BMW Outfits Robots with Artificial Intelligence – Automation World

STR in Isaac Sim with dolly.

Building cars at BMW involves the handling of millions of parts flowing into a factory from more than 4,500 supplier sites. One factor increasing the factory logistics challenge for the BMW Group is the customizability offered by the company. With an average of 100 different options available, this translates into 99% of customer orders being unique to each customer.

Ultimately, the sheer volume of possible configurations became a challenge to BMW Group production in three fundamental areascomputing, logistics planning, and data analysis, said Jurgen Maidl, senior vice president of logistics for the BMW Group.

Nvidia Isaac robotics platform working in sync with robot.To better handle logistics within its factories, BMW now uses four types of material handling robots and a smart transport robot. These robots were developed using Nvidias Isaac robotics platform.

According to Nvidia, its Isaac software development kit provides these robots with neural networks capable of addressing perception, segmentation, and human pose estimation to perceive their environment, detect objects, navigate autonomously and move objects. These robots are trained both on real and synthetic data using Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) to render ray-traced machine parts in a variety of lighting and occlusion conditions to augment real data.

Hanns Huber of BMWHanns Huber, with BMW Groups Communications Production Network, explained how the five different types of robots the company outfitted with Nvidias technology support factory logistics in production operations.

He said that, after delivery to the plant, parts are transported to the assembly line in containers of various sizes. Stationary SplitBots take full plastic boxes from the pallet in the incoming goods area and place them on a conveyor system that transports the boxes to a warehouse. The SplitBot also makes sure the containers are lined up correctly for automated storage. Using Nvidias artificial intelligence, the SplitBot can detect and process up to 450 different containers.

Mobile PlaceBots unload tugger trains and place boxes loaded with goods on a shelf. These robots use Nvidias image recognition system to classify the small load carriers and determine the ideal grip point from the combined input of sensors, cameras, and artificial intelligence. These technologies allow the PlaceBots to move autonomously in a predetermined area.

Another logistics robot, the PickBot has a robotic arm that it uses to collect various small parts from supply racks. Like the SplitBots, the PickBot uses Nvidias AI technology to calculate the right grip point.

The robotic manipulation arm of the SortBot takes empty boxes and puts them on a palette to be sent back to supplier area. These SortBots are deployed in series production to stack empty containers on pallets before they re-enter circulation.

BMWs autonomous Smart Transport Robots (STRs) can identify obstacles such as forklift trucks, as well as humans, to more accurately and quickly suggest alternative routes as needed. They can also learn from the environment and apply different responses to people and objects.

Huber noted that all of these robots have been developed by BMW in the past five years, with most being deployed and tested in BMW factories since 2019. The robots are trialed during our development process at various BMW plants in Germany, as well at our logistics laboratory in Munich, he explained.

The STR was developed by BMWs logistics innovation team together with Fraunhofer Institute Dortmund, Huber added.

STR Robot in BMW facility.BMWs work with Nvidia on this project began in 2019. A BMW Group team of engineers worked on implementing the Nvidia technology with the robots, Huber said. The complete implementation was done in-house at BMW. Two teams from both sidesBMW Group and Nvidiaworked closely to customize and adapt a suitable solution. The first STR with Nvidia technology was deployed as a proof-of-technology in our logistics laboratory in Munich in May 2020. The first productive test will go live by the forth quarter of 2020.

Nvidia notes that the real and synthetic data generated during the testing of these robots are used to train deep neural networks on Nvidias DGX AI infrastructure development systems. The robots are then continuously tested in Nvidias Isaac Sim simulators for navigation and manipulation development, operating on Nvidias Omniverse platform, where multiple BMW Group personnel in different geographies can all work in one simulated environment.

Huber said that, incorporating Nvidias AI technology into BMWs robots allows BMW to optimize our robotics and material flow, as well as take simulations in the planning process to a new level.

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How could we know if an artificial intelligence is really intelligent? – The Naked Scientists

AI expert Beth Singler was on hand to fill us in...

Beth - Yeah. So lots of people have tried to come up with ways to show or describe, or explain intelligence and specifically artificial intelligence. And we've mostly gone down the line of thinking; there are ways to test for intelligence, and that really tells us more about what we think intelligence is. And actually, whether we'll be able to prove intelligence in an artificial entity or machine. I'm really quite fond of a quote from someone called Robert Wilensky, who was a computer scientist working in AI at the very beginning. And he says that very early scientists working on AI were mathematicians, and they looked around and they said, well, we're smart. So if an artificial intelligence is going to be smart, it's going to be able to do the things we can do. And as mathematicians, they could basically prove theorems and play chess. So these same sorts of ideas are now constantly mapped onto what we think AI is going to be able to do to be smart. Whereas I think there might be something interesting in thinking about how an AI might work against our assumptions and programming and be able to do things that are unexpected and unexplained, but also those could theoretically be programmed into it. So it's all very complicated, but I think it does tell us something very, very profound about why we think intelligence is measurable by being able to play chess really well, or Go very well or prove a theorem.

