Most of agents that learn policy for tasks with reinforcement learning (RL) lack the ability to communicate with people, which makes human-agent collaboration challenging. We believe that, in order for RL agents to comprehend utterances from human colleagues, RL agents must infer the mental states that people attribute to them because people sometimes infer an interlocutor's mental states and communicate on the basis of this mental inference. This paper proposes PublicSelf model, which is a model of a person who infers how the person's own behavior appears to their colleagues. We implemented the PublicSelf model for an RL agent in a simulated environment and examined the inference of the model by comparing it with people's judgment. The results showed that the agent's intention that people attributed to the agent's movement was correctly inferred by the model in scenes where people could find certain intentionality from the agent's behavior.

What's going on: The field that works on such systems is called "computational argumentation." This summer, a roomful of journalists watched a demonstration in which two human debaters argued with a talking computer, produced by IBM, that used AI-infused computational argumentation to deliver speeches and rebut its opponents' claims. Axios spoke with six researchers behind IBM's "Project Debater" to learn how it works, and to track the state of the art in language understanding. The context: AI researchers are prone to using games to measure their progress. In 2011, Watson beat a pair of humans at Jeopardy.

The physical entertainment market for music, videos and gaming suffered a brutal hit over the crucial Christmas period, dealing a sharp blow to retailers like GAME, according to data out Monday. Figures on the physical entertainment market from Kantar Worldpanel show that the sales of music, video and gaming in the three months to 18 December slipped 7.8 per cent. Music and video sales both witnessed double digit declines, with sales falling by 11 per cent and 12 per cent respectively, while gaming was down by 2.7 per cent. "The increasing popularity of digital entertainment products is making it ever more difficult for retailers to maintain the relevance and excitement of giving physical entertainment products as gifts, and it's not been an easy Christmas as a result," said Fiona Keenan, a director at Kantar. She said that over one million fewer shoppers purchased physical music or video as gifts in the quarter, equating to around £31M lost.

RapidMiner Auto Model is the first application for the RapidMiner AI Cloud and is currently available in beta. RapidMiner Auto Model uses automated machine learning and best practices to build predictive models in 4 clicks. Unlike other automated machine learning products, Auto Model does not generate black box predictive models that cannot be easily explained. With Auto Model, both the model itself and how the model was created are detailed step-by-step and narrated visually. "We're thrilled to announce Auto Model on the RapidMiner AI Cloud," said Lars Bauerle, chief product officer at RapidMiner.

Anyone can make predictions about what the future holds. Last year we produced our third annual Social trends report. This labor of love (and research--a lot of research) took a look at five big trends we predicted would take off in 2018, and what these meant for businesses around the globe. As we start looking towards 2019, we thought it would be a great time to check-in on how our predictions from last year panned out. Bonus: Get the step-by-step social media strategy guide with pro tips on how to grow your social media presence. As we looked towards 2018, our research indicated a sharp focus on social ROI.

The four bronze lions that surround Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square are pretty passive-looking creatures. They sit on all fours and gaze blankly ahead, more sphinx than lion. Legend has it that their sculptor originally planned for the animals to be posed in more active stances, stood up on their hind legs and roaring at the square. But Queen Victoria reportedly vetoed the decision as too shocking. Now, 151 years after they were originally unveiled, the lions have a new colleague, and he is definitely turning heads.

Here are 21 commands that even seasoned Echo users may not know. Many of them are useful, some are fun, and others give the illusion that Alexa is as cognizant as we are. Alexa is no longer "new." The smart-tech revolution is now in full swing, and Amazon Echo is at the heart of it. According to Edison Research, nearly 40 million people own voice-activated speakers, which is about one in six U.S. adults.

We present Piano Genie, an intelligent controller which allows non-musicians to improvise on the piano. With Piano Genie, a user performs on a simple interface with eight buttons, and their performance is decoded into the space of plausible piano music in real time. To learn a suitable mapping procedure for this problem, we train recurrent neural network autoencoders with discrete bottlenecks: an encoder learns an appropriate sequence of buttons corresponding to a piano piece, and a decoder learns to map this sequence back to the original piece. During performance, we substitute a user's input for the encoder output, and play the decoder's prediction each time the user presses a button. To improve the interpretability of Piano Genie's performance mechanics, we impose musically-salient constraints over the encoder's outputs.

Yes, I've read the "Comma Sutra," but I only bend one way, so please don't ask. Quotation Mark My last girlfriend "dumped" me because she said I didn't "know" myself well enough to "get" what to do with myself, let "alone" a "girlfriend." Plus, she said it was "annoying" how I kept "coming up" with "sayings" that I thought were "deep." Other things to know about me: I don't "believe" in love. Also, "Love is a sentence.

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