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A hotel chain in Tokyo is trying to be the first run by robots, albeit with a few malfunctions along the way, according to a new report. Japanese travel company H.I.S. has been opening hotels where robots man the front desk, check-in is handled by a kiosk, and face recognition opens the door to your room. The hotel name, Henn na Hotel ("henn na" means strange in Japanese) underscores the eerie presence of robots and the relative dearth of humans. The first hotel opened in 2015 and was recognized by Guinness World Records as "the first robot-staffed hotel" in the world, according to the Japan Times. H.I.S. is slowly expanding the number of robot-centric locations.

I was recently in the market for new makeup and spent some time playing around with Sephora's Visual Artist app that allows me to experiment with different looks and products through augmented reality. The app recommended products based on my purchase history, skin type and beauty preferences. It made for a great experience and was a lot of fun! The root of the app is predictive analytics. By knowing my demographics and what I had purchased in the past, Sephora could predict what I would want in the future.

The number of techy tools that brokers have access to in their toolbox is growing as broker management systems include more and more features, technology vendors offer solutions that allow for the analysis of data coming in from carriers, and insurers plan out brokerage environments of the future that are focused on the customer experience. Not all technology will prove to be useful to brokers, at least not at the outset when these tools are still being honed, and some will fail to be adopted widely – one only has to look at Segways to realize that technology is not always as transformative as it promises. In the case of one brokerage, chatbots were that tech tool that didn't quite take off. "We were one of the brokerages experimenting with chatbots and we never really got to a point where it was there for us to go all in on them," said John McClelland, broker and director of digital for McClelland Insurance, and founder of miBroker, adding that it wasn't a complete enough solution. While the firm's experiments involved using chatbots for lead generation, the next piece of the puzzle was missing.

MIT researchers have developed a New Artificial Intelligence (AI) System named as " PixelPlayer" that can look at a video of a musical performance, and isolate the sounds of specific instruments and make them louder or softer. The system, which is "self-supervised," doesn't require any human annotations on what the instruments are or what they sound like.The researchers say that the ability to change the volume of individual instruments means that in the future, systems like this could potentially help engineers improve the audio quality of old concert footage. You could even imagine producers taking specific instrument parts and previewing what they would sound like with other instruments. The system first locates the image regions that produce sounds, and then separates the input sounds into a set of components that represent the sound from each pixel. PixelPlayer uses methods of "deep learning," meaning that it finds patterns in data using so-called "neural networks" that have been trained on existing videos.

Hundreds of data scientists work in the Equifax Data and Analytics Lab. They focus on connecting the companies' unique data with customers' unique needs. The data scientists do this through a relentless pursuit of innovation in machine learning, predictive analytics, and explainable AI. AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, a software technology that makes machines think like humans. It also makes them behave like humans. When we are involved in any activity, we learn as we go along.

We present graph wavelet neural network (GWNN), a novel graph convolutional neural network (CNN), leveraging graph wavelet transform to address the shortcomings of previous spectral graph CNN methods that depend on graph Fourier transform. Different from graph Fourier transform, graph wavelet transform can be obtained via a fast algorithm without requiring matrix eigendecomposition with high computational cost. Moreover, graph wavelets are sparse and localized in vertex domain, offering high efficiency and good interpretability for graph convolution. The proposed GWNN significantly outperforms previous spectral graph CNNs in the task of graph-based semi-supervised classification on three benchmark datasets: Cora, Citeseer and Pubmed.

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Abstract: Neural Processes (NPs) (Garnelo et al 2018a;b) approach regression by learning to map a context set of observed input-output pairs to a distribution over regression functions. Each function models the distribution of the output given an input, conditioned on the context. NPs have the benefit of fitting observed data efficiently with linear complexity in the number of context input-output pairs, and can learn a wide family of conditional distributions; they learn predictive distributions conditioned on context sets of arbitrary size. Nonetheless, we show that NPs suffer a fundamental drawback of underfitting, giving inaccurate predictions at the inputs of the observed data they condition on. We address this issue by incorporating attention into NPs, allowing each input location to attend to the relevant context points for the prediction.