Phil - So are there some under appreciated aspects of quote unquote intelligence, that you think people making these AIs needs to pay more attention to or are starting to pay more attention to?

Beth - Well, we are very aware that intelligence is embodied. Scientists look at cognition through embodiment and as an anthropologist, as a social scientist, I see how an intelligence is a relational thing that we have in community through our human bodies. So increasingly the speculations about how we develop actual humanlike intelligence in machines, would have to require some sort of learning process within an embodied sensory system, and there's work going in that direction. But to simply say, you're intelligent, if you can play chess very well, that that would make me a very not intelligent person. And I hope I am a relatively intelligent person, but I cannot play chess. So there are levels and standards that we have set for intelligence, for our machines and artificial intelligence, but we need to think about how it works in the whole.

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Litmus Partners With ProcessMiner to Offer Leading Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence Platforms for Manufacturing – Yahoo Finance

Alliance to Benefit Industry 4.0 and SMART Factory Initiatives

ATLANTA, June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --ProcessMinerTM, an artificialintelligence platform for manufacturing, and Litmus, the Intelligent Edge Computing Platform for IIoT, today announced a partnership to cross-promote their industry-leading platforms to offer manufacturers a solution that includes real-time data collection, analysis, prediction and process recommendations for continuous improvement.

Litmus provides the data intelligence platform to quickly collect, normalize and analyze high volumes of live data from industrial assets and make it available to OT and IT systems via edge-to-enterprise integration.The ProcessMiner program uses machine learning and sensor data to model, predict and prescribe process control recommendations for product quality improvement purposes.

"Litmus offers something to our customers that is mission-critical," said Karim Pourak, CEO and Co-founder, ProcessMiner. "As customers invest in technology to improve product quality, reduce scrap rates and improve yield, secure access to the incoming data has to be accurate and normalized to ensure the integrity of our predictions and recommendations downstream. Litmus solves that problem for us."

"Process improvement is one of the primary goals for our customers and partnering with ProcessMiner allows us to give them an even stronger offering with cutting-edge AI technology," said JohnYounes, co-founder and COO, Litmus. "We provide the intelligence at the edge, and the power of ProcessMiner's AI will go a long way toward driving measurable ROI for customers looking to further predict quality and make actionable recommendations for manufacturing processes."

One of the unique benefits of the Litmus platform is the bidirectional data and signal delivery capabilities for machines on the factory floor. The Litmus platform quickly collects and normalizes data in real-time at the edge.

After Litmus delivers data to the ProcessMiner platform, the corrective action or recommendation signals can securely and automatically be sent back to the appropriate machine controller usingLitmus Edge. Those signals drive process control activities on the machine automatically, delivering corrective action(s) in real-time.

Under terms of the agreement, both organizations will promote their respective platform capabilities throughout the manufacturing industry.

ABOUT PROCESSMINER:Founded in 2014, the ProcessMiner platform predicts problems in real-time using AI within the manufacturing process. The platform is being rapidly adopted by the Tissue and Packaging industries, inclusive of manufacturers in the Pulp, Paper and Plastics industries and pilot projects are underway with water treatment and energy sectors of manufacturing. For more information, visitwww.processminer.com.

ABOUT LITMUS:Litmus enables out-of-the-box data collection, analytics, and management with an Intelligent Edge Computing Platform for IIoT. Litmus provides the solution to transform critical edge data into actionable intelligence that can power predictive maintenance, machine learning, and AI. Customers include 10+ Fortune 500 manufacturing companies, while partners like Siemens, HPE, Intel and SNC Lavalin expand the Company's path to market. For more information, visitwww.litmus.io.

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BREAKING NEWS: Artificial Intelligence virtual waiter pioneered to get restaurants and bars back up and running – ResponseSource

Artificial Intelligence virtual waiter pioneered to get restaurants and bars back up and running.

An AI powered digital waiter, w8r.ai, has launched to help restaurants, cafes and bars to safely re-open their doors ahead of todays announced 4th July lockdown lifting.

