As the reality TV sector increasingly has to deal with the good and bad impacts of AI, lawyer John Delaney says there are growing legal and regulatory issues. "For example, AI could be used to suggest scenarios or storylines, to edit episodes and to anticipate and assess audience reactions to in-show developments," says Mr Delaney, who is a partner at commercial law firm Perkins Coie, and who advises companies on AI and other technology issues. "However, production companies will need to consider to what extent the new Writers Guild of America agreement [to strictly restrict the use of AI] might limit their ability to use AI in connection with their reality TV programs." He adds that away from making the shows a growing issue that reality TV producers and contestants are facing is a proliferation of unauthorized, AI-generated images and videos. Mr Delaney points to generative AI tools such as chatbot ChatGPT being used to create new content from reality TV footage.

HOUSTON, Texas – The Johnson Space Center welcomed 12 new astronauts – 10 Americans and two from the United Arab Emirates – after the class completed a two-year training program through NASA. These astronauts will be assigned missions to the International Space Station and future commercial space stations, and will also focus on missions to the moon in preparation for Mars. Luke Delaney, a retired United States Marine Corps major from DeBary, Florida, said graduating from the program was a dream – for some, a dream that was decades in the making. Ten American astronauts and two United Arab Emirates astronauts recently graduated after completing a two-year training through NASA. When putting on his spacesuit, Delaney said he felt like he made it.

In this work, we propose a model-agnostic instance-based post-hoc explainability method for time series classification. The proposed algorithm, namely Time-CF, leverages shapelets and TimeGAN to provide counterfactual explanations for arbitrary time series classifiers. We validate the proposed method on several real-world univariate time series classification tasks from the UCR Time Series Archive. The results indicate that the counterfactual instances generated by Time-CF when compared to state-of-the-art methods, demonstrate better performance in terms of four explainability metrics: closeness, sensibility, plausibility, and sparsity.

NASA inaugurated its 23rd class of new astronauts on Monday, which includes 10 individuals who are set to walk on the moon and maybe even Mars. Deemed the'Artemis Generation,' this group consists of several former US military, an ex-SpaceX medical director and a bioengineer who also participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a track cyclist. The name is a reference to NASA's Artemis program, which aims to send the first woman and the first person of color to moon as early as 2025. The astronaut candidates for 2021 are: Nichole Ayers, Marcos Berríos, Guaynabo, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, Luke Delaney, Andre Douglas, Jack Hathaway, Anil Menon, Christopher Williams and Jessica Wittner. This is NASA first new class in four years and the group is set to begin the two-year training process in January 2022.

Plans to beam 5G signals to the public via drones that stay airborne for nine days at a time have been announced by two UK firms. They want to use antenna-equipped aircraft powered by hydrogen to deliver high-speed connectivity to wide areas. Stratospheric Platforms and Cambridge Consultants say they could cover the whole of the UK with about 60 drones. But telecoms analysts question whether the economic case for this scheme is quite as simple as it sounds. The Cambridge-based companies say they would run the service in partnership with existing mobile operators. They are already backed by Deutsche Telekom, which hopes to trial the technology in rural southern Germany in 2024.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will shape the destiny of humanity, but first humanity has the opportunity to shape AI. At times, anxiety about the former causes us to overlook the latter. We forget that artificial intelligence is going to serve the goals with which we're now programming it. Its implementation will follow the standards we now have the opportunity to set. This leaves citizens -- and those representing us in government -- with an urgent responsibility.

In the era of Trumpian politics the public forum is no longer the evening news or the morning paper: it's Twitter. We decided to see which politicians were embracing the platform to discuss what we feel will be one of the most important issues of their potential presidency: artificial intelligence. What we found wasn't good. We gathered a list of every AI-related tweet 2020 Democratic hopefuls sent over the past 12 months. Our expectation was that there'd be a few thousand or so, and we'd spend the better part of the week parsing the information for insights.

Policymakers and technology experts said without a broad national strategy for driving artificial intelligence forward, the U.S. risks letting global competitors direct the growth of the budding industry. The Trump administration has taken a largely hands-off approach in regards to AI, arguing it's still too early for the government to get involved in the technology and any attempts at oversight could stifle its growth. But in a panel hosted Wednesday by Politico, experts were quick to point out the difference between burdening industry with regulations and addressing the issues at hand today. "Their notion that [artificial intelligence] isn't already upon us, or the view that it's not already affecting our lives in very profound ways … is in fact short-sighted. The toothpaste is already out of the tube," said Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., who founded the Congressional AI Caucus.

WASHINGTON – The European Union's executive branch, the European Commission, has announced that it will increase its investment in artificial intelligence (AI) research and development by €1.5 billion and called on member states to invest €20 billion as well. Congressman John K. Delaney (MD-6), the founder of the House AI Caucus, says that the European Union's action should get the attention of U.S. policymakers. "Our economic competitors in Europe and Asia are moving forward on AI, while we stand still. I sincerely hope that today's announcement from the EU gets the attention of Washington and serves as a wake-up call. If we want artificial intelligence technology to benefit our society, our economy and our workers, we've got to make sure that the United States remains the global leader – but make no mistake, we will have competition," said Congressman Delaney.

Self-driving cars have it rough. They have to detect the world around them in fine detail, learn to recognize signals, and avoid running over pets. But hey, at least they'll spend most of their time dealing with other robot cars, not people. That means interacting with people--lots of people--and dogs and trash and pigeons. Unlike a road, a sidewalk is nearly devoid of structure.