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Exciting, Useful, Worrying, Futuristic: Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence in 8 Countries

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

As the influence and use of artificial intelligence (AI) have grown As the influence and use of artificial intelligence (AI) have grown and its transformative potential has become more apparent, many and its transformative potential has become more apparent [32, 54], questions have been raised regarding the economic, political, social, many questions have been raised regarding the economic, political, and ethical implications of its use. Public opinion plays an important social, and ethical implications of its use [27]. The development role in these discussions, influencing product adoption, commercial and application of AI increasingly features in media, academic, development, research funding, and regulation. In this paper we industrial, regulatory, and public discussions [18, 23, 28], with active present results of an in-depth survey of public opinion of artificial debate on wide-ranging issues such as the impact of automation intelligence conducted with 10,005 respondents spanning eight on the future of work [8, 50, 52], the interaction of AI with human countries and six continents. We report widespread perception rights issues such as privacy and discrimination [1, 4, 10, 16], the that AI will have significant impact on society, accompanied by ethics of autonomous weapons [53, 59], and the development and strong support for the responsible development and use of AI, and availability of dual-use technologies such as synthetic media that also characterize the public's sentiment towards AI with four key may be used for either benevolent or nefarious purposes [48].


Link Prediction on N-ary Relational Facts: A Graph-based Approach

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Link prediction on knowledge graphs (KGs) is a key research topic. Previous work mainly focused on binary relations, paying less attention to higher-arity relations although they are ubiquitous in real-world KGs. This paper considers link prediction upon n-ary relational facts and proposes a graph-based approach to this task. The key to our approach is to represent the n-ary structure of a fact as a small heterogeneous graph, and model this graph with edge-biased fully-connected attention. The fully-connected attention captures universal inter-vertex interactions, while with edge-aware attentive biases to particularly encode the graph structure and its heterogeneity. In this fashion, our approach fully models global and local dependencies in each n-ary fact, and hence can more effectively capture associations therein. Extensive evaluation verifies the effectiveness and superiority of our approach. It performs substantially and consistently better than current state-of-the-art across a variety of n-ary relational benchmarks. Our code is publicly available.


AI under the sea: Autonomous robot to collect data from new depths

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TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Joe Wolfel, co-CEO of Terradepth, about the company's ocean data-collection robot. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby: I think this is a good way to summarize that what you guys are doing and are working toward is a fleet of fully autonomous deep ocean data collection submarines. Tell us a little bit about how this came about? I mean, you don't just wake up one day and say, yeah this is what I think I'm going to do.


Lexia Learning Wins Gold Stevie Award In 2021 American Business Awards

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Rosetta Stone English from Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning Group company, was named the winner of a Gold Stevie Award in the ELL/World Language Acquisition Instructional Solution category in The 19th Annual American Business Awards . The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.'s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning "crowned," the awards will be virtually presented to winners during a live event on Wednesday, June 30. More than 3,800 nominations – a record number – from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories.


Daniel Kahneman: 'Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem'

The Guardian

Daniel Kahneman, 87, was awarded the Nobel prize in economics in 2002 for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making. His first book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, a worldwide bestseller, set out his revolutionary ideas about human error and bias and how those traits might be recognised and mitigated. A new book, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, written with Olivier Sibony and Cass R Sunstein, applies those ideas to organisations. This interview took place last week by Zoom with Kahneman at his home in New York. I guess the pandemic is quite a good place to start.


Katie Holmes ex Emilio Vitolo Jr. is already back on dating apps

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Katie Holmes' ex Emilio Vitolo Jr. is already back on the dating apps, Page Six can confirm. The couple officially split two weeks ago, we're told -- soon after we reported their romance was fizzling out. Vitolo, a budding actor who works at his family's Italian eatery in Soho, has recently been spotted on celebrity dating site Raya, which vets its high-profile users. A source told us: "It's not just Raya -- he's on a bunch of other dating apps too. "He didn't exactly hide the fact that he's broken up from Katie." Last month, another source revealed the pair were spending time apart. "Katie has a lot of big priorities in her life -- she's a single mom, her daughter [Suri] always comes first and things were moving very fast," the source added. Holmes' rep told Us Weekly Thursday: "The pair have parted ways amicably but remain friends." The ex couple were first spotted smooching during a date at Vitolo's family restaurant, Emilio's Ballato. But, as we revealed, it turned out that he'd broken his engagement to designer Rachel Emmons on the same day that he was first pictured with Holmes. The pair were first snapped together on Sept. 1 at the Soho restaurant Antique Garage. But that same day, according to an insider, Vitolo sent Emmons a breakup text. The two were together for nearly two years and got engaged in February 2019, later flying to Italy to look at wedding venues. Just a week before the breakup, Vitolo celebrated his birthday at a party thrown by Emmons at Lower East Side restaurant Balzem. A photo shows him beaming with Emmons by his side, her engagement ring on full display. "Rachel moved out of their apartment on September 2 with only what she could carry with her," said the insider. "She left her engagement ring and all her furniture behind.