W8R.ai can chat to the customer, guide through the digital menu, suggest dishes and specials and even recommend wine pairing. Diners can see their dishes in augmented reality in front of them or watch their food being prepared with live streaming from the kitchen. Bar customers can use video technology to safely chat with bar staff about a cocktail creation or order another round with a tap of the phone.

The AI waiter doesnt require an app or downloads and doesnt require customers to hand over any data. Customers simply use their phone camera to scan a QR code on their table. This launches the w8r.ai service for the establishment. Any orders are instantly routed with table number details direct to the venues bar or kitchen. It uses advanced natural language processing technology as well as a machine learning algorithm to get better and better with every use.

There are a multitude of order at table services, but the experience provided can be very sterile and bland. Its like ordering a take-away but sitting in the restaurant. W8R.ai goes much deeper and enables venues to provide a dining or drinking experience says founder Craig Holt.

W8R.ai incorporates video conferencing technology to further enhance the experience. Video opens up a world of possibilities added Holt. A world class sommelier could work at multiple restaurants at once using video conferencing.

There is also the ability to exchange messages with the venues actual staff or to call someone over to the table. Each W8R experience is built bespoke to the venue: the balance between human and digital interaction, the words used, the presentation of the menu or the interaction - everything is built around the brand and personality of the venue to create an unforgettable experience for the customer.

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence shows us a future where we neglect to dream – The Verge

The Verge is a place where you can consider the future. So are movies. In Yesterdays Future, we revisit a movie about the future and consider the things it tells us about today, tomorrow, and yesterday.

The movie: A.I. Artificial Intelligence

The future: A.I. begins with a brief summary of the sorry state of the world: climate change has melted the polar ice caps, wiping out coastal cities and severely reducing the human population. With regulations in place for reproduction on a resource-starved planet, corporations developed Mecha androids that appear human but lack emotions. Theyre seen as objects useful for labor or sex work, just human enough to not be strange but machine enough to not mistake them for people.

The story kicks into gear when Professor Allen Hobby (William Hurt) pitches taking Mecha to the next level: a machine that can love. That Mecha becomes David (Haley Joel Osment), an experimental Mecha designed to imprint on his owners and love them unconditionally, forever. And it works David is given to a grieving couple whose son is in suspended animation due to a rare disease. After some hijinks, hes accepted, until Martin, the boy hes filling in for, comes back.

Unfortunately Martin is cruel, and thanks to his manipulation, David is forced from home into a Pinocchio-esque journey to find a Blue Fairy and become a real boy. Through his eyes, we see a nihilistic theme-park vision of the future, where little is done to solve the still-looming climate apocalypse but neon cities and their pleasures boom.

The past: A.I. was released in 2001, but was originally going to come out long before that. Based on Brian Aldiss 1969 short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long, the film began as a Stanley Kubrick project in the 70s, languishing in development hell until the famed directors death in 1999. Steven Spielberg then took over, reportedly hewing closely to the plans Kubrick had for the film.

This meant that, at the time, the critical reception of A.I. largely revolved around its status as a strange hybrid of Kubrick and Spielbergs sensibilities, the last work of an idiosyncratic master carried out by one of his most prominent and stylistically different admirers. Most, like Roger Ebert, felt that the result was a frustrating film, attempting to parse where one mans vision ended and the others began.

But A.I. was an extremely fitting film for 2001, a year characterized by cinematic restlessness. Unsettling arthouse classics Donnie Darko and Mulholland Drive premiered. Shrek, which skewered Disney-style fairy tales with pop culture cynicism, also arrived, unwittingly laying the groundwork for surreal internet memes a decade later. Films that would spawn, extend, or hope to begin franchises floundered in every direction, with understated hits like Oceans Eleven arriving alongside strange blockbusters like Jurassic Park III and showstoppers like The Fellowship of the Ring.

No one knew what the 21st century would mean for movies, and a sad sci-fi fairytale about a robot boy created to stand in the void between a bleak future and an idyllic past could not have been a better match for the times.

The present: At first glance, the hedonistic carnival of A.I.s cities do not seem to hew terribly close to our current moment. Like a lot of cinematic futures, this one seems too loud, too garish, to ever be real. Jude Law as Gigolo Joe? The horrific robot bloodsport of the Flesh Fair, where obsolete robots battle to the death? We dont really have anything like that yet, right?

