Apple Inc. acquired Voysis, an artificial intelligence startup that developed a platform for digital voice assistants to better understand people's natural language. Dublin, Ireland-based Voysis focused on improving digital assistants inside online shopping apps, so the software could respond more accurately to voice commands from users. A now-removed company webpage said the technology could narrow product search results by processing shopping phrases such as "I need a new LED TV" and "My budget is $1,000." Voysis provided this AI to other companies to incorporate it into their own apps and voice assistants. An Apple spokesman said the company "buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans."

We propose orthogonal inductive matrix completion (OMIC), an interpretable model composed of a sum of matrix completion terms, each with orthonormal side information. We can inject prior knowledge about the eigenvectors of the ground truth matrix, whilst maintaining the representation capability of the model. We present a provably converging algorithm that optimizes all components of the model simultaneously, using nuclear-norm regularisation. Our method is backed up by \textit{distribution-free} learning guarantees that improve with the quality of the injected knowledge. As a special case of our general framework, we study a model consisting of a sum of user and item biases (generic behaviour), a non-inductive term (specific behaviour), and an inductive term using side information. Our theoretical analysis shows that $\epsilon$-recovering the ground truth matrix requires at most $O\left( \frac{n+m+(\sqrt{n}+\sqrt{m})mn \sqrt{r}C}{\epsilon^2}\right)$ entries, where $r$ is the rank of the ground truth matrix. We analyse the performance of OMIC on several synthetic and real datasets. On synthetic datasets with a sliding scale of user bias relevance, we show that OMIC better adapts to different regimes than other methods and can recover the ground truth. On real life datasets containing user/items recommendations and relevant side information, we find that OMIC surpasses the state of the art, with the added benefit of greater interpretability.

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From developing drug treatments to predicting the next hotspot, artificial intelligence may help researchers, healthcare workers, and everyday people offset the impact of the coronavirus. As the worldwide fight against coronavirus COVID-19 continues, companies and governments around the world are pulling out all the stops in an effort to stave off the pandemic's worst impacts. One tool in that toolbox that might prove particularly useful is artificial intelligence (AI). Even though AI has been around since the 1960s, it's only been in the past few years that its adoption outside of science labs and research institutions has really taken off. Perhaps the most common application of AI people have come into contact with today are virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa, which rely on natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to understand human speech.

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In his book "Life 3.0", MIT professor Max Tegmark says "we are all the guardians of the future of life now as we shape the age of AI." Artificial Intelligence remains a Pandora's Box of possibilities, with the potential to enhance the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of cities, or destroy the potential for humans to work, interact, and live a private life. The question of how Artificial Intelligence will impact the cities of the future has also captured the imagination of architects and designers, and formed a central question to the 2019 Shenzhen Biennale, the world's most visited architecture event. As part of the "Eyes of the City" section of the Biennial, curated by Carlo Ratti, designers were asked to put forth their visions and concerns of how artificial intelligence will impact the future of architecture. Below, we have selected six visions, where designers reflect in their own words on aspects from ecology and the environment to social isolation. For further reading on AI and the Shenzhen Biennial, see our interview with Carlo Ratti and Winy Maas on the subject, and visit our dedicated landing page of content here.

Google is skipping its tradition of designing an April Fools' Day joke on its front page during the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement came from Lorraine Twohill, Google's chief marketing officer, who informed company management of the decision in an email. According to Twohill, the decision was made'out of respect' for everyone currently working to fight against the spread of COVID-19. Google will forgo its annual tradition of posting an April Fools' Day joke for the first time since the tradition began in 2000, a decision the company says was made'out of respect for all those fighting the Covid-19 pandemic' 'Under normal circumstances, April Fool's is a Google tradition and a time to celebrate what makes us an unconventional company,' Twohill wrote, according to a Business Insider report. 'This year, we're going to take the year off from that tradition out of respect for all those fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.

If you're working from home with kids due to coronavirus quarantine, you're probably looking for ways to keep them occupied while you're on the job. Family-friendly board games and puzzles are a good start, but what happens when your kids run through them? As with so many things in life, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa can help with a healthy list of fun games for your kids (and even for you). To get started, simply download the Amazon Alexa app or Google Assistant app to an iOS or Android device. Alternatively, you can play using a smart speaker like the Echo (third-generation), Google's Nest Mini or other Amazon or Google smart speakers.

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress and impact of AI highlight the precarious nature of the future of work (long after the coronavirus pandemic ends), the continuing mixed attitudes of consumers about data privacy, and the possible resilience of this year's investments in AI. The IT department's need for AI talent has tripled between 2015 and 2019, but the number of AI jobs posted by IT is still less than half of that stemming from other business units; departments recruiting AI talent in high volumes include marketing, sales, customer service, finance, and research and development. By 2025, at least two of the top 10 global retailers will establish robot resource organizations to manage nonhuman workers; 77% of retailers plan to deploy AI by 2021, with the deployment of robotics for warehouse picking as the No. 1 use case [Gartner] By 2024, AI, virtual personal assistants, and chatbots will replace almost 69% of the manager's workload [Gartner] "Supervised machine learning doesn't live up to the hype. It isn't actual artificial intelligence akin to C-3PO, it's a sophisticated pattern-matching tool… Rather than seeing exponential improvements in the quality of AI performance (a la Moore's Law), we're instead seeing exponential increases in the cost to improve AI systems"--Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, founder, Starsky Robotics "…why are we holding our hands behind our back trying to build AI without mechanisms that infants have?"--Gary "We haven't really gone to great depth with deep learning yet. We've had a limited amount of training data so far. We've had limited structures with limited compute power. But the key point is that deep learning learns the concept, it learns the features. "…such capabilities [as "deepfake" transformation of the human face] were called image processing 15 years ago, but are routinely termed AI today.

Dynamic selection techniques aim at selecting the local experts around each test sample in particular for performing its classification. While generating the classifier on a local scope may make it easier for singling out the locally competent ones, as in the online local pool (OLP) technique, using the same base-classifier model in uneven distributions may restrict the local level of competence, since each region may have a data distribution that favors one model over the others. Thus, we propose in this work a problem-independent dynamic base-classifier model recommendation for the OLP technique, which uses information regarding the behavior of a portfolio of models over the samples of different problems to recommend one (or several) of them on a per-instance manner. Our proposed framework builds a multi-label meta-classifier responsible for recommending a set of relevant model types based on the local data complexity of the region surrounding each test sample. The OLP technique then produces a local pool with the model that yields the highest probability score of the meta-classifier. Experimental results show that different data distributions favored different model types on a local scope. Moreover, based on the performance of an ideal model type selector, it was observed that there is a clear advantage in choosing a relevant model type for each test instance. Overall, the proposed model type recommender system yielded a statistically similar performance to the original OLP with fixed base-classifier model. Given the novelty of the approach and the gap in performance between the proposed framework and the ideal selector, we regard this as a promising research direction. Code available at github.com/marianaasouza/dynamic-model-recommender.