China's history of censoring the internet and using propaganda to give its citizens a false sense of reality is well documented. And now, Chinese regulators have announced new rules that will allow them to further dictate what citizens perceive as reality. From January 1, 2020, publishing and distributing what the regulators deem to be "fake news" created with artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, or virtual reality (VR) will be banned. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) added that content produced with AI, deep learning, or VR will need to be clearly labeled when these new rules come into effect. Failure to label such content under the new rules could be a criminal offense.

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Instead of cutting marketing budgets, Diageo decides to invest in marketing but to remove inefficient expenditures, and thus improve profits by shifting money investments. Two years ago, the company launched the platform Catalyst, whose main goal is to provide instant data to marketeers and help them create investment-worthy strategies. According to Diageo's global marketing effectiveness director, Adam Ben-Yousef, they have "achieved a more profound shift at the highest level in the belief in marketing investment. Marketing is no longer the first spend to be cut when a market wants to deliver its annual plan." It does that by solving issues and helping companies reach customer satisfaction.

Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science miscommunications and hypes could maybe be avoided. The media is often tempted to report each tiny new advance in a field, be it AI or nanotechnology, as a great triumph that will soon fundamentally alter our world. Occasionally, of course, new discoveries are underreported. The transistor did not make huge waves when it was first introduced, and few people initially appreciated the full potential of the Internet.

I submitted python generated projections earlier in the week. These projections were made by taking the player's mean and adjusting it by a constant for opponents previously faced and the upcoming opponent. After the three games on Thanksgiving I calculated my projections were actually less accurate than just using the players season mean. I decided in order to make the projections more accurate I would try implementing a machine learning setup. For training data I again used Pro Football Reference and CBS's positional data.

Many people are afraid of artificial intelligence and how it could change the world. They're afraid of robots taking our jobs, companies infringing our privacy and even intelligent machines turning against us and wiping out humanity – a la SkyNet, the computer system gone rogue in Terminator. But Mike Bugembe, a data scientist, consultant and author, is on a mission to show how data can have a positive social and financial impact on organisations. As the former chief of analytics at JustGiving, he developed a series of algorithms that resulted in over £20m in extra donations in just a year and was later part of the team that sold the company for £95m. He told The Independent: "We live in an increasingly machine-driven world. So you've got to understand how this stuff works and future-proof your organisation. I love the fact that I can remove that fear people have of AI and I can help them really see the value of it and become excited about it. I help leaders understand how they can be part of the picture instead of being replaced by machines."

Although deep neural networks generally have fixed network structures, the concept of dynamic mechanism has drawn more and more attention in recent years. Attention mechanisms compute input-dependent dynamic attention weights for aggregating a sequence of hidden states. Dynamic network configuration in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) selectively activates only part of the network at a time for different inputs. In this paper, we combine the two dynamic mechanisms for text classification tasks. Traditional attention mechanisms attend to the whole sequence of hidden states for an input sentence, while in most cases not all attention is needed especially for long sequences. We propose a novel method called Gated Attention Network (GA-Net) to dynamically select a subset of elements to attend to using an auxiliary network, and compute attention weights to aggregate the selected elements. It avoids a significant amount of unnecessary computation on unattended elements, and allows the model to pay attention to important parts of the sequence. Experiments in various datasets show that the proposed method achieves better performance compared with all baseline models with global or local attention while requiring less computation and achieving better interpretability. It is also promising to extend the idea to more complex attention-based models, such as transformers and seq-to-seq models.

Long-time Slashdot reader clawsoon writes: Among Sunday's releases from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on leaked Chinese documents about the detention of Xinjiang Uighurs -- which they are calling the largest mass internment of an ethnic-religious minority since World War II -- is a section on detention by algorithm which "is more than a'pre-crime' platform, but a'machine-learning, artificial intelligence (AI), command and control' platform that substitutes artificial intelligence for human judgment...." "The Chinese have bought into a model of policing where they believe that through the collection of large-scale data run through AI and machine learning that they can, in fact, predict ahead of time where possible incidents might take place, as well as identify possible populations that have the propensity to engage in anti-state anti-regime action," reports James Mulvenon, director of intelligence integration at SOS International LLC, an intelligence and information technology contractor for several U.S. government agencies. "And then they are preemptively going after those people using that data." The Chinese government responded by calling the leaked documents "fake news."

Sarawagi is one of the foremost figures in the fields of data mining and machine learning in India, and is the recipient of this year's $100,000 Infosys …