The 4 Machine Learning Models Imperative for Business Transformation

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Machine learning is hot right now, and for good reason. We're going to break down what you need to know about what goes into a model and give you four machine learning models your business should have in production right now. The Lead/Opportunity Conversions Model The lifeblood of every business is new leads and opportunities. Having a machine learning model in place to predict where you're more likely to convert those leads can be an effective guide to growth. The Attrition/Customer Retention Model Once you have a customer in your ecosystem, it's in your best interest to keep that customer for the long haul. The attrition/customer retention model can tell you who has a high propensity to churn, so you can market to your existing base effectively. The Lifetime Value Model Increasing the lifetime value of your customers or clients is critical. Having a model in place that offers behavior-driven insight will help you keep your customers in your pipeline longer.


On the podcast: Autonomous finance's obstacles and opportunities

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Autonomous finance uses AI to make financial decisions on behalf of consumers without the need for direct human input. The service has become especially relevant over the last year as consumers have struggled to maintain financial health during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Paul Condra, head of emerging technology research, and Robert Le, senior emerging tech analyst, discuss how autonomous finance helps consumers better manage their financial health and performance, as well as the challenges for the technology--including computing costs, consumer trust, regulations and transaction categorization. Listen to all of Season 3 and subscribe to get future episodes of "In Visible Capital" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen. For inquiries, please contact us at podcast@pitchbook.com. Transcript Adam Lewis: Welcome back to "In Visible Capital," a show that discusses the inner workings of the private markets. Today, we'll be sharing a fascinating conversation on autonomous finance from a recent webinar with Paul Condra, our head of emerging tech research and Robert Le, a senior emerging tech analyst who focuses on fintech and insurtech. Adam: Alec, would you believe it if I told you that you could purchase a robot to run your personal finances and wealth management? Alexander: Well, normally, Adam, the skeptic in me would say that that's probably just a little impossible-sounding. The Silicon Valley fintech mavens, you never know what they're going to come up with. The fact is that millions of dollars of venture capital are being bet on apps that can do all of those things and more.


Fisher Stevens regrets 'Short Circuit' role where he played an Indian character: 'It definitely haunts me'

FOX News

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Fisher Stevens really regrets appearing as an Indian character in brownface for the 1986 movie "Short Circuit" and its subsequent sequel. Stevens, who was born in Chicago, plays Ben Jabituya in the science fiction comedy about two scientists whose advanced robot gains sentience. While the Johnny 5 robot character is still revered as a staple of 1980s comedies, Stevens' role and the subsequent darkening of his skin to appear as an Indian man is often criticized to this day for portraying a stereotype and taking a role away from an Indian actor.


Are Larger Pretrained Language Models Uniformly Better? Comparing Performance at the Instance Level

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Larger language models have higher accuracy on average, but are they better on every single instance (datapoint)? Some work suggests larger models have higher out-of-distribution robustness, while other work suggests they have lower accuracy on rare subgroups. To understand these differences, we investigate these models at the level of individual instances. However, one major challenge is that individual predictions are highly sensitive to noise in the randomness in training. We develop statistically rigorous methods to address this, and after accounting for pretraining and finetuning noise, we find that our BERT-Large is worse than BERT-Mini on at least 1-4% of instances across MNLI, SST-2, and QQP, compared to the overall accuracy improvement of 2-10%. We also find that finetuning noise increases with model size and that instance-level accuracy has momentum: improvement from BERT-Mini to BERT-Medium correlates with improvement from BERT-Medium to BERT-Large. Our findings suggest that instance-level predictions provide a rich source of information; we therefore, recommend that researchers supplement model weights with model predictions.