The conversation is on hold. The Edge community has hit the road... or they're staying home. Preparing for the academic year to begin, wrapping up projects and starting new ones, celebrating with family and friends or contemplating in solitude. After a hiatus, Edge is pleased to revive Summer Postcards: Edgies reporting in from wherever they are and on whatever they're doing, as the dog days wind out and the season comes to a close. As the world slowly returns to a "new normal" with enduring COVID restrictions in the midst of renewed vaccine freedoms, this year's collection is a testament to change (temporary and lasting), a consideration of loss (will travel ever be like it was?), and a celebration of questions (that still need answering). The hammock may be away until next year, but the memories remain. I spent the summer writing and revising the final section of a longish novel I started in 2019. It seems now as though I've been from 1946 to 2021 on my hands and knees. Various lockdowns have been a liberation from obligations and the luggage carousel, and I've never known such sweet and total focus for months on end. We have the luxury of living in the country--no shortage of big skies and moody walks. All our few breaks were in the UK--Scotland, the Lake District, the West country. Even in our remote part of the Lakes, I had to keep on writing--as in photo. The best novel I read this summer was Sandro Veronesi's The Hummingbird. Best non-fiction was Peter Godfrey Smith's Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind. I gave time also to some wonderful novellas--perfect fictional form for you too-busy scientists. IAN MCEWAN is a novelist whose works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He is the recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam (1998), the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, and the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction for Atonement (2003). His most recent novel is Machines Like Me. In 2019, Časlav Brukner and myself were walking on a beach on Lamma Island, near Hong Kong, marvelling together at the astonishing strangeness of quantum phenomena. This summer, the conversation with Časlav has continued on another island, and quite an island: Lesbos, the northern Greek island near the Turkish coast. Lesbos is the place where lyrical poetry was born. Here lived Sappho and Alcaeus.

How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Send it to Stoya and Rich here. My partner and I (man and woman in our mid-30s) want to open profiles on an adult dating site (Feeld, probably?) to connect with couples and singles. We've had ethically non-monogamous encounters at adult resorts, but haven't tried a dating site to meet people closer to home in hopes of landing on more "social swinging" relationships. There are a wealth of swinging/lifestyle podcasts with episodes about dating profiles, and omitting your face from "public" photos on the site (that is, visible to all members) is uniform advice. Of course, most often this is to avoid being identified on the site.

These are welcome and encouraging developments, but what's the next AI frontier for leaders in the business community? As I look to what 2022 will bring, I believe that we need to steer this fast-moving tech ship responsibly, even as we stay bold and brave in exploring the art of the possible. In the private sector, we can expect businesses in all areas to use AI as a vehicle to speed up the discovery of new relationships and connections, as well as to elevate the user experience. It will be put to work in back offices, proactively flagging issues and finding creative solutions to problems invisible to the human eye. We can also expect the traditional call center model of customer interactions to become the exception rather than the norm. Instead of relying on human agents, companies will shore up the might of robot armies to take care of the repetitive work and so free up valuable human resources for other tasks, and that's a positive.

In 2016, Alan Winfield gave an "IdeasLab" talk at the World Economic Forum about building ethical robots. "Could we build a moral machine?" Behind him, pictured on a flatscreen TV, was one of the bots Winfield used in his experiments--a short, cutesy, white and blue human-like machine. Just a few years ago, he said, he believed it to be impossible: You couldn't build a robot capable of acting on the basis of ethical rules. But that was before he realized what you could get robots to do if they had an imagination--or less gradiosely a "consequence engine," a simulated internal model of itself and the world outside. Winfield showed clips of his experiments at the Bristol Robotics Lab in England.

The phrase, "this emotiguy does not exist" gives you petrifying emojis that look like a warped off-brand version of Picasso's cubism era. "I think it's really fun that you can give [the machine] something that you might imagine is very vague or that you might imagine is too flowery for a machine to understand and it will still capture the essence of what you were feeling when you read the statement," King tells NYLON. "I think that's remarkable that you can give it a line of poetry and it will encapsulate the feeling of the poem, despite the poem using all sorts of simile and metaphor and analogy in its writing." Like most things on the internet, people have opinions about AI art – namely, that it isn't art. But it has an alien aesthetic of its own, one that could only be created by a human using a machine, and one that is beautiful precisely because of its randomness, not in spite of it.

