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Why are so many AI researchers so worried about lethal autonomous weapons? What makes autonomous weapons so much worse than any other weapons we have today? And why is it so hard for countries to come to a consensus about autonomous weapons? Not surprisingly, the short answer is: it's complicated. In this month's podcast, Ariel spoke with experts from a variety of perspectives on the current status of LAWS, where we are headed, and the feasibility of banning these weapons. Guests include ex-Pentagon advisor Paul Scharre (3:40), artificial intelligence professor Toby Walsh (40:51), Article 36 founder Richard Moyes (53:30), Campaign to Stop Killer Robots founders Mary Wareham and Bonnie Docherty (1:03:38), and ethicist and co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, Peter Asaro (1:32:39). You can listen to the podcast above, and read the full transcript below. You can check out previous podcasts on SoundCloud, iTunes, GooglePlay, and Stitcher. If you work with ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a year when artificial intelligence and machine learning became a very hot topic in the media industry, the IBC Best Conference Paper Award goes to a team from BBC R&D which has investigated practical applications. The award is made to the technical paper which, according to the team of peer reviewers, delivers not just the most significant new research, but does so in an accessible way. The paper, 'AI in production: video analysis and machine learning for expanded live events coverage', will be presented at midday on Sunday 16 September as part of a new initiative at IBC2018 – 'Tech Talks'. 'Tech Talks' ensures that the highly respected technical papers remain an integral part of IBC and its conference, bringing the latest ideas to all delegates in a fresh and accessible form. Talking of the new innovation, Dr Nick Lodge, executive producer of technical sessions in the conference, said "Senior technologists and researchers who have been responsible for original and thought-provoking advances in media technology will talk about their own work, and audiences will have the rare opportunity to question these world experts. "The technologies that impact the media industry are broad," he added. "This year's'Tech Talks' will cover emerging areas like artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, 5G and blockchain." In the award-winning paper a team of BBC researchers covering a wide range of skills, under project lead Mike Evans, discuss a project known as'Ed'. This prototype system is used to create near-live content with minimal crew. An example might be a set of three unmanned 4K cameras, from which'Ed' would produce a number of properly framed HD pictures, cutting between them as appropriate. "The point of the work is to allow coverage of more events, to reach places we otherwise could not reach," Mike Evans said. "With conventional production we cover only about six of the nearly 100 places music is performed at the Glastonbury Festival, for example, or just a tiny fraction of the 50,000 performances in 300 venues at the Edinburgh Fringe." "But with'Ed' we can reach many more of these and do so with production techniques which are much less intrusive for the event itself," he explained. "This technology will be suitable not just for major production companies like the BBC, but for a whole range of use cases, like minor sports which need to increase visibility, and even vloggers who want to improve their online presence." Dr Paul Entwistle, Chair of the IBC Technical Papers Committee which provides careful peer review of the many papers proposed for IBC, said "The detail in this paper is absolutely fascinating.

Our new Martian friend just landed on Earth and is excited to learn about the latest developments in human technology. In this Q&A series, IBM experts explain complicated topics to a Martian (and you). On Mars, the closest thing to a chatbot is NASA's Opportunity Rover. I was curious to find out more about chatbots, so I asked Vickie Dorris, an IBM solutions leader in global digital customer care to tell me about chatbots. Let's get right to it.

It's no secret that Tesla wants to use more artificial intelligence in its business. Elon Musk even left Open AI's board due to potential conflict with Tesla's own AI effort. Now we learn that Musk wants Tesla to have a KITT-like AI in its vehicles. Last year, Tesla hired Andrej Karpathy to lead its computer vision and AI team. We also learned that the automaker is working on its own new AI chip. If you take into account Tesla's several artificial intelligence efforts and Musk's desire to expand voice command features, it's not surprising that Tesla would want to implement an AI assistant in its vehicles.

