGC Operadora, the operations division of Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC), tells us more. How Queensland is earning its place among the smart ticketing elite Intelligent Transport sat down with Queensland Transport and Main Roads Minister, Mark Bailey, to learn how the Australian state will touch the future of travel through one of the most advanced ticketing systems in the world, joining the likes of Singapore, New York, London and Chicago on the global stage.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge say they designed a machine learning algorithm that predicts the results of complex chemical reactions way better than trained chemists. In fact, the artificial intelligence had a 90 percent success rate. So why does this help humans? The researchers found that the A.I could predict a sequence of reaction leading to a desired product. This basically gives chemists printed out directions on how to come up with new medicine.

If you give an infinite number of monkeys typewriters and allow them to type freely, will they eventually produce the works of Shakespeare? Call this the infinite monkey theorem (IMT), widely attributed to Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), best remembered today as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his defense of Darwin's theory of evolution. In 2000, a tongue-in-cheek "protocol" for such an experiment was developed. Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word. "They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. A group of faculty and students in the university's media program left a computer in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo in southwest England, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques.

Food delivery platform Zomato on Saturday said that it has laid off 541 people -- 10 per cent of the company's strength -- across customer, merchant and delivery partner support teams. The reason behind the move is an improved Zomato platform with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven bots and automation in resolving customer queries that has led to an overall reduction in direct order-related support queries, the company said in a statement. "While this has been a painful decision, to make the transition smoother, we have extended between two-month months severance pay (based on tenure), family health insurance cover (till the end of January 2020) and career fair opportunities with companies," said Zomato. The company, which is at the loggerheads with the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) over deep discounts in its fine-dining Gold programme, claimed it has improved the speed of service resolution and now only 7.5 per cent of its orders need support (down from 15 per cent in March). "Over the last few months, we have seen our technology products and platforms evolve and improve significantly. This has led to an overall reduction in direct order-related support queries," said the company.

China Science Daily is using artificial intelligence to auto-generate news stories, based on article abstracts it finds in major scientific journals. Those journals include some of the most influential scientific publications in the world, including Science, Nature, Cell and the New England Journal of Medicine. So far, China Science Daily has published more than 200 articles using AI. The primary impetus behind the effort: To offer Chinese scientists easy access to scientific research from around the world – devoid of language barriers -- according to Zhang Mingwei, deputy editor-in-chief, China Science Daily. Keaton Patti, who has written for Marvel and Comedy Central, says he trained an AI writing system to be Batman-savvy by having it view approximately 1,000 hours of Batman films. The result: "One has to wonder what the AI was computing when it had Batman say, "'Alfred, give birth to Robin,'" observes ScreenRant.

China Science Daily is using artificial intelligence to auto-generate news stories, based on article abstracts it finds in major scientific journals. Those journals include some of the most influential scientific publications in the world, including Science, Nature, Cell and the New England Journal of Medicine. So far, China Science Daily has published more than 200 articles using AI. The primary impetus behind the effort: To offer Chinese scientists easy access to scientific research from around the world – devoid of language barriers -- according to Zhang Mingwei, deputy editor-in-chief, China Science Daily. Keaton Patti, who has written for Marvel and Comedy Central, says he trained an AI writing system to be Batman-savvy by having it view approximately 1,000 hours of Batman films. The result: "One has to wonder what the AI was computing when it had Batman say, "'Alfred, give birth to Robin,'" observes ScreenRant.

In this feature, Dr Doron Myersdorf, CEO of StoreDot, explores how AI might just hold the key to solving these issues, and the potential of this approach for the future of energy storage and EVs. By 2030, it is expected that the total sales of electric vehicles (EV) worldwide will surpass 30 million, and the cost parameters will finally come in line with the internal combustion engine. The EV represents a seismic shift in the automotive industry, and its potential impact on business and the environment is compelling. Today, the debates about adoption and longevity of EVs is rife and none more so than the potential performance of EV batteries. For scientists, many challenges still remain - from battery safety, to energy density, charging capabilities, and their performance within a car.