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'Dune' Is One of the Most Influential Sci-Fi Books Ever
Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel Dune, first published in 1965, is still extremely influential. "I was worried," Kressel says in Episode 417 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "I was like, 'Am I going to read this and not like it now? Have I outgrown this book?' It was the exact opposite. I love it even more."
(Art)ificial Intelligence. The new creative AI.
It would be illogical today to think that AI completely replaces human creativity. Having two such powerful "machines" and deleting one of them would be an absolute mistake. Instead, we should take advantage of 200% of the potential offered by both, an awesome combination impossible to replace. Let's talk about art, music, dance, writing, … "Being creative means being in love with life", being able to generate new ideas or concepts spontaneously. Does AI take place in these fields?
Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared.
None of these people exist. These images were generated using deepfake technology. Last month during ESPN's hit documentary series The Last Dance, State Farm debuted a TV commercial that has become one of the most widely discussed ads in recent memory. It appeared to show footage from 1998 of an ESPN analyst making shockingly accurate predictions about the year 2020. As it turned out, the clip was not genuine: it was generated using cutting-edge AI.
Artificial Intelligence; Why Journalism Needs to be Human- Centric? The Policy Times
The outbreak of COVID- 19 has made jobless a lot of workers, now Artificial Intelligence has started taking over people's jobs. Several industries have already been affected in several sectors by the intrusion of artificial intelligence, and journalism turns out not to be an exception. Microsoft has recently fired dozens of journalists, who were responsible for arranging and editing news stories to be replaced with automatic systems. At a time when Indian news media companies are sacking employees due to COVID related economic downfall, the possibility of robots is now a major threat to our job security. Artificial Intelligence is still in its early stages, but it will be interesting to see how it will change the fourth pillar of democracy, in the era of web journalism and shouting debates on Prime Time TV news.
An efficient manifold density estimator for all recommendation systems
Dąbrowski, Jacek, Rychalska, Barbara, Daniluk, Michał, Basaj, Dominika, Gołuchowski, Konrad, Babel, Piotr, Michałowski, Andrzej
Many unsupervised representation learning methods belong to the class of similarity learning models. While various modality-specific approaches exist for different types of data, a core property of many methods is that representations of similar inputs are close under some similarity function. We propose EMDE (Efficient Manifold Density Estimator) - a framework utilizing arbitrary vector representations with the property of local similarity to succinctly represent smooth probability densities on Riemannian manifolds. Our approximate representation has the desirable properties of being fixed-size and having simple additive compositionality, thus being especially amenable to treatment with neural networks - both as input and output format, producing efficient conditional estimators. We generalize and reformulate the problem of multi-modal recommendations as conditional, weighted density estimation on manifolds. Our approach allows for trivial inclusion of multiple interaction types, modalities of data as well as interaction strengths for any recommendation setting. Applying EMDE to both top-k and session-based recommendation settings, we establish new state-of-the-art results on multiple open datasets in both uni-modal and multi-modal settings. We release the source code and our own real-world dataset of e-commerce product purchases, with special focus on modeling of the item cold-start problem.
Quantum Criticism: A Tagged News Corpus Analysed for Sentiment and Named Entities
Badgujar, Ashwini, Chen, Sheng, Wang, Andrew, Yu, Kai, Intrevado, Paul, Brizan, David Guy
Several custom web scrapers were created for retrieving news articles from various online news organizations. All web scrapers were run every two hours to retrieve articles from the following five news sites: the Atlantic, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) News, Fox News, the New York Times and Slate Magazine. Web scrapers continue to run every two hours in perpetuity, scraping additional news articles. Collectively, the web scrapers used each news organization's RSS feed as input, storing the scraped output into a custom database. Article URLs were used for disambiguation; where two scraped articles shared a URL, the most recently retrieved article replaced previous versions of articles. As of November 2019, we collected a total of 105,000 news articles from five media organizations. Figure 2 depicts the number of cumulative articles scraped for each news organization over time. Even though articles from Fox News were regularly scraped four months later than other news sources, the number of articles scraped rose quickly, and now constitutes the news organization with the most scraped articles. Given the news scrapers run at regularly scheduled two-hour intervals for all news organization, this suggests that Fox News updates its RSS feed with new articles far more often than others, and the Atlantic updates its RSS feed far less frequently than others.