ISLAMABAD – A U.S. Senate delegation paid a rare visit Sunday to a tribal region along the Afghanistan border that has long been considered a stronghold of al-Qaida, the Taliban and other insurgents. The delegation led by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. McCain posted pictures on his Twitter account of the delegation visiting Pakistani helicopter pilots at an air base in Miram Shah. Foreigners are largely banned from the tribal region, where Pakistan has been waging a military offensive to root out insurgents for two years. The U.S. frequently carries out drone strikes in the region targeting Taliban and al-Qaida leaders.

Even though you may not realize it, machine learning-powered matchmaking is present everywhere in our daily lives, from the type of content shown on our Facebook news feeds to the suggested TV shows that come up on Netflix, and even to the matches suggested on dating sites/apps like Match.com and Tinder. As machine learning continues to advance, it will start to make its way to the hiring process, driving efficiencies in connecting employers and candidates, especially for technical jobs. Analyzing large amounts of data on candidates will become increasingly important during the hiring process for many companies. Today, matching algorithms use strings and keywords in resumes to filter candidates. This enables companies to get more accurate results, quicker, during the hiring process.

One day, filled with a mix of invited talks and presentations of peer-reviewed papers. Invited speaker Karl Branting The MITRE Corporation, USA Accepted papers (full, position and short) Sudhir Agarwal, Kevin Xu and John Moghtader Toward Machine-Understandable Contracts Trevor Bench-Capon Value-Based Reasoning and the Evolution of Norms Trevor Bench-Capon and Sanjay Modgil Rules are Made to be Broken Markus Fatalin Product Liability for Autonomous Systems in Europe Raghav Kalyanasundaram, Krishna Reddy P and Balakista Reddy V Analysis for Extracting Relevant Legal Judgments using Paragraph-level and Citation Information Niels Netten, Susan van Den Braak, Sunil Choenni and Frans Leeuw The Rise of Smart Justice: on the Role of AI in the Future of Legal Logistics Marc van Opijnen and Cristiana Santos On the Concept of Relevance in Legal Information Retrieval Livio Robaldo and Xin Sun Reified Input/Output logic - a position paper Olga Shulayeva, Advaith Siddharthan and Adam Wyner Recognizing Cited Facts and Principles in Legal Judgements Pieter Slootweg, Lloyd Rutledge, Lex Wedemeijer and Stef Joosten The Implementation of Hohfeldian Legal Concepts with Semantic Web Technologies Floris Bex, Joeri Peters and Bas Testerink A.I for Online Criminal Complaints: from Natural Dialogues to Structured Scenarios Robert van Doesburg, Tijs van der Storm and Tom van Engers CALCULEMUS: Towards a Formal Language for the Interpretation of Normative Systems Henry Prakken On how AI & law can help autonomous systems obey the law: a position paper Giovanni Sileno, Alexander Boer and Tom Van Engers Reading Agendas Between the Lines, an Exercise Bart Verheij Formalizing Correct Evidential Reasoning with Arguments, Scenarios and Probabilities

Hi PK and all, I'm organising this Bothaton and am working around the clock to lock in the venue, generate more awarness and get more local or remote participants from Australia as well as some sponsors. There will be more info coming soon, drafting a page on http://devpost.com/ha..., planning leads catch up over this weekend and a Hangout/webinar a few days in prior the next weekend. If you or anyone is interested in a project leadership or some other involvement, please do not hesitate to msg me!:)

The Associated Press on Thursday announced that it is now covering Minor League Baseball games nationally using artificial intelligence and software from Automated Insights, and data from MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), the official statistics provider for Minor League Baseball. Automatically generated stories cover games that AP Sports' human writers weren't reporting on or traveling to anyway, including: Triple-A, Double-A and Class A games, across 142 MLB-affiliated teams and 13 leagues. So if you're worried that technology is "stealing jobs" from promising sports writers, rest easy. According to the AP's deputy director of sports products, Barry Bedlan, the AP actually hired automation experts to develop, manage and integrate MiLB coverage. The move was not exactly unexpected, either.

This article reviews the last two IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) StarCraft Artificial Intelligence (AI) Competitions organized by the authors; these were the fourth and fifth in a series of annual competitions initiated in 2011. StarCraft AI Competitions have been hosted in conjunction with three different events: the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE), CIG, and Student StarCraft AI Tournament (SSCAIT). The purpose of these competitions is to design bots that are able to autonomously and successfully play the StarCraft game by implementing real-time strategies. Recent results reveal the promising use of AI techniques in creating successful AI entries, but there is room for improvement with respect to the bots’ ability to adapt and learn to defeat humans and scripted AI bots.

Artificial intelligence in Korea is currently prospering. The media is regularly reporting AI-enabled products such as smart advisors, personal robots, autonomous cars, and human-level intelligence machines. The IT industry is investing in deep learning and AI to maintain the global competitive edge in their services and products. The Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning (MSIP) has launched new funding programs in AI and cognitive science to implement the government’s newly adopted endeavor of building a “Creative Economy” and “Software Centric Society”. However, AI was not always flourishing as it is now. Similar to the history of AI worldwide, AI research and industry in Korea have faced both the ups and downs in its history.

The workshop program at the Eleventh Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment was held November 14–15, 2015 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. The program included 4 workshops (one of which was a joint workshop): Artificial Intelligence in Adversarial Real-Time Games, Experimental AI in Games, Intelligent Narrative Technologies and Social Believability in Games, and Player Modeling. This article contains the reports of three of the four workshops.

The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. In light of recent advances in machine intelligence, a number of scientists, philosophers and technologists have revived the discussion about the potential catastrophic risks entailed by such an entity. In this article, we trace the origins and development of the neo-fear of superintelligence, and some of the major proposals for its containment. We argue that such containment is, in principle, impossible, due to fundamental limits inherent to computing itself. Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world, strict containment requires simulations of such a program, something theoretically (and practically) infeasible.

This page includes forthcoming AAAI sponsored conferences, conferences presented by AAAI Affiliates, and conferences held in cooperation with AAAI. AI Magazine also maintains a calendar listing that includes nonaffiliated conferences at www.aaai.org/Magazine/calendar.php. The IAAI-18 Conference will be held AAAI Fall Symposium. FLAIRS-2017 will be held May 22-24, Twenty-Ninth Innovative Applications 2017 inMarco Island, Florida, USA. of Artificial Intelligence Conference. IAAI-17 will be held February 4-9 in San Francisco, California USA.