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Arghon AI Gets Personal

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To get everyone familiar with Arghon's many amazing features, we have decided to highlight one feature of our artificial intelligence each month. The feature for this month is Arghon Personalization: our AI's unique ability to learn and change for each individual user. Our AI learns a user's needs and adapts accordingly, proof of its superior standing in the AI market today. Arghon's ability to personalize to each user is arguably one of its best features.The more the AI gets familiar with a user's preferences, the more uniquely tailored it becomes. Each Arghon is different from any other AI in existence.


Q&A: How to fix problems with Wi-Fi

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

Too many laptops, tablets and other mobile devices leads to congested WiFi airwaves. Q: I have horrible Wi-Fi in rooms of my house. A: A wireless network repeater is a great way to extend coverage, but it has to be placed in the right spot. Most routers spread signals in a circle. The closer you are to the router, the stronger the signal. As the circle spreads out, there is a sweet spot to put the repeater.


Music Discovery at Pandora

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Finding the music of the moment can often be a challenging problem, even for humans with well-versed musical tastes. These challenges further explode into a myriad of complexities when attempting to construct algorithmic approaches for automatic playlist generation. A variety of factors play a role in influencing a listener's perception of what music is appropriate on a given seed (e.g. Erik Schmidt, Senior Scientist at Pandora will be presenting at the Machine Intelligence Summit in San Francisco, 23-24 March. Erik will present an overview of recommendations at Pandora, followed by a deep dive into the challenges of recommending content.


Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk Endorse 23 Principles for Safe AI Development

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Artificial intelligence is an amazing technology that's changing the world in fantastic ways, but anybody who has ever seen the movie Terminator knows that there are some dangers associated with advanced AI. That's why Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and hundreds of other researchers, tech leaders, and scientists have endorsed a list of 23 guiding principles that should steer AI development in a productive, ethical, and safe direction. The Alisomar AI Principles were developed after the Future of Life Institute brought dozens of experts together for their Beneficial AI 2017 conference. The experts, whose ranks consisted of roboticists, physicists, economists, philosophers, and more, had fierce debates about AI safety, economic impact on human workers, and programming ethics, to name a few. In order to make the final list, 90 percent of the experts had to agree on its inclusion.


Friday's TV Highlights: The CW's 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' on KTLA

Los Angeles Times

Grimm After lying dormant for seven years, a new form of Wesen with a ferocious appetite emerges. Last Man Standing Eve (Kaitlyn Dever) surprises Mike and Vanessa (Tim Allen, Nancy Travis) with her decision about which college she wants to attend in this new episode of the family comedy. Rosewood The investigation of a suspicious death in an empty high-rise draws Rosie and Villa (Morris Chestnut, Jaina Lee Ortiz) into the inner circle of a former child star who wants to make a comeback. Ginormous Food Host Josh Denny visits Nashville, where he finds a 17-pound chicken gyro sandwich. Dr. Ken Ken (Ken Jeong) allows his wife (Suzy Nakamura) to think he wrote a love poem for her, but it was actually written by Dave (Albert Tsai) for his girlfriend (guest star Zooey Jeong, Ken's real-life daughter).


Martian melodrama 'The Space Between Us' crashes to Earth

Los Angeles Times

There are movies about the wonders of space travel -- a short list would include "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Solaris" and "Interstellar" -- that seek to test the audience's perceptual limits, altering our sense of time and place so as to usher us into the vast frontier of the unknown. And then there are movies like "The Space Between Us" -- though happily, not too many -- which take the vast frontier of the unknown and whittle it down to something obvious, familiar and dispiritingly pocket-sized. I suppose it could be worse. The soundtrack, for all its loud surges of pop dreck, at least has the decency to omit a certain Dave Matthews Band song -- the one that goes "The space between / the tears we cry is the laughter keeps us coming back for more," which more or less sums up this movie's idea of a tonal strategy. You may very well laugh and cry during "The Space Between Us," though probably at the wrong times and for entirely unintended reasons.


"Artificial Intelligence" was the Fake News of 2016

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"Fake News" vexed the media classes greatly in 2016, but the tech world perfected the art long ago. With "the internet" no longer a credible vehicle for Silicon Valley's wild fantasies and intellectual bullying of other industries โ€“ the internet clearly isn't working for people โ€“ "AI" has taken its place. But almost everything you read about AI is Fake News. The AI coverage comes from a media willing itself into a mind of a three year old child, in order to be impressed. For example, how many human jobs did AI replace in 2016? If you gave professional pundits a multiple choice question listing these three answers: 3 million, 300,000 and none, I suspect very few would choose the correct answer, which is of course "none".


Dating app 'Hater' matches you based on mutual dislikes

Daily Mail - Science & tech

If you hate slow walkers, biting ice cream or Taylor Swift, you're not alone. A new dating app has been announced that matches you with potential partners based on what you mutually hate. 'Hater' is the brainchild of a former Goldman Sachs employee, Brendan Alper, 29, and it launches publicly around the world on February 8. Hater works by being downloaded and then asking users to swipe to show how much they love or hate certain things. Swiping up denotes'love' of a certain topic, down means you'hate' it, right is'like' and left is'dislike'. The topics vary widely, and include everything from Donald Trump to'butt selfies'. Diverse: The topics vary widely, and include everything from Donald Trump to'butt selfies' (pictured: two topics currently on Hater) At present, there are over 2,000 topics to like, dislike, hate or love, and once you've been through enough of them, the app will let you see your matches At present, there are over 2,000 topics to like, dislike, hate or love, and once you've been through enough of them, the app will let you see your matches, with each percentage determined by your shared dislikes.


The Insanely Popular Chinese News App That You've Never Heard Of

MIT Technology Review

Inside the offices of Toutiao, it's hard to tell you're just outside of Beijing and not in the heart of Silicon Valley. The walls are decorated with stylish graffiti, and there are all the usual perks: a game room, a gym, and a sumptuous cafeteria. But Toutiao doesn't only look the part. The company makes an insanely popular Chinese news aggregation app called Toutiao (meaning "headlines"). Toutiao boasts some 700 million users in China, with more than 68 million active daily users.


'Star' Season 1 Spoilers: Episode 7 Synopsis Released; What Will Happen In 'Black Wherever I Go'? [VIDEO]

International Business Times

After Star steals the spotlight from Alexandra, the group is forced to deal with a tragedy as tensions rise on "Star" Season 1, episode 7, titled "Black Wherever I Go." "Things get out of control during a rally Derek (Quincy Brown) organizes in response to the sudden loss of a close friend," the synopsis teases. In the promo for the Fox series, the group deals with the death of one of the shop's hair stylists, who was shot by a police officer. While in pain, Derek suggests taking their grief and putting it into a protest. In the "Star" Season 1, episode 7 "Black Wherever I Go" clip, Derek can be seen asking Alexandra (Ryan Destiny) if the group can sing for the protest, however, she doesn't want to because she is afraid Star (Jude Demorest) won't take it seriously. Simone (Brittany O'Grady) and Carlotta (Queen Latifah) are also pictured attending the peaceful protest, but it looks like things get out of hand because Alexandra can be seen getting taken away by a police officer.