Only we do. The seeds of this future have already bloomed in our present. Its subtext is our subtext, a world formed by people with all the power afforded them by technology but none of the will to dream or love. The former would demand a clear-eyed response to shared crises looming ahead both at home and abroad; the latter would lead us to wield our innovations compassionately. Instead we have a world where algorithms reinforce biases and outrage is commodified, where every innovation is part and parcel with a new indignity. A lack of humanity that at every turn denies the option of a better future for all in favor of a more extravagant present for a few.

In A.I.s final 20 minutes, its revealed that this is the end of the world. In 2,000 more years, climate change will claim the last habitable portion of the Earth, and David will be the only one left who remembers humanity. Still a child, all David wants to remember is the human mother he imprinted on, but the viewer remembers everything else that the world was doomed by rage at the pending self-imposed disaster that humanity refused to face and instead directed toward the Mecha they created, the Mecha that would outlast them.

They made us too smart, too quick, and too many, Gigolo Joe, the Mecha sexbot that becomes Davids unlikely companion, says in one of his final scenes. In the end, all that will be left is us. Thats why they hate us

A.I. is refreshing because it is not interested in the question of whether or not we should create self-aware synthetic life, but instead asks what our responsibility toward it would be. If you can create a robot to love a human, one character asks early in the film, how do you get a human to love them back?

In the end it doesnt matter. Humanity doesnt even love itself enough to ensure its own survival.

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10 Essential TED Talks on Artificial Intelligence

In the past few years, theres been a lot of discussion around Artificial Intelligence and its implications for everything from industrial applications to smart phone appsand if you have a smart phone, chances are youve come across TED Talks.

If you havent listened to a TED Talk, you should. Presented by people who are deeply connected to the field they are speaking about, it gives you the opportunity to listen to people with an insiders expertise that most of us would never hear from, but who can provide valuable perspectives.

So whether or not youve ever seen a TED Talk, if youve been looking to know more about the current state and future direction of Artificial Intelligence in our world, these 10 TED Talks are essential presentations to help you become fully informed about the state of this revolutionary technology.

Presented by Educator and Entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun & TED Conference Curator Chris Anderson, this Ted Talk is an excellent overview of what people talk about when they talk about artificial intelligence, what people are concerned about, and why.

Some of the highlights include why artificial intelligence is having its breakout moment now, how neural networksthe powerful algorithms that allow software to learn new things, an essential development on the road to a generally intelligent AI, and why we should not fear a runaway AI in the future.

Presented by Bruno Michel, a Computer Research Engineer and member of the US National Academy of Engineering, this TED Talk addresses the elephant in the room for many people in the room when it comes to artificial intelligence: wont it turn against us?

Michel explains the basis for fears expressed by people like Elon Musk that AIs will come to dominate humans in the future before giving his view that engaging in mental fitness exercises, much like we jog for physical exercise, we can build up our collective brain power to remain competitive with an advanced AI.

Presented by Margaret Mitchell, an AI research scientist at Google, relates to us her experience working with computer intelligence and give a warning about the unconscious biases we build into our technology.

Her advice to all of us is in order to develop a beneficial artificial intelligence, we have to start coming together as a society and begin to decide on the path and direction we wish artificial intelligence to take in the future.

Presented by Robin Hauser, documentary filmmaker of the award-winning film CODE:Debugging the Gender Gap and is currently producing a film on the subject of unconscious biases and its impact on society.

Like Mitchell, Hauser details her experience working with unconscious biases and how standards need to be developed to govern the development of artificial intelligence sooner rather than later in order to keep implicit biases out of deep learning algorithms.

Presented by Zeynep Tufekci, a Techno-sociologist working on how our societies intersect with digital connectivity, this TED Talk is a reminder that human morality and our embrace of it is a key safeguard against a possible runaway artificial intelligence.

By exploring how we are already using AIs to make decisions once the sole responsibility of humans, Tufekci explains how we cannot abdicate our moral responsibilities for the unpredictable behavior of the machines we create.

Presented by Stuart Russell, a leading figure in the world of AI development, this Talk discusses the threat of the value alignment problem, where what we say we want is actually different from what we actually desire as it relates to artificial intelligence.

His solution to this problem is a prescription of 3 general rules that should govern the future development of AI to ensure that it is a benefit to humanity and not a detriment or threat.

Presented by Max Tegmark, a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, this Talk discusses what the real challenges presented by artificial intelligence are, as opposed to uninformed speculation.

By laying out procedures for artificial intelligence research and development, Tegmark says, we can guide AI development away from the potential hazards and direct it towards the world-altering benefits that a beneficial AI system represents.

