KILIS, TURKEY – Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters captured a strategic hill in northwestern Syria on Sunday as their offensive to root out Kurdish fighters entered a second week. Associated Press reporters in the Turkish border town of Kilis heard constant shelling and clashes as Turkish aircraft flew overhead and plumes of smoke rose in the distance. The Turkey-backed forces have been trying to capture the hill, which separates the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin from the Turkey-controlled town of Azaz, since the start of their offensive on Jan. 20, but have been met with stiff resistance. The Kurdish militia known as the People's Defense Units, or YPG, said Turkey sent reinforcements to the area following intense airstrikes on Sunday. The Turkish military said in a statement that its soldiers and allied Syrian opposition fighters captured Bursayah hill assisted by airstrikes, attack helicopters, armed drones and howitzers.

People sending final goodbye messages to their loved ones. Mother clinging to children, while the father hurriedly makes for a safe getaway for the family to the basement. Imagine the state of confusion and chaos every Hawaiian would have faced on Jan 13, 2018 when they received an approaching ballistic missile alert. Well given the current twitter threats by'Rocket Man' as President Trump calls the North Korean dictator, many Hawaiian's had all the logical reasons to believe the alert. Thankfully'Rocket Man' had not pressed the tiny nuclear button probably because Trump had a bigger button!! It all thankfully turned out to be a'False Alarm'.

People sending final goodbye messages to their loved ones. Mother clinging to children, while the father hurriedly makes for a safe getaway for the family to the basement. Imagine the state of confusion and chaos every Hawaiian would have faced on Jan 13, 2018 when they received an approaching ballistic missile alert. Well given the current twitter threats by'Rocket Man' as President Trump calls the North Korean dictator, many Hawaiian's had all the logical reasons to believe the alert. Thankfully'Rocket Man' had not pressed the tiny nuclear button probably because Trump had a bigger button!! It all thankfully turned out to be a'False Alarm'.

The development of accurate and transferable machine learning (ML) potentials for predicting molecular energetics is a challenging task. The process of data generation to train such ML potentials is a task neither well understood nor researched in detail. In this work, we present a fully automated approach for the generation of datasets with the intent of training universal ML potentials. It is based on the concept of active learning (AL) via Query by Committee (QBC), which uses the disagreement between an ensemble of ML potentials to infer the reliability of the ensemble's prediction. QBC allows our AL algorithm to automatically sample regions of chemical space where the machine learned potential fails to accurately predict the potential energy. AL improves the overall fitness of ANAKIN-ME (ANI) deep learning potentials in rigorous test cases by mitigating human biases in deciding what new training data to use. AL also reduces the training set size to a fraction of the data required when using naive random sampling techniques. To provide validation of our AL approach we develop the COMP6 benchmark (publicly available on GitHub), which contains a diverse set of organic molecules. We show the use of our proposed AL technique develops a universal ANI potential (ANI-1x), which provides very accurate energy and force predictions on the entire COMP6 benchmark. This universal potential achieves a level of accuracy on par with the best ML potentials for single molecule or materials while remaining applicable to the general class of organic molecules comprised of the elements CHNO.

Google's artificial intelligence unit DeepMind engaged in "highly questionable" practices when it struck a 2015 deal to access years' worth of UK hospital patient records held by the National Health Service, says a paper published March 16 in the journal "Health and Technology." The paper, written by Cambridge University law academic Julia Powles and Economist journalist Hal Hodson, is the first piece of scholarship to analyze the terms by which 1.6 million patient records from three London hospitals that are part of the NHS Royal Free London trust were shared with DeepMind. That agreement was replaced by a 2016 deal that the authors will analyze in future. The earlier agreement is currently being investigated by two UK regulatory bodies. One of those investigations, by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), is "close to conclusion," the ICO says. The paper argues that both DeepMind and the hospital administrations, in their eagerness to take advantage of national data-sets, were too lax in the way the data was shared.

The OLCF's recently deployed DGX-1 artificial intelligence supercomputer by NVIDIA, featuring eight NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and NVLink technology, will offer scientists and researchers new opportunities to delve into deep learning technologies. The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) recently deployed a new NVIDIA DGX‑1 artificial intelligence supercomputer to offer scientists and researchers opportunities to delve into deep learning technologies with more vigor than ever before. Deep learning uses neural networks to classify data or predict outcomes by training models on large data sets and by abstracting high-level features or patterns from lower level data. The OLCF is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL. Scientists and researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are using deep learning because of its potential to leverage big data analytics to automate and accelerate the scientific discovery process.

Artificial intelligence approached the summit of hype at this year's World Economic Forum. AI was on the lips of seemingly every corporate chief and policy maker attending this year's conference in Davos, Switzerland. On Wednesday, the term "artificial intelligence" appeared in more than 20 headlines and stories Bloomberg ran about the gathering. British Prime Minister Theresa May announced a new government-funded center to advise on ethical use of AI and French President Emmanuel Macron launched a 10 billion euro innovation fund aimed at new technologies like AI. AI is going to be more important than humanity's mastery of fire or electricity, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said. Alibaba founder Jack Ma warned that AI and robots are going to "kill a lot of jobs" and could start a third world war.

A neural network combed through 50 million images. Artificial intelligence can now make deductions about places by the types of cars it sees. Google Street View / Stanford University Google Street View images are filled with cars. TweetWhile politicians and the media kept the country distracted and divided, the American people were robbed of $9 trillion by the Federal Reserve. The inspector general claimed no knowledge ...

Trucking paid for Scott Spindola to take a road trip down the coast of Spain, climb halfway up Machu Picchu, and sample a Costa Rican beach for two weeks. The 44-year-old from Covina now makes up to $70,000 per year, with overtime, hauling goods from the port of Long Beach. He has full medical coverage and plans to drive until he retires. But in a decade, his big rig may not have any need for him. Carmaking giants and ride-sharing upstarts racing to put autonomous vehicles on the road are dead set on replacing drivers, and that includes truckers.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to move from a nascent technology into one that is beginning to have an impact on our lives. We already have examples such as shopping bots and voice technologies that answer our questions, order goods and help run our daily lives. Cybersecurity vendors would have us believe that they are all using AI to detect attacks and keep us safe. But is everything as it seems? Check Point Software, CPX360 show is in Barcelona this week.