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Social media giants zoning in on far-right extremism as Facebook bans Britain First

The Independent - Tech

Facebook's decision to remove the accounts of far-right political group Britain First and its leaders is the latest instance of social media companies cracking down on hate speech after initially expressing a reluctance to engage in censorship. The company took action days after Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen were jailed for anti-Muslim hate crimes. Facebook stressed that it remains an "open platform for all ideas and political speech" but said: "There are times though when legitimate political speech crosses the line and becomes hate speech designed to stir up hatred against groups in our society." It added that content posted on the Britain First Facebook page and those of Golding and Fransen had "repeatedly broken our community standards. It said: "We recently gave the administrators of the pages a written final warning, and they have continued to post content that violates our community standards.


Urgent Explanation: Robots in 5 years

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This Is An extract in English of Pierre Pinna's Interview on CNN Turkey. IPFC Online Founder and CEO Pierre Pinna, one of the world-renowned names in artificial intelligence and digital transformation issues that brings together entrepreneurial companies in Turkey, national and international investors, participated at the T-Bootcamp event in Izmir, explaining the future. One of the most important meeting points of entrepreneurs and investors, the T-Bootcamp event, which emphasizes the innovation efforts in Turkey, was organized at the Selçuk Yaşar Campus in Izmir with the cooperation of Yaşar University Minerva Incubation Center and technology platform creation agency WBCONS-HD. Among the leading names in the world of artificial intelligence and digital convergence, IPFC Online Founder and CEO Pierre Pinna, Fintech and Blockchain applications that are rapidly expanding include Inclusivity Network Founder Antonio Javier Ruiz, Peak State Consulting Director Anuj Khanna, Technology and Human College Founder Zeynep Dereli and entrepreneurs from Izmir and Istanbul participated as speakers. Entrepreneurs brought in prominent projects.


Robot drone bees? It's not a horror movie, it's a Walmart patent

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

Amid a world-wide crisis in the bee industry, two companies have formed a joint venture to produce honey sustainably in the UAE. With summer flowers out and in full bloom bees are finding lots of pollen for their hives. SAN FRANCISCO -- Birds do it. Now even educated Walmart drones may do it. The world's largest retailer has applied for a patent for drone pollinators to make up for the decline in bees and other insects that fertilize crops and make much of the food the company sells possible.


Microsoft announces breakthrough in Chinese-to-English machine translation

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A team of Microsoft researchers announced on Wednesday they've created the first machine translation system that's capable of translating news articles from Chinese to English with the same accuracy as a person. The company says it's tested the system repeatedly on a sample of around 2,000 sentences from various online newspapers, comparing the result to a person's translation in the process – and even hiring outside bilingual language consultants to further verify the machine's accuracy. The sample set, called newstest2017, was released just last fall at the research conference WMT17. It's surprising, then, how quickly the researchers were able to achieve this milestone – especially given that machine translation is a problem people have been trying to solve for decades. Many have even believed that the goal of human parity would never be realized, Microsoft notes.


[D] top Journals on machine learning for healthcare • r/MachineLearning

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It depends on what you mean by "top" journals. If you are looking for ones that explicitly look for technical articles applied to healthcare, then the journals mentioned in this thread are your best bet. There are also conferences and workshops that would be a good venue. However, a lot of medical journals are starting to publish machine learning papers. Places like JAMA, BMJ, The Lancet, NEJM, etc will all publish ML work if there are clear clinical implications.


Transforming your business with AI in 2018

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is quickly becoming a part of our daily lives. Nowadays, we don't think twice about using virtual assistants like Apple's Siri to answer a quick question, and the notion of self-driving cars is becoming less absurd than originally thought. This is set to be the year that AI technology hits our offices and desks. This article will discuss how AI is looking to affect business in 2018. AI will not only disrupt business processes but will also help customers by providing them with a more personalized user experience; one that most marketers could have never thought possible.


Fractal Analytics Humanizes AI: Acquires Behavioral Architecture Firm Final Mile

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"While artificial intelligence is becoming an integral part of products and services we consume, AI needs to incorporate better understanding of human behavior to improve human-machine interface, simplify information consumption and drive lasting behavior change," said Srikanth Velamakanni, Group Chief Executive & Executive Vice-Chairman, Fractal Analytics. "With this acquisition, we are bringing data science and behavioral science together to drive better outcomes for our clients." Founded in 2008, Final Mile is a leader in the application of behavioral sciences to understand decision-making and influence consumer and social behavior. Final Mile has helped solve behavioral challenges in financial services, healthcare, consumer goods, e-commerce, and developmental and nonprofit sectors. An award-winning firm, Final Mile uses innovative research methods like games and simulations to truly understand the non-conscious reasons behind what people do and develop interventions to drive sustainable behavior change.


Transfer Your Font Style with GANs

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Left: Given movie poster, Right: New movie title generated by MC-GAN. Text is a prominent visual element of 2D design. Artists invest significant time into designing glyphs that are visually compatible with other elements in their shape and texture. This process is labor intensive and artists often design only the subset of glyphs that are necessary for a title or an annotation, which makes it difficult to alter the text after the design is created, or to transfer an observed instance of a font to your own project. Early research on glyph synthesis focused on geometric modeling of outlines, which is limited to particular glyph topology (e.g., cannot be applied to decorative or hand-written glyphs) and cannot be used with image input.


Spotify is testing in-app voice search

Engadget

The feature appears to work by asking the app to play an artist, album, song, genre or playlist. Hunter found it by pulling up Spotify's search screen. In the bottom right-hand corner, there was a microphone button. Hitting it brought up entirely new voice options. This venture makes sense, given Spotify's hardware ambitions.


Radio giant iHeartMedia files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, its apps and events play on

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

Jenna Dewan Tatum, Laverne Cox, Ashanti, Eve and Iggy Azelea discuss their fashion choices on the red carpet at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Pharrell Williams and Shay Haley of the band N.E.R.D. perform their song "Lemon" during the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards in Inglewood, Calif. The nation's largest radio station operator iHeartMedia has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to shed billions of debt it has been saddled with for more than a decade. The San Antonio-based company, which has more than 850 radio stations, says it will continue to keep operating after reaching an agreement with creditors for more than $10 billion of its $20 billion in debt. That means its popular iHeartRadio streaming radio app, which has 270 million monthly listeners, will continue to be found on smartphones, video game consoles and other devices.