Presented by Kai-Fu Lee, one of the leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the Chinese Technology industry, Lee recounts his own experience of almost robotic, machine-like dedication to work and how it nearly destroyed his life.

By eliminating jobs that stifle and detract from peoples humanity through crushing, routine work, Lee says, artificial intelligence presents human beings with the opportunity to create entirely new industries built around compassion, community, and kindness where people can work in ways that reinforce their humanity rather than smother it.

Presented by Grady Booch, a scientist, and philosopher with IBM, this Talk delves into all of the fears people have about an artificial superintelligence and their origins in cultural panic, not actual science.

Booch explains how artificial intelligence will develop the morality we want it to possess as we teach it the kinds of human values that will ensure it will be a benefit to humanity, which is too significant to pass up because of unfounded fears of a malevolent AI.

Presented by Garry Kasparov, the chess player, widely considered the best in the world, who famously lost a chess match in 1997 to IBMs Deep Blue.

Now an advocate for global democracy and human rights, Kasparov could be forgiven if he distrusted artificial intelligence and the governments who might wield them.

Instead, Kasparov shares his hopes and visions for a world in which artificial intelligence can advance the cause of humanity beyond what many believe possible.

Rather than surrender to our fears, Kasparov says, we must conquer them for the final good of humanity, who stand only to benefit from artificially intelligent systems who share our values, values we can instill and inspire in these systems.

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Best Colleges with Artificial Intelligence Degrees

1 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania offers 2 Artificial Intelligence Degree programs. It's a large private university in a large city. In 2015, 44 students graduated in the study area of Artificial Intelligence with students earning 44 Master's degrees.

Carnegie Mellon University offers 2 Artificial Intelligence Degree programs. It's a large private university in a large city. In 2015, 64 students graduated in the study area of Artificial Intelligence with students earning 45 Master's degrees, and 19 Doctoral degrees.

University of Southern California offers 1 Artificial Intelligence Degree program. It's a large private university in a large city. In 2015, 12 students graduated in the study area of Artificial Intelligence with students earning 12 Master's degrees.

University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus offers 2 Artificial Intelligence Degree programs. It's a large public university in a large city. In 2015, 4 students graduated in the study area of Artificial Intelligence with students earning 2 Master's degrees, and 2 Doctoral degrees.

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus offers 1 Artificial Intelligence Degree program. It's a large public university in a large city. In 2015, 7 students graduated in the study area of Artificial Intelligence with students earning 7 Doctoral degrees.

University of Washington-Seattle Campus offers 2 Artificial Intelligence Degree programs. It's a large public university in a large city. In 2015, 27 students graduated in the study area of Artificial Intelligence with students earning 27 Master's degrees.

Syracuse University offers 1 Artificial Intelligence Degree program. It's a large private university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 1 students graduated in the study area of Artificial Intelligence with students earning 1 Master's degree.

University of Georgia offers 1 Artificial Intelligence Degree program. It's a large public university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 9 students graduated in the study area of Artificial Intelligence with students earning 9 Master's degrees.

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology offers 0 Artificial Intelligence Degree programs. It's a small public university in a small city.

Eastern Michigan University offers 1 Artificial Intelligence Degree program. It's a large public university in a large suburb. In 2015, 1 students graduated in the study area of Artificial Intelligence with students earning 1 Certificates degree.

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Artificial Intelligence | Tools, Publications & Resources

Artificial intelligence seeks to create intelligent machines that work and react more like humans. AI developments rely on deep learning, machine learnings, and natural language processing that help computers accomplish specific tasks by processing large amounts of training data to help the system recognize patterns, input data to drive predictions, and feedback data for improving accuracy over time.

One of the big stories highlighting AIs development and reach was the AlphaGo programs victory over 18-time Go world champion Lee Sedol in a five-game series in 2016. In an article in Nature, DeepMind researchers explained the development of AlphaGo's expertise through a combination of Monte-Carlo tree search (an algorithm for optimal decision making) and deep neural networks that have been trained via supervised learning, observing human expert games, and reinforced by playing games against itself. [1] A year later, in 2017, AlphaGo had another successful outing, defeating a team of five Go champions and then demonstrating a collaborative match where two teams, each composed of a human and an AlphaGo companion, played against each other the researchers celebrated the collaborative approach as a future direction for AI where humans would work in step with Artificial Intelligence to elevate overall performance. [2]

