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AI designs quantum physics experiments beyond what any human has conceived

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Quantum physicist Mario Krenn remembers sitting in a café in Vienna in early 2016, poring over computer printouts, trying to make sense of what MELVIN had found. MELVIN was a machine-learning algorithm Krenn had built, a kind of artificial intelligence. Its job was to mix and match the building blocks of standard quantum experiments and find solutions to new problems. And it did find many interesting ones. But there was one that made no sense.


AI Designs Quantum Physics Experiments Beyond What Any Human Has Conceived

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Quantum physicist Mario Krenn remembers sitting in a café in Vienna in early 2016, poring over computer printouts, trying to make sense of what MELVIN had found. MELVIN was a machine-learning algorithm Krenn had built, a kind of artificial intelligence. Its job was to mix and match the building blocks of standard quantum experiments and find solutions to new problems. And it did find many interesting ones. But there was one that made no sense.


AI Designs Quantum Physics Experiments Beyond What Any Human Has Conceived

#artificialintelligence

Quantum physicist Mario Krenn remembers sitting in a café in Vienna in early 2016, poring over computer printouts, trying to make sense of what MELVIN had found. MELVIN was a machine-learning algorithm Krenn had built, a kind of artificial intelligence. Its job was to mix and match the building blocks of standard quantum experiments and find solutions to new problems. And it did find many interesting ones. But there was one that made no sense. "The first thing I thought was, 'My program has a bug, because the solution cannot exist,'" Krenn says.


A's Jesus Luzardo suffers freak injury playing video games

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Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Oakland Athletics pitcher Jesus Luzardo was placed on the 10-day injured list on Sunday after it was revealed he suffered a freak injury while playing video games. The left-handed starter suffered a hairline fracture on his left pinky finger after he bumped his hand on his desk while playing a video game, Athletics manager Bob Melvin told reporters. "Before the game he was playing a video game and accidentally bumped his hand on the desk as he was playing the game," Melvin said.


Gamer gone: A's lefty Luzardo breaks finger on video game

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Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Athletics left-hander Jesús Luzardo will be off the mound for a while -- and maybe off video games, too. Luzardo is out indefinitely after breaking the pinkie finger on his pitching hand when he thumped a table while playing a video game before his start Saturday. An X-ray after a loss to Baltimore showed a hairline fracture and Luzardo was put on the 10-day injured list Sunday.


Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality & Automation: Technology For Change

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Melvin Greer is Chief Data Scientist, Americas, Intel Corporation. He is responsible for building Intel's data science platform through graph analytics, machine learning and cognitive computing to accelerate transformation of data into a strategic asset for Public Sector and commercial enterprises. His systems and software engineering experience has resulted in patented inventions in Cloud Computing, Synthetic Biology and IoT Bio-sensors for edge analytics. He significantly advances the body of knowledge in basic research and critical, highly advanced engineering and scientific disciplines. Mr. Greer is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and U.S. National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine, GUIRR.


Using computer vision tools for historical newspaper analysis: SIAMESE and Europeana Newspapers Europeana

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Melvin Wevers, a researcher in the Digital Humanities Group of the KNAW Humanities Cluster, created --a tool that analyses adverts in historical newspapers-- together with Juliette Lonij, as a Researcher-in-Residence at the Royal Library of the Netherlands. Clemens Neudecker, a researcher at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, is working on making Europeana Newspapers --a huge set of historical newspapers-- available through Europeana Collections. Here, they tell us more about how their areas of expertise come together.... Tell us about SIAMESE - the tool you've developed to analyse images in newspapers. Melvin: SIAMESE uses machine-learning techniques (like Convolutional Neural Networks and Approximate Nearest Neighbour algorithms) to detect shapes and objects, and search for similar images. For instance, it can recognise visual elements representing a car in an advert, and come up with similar car ads.


Steve Wynn on the future of security in Las Vegas

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Chief executive of Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas enhanced security at his properties after deciding a year ago that Las Vegas was a soft target. This is a rush transcript from "Fox News Sunday," October 8, 2017. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Hurricane Nate hits the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In a week after the Las Vegas massacre, we're still left a simple question: Why? JOE LOMBARDO, LAS VEGAS POLICE SHERIFF: Anything that would indicate this individual trigger points and would cause him to do such harm, we haven't understood that. WALLACE (voice-over): We'll have a live report from Las Vegas with the latest on the investigation. We'll talk with the owner of the town's biggest hotels and casinos, Steve Wynn, who decided a year ago, Las Vegas was a soft target. STEVE WYNN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, WYNN RESORTS: We profile or inspect or examine everybody that enters the building. And then, even gun rights advocates are calling to revoke bump stock, like the Las Vegas gunman used to make his automatic weapons fire faster. PAUL RYAN, R-WIS., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Fully automatic weapons have been outlawed for many, many years. This seems to be a way of going around that. WALLACE (on camera): Is this the start of sweeping gun control? We'll ask Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association. Plus, as President Trump decides to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, his, his secretary of state denies he is considered quitting. REX TILLERSON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: The vice president has never had to persuade me to remain the secretary of state because I have never considered leaving this post. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We must put an end to Iran's continued aggression and nuclear ambitions. WALLACE: We'll ask our Sunday panel about the relationship between the president and Rex Tillerson as they weigh on a major policy change. And our power player of the week, a professional football player goes out of this world to make a difference. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My perspective shifted, I wanted to come home and really help inspire that next generation. We'll get the latest from the investigation into the Las Vegas mass shooting in a moment with a live report, but we begin with breaking news. Hurricane Nate made landfall early this morning striking Biloxi, Mississippi, with rain and winds of 85 miles per hour, causing flooding and power outages.


Can AI Help Us With Our Unknown Unknowns? - DZone Big Data

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When tackling with cutting edge science, it's not always easy to know what it is that we, as humans, lack understanding of. It's what Donald Rumsfeld would call the'unknown unknowns'. To try and overcome this, a team from the University of Vienna have developed an algorithm that can propose new quantum physics experiments itself, with the hope being that it suggests ideas that humans would never have thought of themselves. The researchers, after struggling to generate so called Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states themselves, began formulating an algorithm that might do a better job. They developed an application, called MELVIN, that takes the common building blocks of quantum experiments and then arranges these to propose unique configurations.


Physicists Unleash AI to Devise Unthinkable Experiments

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Quantum physics can fly in the face of human intuition--even that of a physicist such as Mario Krenn at the University of Vienna. This counterintuitive quality makes it difficult for researchers to design experiments to explore the field. Now, to avoid intuitive pitfalls, Krenn and his colleagues have devised a computer program to automatically design new quantum experiments that they would not have thought of themselves. The way that all known particles behave can be explained with quantum physics. A major feature of this branch of physics is that the world becomes a vague, bizarre place at its very smallest levels. For example, atoms and other basic building blocks of the universe can exist in states of flux known as superpositions, meaning they can seemingly be located in two or more places at the same time, or spin in opposite directions simultaneously; and with the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, two or more objects can get connected such that what happens to one instantaneously affects whatever is linked to it, no matter how far apart they are in the universe.