Abstract--How can we enable users to heavily specify criteria for database queries in a user-friendly way? This paper describes a general framework of a conversational bot that extracts meaningful information from user's sentences, that asks subsequent questions to complete missing information, and that adjusts its questions and information-extraction parameters for later conversations depending on users' behavior. Additionally, we provide a comparison of existing tools and give novel techniques to implement such framework. Finally, we exemplify the framework with a bot to query movies in a database, whose code is available for Microsoft employees. Consider the problem of recommending movies to users: it is a longstanding problem in data science that has implied a variety of techniques [1][2], ranging from Conditional Random Fields (for language understanding) to Collaborative Filtering techniques (for recommendation based on users' feedback on watched movies).

HIROSHIMA--Students here are recreating the lives of people devastated by the atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, by vividly colorizing photos taken before the city was leveled by the nuclear attack. Students from Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School combine artificial intelligence technology and interviews with atomic bomb survivors to produce realistic coloring of black-and-white photos provided by hibakusha. Monochrome pictures snapped before and during World War II are automatically colorized with artificial intelligence. The processed photos are shown to hibakusha so colors can be manually adjusted based on their accounts. Converting one black-and-white photo into color takes from one week to several months, and 140 pictures have been colorized since November.

A fully functioning Apple-1 being auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction in September is one of only 60 or so remaining of the original 200 that were designed and built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 and 1977.

Abstract: We propose an $O(N\cdot M)$ sorting algorithm by Machine Learning method, which shows a huge potential sorting big data. This sorting algorithm can be applied to parallel sorting and is suitable for GPU or TPU acceleration. Furthermore, we discuss the application of this algorithm to sparse hash table.

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Predictive analytics in marketing, as I mentioned in my last post, is here. Already, this all-encompassing disruption in the fundamentals of marketing and sales is changing how marketing specialists and bloggers are talking about their industry. Machines can predict what you want, when you will want it. Pretty intense stuff, right?! Suddenly the larger than life 3D pink hologram woman from Blade Runner 2049 that bends down to talk specifically to you doesn't seem so far fetched, huh? If you've missed the movie, Blade Runner 2049, go see it, it's good, (although I'm still most partial to the 1982 original Blade Runner).

MIT CSAIL's origami robot is packaged in an ingestible ice pill. In 2013, University of Sheffield roboticist Dana Damian was doing postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School affiliate Boston Children's Hospital when she learned of a procedure called the Foker technique. The surgery, performed on children with a rare congenital lung defect, calls for doctors to attach sutures to part of an infant's esophagus, then tie them off on the baby's back. Over time, the sutures lengthen the esophagus by pulling on it, stimulating tissue growth. Although the technique can be effective, the risk of infection and complication is high, and the baby must remain under sedation for weeks.

The new film Sorry to Bother You has been widely praised by critics, but writer Evan Narcisse is frustrated that it's not getting the credit it deserves as a visionary work of science fiction. "The headline of my review on io9 was'Sorry to Bother You Is the Most Surreal, Important SciFi Movie in Years,'" Narcisse says in Episode 323 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "And I actually believe that. I believed it when I wrote it in March, I believe it now, and I believe it's going to be that way for years to come." Geek's Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley agrees that Sorry to Bother You derives much of its power from its wild science fiction imagery, a point that the film's director, Boots Riley, has made in interviews.

As movies become more CGI-focused, filmmakers have to be increasingly adept at "compositing" - the process of merging foreground and background images, like placing actors on top of planes, or planets, or into fictional worlds like Black Panther's Wakanda. Making these images look realistic isn't easy. Editors have to capture the subtle aesthetic transitions between foreground and background, which can be especially difficult for intricate materials like human hair that people are used to seeing look a certain way. "The tricky thing about these images is that not every pixel solely belongs to one object," says Yagiz Aksoy, a visiting researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). "In many cases it can be hard to determine which pixels are part of the background and which are part of a specific person." Getting these details right is tedious, time-consuming and difficult for anyone but the most seasoned of editors.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is infusing with MESH technologies to breathe new life into the already multi-billion dollar Internet of Things (IoT) market. IoT has been one of the more prominent buzzwords in technology over the past several years, but it has been taken to new heights through AI and MESH technology, allowing interconnected devices to operate at a higher rate of efficiency and thus open the door to more consumers and businesses to leverage IoT platforms in their everyday lives. According to GrowthEnabler and Market & Markets Analysis, the IoT industry will experience a CAGR of 28.5% through 2020 on its way to nearly $460 billion in revenues. The biggest factor influencing growth will be increased adoption as it becomes increasingly apparent just how much it can transform everyday tasks and overall lifestyles Active tech companies in the markets this week include Gopher Protocol Inc. (OTC:GOPH), Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLK), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), Aptiv PLC (NYSE:APTV), International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM). Gopher Protocol Inc. (OTCQB:GOPH) BREAKING NEWS: Gopher Protocol, a company specializing in the creation of Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence enabled mobile technologies, is pleased to announce that it has assembled its MESH system hardware and communication product specifications as part of phase 2; MESH implementation phase.