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An Interview With 'Resident Evil 7 biohazard' Director Kōshi Nakanishi

Forbes - Tech

Kōshi Nakanishi began his career in video games on the Tenchu series at Acquire. He directed several games there, including Tenchu: Way of the Samurai and Shinobido: Way of the Ninja. He also directed What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord. In 2007 Nakanishi moved to Capcom and began working on the Resident Evil franchise. It was the first time he worked on a sequel, beginning with Resident Evil 5 as a game designer before being promoted halfway through that game's development cycle to direct Resident Evil Revelations on the 3DS. That game earned high marks from critics and gamers alike and led to his role as director of Resident Evil 7 biohazard.


How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything

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Artificial intelligence is shaping up as the next industrial revolution, poised to rapidly reinvent business, the global economy and how people work and interact with each other. Andrew Ng, chief scientist at Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. and co-founder of education startup Coursera, and Neil Jacobstein, chair of the artificial intelligence and robotics department at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University, sat down with The Wall Street Journal's Scott Austin to discuss AI's opportunities and challenges. What is Baidu focused on? NG: For large enterprises like Baidu, AI creates two big pockets of opportunities. One is our core business.


Topbots' Adelyn Zhou: A Bot That Does Everything Will Be Good At Nothing

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Adelyn Zhou is the chief marketing officer at Topbots, a research and education firm focused on connecting AI and bot technologies with Fortune 500 companies. A marketing and technology leader who has worked with Amazon, Nextdoor, Eventbrite, Oscar Health and others, she has been recognized as one of the top 50 people in growth as well as one of the top 30 people to follow in AI by IBM Watson. Adelyn is active participant in the largest bot group on Facebook (24,000 members) and writes for VentureBeat and Forbes. She graduated with honors from Harvard University, and received her MBA from Harvard Business School. I started my career in marketing at multiple fast growing technology companies.


Why does Google think Obama is planning a coup d'etat?

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Peter Shulman, an associate history professor at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, was lecturing on the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s when a student asked an odd question: Was President Warren Harding a member of the KKK? He confessed that he was not aware of that allegation, but that Harding had been in favor of anti-lynching legislation, so it seemed unlikely. But then a second student pulled out his phone and announced that yes, Harding had been a Klan member, and so had four other presidents. For most of its history, Google did not answer questions. Users typed in what they were looking for and got a list of web pages that might contain the desired information.


Google artificial intelligence whiz describes our sci-fi future

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The next time you enter a query into Google's search engine or consult the company's map service for directions to a movie theater, remember that a big brain is working behind the scenes to provide relevant search results and make sure you don't get lost while driving. As Fortune's Roger Parloff wrote, the Google Brain research team has created over 1,000 so-called deep learning projects that have supercharged many of Google's products over the past few years like YouTube, translation, and photos. With deep learning, researchers can feed huge amounts of data into software systems called neural nets that learn to recognize patterns within the vast information faster than humans. In an interview with Fortune, one of Google Brain's co-founders and leaders, Jeff Dean, talks about cutting-edge AI research, the challenges involved, and using AI in its products. The following, done against the backdrop of the 50th annual Turing Award, an honor in computer science from the Association for Computing Machinery, has been edited for length and clarity. What are some challenges researchers face with pushing the field of artificial intelligence?


Inventing The Telephone, The Mechanical Automation Of Work, And Searching By Associative Links

Forbes - Tech

This week's milestones in the history of technology include the invention of the telephone, automating telephone exchanges and textile weaving, and the idea of searching for information through associative links. The first-ever nationally televised awards ceremony devoted to the Internet is broadcast. U.S. patent 174,465 for "Improvement in telegraphy" is issued to 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell. This was the patent for his invention of the telephone, covering "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically ... by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound." E-book publisher Rosetta Books wins the lawsuit brought against it by Random House for acquiring titles directly from authors.


Learning Power Spectrum Maps from Quantized Power Measurements

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Power spectral density (PSD) maps providing the distribution of RF power across space and frequency are constructed using power measurements collected by a network of low-cost sensors. By introducing linear compression and quantization to a small number of bits, sensor measurements can be communicated to the fusion center with minimal bandwidth requirements. Strengths of data- and model-driven approaches are combined to develop estimators capable of incorporating multiple forms of spectral and propagation prior information while fitting the rapid variations of shadow fading across space. To this end, novel nonparametric and semiparametric formulations are investigated. It is shown that PSD maps can be obtained using support vector machine-type solvers. In addition to batch approaches, an online algorithm attuned to real-time operation is developed. Numerical tests assess the performance of the novel algorithms.


13 ways AI will change your life

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From helping you take care of email to creating personalized online shopping experiences, AI promises to transform the way we live and work. But with all the hype out there, how do we know which benefits we'll actually see? We're inviting 250 to exhibit at TNW Conference and pitch on stage! What is the top benefit you predict emerging from AI, and do you think the overall benefits will live up to the hype? The greatest benefit of AI -- which is already emerging -- is the elimination of repetitive tasks.


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From helping you take care of email to creating personalized online shopping experiences, AI promises to transform the way we live and work. But with all the hype out there, how do we know which benefits we'll actually see? What is the top benefit you predict emerging from AI, and do you think the overall benefits will live up to the hype? The greatest benefit of AI -- which is already emerging -- is the elimination of repetitive tasks. From chat bots that can free up human staffers' times to work on more complex issues, to scheduling AIs like x.ai that eliminate the need to schedule meetings, AI will ultimately help humans spend more time focusing on creative and high-mental-effort activities.


'The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild' Guides, Tips And Cheats For Nintendo Switch, Wii U

International Business Times

The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild is being played by gamers everywhere, and our partners at iDigitalTimes have been working hard discovering every inch of 2017's incarnation of Hyrule. The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild is shaping up to be a once-in-a-lifetime game, and we're happy you've chosen us to kick off your celebration. For even more on this epic, sprawling adventure, be sure to read the iDigitalTimes full review. What do you think of The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild so far? Which guides would you like to see next?