I'm a fan of Valiant Comics, but I'll admit the one series I've never gotten into is Rai. I just never quite got it. With the new 4001 A.D. event going on, I got a chance to read the return of Rai today and I was pleasantly surprised. Rai #13 gives you the feeling that you are at the beginning of a great science fiction epic. It opens establishing the world of New Japan as it floats over the Earth.

User contributions in the form of posts, comments, and votes are essential to the success of online communities. However, allowing user participation also invites undesirable behavior such as trolling. In this paper, we characterize antisocial behavior in three large online discussion communities by analyzing users who were banned from these communities. We find that such users tend to concentrate their efforts in a small number of threads, are more likely to post irrelevantly, and are more successful at garnering responses from other users. Studying the evolution of these users from the moment they join a community up to when they get banned, we find that not only do they write worse than other users over time, but they also become increasingly less tolerated by the community. Further, we discover that antisocial behavior is exacerbated when community feedback is overly harsh. Our analysis also reveals distinct groups of users with different levels of antisocial behavior that can change over time. We use these insights to identify antisocial users early on, a task of high practical importance to community maintainers.

While in Hollywood films hi-tech robots are portrayed as a threat, Chinese engineers might be able to change your mind. We take a closer look at the role artificial intelligence might play in the future RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Google http://plus.google.com/ RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of human race. The world is now rapidly moving towards achieving this finest technology breakthrough ever. It is expected that AI would enrich humans with more power and opportunities. Another group of people (including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk) believe that this might lead to human destruction (if not handled carefully). I think, it's too early for us to envisage such uncertain future.

Google Open Sourcing Parsey McParseface Could Change The Face Of AI Forever Google'Parsey McParseface' is a tool that developers can use to analyze English text but a more detailed explanation will tell you that with this tool, developers will be able to play around with the underlying technology powering Google's powerful natural language software so that apps, voice assistants and future robots can better comprehend what English-speaking users want. Google Parsey McParseface Is Built On A Powerful Machine Learning Algorithm Google has stated the following in its blog post marking the challenges that the company has faced so far: "One of the main problems that makes parsing so challenging is that human languages show remarkable levels of ambiguity.

When you think about exoskeletons you probably have a hard metal or plastic device strapped to a human. But there is a team at Harvard University which believes that the future of the exoskeletons lies in textiles and soft robotics. So they created a lightweight flexible suit that augments human performance. Let's imagine we can bring people back after brain death. We injected into such person substances that rebuild the brain.

Xuedong Huang, Microsoft's chief speech scientist, said he and his team were anxious to make faster improvements to how well computers can understand speech, and the tools they had to work with were slowing them down. So, a group of volunteers set out to solve this problem on their own, using a homegrown solution that stressed performance over all else.

But artificial intelligence isn't some far-off fantasy imagined by a science fiction film-maker or writers. It's here, and only going to get better. From Stanley Kubrick's HAL 9000 in his 1968 sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, to Samantha, the AI assistant that Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with in Spike Jonze's film Her, humanity has long dreamt of the day it can just talk to its computers. And some very bright people indeed are betting this will be the way we'll all interact with our computers very soon. We've all heard of Siri, of course – Apple's AI assistant, built right into the iPhone and iPad.

This list of hand-picked leaders was compiled by Wojtek Aleksander, from GetResponse.com. Other bigger lists (sometimes created by robots) can be found here and are usually based on your Klout score, which in my opinion is not accurate. The list below is truly original and I would even add, somewhat unexpected, as you won't find Bernard Marr, Kirk Borne and other well known gurus. Just in case you're wondering, @FILWD stands for Fell In Love With Data, which happens to be the name of Enrico Bertini's blog. While the Assistant Professor at NYU doesn't talk much on Twitter himself, he uses the platform very effectively to share news and insights about data visualizations and adds his highly-valued opinions.

The 1986 sci-fi action/horror film Aliens is one of the greatest sequels to ever grace the silver screen, if not one of the greatest movies ever made. The mix of stunning practical FX with amazing characters and outright thrilling segments has made it a must-see film for pretty much…everyone! But just because the movie is practically flawless doesn't mean it isn't ripe for parody every once in a while. And when it comes to poking fun at popular titles, there's few shows that do it better than Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken"! Remember in Aliens when Ripley and Hicks enter an elevator only to have a xenomorph try to catch a ride with them? Well, the below segment follows that moment only it sees the aftermath from the perspective of the alien, who finds out the hard way that its acid blood can make for a very long and painful fall!