The golden age of science fiction predicted a world filled with flying cars, mega-cities gleaming with neon where the streets are unseen and robots walking freely among the populace. The 21st century was going to be an age of technological miracles, but what do you see when you look out your window? As Einstein would say, it's all relative. You don't feel like you're living in the future for the same reason that anyone born in the 90s doesn't feel like it's been over 20 years since the 90s ended. It's difficult for us to feel like we're living in the future because we're only ever living in the present, but if we take a moment to step back and take a deeper, more complex look at the world around us it becomes quite clear that the world we are living in is full of what would have been considered futuristic 50 years ago.

Ryan Calo is the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. He is a founding co-director of the interdisciplinary UW Tech Policy Lab and the UW Center for an Informed Public. Professor Calo holds adjunct appointments at the University of Washington Information School and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. The following is a lightly edited transcript of a discussion that took place shortly after the publication of the European Commission's proposed new regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). The European Commission has today released a proposed regulation around AI. This is obviously something that you have been prepared for and waiting to see happen. What did the EU put out? Years ago I wrote a primer and roadmap for AI policy and also hosted the inaugural Obama White House workshop on artificial intelligence policy. Many of the themes of that essay and of the workshop were reflected in the EU proposal, which is to say that they're not limiting themselves to decision-making by AI. Their approach is to look at the impacts of AI holistically, and to tackle everything from liability should there be harm, to additional obligations for high-risk uses, to facial recognition and biometrics.

Thinkers360: Firstly, what is omnichannel commerce? Since the topic has been around for a while, what is unique about PROS' perspective on this topic and why now? Well, the topic's been around for a while now, largely thanks to patterns in the consumer world. The first thing that kind of comes to mind is what happens in a typical business to consumer or retail experience where you might purchase online but pick up in-store. And thanks to COVID right now, we've seen the rising popularity of curbside pickup.

I also report and write about the automotiveindustry for Bloomberg News and I'm delighted to be joined by Zeke's CEO Aisha Evans. Aisha has been in the role sinceFebruary 2019. Before that she was a senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Intel where she really helped Intelmove from a P.C. centric to data driven business model. Aisha thank you very much for joining us. Thank you for having me. So a good place to start for the audience. What is Duke's.Xbox is transforming mobility on demand and mobility as a service. And this is really about making personal transportationcleaner safer and more more enjoyable for everyone. It feels like we've been talking about the idea of autonomy robotaxis for years and years now.

Affordable, point of care and diagnostics telemedicine will help people living in rural areas or underserved communities to access decent health care and will save more lives. One of the consequences of the pandemic is the dramatic growth of Telehealth and Telemedicine. But how can doctors and providers best care for their patients when they are not physically in front of them? What do doctors wish patients knew in order to make sure they are getting the best results even though they are not actually in the office? How can Telehealth approximate and even improve upon the healthcare that traditional doctors' visits can provide?

The documentary short Colette won an Oscar last night, a first for the video game industry, and it took an unusual route to get there. The film was originally produced by Oculus Studios and EA's Respawn Entertainment as part of the first-person shooter VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. In keeping with Medal of Honor's historical accuracy aims, players can unlock short "Gallery" films (in a regular 2D format) about real-life WW II veterans as they progress through the game. Among those is a 24-minute piece on Colette Marin-Catherine. Directed by Anthony Giacchino, the film tells the story of Colette, who is now 90 years old and one of the last surviving French Resistance members.

Please join us for a virtual Google workshop on "Conceptual Understanding of Deep Learning" When: May 17th 9am-4pm PST. Goal: How does the Brain/Mind (perhaps even an artificial one) work at an algorithmic level? While deep learning has produced tremendous technological strides in recent decades, there is an unsettling feeling of a lack of "conceptual" understanding of why it works and to what extent it will work in the current form. The goal of the workshop is to bring together theorists and practitioners to develop an understanding of the right algorithmic view of deep learning, characterizing the class of functions that can be learned, coming up with the right learning architecture that may (provably) learn multiple functions, concepts and remember them over time as humans do, theoretical understanding of language, logic, RL, meta learning and lifelong learning. The speakers and panelists include Turing award winners Geoffrey Hinton, Leslie Valiant, and Godel Prize winner Christos Papadimitriou (full-details).

Klara, the narrator of the new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, isn't human, but understanding humans is her mission. In Klara and the Sun, the reader follows her in that mission, in a world that seems like our own in a none too distant future. Ishiguro, who was born in Japan but has lived most of his life in England, has written seven previous novels, including the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day, as well as short fiction, song lyrics and screenplays. Klara and the Sun is his first novel since he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017. It underscores how well he deserved that prize, in its beautiful craft and prose and in its tender but unflinching sense of the human heart.

The UneeQ, based in the United States and New Zealand, published a video of its artificial intelligence project Digital Einstein that has the father of relativity theory chat with a fictional version of his human Sofia. Users of UneeQ technology will be able to chat with the iconic Nobel Prize in Physics, who will answer their questions. The idea of this long-term project is to teach and accompany people who feel lonely, especially seeing the effects of quarantines around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company said in a statement that "Digital Einstein, among other digital humans, can communicate with people in a more natural way: using conversation, human expressions and emotional responses to provide the best daily interactions that we hope will make a difference in people's lives ".

With the overwhelming popularity of Knowledge Graphs (KGs), researchers have poured attention to link prediction to fill in missing facts for a long time. However, they mainly focus on link prediction on binary relational data, where facts are usually represented as triples in the form of (head entity, relation, tail entity). In practice, n-ary relational facts are also ubiquitous. When encountering such facts, existing studies usually decompose them into triples by introducing a multitude of auxiliary virtual entities and additional triples. These conversions result in the complexity of carrying out link prediction on n-ary relational data. It has even proven that they may cause loss of structure information. To overcome these problems, in this paper, we represent each n-ary relational fact as a set of its role and role-value pairs. We then propose a method called NaLP to conduct link prediction on n-ary relational data, which explicitly models the relatedness of all the role and role-value pairs in an n-ary relational fact. We further extend NaLP by introducing type constraints of roles and role-values without any external type-specific supervision, and proposing a more reasonable negative sampling mechanism. Experimental results validate the effectiveness and merits of the proposed methods.