Melania Trump's AI Era Is Upon Us The ever elusive first lady has emerged with a brief to exert thought leadership over AI, for the children. Some insiders are excited; others won't touch the subject with a 10-foot pole. Even more so than the first time around, Melania Trump's tenure as first lady thus far has been more notable for her absence than her presence. But that's beginning to change. The ever elusive first lady, who has been highly sparing in her public appearances, emerged in recent weeks to highlight the newest addition to her slim policy portfolio: artificial intelligence, for the children.

As the viewing habits of sports fans continue to shift, more and more sports leagues have attempted to give consumers new and innovative ways to engage with players and games. A number of NBA fans use the league's mobile app to watch their favorite team. Given the growing popularity of its digital platforms, the NBA is tapping into artificial intelligence to enhance fans' viewing experience. During February's Tech Summit, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver demonstrated the AI technology that will likely alter the way fans interact with games whenever they opt to experience the league with the app. "There is a need to see the NBA making strides to use AI," Alex Beckman told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Game 1 of the 2023 WNBA Finals between the New York Liberty and the Las Vegas Aces drew record-breaking viewership, with an average audience of 729,000, according to ESPN. The strong numbers come on the heels of a regular season that saw a sharp increase in fan engagement. Last week, the league added a new franchise for the first time in more than a decade.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The prestigious Wimbledon tournament is set to introduce artificial intelligence-powered commentary in July. All England Club has tapped tech giant IBM's Watsonx AI platform to create audio commentary and captions for its video highlight packages. Watsonx is the company's enterprise AI and data platform.

Former English teacher, Peter Laffin, predicts OpenAI's new artificial intelligence chatbot will lead to a learning crisis and force teachers to rethink education. Artificial intelligence is sparking concerns about plagiarism in schools worldwide. Still, the evolving technology poses tremendous benefits for creators and could soon be accepted in the classroom alongside tools like the calculator, according to professors and AI experts. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Edward McFowland III compared generative AI, like ChatGPT, to other educational tools, such as the calculator and Wikipedia, with the former's benefits and the latter's disadvantages. ChatGPT has already been found to produce questionable results, with papers and responses sometimes including significant statistical or historical errors.

Understanding the workings and behaviors of a city requires knowledge of the different processes that allow people and other biological organisms to live and thrive, as well as understanding of their interrelationships--many of which are complicated and have yet to be deeply explored. "Cities are immensely complex, with many facets and interactions within them," said Pete Beckman, a computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. "For instance, weather influences human movement; air quality affects long-term health; and availability to transportation helps determine opportunities ranging from employment to social interaction. What we need is a new generation of methods and tools that can help us find relationships hidden within the growing volume and diversity of data that are being collected about cities." Central to these methods is machine learning--the increasingly potent process by which computers train to make predictions or determinations from large quantities of data. Machine learning has revolutionized many parts of our lives, from the game of chess to facial recognition systems, and it is now coming to our cities.

Since losing his vision at age 13, Erik Weihenmayer has summited Mount Everest, white-water rafted and climbed frozen waterfalls. But making soup in his kitchen presented a unique challenge. On a frozen waterfall he could tap his ax against the ice to get a feel for its density, but in the kitchen, he had no way to differentiate between cans of tomato and chicken noodle. Mr. Weihenmayer, 49 years old, found a solution in Microsoft Corp.'s Seeing AI, a free app for the visually impaired. Among other things, the app can recognize faces, identify money, read handwriting and scan bar codes to differentiate between cans of soup.

This paper describes a novel approach based on a combination of techniques in AI, parallel computing, and network science to address an important problem in social sciences and public health: planning and responding in the event of epidemics. Spread of infectious disease is an important societal problem -- human behavior, social networks, and the civil infrastructures all play a crucial role in initiating and controlling such epidemic processes.  We specifically consider the economic and social effects of realistic interventions  proposed and adopted by public health officials and behavioral changes  of  private citizens in the event of a ``flu-like'' epidemic. Our results provide new insights for developing robust public policies that can prove useful for epidemic planning.