To the editor: News about the environment has been so sad lately. On the front page of Friday's Los Angeles Times, you had a story about park rangers being killed by elephant poachers in Congo, and on the Opinion page you had an article about Congress opening up the Arctic National Wildlife …

Currently enjoying both big hype and serious investment, foundational artificial intelligence (AI) represents the potential for both security benefits and network threats.

In his belief that artificial intelligence can augment education, as well as a variety of other endeavors, Barry said he was proud to host the first ever robot college student. "It was so cool to be the world's first teacher of artificial intelligence in a college course," he said.

As the digital horse race for the Next Big Thing in blockchain heats up, more and more companies are getting on the bandwagon to launch their revolutionary concepts and ICOs.

Kim 2014 and Collobert 2011 argue that max-over-time pooling helps getting the words from a sentence that are most important to the semantics. Then I read a blog post from the Googler Lakshmanan V on text classification. The author argues that spatial invariance isn't wanted because it's important where words are placed in a sentence. Thus he doesn't recommend maxpool. Are there empirical studies that compares the two approaches?

Was this the legal sector's "Kodak moment"? The event that signalled the beginning of the end: "The people of Darwin can just about take the law into their own hands, with a new legal firm going lawyer-free," ABC News reported recently. "With a few clicks of a button, a client can enter their details and will then be asked a few simple questions by Ailira, before the robot generates a fully certified will, using the Ailira system." Right now, Australia has only a handful of businesses that have successfully integrated artificial intelligence into their day-to-day operations. But each month we are witnessing advancements and seeing early adopters reap the benefits.

Dutch carrier KLM, already an airline industry leader in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to field customer service inquiries through social media channels, can now deal with many social media interactions without a live agent.

X Prize and IBM Watson will award a prize of $5 million for the most "powerful collaboration between human and artificial intelligence" in 2020. The TED audience will choose the winner, after three finalist AIs, or AI-human partnerships, will have delivered a TED Talk about their work.

Miniature robots stage a group dance at a smart manufacturing conference in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province on December 7. Photo: VCG. Some insiders claim that bubbles are already growing in China's artificial intelligence (AI) sector, following the rapid expansion of the industry.

There's no question that Blade Runner 2049 revolves around computer-generated effects, whether it's the retro-futuristic technology or its holographic AI personas. However, the CG is more pervasive than you might think. Rodeo FX has released a visual effects reel for Denis Villeneuve's bleak sci-fi movie, and it's evident that even the seemingly mundane shots were draped in digital artwork. Caution: there are mild spoilers ahead. It's not shocking that some scenes are entirely CG (such as flights over the future Los Angeles), or have to use it to fill in landscapes that don't exist. However, it's the extent to which it's used.