Federal lawmakers want to have a say in defining artificial intelligence. Researchers are now using TV shows to feed the predictive capability of an AI system. Google said in recent days it's opening an AI-focused research facility in China. And on and on the headlines keep coming, all of which is to say that interest in AI remains acute -- and its presence pervasive -- as 2017 draws to a close. And, based on a few recent developments, 2018 should be another big year of AI-related leaps forward as machines expand their influence over the minutiae of our lives.

Daren Banarsë agrees on the benefits of collaboration. "I always find it daunting when I have to start a large-scale composition. Maybe I could give the computer a few parameters: the number of players, the mood, even the names of some of my favorite composers, and it could generate a basic structure for me," he says. "I wouldn't expect it to work out of the box, but it would be a starting point. Or it could output a selection of melodic ideas or chord progressions for me to look through. And somewhere in there, there's going to be a computer glitch or random quirk, which could take me in a completely unexpected direction."

Like Sophia, who has been constructed using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, which has become one of the industry's most followed technology of the season, is being studied by many scientists and researchers to connect the distinctions between machines and humans.

The days of worrying about artificial intelligence destroying the world are over. People are now starting to see AI for what it is, a useful form of computer technology that can supplement human tasks and abilities. People are also starting to see that using AI as a catchall term is misleading.

To the editor: News about the environment has been so sad lately. On the front page of Friday's Los Angeles Times, you had a story about park rangers being killed by elephant poachers in Congo, and on the Opinion page you had an article about Congress opening up the Arctic National Wildlife …

Currently enjoying both big hype and serious investment, foundational artificial intelligence (AI) represents the potential for both security benefits and network threats.

In his belief that artificial intelligence can augment education, as well as a variety of other endeavors, Barry said he was proud to host the first ever robot college student. "It was so cool to be the world's first teacher of artificial intelligence in a college course," he said.

As the digital horse race for the Next Big Thing in blockchain heats up, more and more companies are getting on the bandwagon to launch their revolutionary concepts and ICOs.

Kim 2014 and Collobert 2011 argue that max-over-time pooling helps getting the words from a sentence that are most important to the semantics. Then I read a blog post from the Googler Lakshmanan V on text classification. The author argues that spatial invariance isn't wanted because it's important where words are placed in a sentence. Thus he doesn't recommend maxpool. Are there empirical studies that compares the two approaches?

Was this the legal sector's "Kodak moment"? The event that signalled the beginning of the end: "The people of Darwin can just about take the law into their own hands, with a new legal firm going lawyer-free," ABC News reported recently. "With a few clicks of a button, a client can enter their details and will then be asked a few simple questions by Ailira, before the robot generates a fully certified will, using the Ailira system." Right now, Australia has only a handful of businesses that have successfully integrated artificial intelligence into their day-to-day operations. But each month we are witnessing advancements and seeing early adopters reap the benefits.