A blood-thirsty new video game that encourages players to take part in a school shooting has triggered outrage online. The upcoming game, Active Shooter, lets players choose between taking on the role of a SWAT team member trying to stop an ongoing school shooting -- or the role of the shooter themselves. Those who play as the shooter will be shown a tally of the number of civilians and police officers they have managed to kill during their simulated shooting spree. Anti-gun violence charity Infer Trust has described the game as'horrendous' and in'bad taste' given the recent mass shootings in the US. Players in'Active Shooter' will be shown a tally of the number of civilians and police officers they have killed during their simulated school shooting spree'Pick your role, gear up and fight or destroy!' the description on the Active Shooter listing declares. 'Only in "Active Shooter", you will be able to pick the role of an Elite S.W.A.T team member or the actual shooter.

About this course: Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? Are you willing to invest the effort to learn fundamental mathematical modeling techniques that are used in all subfields of robotics? If so, then the "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" specialization may be for you. This specialization, consisting of six short courses, is serious preparation for serious students who hope to work in the field of robotics or to undertake advanced study.

With the many, many uses of AI, we're seeing an increase in researchers, scientists, organisations and start-ups of all kinds looking at ways we can leverage this technology for good. Whilst'high-technology' has become synonymous with high wages, and high investment, there are loads of projects out there applying this technology to poverty reduction. Harnessing the power of AI to help the most desperate in our society is a fantastic way to use it. So, how is this being done? Recognising the causes of poverty is key in looking at how to tackle the problems using technologies.

GREATER NOIDA: Artificial intelligence (AI) doesn't just have technological applications. Simulation of human intelligence processes has demonstrated that it can help farmers, artisans and fisherman to substantially eliminate the gap between the price they get for their produce and the market price, said Amitabh Kant, speaking at the AI Startup Conclave organised by leadingindia.ai "AI can help double their income with the same efforts and tools they are using today," said Kant, who was addressing scholars from prestigious institutions and other startup invitees. Leadingindia.ai, is an initiative being supported by NVIDIA, Amazon, edX, Newton-Bhabha Fund, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, Brunel University and University College, London. Special teams from the government of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat attended the event.

"Creativity isn't solely the domain of traditional artistic fields" – writes Tim Brown (CEO of the iconic firm IDEO) in an article published by QUARTZ magazine. The key to surviving in the age of automation is to focus on our creative side. Let the machine handle the mundane, repetitive tasks so we can find time to do what we, the humans are good at – being creative. He offers a short checklist: work on your focus, be curious, be adaptive and abolish hierarchy. I am sure we can find a pretty good set of skills, perhaps many different skill sets, that will support Brown's list.

DURHAM – Google Brain's Magenta project, which is exploring the creative potential of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), has developed considerably since Google announced it at Moogfest three years ago. And, Magenta makes many of its ongoing developments available publicly online and collects feedback from musicians, artists and other users to advance the project. Adam Roberts, senior software engineer and ML researcher discussed the nuts and bolts of Magenta at Moogfest over the weekend. Roberts, who did undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earned his PhD at Berkley, California, where he studied machine learning applied to genomics. Google is developing both hardware and software to explore the potential of machine learning via its Magenta research, Roberts said.

This team has decades of practical experience in working with Java and with billions of rows of data. If you are an analyst or a data scientist, you're used to having multiple systems for working with data. With Spark, you have a single engine where you can explore and play with large amounts of data, run machine learning algorithms and then use the same system to productionize your code. Scala: Scala is a general purpose programming language - like Java or C . It's functional programming nature and the availability of a REPL environment make it particularly suited for a distributed computing framework like Spark. Analytics: Using Spark and Scala you can analyze and explore your data in an interactive environment with fast feedback.

Scientists in China working on a 10-year-old project believe they can -- one day. The South China Morning Post reports that around 60,000 schools -- that's one in every four in the country -- are taking part in an extensive test that uses AI software to score student essays. The technology is designed to judge an essay according to its writing style and structure, as well as how well it sticks to a given topic. Researchers say it's meant to make grading fairer and more accurate. A government document claims the algorithm and a human grader gave the same score more than 90% of the time. But schools and teachers interviewed by the SCMP said there were many instances where an excellent essay was given a low score.

Artificial intelligence (AI) doesn't just have technological applications. Simulation of human intelligence processes has demonstrated that it can help farmers, artisans and fisherman to substantially eliminate the gap between the price they get for their produce and the market price, said Amitabh Kant, speaking at the AI Startup Conclave organised by leadingindia.ai "AI can help double their income with the same efforts and tools they are using today," said Kant, who was addressing scholars from prestigious institutions and other startup invitees. Leadingindia.ai, is an initiative being supported by NVIDIA, Amazon, edX, Newton-Bhabha Fund, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, Brunel University and University College, London. Special teams from the government of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat attended the event.

I used to think reading was just about getting smarter. But then, I started seeing a huge difference in my life that had nothing to do with the specifics of what I was reading, and I discovered that I couldn't be more wrong. Reading isn't just about getting smarter -- it's also about "altitude" as Donald Trump calls it. And I think this benefit of reading is even more important than what you'll learn from the books you read.