I see two main points of interest personally. The first is adversarial examples. There have been adversarially robust generative models developed, but it seems to me that there is more to be understood here. Obviously the'adversarial examples are features, not bugs' paper lays out a convincing argument around the theoretical meaning of the problem, but... is there some overarching pattern that can help distinguish useful features from brittle features? The main area I'm personally interested in though (nowhere near knowledgable enough to be caught up with current research, but it's what I'm working towards at the moment) is unsupervised model based reinforcement learning.

--Regulatory compliance is an organization's adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to its business. Compliance officers responsible for maintaining adherence constantly struggle to keep up with the large amount of changes in regulatory requirements. Keeping up with the changes entail two main tasks: fetching the regulatory announcements that actually contain changes of interest, and incorporating those changes in the business process. In this paper we focus on the first task, and present a Compliance Change Tracking System, that gathers regulatory announcements from government sites, news sites, email subscriptions; classifies their importance i.e Actionability through a hierarchical classifier, and business process applicability through a multi-class classifier . Na ıve Bayes, logistic regression etc.), hierarchical classification method, rule based approach, hybrid approach with various preprocessing and feature selection methods; and show that despite the richness of other models, a simple hierarchical classification with bag-of-words features works the best for Actionability classifier and multi-class logistic regression works the best for Applicability classifier . The system has been deployed in global delivery centers, and has received positive feedback from payroll compliance officers. Organizations are faced with rapidly changing regulatory policies, and ever-growing number of regulations.

Will producers be replaced by artificial intelligence? Dame and Pain also debate the existence of industry plants in the music industry and how conspiracy theories in the music business hurt artists.

Artificial intelligence has promised to revolutionize our lives, taking over the mundane tasks of daily existence, from prewriting "smart" email replies to driving our car through rush hour traffic. In the PR realm, AI has been touted as equal parts something to celebrate (no more manual coverage reports!) and fear (er, so long, means of employment). But the truth, as usual, lies somewhere in between. Some form of intelligent technology is already embedded in the PR industry, from the tools we use to find new audiences and monitor evolving conversations to modern media placement. Bloomberg News uses AI to generate coverage on some 3,500 earnings reports every quarter.

Here's the good news about artificial intelligence: the Terminator vision of the future, where smart machines turn on humanity, is unlikely. But here's the bad news: we could be heading for disaster anyway thanks to this revolutionary technology. That, at least, is the conclusion of the filmmakers behind Machine, who spent the past year researching the state of play in AI in the hope their documentary might provoke some serious thinking on the subject before it's too late. The documentary Machine ponders the ethical questions posed by the rise of artificial intelligence, including the nature of interactions between humans and sexbots.Credit:Finch "There's a lot of decisions we're making right now that will have ripple effects for decades to come," says Justin Krook, the director of the film. "In the whole history of humanity we've never had so much power at our disposal, and we only have one chance to get these decisions right. "People are worried about the robot apocalypse but that's not exactly the biggest threat we're facing here.

We propose a multi-task deep-learning approach for estimating the check-worthiness of claims in political debates. Given a political debate, such as the 2016 US Presidential and Vice-Presidential ones, the task is to predict which statements in the debate should be prioritized for fact-checking. While different fact-checking organizations would naturally make different choices when analyzing the same debate, we show that it pays to learn from multiple sources simultaneously (PolitiFact, FactCheck, ABC, CNN, NPR, NYT, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and Washington Post) in a multi-task learning setup, even when a particular source is chosen as a target to imitate. Our evaluation shows state-of-the-art results on a standard dataset for the task of check-worthiness prediction.