If Googles DeepMind AlphaGo represented the positive developments toward AI, Microsofts Tay artificial intelligence chat bot represented the challenges and limits of the technology. Microsofts research team launched the AI chatbot on Twitter, GroupMe, and Kik as a way to test and improve Microsoft's understanding of conversational language, including the nuances of teens online language. [3] The bot quickly began issuing offensive posts (disputing the existence of the Holocaust, referring to women and minorities with unpublishable words, and advocating genocide), partly in response to user commands for the bot to repeat users own statements, while also learning bad behavior as it ingested content from its social media forums. [4] Microsoft apologized for the unintended offensive tweets and tried to explain some of what happened while recognizing the pilot as part of a process for moving forward with the technology. [5] The experience with Tay could actually limit artificial intelligence development, as some technology companies have become reluctant to set conversational artificial intelligence systems free to talk with the large numbers of people needed to train them. [6]

Technology companies are finding roles for artificial intelligence in moderating online content. Facebooks artificially intelligent language processing engine, Deep Text, applies deep learning to understand human language the company initially pursued Deep Text to power chatbots in Messenger, to filter out spam and abusive comments from users Newsfeeds, and to help understand the topic area and even the content of just about anything people post on the social network. [7] The system quickly surpassed humans in flagging offensive photos, quarantining obscene content before it ever reaches users. [8] As Facebooks use of AI has advanced, it has begun to explore artificial intelligences use in flagging material on the video platform Facebook Live, which requires computer vision algorithms that are fast, know how to prioritize policies, and when content should be taken down. [9] Facebook also sees opportunities for artificial intelligence to teach itself to identify key phrases that were previously flagged for being used to bolster a known terrorist group, to identify users who create fake accounts in order to spread extremist or terrorist content, or to identify users associated with clusters of pages or groups that promote extremist content. [10] In 2017, Facebook announced plans to integrate AI into a program that allowed users to flag troubling image or status posts, helping to identify posts that suggest that a user may be suicidal; Facebook partnered with organizations like the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the National Eating Disorder Association, and the Crisis Text Line so that when users posts are flagged, they can connect immediately via Messenger. [11] Facebooks suicide prevention program evolved to the point that the technology can proactively identify a post or Facebook Live broadcast "likely to include thoughts of suicide," and send those posts to Facebook's trained reviewers who, in turn, can contact first responders. [12]

Facebook has continued to pursue AI as a tool to better understand content on the network, including its Automatic Alternative Text tool which uses deep neural networks to identify particular objects in a photo and pick out particular characteristics of the people in the photo to create a caption that a text-to speech engine can then read aloud for users with low visibility while the system doesnt always get images exactly correct, it is an improvement and shows the growing potential for AI to recognize and describe photos and images. [13] Facebook is also exploring how artificial intelligence can process content and make suggestions based on that content. By integrating AI into its personal assistant technology M, Facebook can suggest users book an Uber or prompt them to send money to a friend based on whatever it is the user was talking about in Messenger. [14] And Facebook developers have also used deep learning and neural networks to train its Lumos system to recognize scenes, objects, animals, places, attractions, and clothing items in photos, allowing users to search for and retrieve photos even if they themselves have not annotated them. [15]

In addition to content moderation, artificial intelligence is increasingly being used for content generation. From short films (Sunspring by the AI program Benjamin), to podcasts (Sheldon County), to short stories (Shelley), artificial intelligence systems are being used to develop creative or artistic outputs. [16] AI is also increasingly used to evaluate artistic outputs, such as a system of neural networks developed by Disney and the University of Massachusetts Boston that can evaluate short stories to predict which stories will be most popular by looking at different sections of each story and the holistic view of a story's meaning. [17]

AI is also being used to develop informational content and news reporting. Systems like IBMs Watson are providing real-time scores, assessments, and automated video captions for a range of sporting events and cultural activities. [18] Newspapers are turning to AI to produce news coverage, such as The Washington Posts use of its Heliograf artificial intelligence program to cover every House, Senate, and gubernatorial race on election day, freeing up reporters to focus on high-profile contests. [19]

And artificial intelligence is also being integrated into education. The IBM Foundation and the American Federation of Teachers have collaborated to build Teacher Advisor, a program that uses artificial intelligence technology to answer questions from educators and help them build personalized lesson plans. [20]

These advances are all in addition to the ways that artificial intelligence research will transform higher education and research centers. IBM and MIT have signed a 10-year, $240 million partnership agreement that establishes the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab where IBM researchers and MIT students and faculty will work side by side to conduct advanced AI research. [21]