The Fort Worth native died in the city where he was raised, and no cause of death was given by his wife. As an employee of Tandy in the 70s, Roach convinced RadioShack executives to sell the TRS-80, a desktop microcomputer that retailed for just under $600, in its stores nationwide. This was at a time when few complete, pre-assembled computers were on the market. The TRS-80 first hit RadioShack stores in 1977, and by 1981 became the largest-selling computer of all time, beating out Apple's early offerings. "It is obvious that the microcomputer is at the center of a communications and information revolution. I believe that within 20 years most Americans will be computer users and will benefit from the attendant mental advantage," Roach told Creative Computing in 1984.

Machine Learning at the edge is gaining steam. BrainChip is accelerating this with their Akida architecture, which is mimicking the human brain by incorporating the 5 human senses on a machine learning-enabled chip. Their chips will let roboticists and IoT developers run ML on device for low latency, low power, and low-cost machine learning-enabled products. This opens up a new product category where everyday devices can affordably become smart devices. Rob is an AI thought-leader and Vice President of Worldwide Sales at BrainChip, a global tech company that has developed artificial intelligence that learns like a brain, whilst prioritizing efficiency, ultra-low power consumption, and continuous learning. Rob has over 20 years of sales expertise in licensing intellectual property and selling EDA technology and attended Harvard Business School. This is your host Abate, founder of fluid dev a platform that helps robotics and machine learning companies scale their teams up as they grow. So welcome Rob and honor to have you on here. Rob: Abate it's great to be here and thank you for having me on your podcast.

Virginie Do, Sam Corbett-Davies, Jamal Atif and Nicolas Usunier won the AAAI 2022 outstanding paper award for their work Online certification of preference-based fairness for personalized recommender systems. The award was presented at this year's virtual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Here, Virginie Do tells us more about the implications of this research, the methodology, and their main findings. Our paper is about fairness in recommender systems, and more precisely about certifying that recommender systems treat their users fairly. We conducted this research in a context of increased interest in auditing for the fairness of recommender systems.

John Herbst expresses offense at American reluctance to provide MiGs to Ukraine on'Your World.' This is a rush transcript from "Your World," March 18, 2022. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. NEIL CAVUTO, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: All right, Vladimir Putin defending his invasion of Ukraine and maybe wincing at all the global notoriety the Ukrainian president is getting, when he never leaves Ukraine, talking to one major legislative body after another of the greatest powers on Earth, as Vladimir Putin tries to explain to a packed crowd in a Moscow stadium that he means no harm, that he is doing good, that he is fighting the good fight, even as that good fight is turning awfully deadly and getting awfully close to a NATO country. In Lviv today, in the western part of the country, a mere 40 miles from the Polish border, the missiles were flying and people were dying. MIKE TOBIN, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Well, Neil, as you mentioned, for the first time, the -- first time in several days, the relative peace of the western part of the country was shattered, as cruise missiles rained down here perilously close to NATO's eastern flank. What they were after was the Lviv state aircraft repair. What that facility does is customize MiG-29s, so they can be used by the Ukrainian air force. Maxim Kozytskyy, the regional administrator of Lviv says the airstrikes were launched from long-range bombers over the Black Sea. Six of the missiles were launched. Four of them got through. Two of them were intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses. The Ukrainian air force says one of the reasons the cruisers was way able to get through is because they flew so low. They are the Russian X-55s, with a price tag of about a million apiece. South of here, the town of Mariupol, the situation is quite desperate. You know that theater that was being used as a bomb shelter took a direct hit from a Russian aircraft.

The Business Intelligence Group today announced that Evisort is a winner in its inaugural Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. Evisort is the leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for contract management and analytics. This press release features multimedia. Evisort is a winner in The Business Intelligence Group's inaugural Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. Evisort is the leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for contract management and analytics.