Abstract--Mining causality from text is a complex and crucial natural language understanding task. Most of the early attempts at its solution can group into two categories: 1) utilizing co-occurrence frequency and world knowledge for causality detection; 2) extracting cause-effect pairs by using connectives and syntax patterns directly. However, because causality has various linguistic expressions, the noisy data and ignoring implicit expressions problems induced by these methods cannot be avoided. In this paper, we present a neural causality detection model, namely Multilevel Causality Detection Network (MCDN), to address this problem. Specifically, we adopt multi-head self-attention to acquire semantic feature at word level and integrate a novel Relation Network to infer causality at segment level. To the best of our knowledge, in touch with the causality tasks, this is the first time that the Relation Network is applied. The experimental results on the AltLex dataset, demonstrate that: a) MCDN is highly effective for the ambiguous and implicit causality inference; b) comparing with the regular text classification task, causality detection requires stronger inference capability; c) the proposed approach achieved state-of- the-art performance. I. Introduction Automatic text causality mining is a critical but difficult task because causality is thought to play an essential role in human cognition when making decisions [1]. Thus, automatic text causality has been studied extensively in a wide range of areas, such as industry [2], physics [3] and healthcare [4], etc. A tool to automatically scour the plethora of textual content on the web and extract meaningful causal relations could help us construct causal chains to unveil previously unknown relationships between events [5] and accelerates the discovery of the intrinsic logic of the events [6]. Many research efforts have been made to mine causality from text corpus with complex sentence structures in the books or newspapers. In Causal-TimeBank [7] authors introduced "CLINK" and "C-SIGNAL" tag to mark events causal relation and causal signals respectively based on specific templates (e.g., "A happened because of B").

YY, ZZZZ 1 Music Transcription Based on Bayesian Piece-Specific Score Models Capturing Repetitions Eita Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Y oshii, Member, IEEE Abstract --Most work on models for music transcription has focused on describing local sequential dependence of notes in musical scores and failed to capture their global repetitive structure, which can be a useful guide for transcribing music. Focusing on the rhythm, we formulate several classes of Bayesian Markov models of musical scores that describe repetitions indirectly by sparse transition probabilities of notes or note patterns. This enables us to construct piece-specific models for unseen scores with unfixed repetitive structure and to derive tractable inference algorithms. Moreover, to describe approximate repetitions, we explicitly incorporate a process of modifying the repeated notes/note patterns. We apply these models as a prior music language model for rhythm transcription, where piece-specific score models are inferred from performed MIDI data by unsupervised learning, in contrast to the conventional supervised construction of score models. Evaluations using vocal melodies of popular music showed that the Bayesian models improved the transcription accuracy for most of the tested model types, indicating the universal efficacy of the proposed approach. I NTRODUCTION Music transcription is an actively studied but yet unsolved problem in music information processing [1], [2]. One of the goals of music transcription is to convert a music performance signal into a human-readable symbolic musical score. While recent studies have achieved highly accurate pitch detection [3]-[7], it is also necessary to transcribe rhythms in order to obtain symbolic music representation [8]-[18]. Since there are many logically possible representations of rhythms (including meaningless one for humans) for a given performance [11], using a score model that describes prior knowledge about musical scores is a key to solve this problem. A common approach for music transcription is to integrate a musical score (language) model and a performance/acoustic model to obtain a proper transcription that best fits an input performance signal, similarly to the method of statistical speech recognition. More recently, end-to-end approaches have also been attempted [19]-[21], which have been of limited success so far. Manuscript received XX, YY; revised XX, YY . This work was supported partially by JSPS KAKENHI (Nos. The work of EN was supported by the JSPS research fellowship (PD).

Existing conversational systems tend to generate generic responses. Recently, Background Based Conversations (BBCs) have been introduced to address this issue. Here, the generated responses are grounded in some background information. The proposed methods for BBCs are able to generate more informative responses, they either cannot generate natural responses or have difficulty in locating the right background information. In this paper, we propose a Reference-aware Network (RefNet) to address the two issues. Unlike existing methods that generate responses token by token, RefNet incorporates a novel reference decoder that provides an alternative way to learn to directly cite a semantic unit (e.g., a span containing complete semantic information) from the background. Experimental results show that RefNet significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both automatic and human evaluations, indicating that RefNet can generate more appropriate and human-like responses.

Some government leaders are turning to artificial intelligence to alleviate the burden.