A multiple-exposure portrait of Chinese contemporary artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei, made on film in Beverly Hills, on the occasion of his new documentary, "Human Flow." A multiple-exposure portrait of Chinese contemporary artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei, made on film in Beverly Hills, on the occasion of his new documentary, "Human Flow." (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) Ai Weiwei is nothing if not prolific. He spent the better part of 2016 traveling around the globe visiting refugee camps for his new documentary feature film, "Human Flow," debuting in theaters this month. He's made so much art that he currently has work in 12 museum and gallery exhibitions around the world -- eight of them solo shows. In New York, the contemporary artist and social justice activist is installing some 300 works across the city's five boroughs for the Public Art Fund exhibition "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors," opening Oct. 12.

We invite all researchers to submit their manuscripts for review. Please address questions to: hrlnips2017@gmail.com Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a powerful tool for tackling complex sequential decision-making problems as demonstrated in high-dimensional robotics or game-playing domains. Nevertheless, modern RL methods have considerable difficulties when facing sparse rewards, long planning horizons, and more generally a scarcity of useful supervision signals. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) is emerging as a key component for finding spatio-temporal abstractions and behavioral patterns that can guide the discovery of useful large-scale control architectures, both for deep-network representations and for analytic and optimal-control methods.

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Melbourne was the final stop on this year's Salesforce Basecamp tour, and the final keynote of the event was given by Shaun Paga from Soul Machines, a New Zealand company specialising in building what they call "Artificial Humans". These are digital avatars with very detailed faces that respond to the emotional cues of the person they're talking to. Soul Machines was founded by Dr. Mark Sagar, who started out modelling body parts for medicine, then went into CGI, and has earned himself two Academy Awards for his work on Avatar and King Kong. After leaving the movie industry, Sagar set himself the task of building Artificial Humans, with the aim of radically advancing the interface between humans and computers. We've known for years that babies faces and behaviours have evolved to maximise valuable interactions with adults.

I was asking in the context of the aftermath of the 2016 election and the misinformation that companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google were found to have spread. Pichai, I found out later, had a rough idea that something was going wrong with one of his algorithms as we were speaking. So his answer, I think it's fair to say, also serves as a response to the widespread criticisms the company faced in the days after the shooting. "I view it as a big responsibility to get it right," he says. "I think we'll be able to do these things better over time. But I think the answer to your question, the short answer and the only answer, is we feel huge responsibility."

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It's such a simple question Rachael (Sean Young) asks Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) in Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner: "Have you ever retired a human by mistake?" They've just met in Eldon Tyrell's opulent offices, and Deckard, a replicant bounty hunter, has come to interview Rachael as a means of testing the LAPD's replicant-detecting Voight-Kampff device. Deckard's equally simple response-- "no"--comes without hesitation; he nonchalantly shrugs it off as though he's never bothered questioning the supposed difference between humans and the androids he's contracted to kill. The entire exchange takes about five seconds, yet it encapsulates everything that has fueled the public's decades-long love affair with Blade Runner's existential dread: What are humans? What myths do they take for granted? What have they been missing?