As artificial intelligence makes its way into more and more sectors, the dominant concern remains the potential impact it will have on the workforce. A 2018 Gallup survey found that the American public widely embraces artificial intelligence in attitude and practice, with nearly five in six Americans already using some product or service featuring AI, but most Americans recognize the technologies potential impact on future employment. [22] Those concerns for employment are supported by ample research. A 2018 report from PwC predicts three waves of automation a flood of algorithms where machines handle data analysis and simple digital tasks; augmentation inundation, when repeatable tasks and the exchange of information will come to be done by humans and automated systems working together; and, finally, an autonomy tsunami, when machines and software will make decisions and take physical actions with little or no human input with experts noting that most developed countries are already well into the first stage. [23] Still other research places AIs development and threat in a more nuanced context. An AI Indexcreated by researchers at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a McKinsey Global Institute report, and a National Bureau of Economic Research article by economists from M.I.T. and the University of Chicago collectively suggest that AI can likely do less now than we think, but that it will eventually do more in more sectors than we could expect, and that it will probably evolve faster than past technologies. [24] As important as the question of when, might be the question of where geographically and in which sectors. Several reports (a 2017 study from Northwestern University and MIT and a 2017 report from the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis at the University of Redlands) indicate that AI might have its greatest effects on cities where more jobs are routine clerical work, such as cashier and food service jobs, which are more susceptible to automation while that could include larger cities like Las Vegas, Orlando, and Louisville, it could also include smaller cities with fewer than 100,000 people, where such jobs may have higher concentrations. [25] As routine service and clerical jobs become susceptible to automation, other industries that rely on skills in statistics, mathematics, and software development, will likely see growth or stability, as they build and improve the systems that replace traditional manufacturing and service workers. [26]

A preview of AIs potential impact on clerical work might be available in Google Duplex. At its 2018 I/O conference Google debuted its Google Duplex AI System, which helps Google Assistant accomplish real-world tasks over the phone (book an appointment, make reservations) initially, the system only operates in closed domains (exchanges that are functional, with strict limits on what is going to be said) and will have disclosure built-in so that a verbal announcement will be made to the person on the other end of the call. [27] Google has begun to explore options for Duplexs use in call centers to improve call handling by giving the common but simple queries to Duplex, leaving a limited number of human workers to field more advanced call issues. [28] In a similar vein, IBM Watson and Japanese insurance company Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance introduced an AI solution that can scan hospital records and other documents to determine insurance payouts, factoring injuries, patient medical histories, and procedures administered the system will replace 34 human insurance claim workers. [29]Googles Duplex is just one of several initiatives to make artificial intelligence systems that can communicate more like humans and accomplish more human tasks. IBMs Project Debater seeks tointeract and debate with people across 100 topics the current scope of interactions are tightly constrained to a four-minute opening statement, followed by a rebuttal to the opponents argument, and then a statement summing up a viewpoint. [30] Amazons Alexa Prize competition has researchers create a chatbot using Alexa that can talk to a human for 20 minutes without messing up. [31]

Even if AI does not fully replace jobs, there is a clear desire to use AI to augment work. Googles DeepMind has begun exploring avenues into healthcare with the creation of DeepMind Health that will create apps to help medical professionals identify patients at risk of complications and organize and prioritize admitted patients while neither of the initial products use artificial intelligence, deep learning, or neural networks, the entry into the space indicates their longer-term interest in the technologys deployment in this space. [32]

Through all of these developments, governments will increasingly consider the technologys potential effects on the economy and innovation. The U.S. government has accelerated its focus on artificial intelligence, hosting a White House summit on artificial intelligence that included representatives from 38 companies (including Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Intel) to discuss how the government can fund AI research and alter regulations to advance the technology and announcing a Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence made of up the leading AI researchers in government and charged with advising the White House on governmentwide AI research and development priorities and the establishment of partnerships between government, the private sector, and independent researchers. [33] The Trump administration has pledged to release more government data that might help fuel AI research in the U.S., but what kind of data would be released or who would be eligible to receive the information remains unclear. [34]

Artificial intelligence could become an invaluable tool for organizing and making accessible large collections of information. Googles Life Tags project is a searchable archive of Life magazine photographs that used artificial intelligence to attach hundreds of tags to organize the archive. [35] Another Google project, Talk to Books, lets users type in a statement or a question and the system retrieves whole sentences in books related to what was typed, with results based not on keyword matching, but on more complex training of AI to identify what a good response looks like. [36] The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a nonprofit created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, unveiled Semantic Scholar, a search engine that uses machine learning and other AI to improve the way academics search through the growing body of public research, more easily accessing research papers, targeting specific results, and revealing images, by using natural language processing algorithms and computer vision technology. [37]

