Thursday, Thomson Reuters launched Westlaw Edge, an updated, artificial intelligence-assisted legal research platform. The updates include new warnings for invalid or questionable law, litigation analytics, a tool to analyze statutory changes and an improved AI-enhanced search called WestSearch Plus. Wednesday, Thomson Reuters hosted a group of journalists at its Times Square office to demo and illustrate the new version of Westlaw. "We're swinging for the fences, we're going after harder problems," said Mike Dahn, senior vice president of Westlaw product management. Company representatives would not disclose the cost of the new offering.

Netflix standardizing on a proven cloud platform and collaborating with Amazon Web Services development teams on machine-learning security initiatives and many others is proving to be a powerful catalyst fueling the subscription services' global growth. Netflix's exponential growth this year is attributable in part to the cloud platform decisions made years ago that enable their subscription-based business model to scale globally securely. Last year at Amazon's AWS re:Invent 2017 Conference, Greg Peters, Chief Product Officer of Netflix provided insights into how closely Netflix and AWS work together to create innovative new services based on AWS' advances in machine learning-powered security, developer apps, and scalability. It's an insightful session into how Netflix is relying on Amazon to do the heavy lifting of infrastructure development and can be viewed here, AWS re:Invent 2017 - Fireside Chat: Steve Schmidt, Jenny Brinkley, and Greg Peters of Netflix. AWS and Netflix development teams are using machine learning-powered security to analyze data access patterns and look for anomalous account activity.

Hewes Pictures has announced the theatrical and digital release of the anthology film A.I Tales. Check out a few trailers for it and some images below. A.I Tales is a collection of short sci-fi stories from short film distributor Hewes Pictures is being released theatrically by Freedom Cinema, a jumpstart anthology film label. The film is made up of futuristic, high concept stories about artificial intelligence. Whether it's love found in time of over-population or exploration of the unknown and space-travel, "A.I. Tales has a bit of something for every fan of the genre. Altogether, these stories provide a one-of-a-kind experience and a unique view of the near future."

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Season 5 of Fortnite has officially begun, and with it comes a brand new Battle Pass. The Battle Pass is Fortnite: Battle Royale's most ingenious innovation. For 950 V-Bucks, or just about $10 USD, you buy into the paid version of the game for one season. Seasons last 10 weeks and come with weekly challenges, 100 cosmetic rewards and lots more. So now that the Season 5 Battle Pass has gone live, let's take a look at what's in it.

MGM wants to revive the franchise with the appropriately-titled RoboCop Returns, which will apparently directly follow the 1987 original film -- and ignore the 2014 reboot. Returns will be based on an old spec script that the first film's writers Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner wrote shortly after the original's release. Due to the 1988 writer's strike, that screenplay wasn't used and the studio brought in a young Frank Miller of comics fame to craft a new one. But the delay also means the next RoboCop will be directed by someone who grew up with the original. "What I connected to as a kid has evolved over time," Blomkamp told Deadline. "At first, the consumerism, materialism and Reaganomics, that '80s theme of America on steroids, came through most strongly.

My friends, I've had this dream for more than a decade now--a dream which I've invited you all to share with me. In six months we begin construction of Delta City, where Old Hollywood now stands. Old Hollywood has a cancer. The cancer is unfamiliar intellectual property. At MGM, we believe James Bond movies are only part of the solution.

The fear of the unknown is a basic human feeling, shared by most people. The fear mechanism is one of the most developed devices throughout our evolution. It's there to protect us from evildoers, from predators, from everything that strays from the ordinary, the routine, the repetitive. When asked about artificial intelligence's place in our lives, it usually activates the same sensors in people, eliciting the same response. It's the robots we read about in books, that we see in films.

Scarcity of labeled data is one of the most frequent problems faced in machine learning. This is particularly true in relation extraction in text mining, where large corpora of texts exists in many application domains, while labeling of text data requires an expert to invest much time to read the documents. Overall, state-of-the art models, like the convolutional neural network used in this paper, achieve great results when trained on large enough amounts of labeled data. However, from a practical point of view the question arises whether this is the most efficient approach when one takes the manual effort of the expert into account. In this paper, we report on an alternative approach where we first construct a relation extraction model using distant supervision, and only later make use of a domain expert to refine the results. Distant supervision provides a mean of labeling data given known relations in a knowledge base, but it suffers from noisy labeling. We introduce an active learning based extension, that allows our neural network to incorporate expert feedback and report on first results on a complex data set.

MGM is developing the sequel "RoboCop Returns" with "District 9" and "Elysium" filmmaker Neill Blomkamp to direct. The film will be a sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1987 original about a cyborg police officer in a crime-ridden Detroit. It's to be based on a never-made spec script by the 1987 film's writers, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.