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Should You Cancel Xbox Game Pass? Everything to Know on the Price Hikes and New Features

WIRED

Xbox users in the US face price increases up to 50 percent on their monthly gaming subscription, making it a great time to check if you're on the right tier or if you even need to subscribe at all. Like it or loathe it, we live in a subscription economy. Music, movies, meal boxes, and more are no longer things you buy once. Gaming is no exception, and while every major player in the sector has some form of sub for players--from PlayStation Plus and Nintendo Switch Online for consoles to Apple Arcade on phones--none of them offered quite as much for a modest monthly fee as Xbox Game Pass. Depending on the subscription tier, the service gave players access to a significant library of titles and was available on Xbox consoles, PC, or via cloud gaming.


The Tesla Model Y and Model 3 Standard Are Cheaper--but Still Not Cheap

WIRED

The electric vehicle tax credit is gone, and Tesla's new, more affordable models don't quite close the gap. For nearly two decades, CEO Elon Musk has promised Tesla would make a more affordable electric vehicle, to, as he put it in 2006, "help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy." On Tuesday, Tesla announced a new Model Y and Model 3 Standard, versions of its popular compact SUV and sedan stripped of a few higher-end touches and features to bring the price down to $39,990 and $36,990, respectively. They're both about $5,000 cheaper than the Premium variants, which goes a ways--but not all the way--toward recouping the $7,500 tax credit canceled by the GOP-led Congress this past summer . The price point also puts Tesla's newest models firmly in the "more affordable" EV camp.


TAMGU: A new open source programming language to help create, annotate and augment corpora and data. - Naver Labs Europe

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Speech recognition or machine translation have entered the lives of millions of people but, to make the machine learning (ML) algorithms behind them work better, it takes a lot of annotated and structured data. One way to get this data is by creating your own using specialized tools, an approach for which Christophe Rรฉ coined the term'Data Programming'. We now compare corpora annotated by hand and by humans as'Gold Standard' with'Silver Standard' data created semi-automatically by artificial means. While Rรฉ's group has produced its own set of tools to do this (called'Snorkel'), we decided to address the problem from the angle of programming. Having spent many years doing research on formal grammars, I watched these so-called symbolic methods gradually decline in favour of statistical approaches.


how-ai-will-become-omnipresent

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We had to go through a whole process of development and discovery, and, as a result of computer experts working hand in hand with domain experts over the course of 15 to 20 years, computers and specialized software were developed to suit different needs. Most people now are familiar with conversion rate optimization (CRO), where site operators try to maximize conversions by testing new ideas for design, messaging, user experience, and more. The operator sets parameters and goals, but the AI decides the combination of ideas, always trying to find a better answer and better results against that goal. And just like computerization, AI enablement will only be fully achieved once all of us can be considered AI experts by today's standards.


How to teach an artificial brain to understand right and wrong

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Movies like I, Robot, Wall-e and Bicentennial Man pose interesting questions that blur lines between man and machines. Now that we step forward into the "cognitive era" with machines capable of thinking and taking decisions just like humans, the question of what should be the guiding star for our actions is gaining a newfound importance. This is yet another issue that we must contend with, and that is โ€“ we must decide as to not only which ethical principles must be encoded into our man-made machines to think like us, but also how to encode these ethics. While for the most part, "Thou shalt not kill" remains a cornerstone of a principle for coding intelligence in AI.


The Formalization of AI Risk Management and Safety Standards

AAAI Conferences

Researchers have identified a number of possible risks posed to humanity by anticipated advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), but the extant literature on the topic is largely academic or theoretical in nature. Despite the likelihood that much of AIโ€™s future development will occur in industry settings, the insights generated by the AI safety research community have yet to be translated into a set of practical guidelines for working developers, project managers, and other industrial stakeholders. There are no currently established standards in place to guide the safe development of AI technologies, but the risk management approach employed in mature industries such as aerospace and medical manufacturing offers a promising model that may be adapted to AI related safety concerns. Within these industries, the safety guidelines and best practices derived from the risk management approach are developed, evaluated, formalized, and disseminated by industry specific Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs). This paper proposes a project to spur the development and adoption of formal AI risk management practices by demonstrating the approachโ€™s viability through the completion of an AI risk assessment process. The results of the proposed activities are intended to lay the initial groundwork necessary for the eventual creation of an AI SDO.


Fast Cross-Validation for Incremental Learning

AAAI Conferences

Cross-validation (CV) is one of the main tools for performance estimation and parameter tuning in machine learning. The general recipe for computing CV estimate is to run a learning algorithm separately for each CV fold, a computationally expensive process. In this paper, we propose a new approach to reduce the computational burden of CV-based performance estimation. As opposed to all previous attempts, which are specific to a particular learning model or problem domain, we propose a general method applicable to a large class of incremental learning algorithms, which are uniquely fitted to big data problems. In particular, our method applies to a wide range of supervised and unsupervised learning tasks with different performance criteria, as long as the base learning algorithm is incremental. We show that the running time of the algorithm scales logarithmically, rather than linearly, in the number of CV folds. Furthermore, the algorithm has favorable properties for parallel and distributed implementation. Experiments with state-of-the-art incremental learning algorithms confirm the practicality of the proposed method.


Fast Cross-Validation for Incremental Learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Cross-validation (CV) is one of the main tools for performance estimation and parameter tuning in machine learning. The general recipe for computing CV estimate is to run a learning algorithm separately for each CV fold, a computationally expensive process. In this paper, we propose a new approach to reduce the computational burden of CV-based performance estimation. As opposed to all previous attempts, which are specific to a particular learning model or problem domain, we propose a general method applicable to a large class of incremental learning algorithms, which are uniquely fitted to big data problems. In particular, our method applies to a wide range of supervised and unsupervised learning tasks with different performance criteria, as long as the base learning algorithm is incremental. We show that the running time of the algorithm scales logarithmically, rather than linearly, in the number of CV folds. Furthermore, the algorithm has favorable properties for parallel and distributed implementation. Experiments with state-of-the-art incremental learning algorithms confirm the practicality of the proposed method.


Review of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Five Overviews

AI Magazine

AI Magazine Volume 7 Number 1 (1986) ( AAAI) of the crucial terms involved in his analysis, such as "probability" Mauadne 4(4):7-14 falsity of his claims is often impossible to assess. Nute, Donald k. '(1980) Topics in conditional logic Dordrecht, Holland: conceptions upon which his view is based do indeed conform M. Ringle, (Ed.), Philosophical Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence traditional conceptions should not be taken for granted, Terry L. Rankin his observation that "Probability theory is today our primary At hens, Georgia such as "average" and "likely," and therefore it is the most natural language for describing those aspects of (heuristic) performance that we seek to improve" (p. Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: On general theoretical grounds, I think, there are excellent Five Overviews. Busi-reasons to suppose that (a)-(f) are fundamental ness/Technology Books; 1984. Gevarter's work was published by the National that serious difficulties seem to confront the theoretical Bureau of Standards as a set of five volumes, and this book, framework he apparently endorses, where these difficulties published by Business/Technology Books, is Gevarter's are especially severe from an epistemological perspective.