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Airline and Airport CIOs Embrace Artificial Intelligence

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Las Vegas, Sept. 6, 2017 – Airlines and airports are embracing new technologies and turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to support their customer …



Europe's biggest tech show finally delivered

Engadget

As we wind down after trawling IFA's labyrinthine halls, covering everything from phones to washing machines, wearables to haunted pianos, we wanted to point out the most notable things to come out of Europe's biggest tech show -- and it was quite the show this year. If you don't read anything else, read this. And if you do want even more, you can find everything else right here. When Microsoft began talking about its Mixed Reality program earlier this year, the whole thing left me pretty cold. The company claimed that it could slash the cost of a VR headset almost in half, and that the kit would even work with PCs that used only integrated graphics.


Whether it's for restaurants or Trump, bots have gotten pretty good at shilling

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For all the huge potential of artificial intelligence, bots still have a long way to go to pass as human. You don't know whether I'm a dog or not, but you can at least be reasonably confident that I'm not a bot. But then I'm writing articles of between 300 and 3,000 words: there's plenty of room to slip up – especially if you've been trained through machine learning, rather than speaking, reading and writing in English for more than 30 years. In the realm of short-form social media and comments sections, where grammar and syntax are both more fluid and less closely scrutinised, it's far easier for bots to blend in, as a study from the University of Chicago found out last week. The bot they'd trained to review restaurants was astroturfing with the best of them. "My family and I are huge fans of this place," the bot gourmet wrote in one sneaky review on Yelp.


Popular YouTube artist uses AI to record new album

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Amper is one of several AI music services Southern is working with on the album, which will debut later this year. Southern has only basic piano skills, so she turned to the program to deliver the instrumental part of the song. "In a funny way, I have a new song-writing partner who doesn't get tired and has this endless knowledge of music making," Southern told CNN Tech. Southern still worked with a producer on her vocals, but the rest of the song relied on Amper's software.


Can Computer Models Turn the Tide Against Flood Damage?

National Geographic

The rise in average sea level is predicted to double by 2100, putting hundreds of cities and millions of people at ever greater risk from the devastating effects of flooding. In 2016, flood damage in the Paris region cost an estimated €1 billion, so for this and many other cities, finding new and better ways to protect the property, infrastructure, and lives of their citizens is a race against time. Supported by the AXA Research Fund, Dr. Vazken Andréassian is working to improve the forecasting of floods in order to build more resilient cities. His research is using a wide range of data to better calibrate flood models to more accurately simulate the impact a flood wave will have on a city. This provides the basis of an early warning system for when and where flooding will happen, providing people with the most valuable defence against flood damage – time to act.


Reality Check: Robots Are Here to Automate Your Job, or not

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Do you hear the clunking sounds? Those are robots marching to take your job and put you on the brink of grim unemployment survival. Before you start frantically examining your job description, let's figure out what's going on. Even if you are the one who bothers to read the copy that follows the headlines, succumbing to alarmist stories is not hard to do, even for Huffington Post readers. Reporters often fail to explain exactly what stands behind the numbers. The most quoted study that estimates jobs susceptible to automation is the work by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne (so-called FO) The Future of Employment published in 2013 by Oxford University. This scientific research conducted four years ago still serves as the foundation of many predictions to render them more academically credible. And yes, it's them who estimated 47 percent.