To cut a long story short, the movie was shot in beautiful Amsterdam, which was portrayed as a place of imminent catastrophe with empty streets and no people around. I thought that Deep Angel would have been a prime candidate for such a movie allowing the movie crew to shoot the scenes with people wandering around, cars passing by and then just run the film through Deep Angel to remove those unnecessary artefacts "auto-magically". No permission necessary to close down or evacuate streets, buildings and whole areas in order to shoot a film.

Qu Jianguo, 64, had a futuristic medical visit in Shanghai as he put his wrist through an automated pulse-taking machine and received the result within two minutes on a mobile phone – without a doctor present. The small device, which has a half-open clasp that records the heartbeat, is one of the technologies developed by hi-tech firms aiming to help China offset its shortage of physicians by combining big data and artificial intelligence (AI). The machine made by Ping An Good Doctor was shown off at the 2018 World AI Expo in Shanghai at a time when Chinese policymakers are making a major push to turn the country into a global tech leader. "I came here to see how Chinese-style medical treatment could be done without a doctor. That would be really convenient," said Qu, a retired IT worker attending the expo.

The Winograd Schema (WS) challenge has been proposed as an alternative to the Turing Test as a test for machine intelligence. In this short paper we "situate" the WS challenge in the data-information-knowledge continuum, suggesting in the process what a good WS is. Furthermore, we suggest that the WS is a special case of a more general phenomenon in language understanding, namely the phenomenon of the "missing text". In particular, we will argue that what we usually call thinking in the process of language understanding almost always involves discovering the missing text - text is rarely explicitly stated but is implicitly assumed as shared background knowledge. We therefore suggest extending the WS challenge to include tests beyond those involving reference resolution, including examples that require discovering the missing text in situations that are usually treated in computational linguistics under different labels, such as metonymy, quantifier scope ambiguity, lexical disambiguation, and co-predication, to name a few.

For too long, online consumers have been pitched the same kinds of clothes, the same types of opinions and the same sort of songs and over again, thanks to a like, an ad click or a Google search. We've been living in topical bubbles where our interest data is too often used to maintain our sensibilities rather than expand them. The fake news phenomenon is one of the biggest ramifications of these bubbles, but algorithms don't just impact our political leanings, they also influence our purchase decisions and almost everything we do with tech. What's more, an internal conflict among consumers puts businesses in a precarious position. On the one hand, 53 percent say they are concerned by data-driven ad retargeting and widespread support for new privacy legislation in GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 makes it clear that people are wary of how marketers use their information.

Unraveling The Dream Within The Dream! Very few would need a hint to guess that the picture on the left is taken from the movie, Inception. The behavior of the spinning top helps in differentiating reality from illusion. It's a mesmerizing concept attempting to visually articulate the subconscious mind. Inception is a movie based on lucid dreaming. The science fiction shows how something that cannot be achieved in real world, can be achieved by transforming the world to a virtual reality and then after the goal is achieved, transform the world back to reality.

This is the weekend roundup of The WorldPost, of which Nathan Gardels is the editor in chief. In The WorldPost this week, we examine and evaluate two key developments of the digital age: the emergent geopolitics of artificial intelligence and Facebook's recent move toward "reputational scores" as a means to signal trustworthy information to users. For Lee, who is based in Beijing, the world of AI has become a "duopoly" in which China and America competitively drive each other's innovations forward while dominating the rest of the world. Lee argues that China's "scrappy" days of stealing intellectual property to get ahead are behind it. Rather, its rapid advance in AI today is due to the superior business model of its tech entrepreneurs.

Jefferson Graham visits an Amazon Go store in Seattle, where an app gains you entrance to the store, and there are no lines or cashiers to check you out./ Murphy Brown returned this week and she got herself a lesson on how to tweet. Yup, that's how out of it she's been. In case you missed it, the hit show that originally debuted in 1988 returned to CBS Thursday in a revival. Thirty years later, for Talking Tech readers, this seemed like a great opportunity for us to look back at three decades of how our lives have changed with technology.

The first novel by YouTube star Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, is about a young woman named April who becomes an internet celebrity after posting video of a mysterious alien robot. She quickly discovers that being famous has a lot of downsides--something Green and his friends have learned the hard way. "I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s--like the first time someone recognized me in public was probably when I was 29 years old," Green says in Episode 328 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "Whereas for a lot of my friends, this happened in their teens or early 20s, and it was sort of their first job, being a famous person, without any of the infrastructure of normal famous-person life, because this was all so new, and that was difficult." April soon draws the ire of Peter Petrawicki, a professional troll who accuses her of being in league with the alien invaders.

During a blockbuster press event last week, Amazon took the wraps off a redesigned Echo Show, Echo Plus, and Echo Spot, and nine other new other voice-activated accessories, peripherals, and smart speakers powered by Alexa. Also in tow: the Alexa Presentation Language, which lets developers build "multimodal" Alexa apps -- skills -- that combine voice, touch, text, images, graphics, audio, and video in a single interface. Developing the frameworks that underlie it was easier said than done, according to Amazon senior speech scientist Vishal Naik. In a blog post today, he explained how Alexa leverages multiple neural networks -- layered math functions that loosely mimic the human brain's physiology -- to resolve ambiguous requests. The work is also detailed in a paper ("Context Aware Conversational Understanding for Intelligent Agents with a Screen") that was presented earlier this year at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

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