Police in China arrested a man attending a concert thanks to facial recognition technology in security cameras. A man wanted by police was nabbed at a pop star's concert thanks to facial recognition technology -- which picked the alleged crook out of a crowd of 60,000 people. Chinese police said the suspect – only identified as Mr. Ao – was attending a concert by pop star Jacky Cheung in Nanchang last weekend when he was spotted by CCTV cameras. "The suspect looked completely caught by surprise when we took him away," police officer Li Jin told state news agency Xinhua. "He didn't think police would be able to catch him from a crowd of 60,000 so quickly."

Do You Trust This Computer? is not a particularly subtle watch. The documentary, from filmmaker Chris Paine, is dedicated to the dangers of artificial intelligence, and while it didn't make a splash in theaters, it was promoted enthusiastically by Elon Musk, who tweeted about the film and paid for it be streamed for free in early April. It starts by bombarding viewers with quotations and whizzy graphics of phones and brains. "We have a networked intelligence that watches us, knows everything about us," says one. "The change is coming and nobody can stop it," says another. It feels more like a trailer for a bad sci-fi movie than a documentary on AI.

We're all about being disruptive,

Artificial intelligence will solve Facebook's most vexing problems, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg insists. He just can't say when, or how. Zuckerberg referred to AI technology more than 30 times during ten hours of questioning from congressional lawmakers Tuesday and Wednesday, saying that it would one day be smart, sophisticated and eagle-eyed enough to fight against a vast variety of platform-spoiling misbehavior, including fake news, hate speech, discriminatory ads and terrorist propaganda. Over the next five to 10 years, he said, artificial intelligence would prove a champion for the world's largest social network in resolving its most pressing crises on a global scale -- while also helping the company dodge pesky questions about censorship, fairness and human moderation. "We started off in my dorm room with not a lot of resources and not having the AI technology to be able to proactively identify a lot of this stuff," Zuckerberg told the lawmakers, referring to Facebook's famous origin story.

Why should you care about AI? Inspirational topics about economic revolution, the singularity, consciousness, and fear.

I'm interested in Few-Shot-Learning, so this paper is really intriguing for me either. I think that I still don't get paper (I'm not familiar with Meta-Learning), but learning algorithm look completely different than in normal supervised learning. So for weight update they use test set (which could be also a part of train set, not sure of proper name, but it would be better if we call it train-test and second one train-train). Do you see the difference? Why they use such idea?

Machines are quickly bridging the creative gap between human and artificial intelligence. Last year we were amazed by Nvidia's AI's ability to generate realistic images of fake people, but yesterday a group of researchers unveiled one capable of making original videos of "The Flintstones" from text descriptions. "The Flintstones," for those who aren't familiar, was a popular US prime-time cartoon about a "modern stone-age family." Which makes it a bit ironic that the first new "scenes" the show has had in over 50 years were created by an artificial intelligence. Researchers working at The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and The University of Washington developed the AI, called Composition, Retrieval and Fusion Network (Craft).

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Researchers have created a tool that will make simulations more realistic. A team at the University of California Berkeley used deep reinforcement learning in order to let computer simulations mimic natural human movements. Their tool will allow video game characters to move and animated movie scenes to play out with the fluidity and rhythm of the real world. The recreations of natural movements will make simulations of animals and humans much less clumsy, a report on the new technology said. The feat will even improve scenes that include complex acrobatic feats, such martial arts and break dancing.

What happens next is unclear, but Bedoya said he hopes Congress can focus on a package of specific reforms, such as protections that forbid tracking individuals by location or facial recognition without their consent. Such measures should also strengthen the Federal Trade Communication, which has a 2011 consent decree against Facebook that remains one of the U.S. government's most powerful protections against future privacy abuses.