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Deadly drone strikes on UAE raise Gulf tensions and roil oil market

The Japan Times

Iran-backed Yemeni fighters launched drone strikes on the United Arab Emirates that caused explosions and a deadly fire outside the capital, Abu Dhabi, ratcheting up security risks in the major oil-exporting region at a critical time. One of the biggest attacks to date on UAE soil ignited a fire at Abu Dhabi's main international airport on Monday and set fuel tanker trucks ablaze in a nearby industrial area. It took place days after Yemen's Houthi fighters warned Abu Dhabi against intensifying its air campaign against them. Crude extended gains to the highest level in seven years on Tuesday after the assaults in the UAE, OPEC's third biggest oil producer. Iran's longtime support of the Houthis means the incidents could roil regional diplomatic efforts to ease frictions and separate talks to restore Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.


Inducing Structure in Reward Learning by Learning Features

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In doing so, however, these approaches sacrifice the sample efficiency and generalizability that a well-specified feature Whether it's semi-autonomous driving (Sadigh et al. 2016), set offers. While using an expressive function approximator recommender systems (Ziebart et al. 2008), or household to extract features and learn their reward combination at once robots working in close proximity with people (Jain et al. seems advantageous, many such functions can induce policies 2015), reward learning can greatly benefit autonomous agents that explain the demonstrations. Hence, to disambiguate to generate behaviors that adapt to new situations or human between all these candidate functions, the robot requires a preferences. Under this framework, the robot uses the person's very large amount of (laborious to collect) data, and this data input to learn a reward function that describes how they prefer needs to be diverse enough to identify the true reward. For the task to be performed. For instance, in the scenario in Fig. example, the human in the household robot setting in Figure 1 1, the human wants the robot to keep the cup away from the might want to demonstrate keeping the cup away from the laptop to prevent spilling liquid over it; she may communicate laptop, but from a single demonstration the robot could find this preference to the robot by providing a demonstration of many other explanations for the person's behavior: perhaps the task or even by directly intervening during the robot's task they always happened to keep the cup upright or they really execution to correct it.


Knowledge Sharing via Domain Adaptation in Customs Fraud Detection

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Knowledge of the changing traffic is critical in risk management. Customs offices worldwide have traditionally relied on local resources to accumulate knowledge and detect tax fraud. This naturally poses countries with weak infrastructure to become tax havens of potentially illicit trades. The current paper proposes DAS, a memory bank platform to facilitate knowledge sharing across multi-national customs administrations to support each other. We propose a domain adaptation method to share transferable knowledge of frauds as prototypes while safeguarding the local trade information. Data encompassing over 8 million import declarations have been used to test the feasibility of this new system, which shows that participating countries may benefit up to 2-11 times in fraud detection with the help of shared knowledge. We discuss implications for substantial tax revenue potential and strengthened policy against illicit trades.


A Non-Expert's Introduction to Data Ethics for Mathematicians

arXiv.org Machine Learning

I give a short introduction to data ethics. My focal audience is mathematicians, but I hope that my discussion will also be useful to others. I am not an expert about data ethics, and my article is only a starting point. I encourage readers to examine the resources that I discuss and to continue to reflect carefully on data ethics and on the societal implications of data and data analysis throughout their lives.


Socioeconomic disparities and COVID-19: the causal connections

arXiv.org Machine Learning

The analysis of causation is a challenging task that can be approached in various ways. With the increasing use of machine learning based models in computational socioeconomics, explaining these models while taking causal connections into account is a necessity. In this work, we advocate the use of an explanatory framework from cooperative game theory augmented with $do$ calculus, namely causal Shapley values. Using causal Shapley values, we analyze socioeconomic disparities that have a causal link to the spread of COVID-19 in the USA. We study several phases of the disease spread to show how the causal connections change over time. We perform a causal analysis using random effects models and discuss the correspondence between the two methods to verify our results. We show the distinct advantages a non-linear machine learning models have over linear models when performing a multivariate analysis, especially since the machine learning models can map out non-linear correlations in the data. In addition, the causal Shapley values allow for including the causal structure in the variable importance computed for the machine learning model.


Automation Quotes by Top Minds

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With artificial intelligence more and more tasks that once thought only humans could do, computers will be able to do. "Automation is cost cutting by tightening the corners and not cutting them." "From income inequality to climate change, technology will play a critical role in finding solutions to many of the challenges our world faces today. This year's emerging technologies demonstrate the rapid pace of human innovation and offer a glimpse into what a sustainable, inclusive future will look like." "The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."


How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence the Right Way: State of AI and Ethical Issues

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The current artificial intelligence (AI) systems are regulated by other existing regulations such as data protection, consumer protection and market competition laws. It is critical for governments, leaders, and decision makers to develop a firm understanding of the fundamental differences between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. Artificial intelligence (AI) applies to computing systems designed to perform tasks usually reserved for human intelligence using logic, if-then rules, and decision trees. AI recognizes patterns from vast amounts of quality data providing insights, predicting outcomes, and making complex decisions. Machine learning (ML) is a subset of AI that utilises advanced statistical techniques to enable computing systems to improve at tasks with experience over time.


Cold case team may know who betrayed Anne Frank

FOX News

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War II's enduring mysteries has reached what it calls the "most likely scenario" of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family. Their answer, outlined in a new book called "The Betrayal of Anne Frank A Cold Case Investigation," by Canadian academic and author Rosemary Sullivan, is that it could have been prominent Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh who disclosed the secret annex hiding place of the Frank family to German occupiers to save his own family from deportation and murder in Nazi concentration camps. "We have investigated over 30 suspects in 20 different scenarios, leaving one scenario we like to refer to as the most likely scenario," said filmmaker Thijs Bayens, who had the idea to put together the cold case team, which was led by retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke, to forensically examine the evidence.


Three killed in suspected Houthi drone attacks in UAE: Live

Al Jazeera

A suspected drone attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people and started a separate fire at Abu Dhabi's international airport, police said. Police in the United Arab Emirates identified the dead as two Indian nationals and one Pakistani. "Small flying objects" were found as three petrol tanks exploded in an industrial area and a fire was ignited at the airport, police said, as Houthi rebels announced "military operations" in the UAE. The UAE which had largely scaled down its military presence in Yemen in 2019, continues to hold sway through the Yemeni forces it armed and trained. Drone attacks are a hallmark of the Houthis' assaults on Saudi Arabia, the UAE ally that is leading the coalition fighting for Yemen's government in the grinding civil war.


Drones & AI : The Near Future

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The small aircraft which operates by itself without any human being is known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (#UAV) or drone.The drone which houses artificial Intelligence algorithms is known as AI drone. This allows drone to fly itself. It supports number of other features as per mathematical and control theory based algorithms incorporated in it. It houses wide field cameras, tactical sensors, facial recognition algorithms, localisation technologies, shaped explosives etc. They are generally used to convey merchandise rapidly, examine army installations, and study the climate at a more extensive degree.