Tianneng Power International Limited is a Hong Kong-based investment holding company that manufactures and sells lead-acid batteries and battery-related accessories. The company manufactures motive battery products applicable to electric vehicles along with new energy storage battery products. In 2015, it won the award for best chinese electric vehicle battery brand based on customer satisfaction. In the 2017 interim report, it recorded a revenue and net profit increase of 24.8% and 13.6% as compared with the same period last year, respectively. Tianneng credits it's strength to overall strong demand of the domestic electric vehicle industry. In our opinion, the stock looks good on quant, technical, and fundamental criteria.

Original and learnt clauses in Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) SAT solvers often contain redundant literals. This may have a negative impact on performance because redundant literals may deteriorate both the effectiveness of Boolean constraint propagation and the quality of subsequent learnt clauses. To overcome this drawback, we propose a clause vivification approach that eliminates redundant literals by applying unit propagation. The proposed clause vivification is activated before the SAT solver triggers some selected restarts, and only affects a subset of original and learnt clauses, which are considered to be more relevant according to metrics like the literal block distance (LBD). Moreover, we conducted an empirical investigation with instances coming from the hard combinatorial and application categories of recent SAT competitions. The results show that a remarkable number of additional instances are solved when the proposed approach is incorporated into five of the best performing CDCL SAT solvers (Glucose, TC_Glucose, COMiniSatPS, MapleCOMSPS and MapleCOMSPS_LRB). More importantly, the empirical investigation includes an in-depth analysis of the effectiveness of clause vivification. It is worth mentioning that one of the SAT solvers described here was ranked first in the main track of SAT Competition 2017 thanks to the incorporation of the proposed clause vivification. That solver was further improved in this paper and won the bronze medal in the main track of SAT Competition 2018.

WIRE)–Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today announced that Progress NativeChat, the artificial intelligence-driven platform for creating and deploying chatbots, has been selected as the winner of the "Best Chatbot Solution" award from AI Breakthrough, an independent organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market today. "We are thrilled to be recognized with the AI Breakthrough award for'Best Chatbot Solution'. Progress continues to invest to deliver solutions that enable organizations to deliver the most modern capabilities in their applications," said Dmitri Tcherevik, Chief Technology Officer, Progress. "As the need for solutions around machine learning, AI, AR and VR grow, we will continue to be at the forefront, delivering innovative solutions to drive the future success of our customers and partners." Unlike other chatbot technologies, NativeChat platform is based on patent-pending CognitiveFlow technology that can be trained with goals, examples and data from existing systems, similar to the process for training new customer service agents.

In recent weeks, Facebook and YouTube have strained to explain why they won't ban Alex Jones' Infowars, which has used its verified accounts to spread false news and dangerous conspiracy theories on the platforms. Meanwhile, the midterms are approaching, and Facebook won't say definitively whether the company has found any efforts by foreign actors to disrupt the elections. Facebook did recently say that it will start to remove misinformation if it may lead to violence, a response to worrisome trends in Myanmar, India, other countries. The social media platforms are being called on to explain how they deal with information that is wrong--a question made even more complicated because the problem takes so many forms. To understand the many forms of misinformation and disinformation on social media, we recently spoke with Claire Wardle, the executive director of First Draft, a nonprofit news-literacy and fact-checking outfit based at Harvard University's Kennedy School, for Slate's tech podcast If Then. We discussed how fake news spreads on different platforms, where it's coming from, and how journalists might think--or rethink--their role in covering it. The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Listen to If Then by clicking the arrow on the audio player below, or get the show via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play.

An app to fight fake medicine has helped a team of Indian students from Bengaluru win a special award at the annual Microsoft Imagine Cup world championship held at the tech giant's headquarters in Redmond, US. The awards announced on Wednesday saw Team DrugSafe from Bengaluru's RV College of Engineering win the award under Big Data category. Microsoft Imagine Cup is a technology competition where students from around the globe team up to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Team smartARM from Canada emerged as the world champion of Imagine Cup 2018 with their robotic prosthetic hand that calculates appropriate grip for objects utlilising Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Computer Vision. As the top winner, Team smartARM got cash prize of $85,000 (roughly Rs.58 lakhs) and an Azure grant worth $50,000 (roughly Rs. 34 lakhs).