The dreaded time of day when traffic conditions seem bent on making you late. As your car slowly creeps in line behind countless others stuck at a stop light, you think to yourself, "Why aren't these lights changing faster?" Traffic control scientists have long tried to solve this signaling problem. Unfortunately, the complexity of traffic situations has made the job extremely hard. A recent study suggests that machines can learn how to plan traffic signals just right to reduce wait times and make traffic queues shorter.

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Sex dolls of the future will have artificial intelligence built in - so the dolls can simulate love. The futuristic advance has been shared by the boss of one of the world's most successful sex doll manufacturers. Matt McMullen, CEO of RealDoll, revealed the next step in making the high-end sex toys will be to give them AI to replicate humans more closely than ever. "We are building an AI system which can either be connected to a robotic doll OR experienced in a VR environment," he revealed as part of an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit . "I think it will allow for an option that never existed before, and for some, may represent a happiness they [users] never though they could have. He added: "I think the sex industry is headed for the integration of a LOT of new technology.

A conference just ended, so it's that time of year! Here are some papers I liked with the usual caveats about recall. Before I go to the list, let me say that I really really enjoyed ACL this year. I was completely on the fence about going, and basically decided to go only because of giving a talk at Repl4NLP, and wanted to attend the business meeting for the discussion of diversity in the ACL community, led by Joakim Nivre with an amazing report that he, Lyn Walker, Yejin Choi and Min-Yen Kan put together. All in all, I'm supremely glad I decided to go: it was probably my favorite conference in recent memory.

Last week, I participated in a panel discussion on innovation versus implementation at the inaugural Precision Medicine Leaders' Summit in San Diego. As I spent time speaking with world-class researchers and leaders in the industry I was reminded that although we've made many scientific advances, the pharma industry has been slow to implement emerging technologies. And like many industries slow to adopt new technology the pharma industry is overdue for its own disruption. The current drug development process in the pharma industry is inefficient and unsustainable. It takes 10 to 15 years and 2.6 billion to bring a drug to market.

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Yes, "finding the right kernel" and "finding the right features" are really the same problem in the sense that the kernel matrix is the Gram matrix of your data represented in the feature space of the kernel. In the "neural network-y" approach you think about the "primal" problem and design the feature space where the dot products happen, while leaving the dot product implicit. Given a feature space you can write down the kernel explicitly if you want (like I did in my previous post), but usually you don't need to do this if you're living in the neural network world. The "kernel-y" approach is to think about the "dual" problem where you design the dot product, while leaving the feature space where the dot products happen implicit. Given a kernel you can write down the feature space explicitly if you want (depending on the kernel this can be somewhat involved), but usually you don't need to do this if you're living in the kernel world.

Legal departments will increasingly rely on technology and the advances of artificial intelligence and robots to deliver cost-effective legal services, GCs say. Already AI has had an impact on contract review and e-discovery, while M&A transactions have also seen the benefits of AI on due diligence. This is just one of the subjects for discussion at the GC Futures Summit 2016 in London on I November, which will be attended by 150 general counsel from around the globe. Other issues on the agenda include: leading during times of change; harnessing innovation in the legal profession; managing commercial risk; cyber-security and demonstrating the value of legal teams.

In his tenth post in the series, Marshall Kirkpatrick focuses on the intersection between artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. By way of reminder, Marshall launched a 30 day series that explores the intersection between AI and the various innovation components on my emerging futures visual. As he has in each post, Marshall identifies the key subject matter experts that sit at the intersection of AI and the visual component in question. In the case of autonomous vehicles, the key influencers are: Jack Clark, Martin Ford, Lex Fridman and Duflos Bertrand. Here is the foresight and related future scenarios identified at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and autonomous vehicles (taken straight from Marshall's post): Goodbye traffic lights: Traffic could be algorithmically optimized, with smart contracts at intersections negotiating for right-away like real-time ad exchanges bid for ad inventory on websites depending on the visitor.