Slate is currently running a feature called "Future Tense," which claims to be the "citizens guide to the future." Two of their recent articles, however, are full of inaccuracies about AI safety and the researchers studying it. While this is disappointing, it also represents a good opportunity to clear up some misconceptions about why AI safety research is necessary. The first contested article was Let Artificial Intelligence Evolve, by Michael Chorost, which displays a poor understanding of the issues surrounding the evolution of artificial intelligence. The second, How to be Good, by Adam Elkus, got some of the concerns about developing safe AI correct, but, in the process, did great disservice to one of today's most prominent AI safety researchers, as well as to scientific research in general.

Paramount Pictures is facing a 27 million lawsuit by a Chinese tourism firm for not displaying its logo in the film "Transformers: Age of Extinction" as part of a product placement deal signed in 2013, according to reports. Wulong Karst Tourism claimed Tuesday that it paid the U.S. producer of the hit Hollywood film and its Chinese partner 750,000 for the display of a logo. The state-backed travel company's logo, featuring the Chinese characters "China Wulong," was to be displayed in one of the scenes, which was shot in Wulong Karst National Park, so that Chinese audiences know where it was shot, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The lawsuit was filed at a Chongqing court and the court has yet to deliver a verdict after the six-hour hearing. According to local media reports, the defendants -- Paramount and China Movie Channel -- admitted in court that they failed to use the logo.

A robot in the home is usually seen as the stuff of sci-fi movies. But robots are increasingly coming closer as smart technology allows people to control the functions of their home from afar. As technology becomes more advanced, it's clear that the world is changing and there's a good chance that robots will be functioning in ordinary people's homes within the next decade or so. But what's less considered is just how at-home robots will change the way people live. In this guide, this issue is going to be examined.

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Photography company Getty Images is accusing Google of scraping images from third party websites and encouraging piracy, adding a new wrinkle to the Mountain View, Calif.'s ongoing legal battles in Europe. Google first introduced the feature in Jan. 2013. Previously, the search engine only displayed tiny thumbnails of images. In a statement released to TIME ahead of the filing, Getty argues that since image consumption is immediate, "there is little impetus to view the image on the original source site" once it's seen in high resolution on Google. The complaint comes less than a week after the European Union's antitrust commission charged Google with using unfair practices to promote its own services on Android devices.

I stayed perfectly still after they chased me into the air vent. I hadn't heard anything for several minutes. Surely they'd left by now. Crawling out of my hiding spot, I found myself face to face with one of my pursuers. He started shouting, but he remained locked in place, unable to move at all.

Machine Learning, we all have heard it and heard it ears full. Yet we hesitate to get a hang of it. Q) Why is it that we are scared to take a peek into it? Ans) Maybe what it does seem like a miracle to us. So we assume it is something out of our scope of learning/understanding.

Marc Wolff, Amine El Helou, Mathworks, Un algorithme distribué de forêt aléatoire pour du risque de crédit/ A Random Forest distributed algorithm for credit risk computations. We will talk about how we use optics to perform some specific operation of interest in Machine Learning. The basis of this talk relies on this preprint.

Soon, software will know how you feel--and will use that data to sell you things. The gig economy will go global (but it's not Uber-take-all). The tech industry will finally be inclusive. AI will achieve something like common sense, and it will be open source too. But that future won't build itself. Actual people (at least for now) have to make these things happen, and they aren't the C-suite hotshots you always hear about. The 25 people in these pages are the unsung creative, technical, and social visionaries working to bring the incredible world of tomorrow to you today. Get to know them now. Welcome to our second annual Next List. Surveillance is about to get much harder for overly snoopy governments. In November 2014 the Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp made a big change to its Android app: It encrypted messages so that even Facebook can't descramble them, no matter how many court orders the company receives. But the crypto software wasn't written by a Facebook employee.

It was probably the HAL 9000 from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, that introduced the concept of AIs to the general public. But that was almost 40 years ago, and examining the more recent times, we have to look no further than in our own pockets to find the AIs that paved the way for the current hype: smartphones' digital assistants. Sure, there has been things like Cleverbot around earlier, but nothing has been as widely spread as these digital assistants. The main difference between a chatbot and a digital assistant is that former responds (be default) only to written queries, and the latter is capable to understand (at least to some extend) more natural, spoken queries. Things like voice activated searches and speech recognition softwares have been around for quite some time, but these digital assistants take the concept a step further by engaging in dialogue, performing tasks such as booking flights or setting up location based reminders, and they can even tell you a joke if you ask one.