Based on Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs), event coreference resolution (ECR) systems have demonstrated outstanding performance in clustering coreferential events across documents. However, the state-of-the-art system exhibits an excessive reliance on the'triggers lexical matching' spurious pattern in the input mention pair text. We formalize the decision-making process of the baseline ECR system using a Structural Causal Model (SCM), aiming to identify spurious and causal associations (i.e., rationales) within the ECR task. Leveraging the debiasing capability of counterfactual data augmentation, we develop a rationale-centric counterfactual data augmentation method with LLM-in-the-loop. This method is specialized for pairwise input in the Figure 1: The distribution of'triggers lexical matching' ECR system, where we conduct direct interventions in mention pairs from ECB+ training set, along with a on triggers and context to mitigate the false negative example from Held et al.'s system which spurious association while emphasizing the causation.

Modern vision models typically rely on fine-tuning general-purpose models pre-trained on large, static datasets. These general-purpose models only capture the knowledge within their pre-training datasets, which are tiny, out-of-date snapshots of the Internet -- where billions of images are uploaded each day. We suggest an alternate approach: rather than hoping our static datasets transfer to our desired tasks after large-scale pre-training, we propose dynamically utilizing the Internet to quickly train a small-scale model that does extremely well on the task at hand. Our approach, called Internet Explorer, explores the web in a self-supervised manner to progressively find relevant examples that improve performance on a desired target dataset. It cycles between searching for images on the Internet with text queries, self-supervised training on downloaded images, determining which images were useful, and prioritizing what to search for next. We evaluate Internet Explorer across several datasets and show that it outperforms or matches CLIP oracle performance by using just a single GPU desktop to actively query the Internet for 30--40 hours. Results, visualizations, and videos at https://internet-explorer-ssl.github.io/

Microsoft's Internet Explorer deserved to die. Or at least to be put out of its misery. The 27-year-old browser has long been bogged down by performance and security problems, and Microsoft has fully moved on to its Edge browser. Microsoft officially murdered the beleaguered IE last year, though its ghostly presence still lingers on Windows PCs around the world. In an effort to scrape up the remains, Microsoft has now begun automatically removing instances of Internet Explorer from users' computers.

If you're still using Google as your search engine, you may not know that Microsoft Bing is a great search engine, too. Here's why to switch from Google to Bing in search.

There are few things as fascinating as seeing what people in the past dreamed about the future. "France in the Year 2000" is one example. The series of paintings, made by Jean-Marc Côté and other French artists in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, shows artist depictions of what life might look like in the year 2000. The first series of images were printed and enclosed in cigarette and cigar boxes around the time of the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, according to the Public Domain Review, then later turned into postcards. Lots of their ideas involve mechanized devices, flying, or a combination of the two.

Microsoft's annual Build conference saw a host of new product developments, many of which were focused on its cloud computing technology and updates for consumer services. The company's browser, Edge, and its video conferencing tool Teams, are where the average user is likely to see the most changes, but Microsoft also revealed some tools using GPT-3, the artificial intelligence language tool made by OpenAI. However, the biggest update that users might have been expecting – a new version of its Windows operating system – is still to come, with CEO Satya Nadella saying that the "the next generation of Windows" is coming "very soon". Microsoft says Edge is'best performing browser on Windows 10' The software giant's update to Edge 91 makes it, in the company's words, the best browser on Windows 10. Why Internet Explorer had to die Bitcoin price – live: Ethereum up $1,000 amid'highly positive' outlook for crypto Cryptocurrency has'no intrinsic value' and investors could'lose all your money', says Bank of England chief Cryptocurrency has'no intrinsic value' and investors could'lose all your money', says Bank of England chief There are two reasons for this, Microsoft wrote in a blog post explaining the updates: "Startup boost and sleeping tabs".

Zone's Ross Basham handpicks and shares the five best new stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies… Google has unveiled a tool that uses AI to help spot skin, hair and nail conditions based on images uploaded by patients. The AI can recognise 288 skin conditions but is not designed to be a substitute for medical diagnosis and treatment. As well as using images, the app also requires patients to answer a series of questions. Google says there are 10 billion searches for skin, hair and nail issues every year. The AI for this tool has been optimised to avoid missing "alarming or scary" conditions such as skin cancer, although erring on the side of caution means lots of people will be advised to check out something that will turn out to be benign.

Microsoft officially entered the robotic process automation (RPA) marketplace this week with some major changes to its Power Platform. It's not the first incumbent enterprise software vendors to feel the need to have a product in this category (SAP purchased French RPA vendor Contextor late last year), and it won't be the last. We should expect to see a steady increase in RPA investment in from big enterprise vendors, with a mix of internally developed and acquired technologies. The fundamental challenge driving these investments is that RPA is the first step in a journey to reinvent how companies build the software they use to run their businesses (see my recent article on how UIPath is reinventing the RPA category). RPA lets companies record a series of computer-based processes done by a human so that the series can then be repeated automatically without human involvement.

MICROSOFT HAS PATCHED a flaw in its Cortana virtual assistant that could enable hackers to bypass the lock screen on Windows 10 machines. The fix included in Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday bug fix bundle, which comprises 12 updates intended to patch a total of 49 security vulnerabilities. This includes fixes for flaws in Windows, Office, SharePoint, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers, along with a patch for the so-called'elevation of privilege vulnerability' in Microsoft's AI helper. Lane Thames, a senior security researcher at Tripwire, spoke out about the long-standing flaw with Cortana, that meant the AI helper was always listening for commands, even when a PC is locked. "The advisory states that'Cortana retrieves data from user input services without consideration for status'," said Thames.

To make a documentary about the Internet requires nerve. To do so when you can hardly be bothered with a cell phone, however, takes both innocence and bravado, plus a pinch of madness. All of which means that Werner Herzog, now aged seventy-three, is right for the job, and the result is "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World." The movie is divided into ten parts, none of which could be mistaken for a commandment; Herzog's documentaries have always been fired more by marvelling, and by an explorer's ache to learn, than by any pedagogic urge to tell. If he were struck color-blind tomorrow, he would instantly embark on a film about Matisse.