Humming away in offices on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon and in the White House is a technology that represents the pragmatism, efficiency and unsentimental nature of American bureaucracy: the autopen. It is a device that stores a person's signature, replicating it as needed using a mechanical arm that holds a real pen. Like many technologies, this rudimentary robotic signature-maker has always provoked ambivalence. We invest signatures with meaning, particularly when the signer is well known. During the George W Bush administration, the secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, generated a small wave of outrage when reporters revealed that he had been using an autopen for his signature on the condolence letters that he sent to the families of fallen soldiers. Fans of singer Bob Dylan expressed ire when they discovered that the limited edition of his book The Philosophy of Modern Song, which cost nearly 600 and came with an official certificate "attesting to its having been individually signed by Dylan", in fact had made unlimited use of an autopen. Dylan took the unusual step of issuing a statement on his Facebook page: "With contractual deadlines looming," Dylan wrote, "the idea of using an autopen was suggested to me, along with the assurance that this kind of thing is done'all the time' in the art and literary worlds."

Recent work has empirically shown that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle to fully understand the compositional properties of the human language, usually modeling an image caption as a "bag of words". As a result, they perform poorly on compositional tasks, which require a deeper understanding of the different entities of a sentence (subject, verb, etc.) jointly with their mutual relationships in order to be solved. In this paper, we model the dependency relations among textual and visual tokens using a Causal Graphical Model (CGM), built using a dependency parser, and we train a decoder conditioned by the VLM visual encoder. Differently from standard autoregressive or parallel predictions, our decoder's generative process is partially-ordered following the CGM structure. This structure encourages the decoder to learn only the main causal dependencies in a sentence discarding spurious correlations. Using extensive experiments on five compositional benchmarks, we show that our method significantly outperforms all the state-of-the-art compositional approaches by a large margin, and it also improves over methods trained using much larger datasets.

Russell Wald, director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, sounds off on'The Story.' After a Stanford survey of researchers showed more than a third believe that AI (artificial intelligence) could cause a "nuclear-level catastrophe," one of the directors of the California college's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence said another key to that fear is deciphering what values system the human-inputted but self-determining bots will hold. "I think that there is a little bit of overwhelming concern by a minority of people who are developing this technology. And one part of that is the concern that this technology will spin out of control and out of our hands," said Russell Wald, the institute's managing director for policy and society, said Monday on "The Story with Martha MacCallum." "I think that is a probably fairly limited subset. But the bigger issue here I think we need to look at is who has a seat at this table -- and ensuring that we have a more diverse set of people at the table so that we can get out of this hysteria a little bit."

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With more and more people turning to either smartphones or tablets, sales of desk and laptop computers have plummeted. New figures have been released which show that 269.7 million computers were shipped last year – a 6.2 per cent decline from 2015. Experts suggest that new machines, such as tablets and hybrid laptops, have overtaken traditional PCs and laptops. While there has been growth in sales of innovative new machines such as hybrid laptops with removable tablet screens, the demand was not enough to offset a drop in sales of traditional models. Another factor was that people are putting off replacing desk or laptop computers because they use them infrequently, opting instead to go online with smartphones, according to Ms Kitagawa.