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These celebrities, including a 'Stranger Things' actor and 'Bachelorette' alum, found love on dating apps

FOX News

Former'Bachelorette' lead Hannah Brown spoke with Fox News Digital ahead of publication day for her first novel, 'Mistakes We Never Made.' Brown shared insight on the storyline, writing process and how her confidence grew in the process. The world of dating is hard to navigate -- even if you're an A-list celebrity. Celebrities have taken a wide range of approaches to finding their person. Many have had high-profile relationships with fellow stars, while others have dated outside the spotlight and have kept their love life a lot more private. Some celebrities have even found success using dating apps.


SNL's' Colin Jost forced to crack joke about wife Scarlett Johansson's body on 'Weekend Update'

FOX News

The season finale of "Saturday Night Live" went out with a bang last night, featuring its traditional joke swap segment on "Weekend Update." Hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che were forced to read jokes written by the other, making for some uncomfortable moments. A little ways into the segment, Jost uttered an, "Oh God," after realizing he'd have to take a crack at his wife, Scarlett Johansson. "ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson's AI character in'Her,' which I've never bothered to watch because without that body, what's the point of listening," Jost said, much to his embarrassment. Colin Jost was forced to make a joke about his wife Scarlett Johanssons body during the "Weekend Update" segment of "Saturday Night Live." (SNL YouTube) The 2013 flick stars Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with his AI device, Samantha, played by Johansson.


Sorry, Prey. Black Widows Have Surprisingly Good Memory

WIRED

Black widows must despise Clint Sergi. While working on his PhD in biology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sergi spent his time designing little challenges for spiders--which often involved rewarding them with tasty dead crickets, or confounding them by stealing the crickets away. "The big question that motivated the work was just wanting to know what is going on inside the minds of animals," he says. Biologists already know spider brains aren't like human brains. Their sensory world is geared for life in webs and dark corners.


MOCHA: A Multi-Task Training Approach for Coherent Text Generation from Cognitive Perspective

Hu, Zhe, Chan, Hou Pong, Huang, Lifu

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Teaching neural models to generate narrative coherent texts is a critical problem. Recent pre-trained language models have achieved promising results, but there is still a gap between human written texts and machine-generated outputs. In this work, we propose a novel multi-task training strategy for coherent text generation grounded on the cognitive theory of writing, which empowers the model to learn essential subskills needed for writing including planning and reviewing besides end-to-end generation. We extensively evaluate our model on three open-ended generation tasks including story generation, news article writing and argument generation. Experiments show that our model achieves better results on both few-shot and fully-supervised settings than strong baselines, and human evaluations confirm that our model can generate more coherent outputs.


Black Widow to harness Tractable's AI

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InsurTech Tractable will collaborate with Black Widow, a vehicle imaging capture platform, to transform automotive sales with more transparent insights into a vehicle's condition. Black Widow uses an eight-camera, drive-through system that captures high-definition vehicle images within seconds and can be automatically edited and published online. InsurTech Tractable launched its AI tool last year, the solution can assess a vehicle's external condition and possible damage within minutes. The partnership will see Tractable's AI use the images captured by Black Widow's proprietary system to detect external damage and generate a vehicle condition report, which outlines estimated repair costs. Tractable said the combination of the companies technologies will mean auctions, dealerships and repair facilities will receive a more accurate and consistent assessment of vehicles, allowing them to make faster and better informed sales decisions.


Is Disney's Avengers Campus worth an hours-long wait? Our expert advice

Los Angeles Times

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the so-called normal people are often nonessential. We get in the way, we muck things up, we need help, we get turned to dust and in the case of last year's "WandaVision," we mortals exist mostly to be playthings for those with powers. Disney California Adventure's Avengers Campus aims to flip the script. Superheroes, they're just like us, the land argues. They get captured, they need our help, they make mistakes and sometimes they just have to do dreary, daily work.


Enhancing Deep Neural Network Saliency Visualizations with Gradual Extrapolation

Szandala, Tomasz

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We propose an enhancement technique of the Class Activation Mapping methods like Grad-CAM or Excitation Backpropagation, which presents visual explanations of decisions from CNN-based models. Our idea, called Gradual Extrapolation, can supplement any method that generates a heatmap picture by sharpening the output. Instead of producing a coarse localization map highlighting the important predictive regions in the image, our method outputs the specific shape that most contributes to the model output. Thus, it improves the accuracy of saliency maps. Effect has been achieved by gradual propagation of the crude map obtained in deep layer through all preceding layers with respect to their activations. In validation tests conducted on a selected set of images, the proposed method significantly improved the localization detection of the neural networks' attention. Furthermore, the proposed method is applicable to any deep neural network model.


Marvel's Avengers: can the controversial new video game win over the faithful?

The Guardian

Before this year's E3, the annual video games event where publishers descend on Los Angeles to unveil and promote their wares for the next year and beyond, anticipation was high for Square Enix's new Avengers game – an action-adventure for one to four players, in which you can fight as Hulk, Black Widow, Thor and plenty of others. In the year that Endgame grossed more than $2.7bn at the box office worldwide, surely not much could go wrong for a game proffering a personalised Marvel superhero fantasy. As it turned out, however, the Avengers game's big reveal fell rather flat (and was rather eclipsed by Keanu Reeves, who made a surprise appearance to reveal his top-secret cameo in the forthcoming Cyberpunk 2077 the day before). That is Iron Man, right? Why does he look nothing like Robert Downey Jr? The Avengers characters in this online action-adventure game share absolutely no likeness with the ones we know from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Marvel's Avengers video game: What we know so far

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

The Avengers assembled again, only it wasn't on a movie screen. On Monday night, video game publisher Square Enix revealed the first details of "Marvel's Avengers," which will launch on May 15, 2020. The video game will be available for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Google's new Stadia streaming service. Among the game studios working on the Avengers game are Crystal Dynamics, who previously worked on the Tomb Raider franchise; and Eidos Montreal, best known for their work on the popular Deus Ex series. What should video game players expect when they don the role of an Avenger next year?