In June of last year, five researchers at Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research unit published an article showing how bots can simulate negotiation-like conversations. While for the most part the bots were able to maintain coherent dialogue, the researchers found that the software agents would occasionally generate strange sentences like: "Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to." On seeing these results, the team realized that they had failed to include a constraint that limited the bots to generating sentences within the parameters of spoken English, meaning that they developed a type of machine-English patois to communicate between themselves. These findings were considered to be fairly interesting by other experts in the field, but not totally surprising or groundbreaking. A month after this initial research was released, Fast Company published an article entitled AI Is Inventing Language Humans Can't Understand.

Maybe best known as an analyst and host on CNN, the Oakland-based Jones says his primary job is being volunteer president of Dream Corps–a multifaceted organization promoting job opportunities for urban and minority youth, prison population reduction, and political dialogue. "Our job is to close prison doors and open doors of opportunity," says Jones, always ready with a catchy turn of phrase–as well a "huh!" or guffaw for emphasis. The July 17 conference, the Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Communities, kicked off a collaboration between Dream Corps and AI4ALL–a youth education program founded by artificial intelligence pioneer (and Chinese immigrant) Fei-Fei Li. The head of AI for Google Cloud, Li also runs Stanford University's AI Lab and Vision Lab. In 2015, she started an AI summer camp for high school girls at Stanford, which grew into AI4ALL.

While the debate regarding how much screen time is appropriate for children rages on among educators, psychologists, and parents, it's another emerging technology in the form of artificial intelligence and machine learning that is beginning to alter education tools and institutions and changing what the future might look like in education. It is expected that artificial intelligence in U.S. education will grow by 47.5% from 2017-2021 according to the Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education Sector report. Even though most experts believe the critical presence of teachers is irreplaceable, there will be many changes to a teacher's job and to educational best practices. AI has already been applied to education primarily in some tools that help develop skills and testing systems. As AI educational solutions continue to mature, the hope is that AI can help fill needs gaps in learning and teaching and allow schools and teachers to do more than ever before.

This year has seen, what appears to be, an unusually high level of soothsaying predictions on technological'Revolutions', and how they will affect us all. How the latest technology buzz-word, 'Artificial Intelligence', will replace 50% of our jobs. How the changing work landscape is driven by'Millenials', who not only care for a salary but want access to many other perks believed to be unique to them. The above may or may not be true, but it overlooks some significant demographic changes, both globally and in our backyards. Is AI ready to take over the functions of the human world, implement nuclear armageddon and attempt to wipe out humanity?

Have you wanted to practice your machine learning skills interactively alongside other top engineers? We'll work and learn interactively while working through interesting image classification tasks. We'll start by introducing the problem and a few common strategies such as data generation and augmentation, then students will work in teams to build the best possible machine learning model. At the end, we'll compare some common approaches to machine learning, and the engineers who make the most progress will be awarded a Google Home Mini as a prize. While there are plenty of online resources, we know it's tough to learn a technical topic without support.

The tech giant's internal debates over the issue were revealed in internal emails obtained by publications including the New York Times, showing that one of the company's top minds, Google Cloud head AI scientist Fei-Fei Li, had early on raised alarms about Project Maven. But her motives appeared to be more focused on the potential for negative publicity rather than ethical concerns. Fast Company recently asked Fei-Fei to clarify her views on the controversy but got only a partial answer that didn't seem to bridge the gap between ethical aspiration and business reality. The attitude expressed in the emails seemed particularly disconcerting considering Fei-Fei's longstanding commitment to a human-centered approach to new technologies. Holding a second job as head of Stanford University's AI Lab, Fei-Fei has dedicated years to advancing ethical uses of artificial intelligence.

Two faculty members in Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering have earned the highly competitive and prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. Heni Ben Amor and Yezhou Yang, both assistant professors of computer science and engineering studying robotics in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, represent two of ASU's three winners (the third is Nicholas Stephanopoulos, assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences). These researchers continue the long history of junior faculty receiving this honor in the Fulton Schools. Over the past five years, 30 Fulton Schools faculty have earned NSF CAREER Awards. "I'm proud we're continuing to attract faculty whose powerful ideas lead to discoveries of foundational value to their fields with potentially transformational breakthrough applications," said Kyle Squires, dean of the Fulton Schools.

Artificial intelligence (AI) allows machines to learn in a way that mimics human intelligence. Once merely the subject of futuristic novels, AI is now being used to improve nearly every industry. If you're a parent, you'll be excited to know that this includes early childhood education. While utilizing AI technology in the classroom might sound strange, the decrease in available teachers warrants such a move. Fortunately, it appears that AI is actually giving children a head start in life.

There is a saying in education that you treasure what you measure. Going by the standardized tests that dominate schools in many countries around the world, we're teaching children that we value only a very narrow definition of intelligence--the ability to solve word problems about train times, or identify the purpose of a World War I treaty on a multiple-choice test. The truth is human intelligence is vast and complex. And in an age when artificial intelligence is capable of nailing IQ tests and mastering knowledge-based curricula, humans may be setting ourselves up to be outshone by technology. "I think we are in danger of dumbing ourselves down," says Rose Luckin, a professor of learning-centered design at University College London who has been studying artificial intelligence and learning for more than 25 years.

My name is Kris Coratti. Thank you for joining us on this very rainy morning. I'm glad you all made it out. We are going to have a fascinating series of discussion this morning on artificial intelligence. This is the latest in our ongoing event series that we call "Transformers." And our speakers this morning are going to explore the regulatory questions around this technology. They going to look at how AI is reshaping the way we live and work. And they're going to discuss how to make sure this technology is used responsibly in the future. Before we begin, I just want to quickly thank our presenting sponsor for this even, Software.org, And so now I'd like to go ahead and welcome to the stage The Washington Post's Tony Romm and Senators Maria Cantwell and Todd Young. And for those who don't know, Senator Cantwell is a Democrat from Washington State. Both are members of a Senate commerce committee which touches on artificial intelligence and many tech issues that we'll talk about today.