Asset Entities is a publicly listed set of social media accounts and Discord servers that churn out get-rich-quick tips for Gen Z. It reported a net loss of $413,000 last year. But give Texas-based vice president Kyle Fairbanks just 21 49 seconds and he'll tell you how to (maybe) make $20,000 a month arbitraging AirBnbs up and down the East Coast. He has an extensive corpus. For a few wondrous hours on Monday it was the Nasdaq's best-performing stock.

In the 1980s, there was no better place than Bulgaria for virus lovers. The socialist country – plagued by hyperinflation, crumbling infrastructure, food and petrol rationing, daily blackouts and packs of wild dogs in its streets – had become one of the hottest hi-tech zones on the planet. Legions of young Bulgarian programmers were tinkering on their pirated IBM PC clones, pumping out computer viruses that managed to travel to the gleaming and prosperous west. In 1989, an article appeared in Bulgaria's leading computer magazine saying the media's treatment of computer viruses was sensationalist and inaccurate. The article, in the January issue of Bulgaria's Computer for You magazine, titled The Truth About Computer Viruses, was written by Vesselin Bontchev, a 29-year-old researcher at the Institute of Industrial Cybernetics and Robotics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. Fear of computer viruses, Bontchev wrote, was turning into "mass psychosis". Any competent programmer, Bontchev claimed, could tell when files are corrupted by a virus. Infected files are bigger than uninfected files. They do strange things, such as play tunes, draw Christmas trees on the screen and reboot computers. It was hard to miss a virus! Prevention through basic cyber hygiene was simple: "Do not allow other people to use your computer; do not use suspicious software products; do not use software products acquired illegally."

Studies on interpersonal conflict have a long history and contain many suggestions for conflict typology. We use this as the basis of a novel annotation scheme and release a new dataset of situations and conflict aspect annotations. We then build a classifier to predict whether someone will perceive the actions of one individual as right or wrong in a given situation. Our analyses include conflict aspects, but also generated clusters, which are human validated, and show differences in conflict content based on the relationship of participants to the author. Our findings have important implications for understanding conflict and social norms.

Artificial intelligence is an increasingly contemporary topic. Whether it is scientific, medical, industrial, or even artistic, it poses humanity to ethical and moral questions of enormous proportions. Going through the classic science fiction canonisms with the contemporary scientific chronicle suggests a story that raises questions about the value of emotions, feelings, and the possible coexistence of the human being with the car. At the heart of the story is a young pair of researchers who get the job of testing an evolved artificial intelligence model. The android should be subjected to field testing by inviting an unknown host to interact by simulating human attitudes.

In the aftermath and early demise of Tay, the Microsoft bot gone rogue, and the anti-climax following Facebook's bot announcements at F8, it's safe to declare that it's high time for chatbots to mature from infancy into puberty, and not a moment too soon. As the Bot Rush overwhelms Silicon Valley and bot miners are flocking into San Francisco, the future of AI and Bot productivity lies in the hands of engineers that are willing to take the hard road. We're hoping that creative and well thought out research will win, rather than leaning on pundits' advice suggesting that: "you can take a bot template, tweak it, and launch it- over a weekend." I dare to guess that's exactly what the Microsoft folks had in mind (perhaps more than a weekend in their case) when they let Tay roam Twitter unsupervised. For Bots to become'Must Haves', they'll have to dance to the tune of a few fundamental human traits and qualities, currently ignored in the hype and rush to easy fortunes.

We report on the ongoing development of EDDIE (Emotion Demonstration, Decoding, Interpretation, and Encoding), an interactive embodied AI to be deployed as an intervention system for children diagnosed with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (HFASD). EDDIE presents the subject with interactive requests to decode facial expressions presented through an avatar, encode requested expressions, or do both in a single session. Facial tracking software interprets the subject’s response, and allows for immediate feedback. The system fills a need in research and intervention for children with HFASD by providing an engaging platform for presentation of exemplar expressions consistent with mechanical systems of facial action measurement integrated with an automatic system for interpreting and giving feedback to the subject’s expressions. Both live interaction with EDDIE and video recordings of human-EDDIE interaction will be demonstrated.