We introduce a language generation task grounded in a popular video game environment. KNUDGE (KNowledge Constrained User-NPC Dialogue GEneration) requires models to produce trees of dialogue between video game characters that accurately reflect quest and entity specifications stated in natural language. KNUDGE is constructed from side quest dialogues drawn directly from game data of Obsidian Entertainment's The Outer Worlds, leading to real-world complexities in generation: (1) dialogues are branching trees as opposed to linear chains of utterances; (2) utterances must remain faithful to the game lore -- character personas, backstories, and entity relationships; and (3) a dialogue must accurately reveal new quest details to the human player. We report results for a set of neural generation models using supervised and in-context learning techniques; we find competent performance but room for future work addressing the challenges of creating realistic, game-quality dialogues.

The world is driven by connections--from financial and communication systems to social and biological processes. As connectedness continues to accelerate, it's not surprising that interest in graph algorithms has exploded because they are based on mathematics explicitly developed to gain insights from the relationships between data. Graph analytics can uncover the workings of intricate systems and networks at massive scales--for any organization. We are passionate about the utility and importance of graph analytics as well as the joy of uncovering the inner workings of complex scenarios. Until recently, adopting graph analytics required significant expertise and determination, because tools and integrations were difficult and few knew how to apply graph algorithms to their quandaries.

Semiconductor stocks outperformed the broader technology sector for a third year running in 2021, and entering 2022, mega-trends such as the adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, next-gen automotive and mobility, electrification and proliferation of low-power intelligent devices on the edge will likely drive further semiconductor content, according to a Needham analyst. The Nvidia Analyst: Rajvindra Gill named Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) as his top AI/ML pickup for 2022. The analyst has a Buy rating on Nvidia shares and $400 price target, suggesting over 40% upside from current levels. The Nvidia Thesis: Nvidia has seen significant growth in both its Gaming and Data Center business thanks to growing adoption of new "RTX" capable GPUs by gamers and proliferation of AI workloads and ML in Data Centers, analyst Gill said in a note. Only 25% of the current 250 million GeForce installed base is RTX-enabled, suggesting a lengthy upgrade cycle ahead and more Gaming upside, the analyst said.

Bigger boats, better equipment, accurate weather forecasts, social media and climate change are threatening fish populations. Four artificial reefs have been sitting off the NT coast for a year, and early results are promising for the $8.3 million project. But environmentalists wish the NT Government would invest "as much energy, money and enthusiasm into existing reefs", which have shown evidence of coral bleaching. A total of 116 Reefpyramids, weighing 24 tonnes each, have been dropped across four sites. NT Fisheries aquatic biosecurity liaison Evan Needham said the reefs were positioned on barren seabed around Darwin to provide fish-breeding areas and destinations for fishers.

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Karen Spärck Jones is winner of the 2007 BCS Lovelace Medal. BCS managing editor Brian Runciman interviewed her. This interview also appears in the ebook Leaders in Computing. By way of introduction, can you tell us something about your work? In some respects I'm not a central computing person, on the other hand the area I've worked in has become more central and important to computing. I've always worked in what I like to call natural language information processing. That is to say dealing with information in natural language and information that is conveyed by natural language, because that's what we use. I think that what has been happening is that those kind of things that were initially thought of as external applications, rather like accounting packages, are becoming more central and not just because more people are using browsers and search engines, but because the information itself they are working with is becoming much more central to what people do.

Industries from health care to the legal sector face being being disrupted by the latest advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), an expert warns, prompting a renewed warning in the wake of Donald Trump's US election victory. Jon Williams, an analyst with professional services firm PwC, said governments in Australia need to have a serious debate about how to prepare for huge changes in the workforce. "I think over the next couple of years, governments have to develop policies that allow them to support the development of new jobs and new industries or we'll see what we saw in the recent US election, where there's a huge disaffected group whose job in a factory disappeared and they haven't been able to replace it," Mr Williams told the ABC. "The next five to 10 years will see jobs in the professions, in medicine, in the legal profession, in professional services starting to be replaced by computers and robots and machine learning." Seven months after the biggest robotic drug dispensary in the southern hemisphere went live at Perth's Fiona Stanley Hospital, pharmacist Ken Tam is keen to talk up the benefits.