As AI becomes more adept at generating content, it could further complicate users navigation of a complex information environment. Artificial intelligence will be able to create 3D face models from a single 2D image; manipulate facial expressions on video in real time using a human puppet; change the light source and shadows in any picture; generate sound effects based on mute video; and resurrect characters using old clips and many of these effects have given rise to the deep fakes that manipulate video and other images. [38]As with many other technologies, AI may become one more development that libraries help communities better understand. Facebook launched a campaign to educate people on the basics of artificial intelligence, focusing on the technology behind photo recognition, self-driving cars, and language translation. [39] In a similar way, the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) articulated a vision for libraries to serve communities by advancing algorithmic literacywhile also ensuring an equitable and inclusive future by monitoring the storage, privacy, and application of data as AI technology becomes more ubiquitous.

If AI becomes a serious threat to jobs, libraries roles in workforce development may become even more important, but also more complicated. A compounded challenge may arise where workforce development will need to encompass not only the preparation for entry level individuals (into a market that is increasingly limited and competitive), but also solutions for a new vacuum in middle level management caused by the elimination of once plentiful entry level workers who matriculated into middle management. [40] The new workforce development demands will likely require higher-order critical, creative, and innovative thinking as well as emotional engagement, placing a greater value on the quality of thinking, listening, relating, collaborating, and learning. [41]

AIs dependence on data sets can reinforce certain human systems, including bias. [42] Many researchers and practitioners are exploring options to address sexism and racism in AI development by curating new data sets that balance gender and ethnicity and more intentionally labeling and annotating data sets to show how the sets were collected. [43] To help change the way AI understands LGBT-related content, GLADD announced a partnership with Alphabets Jigsaw division to train AI with positive LGBT-related content and distinguish between phrases that are offensive to the LGBT community and those that are acceptable. [44] Coupled with efforts to change the scope and nature of data that trains AI systems are efforts to recruit women and other underrepresented groups into the field of artificial intelligence. [45]

Issues of sexism, racism, and bias are just part of the larger ethical concerns around AI. In 2017, Google launched a DeepMind ethics group to oversee the responsible development of artificial intelligence by helping developers put ethics into practice and educating society about the potential impacts of AI. [46] A 2018 report, authored by two dozen researchers from Oxford, Cambridge, OpenAI, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Endgame, and the Center for a New American Security, focused on the potential negative effects of AI, including malicious uses of the technology. [47] While computer science programs have been required to provide students with an understanding of ethical issues related to computing in order to be accredited by ABET, a growing number of universities are launching new courses on the ethics of artificial intelligence, the ethical foundations of computer science, and other offerings that will help train the next generation of technologists and policymakers to consider the ramifications of innovations before those products are made available to the public. [48] As technologist are increasingly motivated to consider the ethical implications of their innovations, religion, philosophy, and the humanities could play an increasingly important role in the development of artificial intelligence. [49]

Many technology leaders are working to open the artificial intelligence field to make it more collaborative. Organizations like OpenAI, which was established by tech leaders like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman, promote a beneficial goal of advancing digital intelligence in ways that benefit humanity, free from the demand to generate financial return. [50] Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google's DeepMind, and IBM are among the major partners in the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society, which seeks to conduct open-source research and investigate globally important AI issues such as ethics and human and AI system collaboration. [51] In 2016, Apple announced plans to allow its artificial intelligence teams to publish research papers, reversing an earlier strategy to keep their research in-house, in the hopes that engaging with the larger community might allow researchers to feed off wider advances in the field. [52]

Even as artificial intelligence research has sought to become more collaborative, it has also put a strain on traditional systems of research and knowledge production and sharing. Many universities in the United States and Europe are losing talented computer scientists and artificial intelligence experts, lured away from academia by private sector offers the shift from academic settings to the private sector has implications for not only research production and dissemination, but also the teaching and training of future generations. [53] In the United States, some technology companies have shifted their artificial intelligence operations to be closer to the universities that produce leading researchers. Facebook opened new artificial intelligence labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh after hiring three AI and robotics professors from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University in addition to advancing Facebooks research, the professors will be better positioned to recruit and train other AI experts from those universities programs. [54] Still other technology companies have developed research labs with specific commitments to academic institutions Microsofts Research AI unit engaged in a formal partnership with MITs Center for Brains, Minds and Machines. [55]

[1] "Googles AI Is Now Reigning Go Champion of the World," Daniel Oberhaus, Motherboard, March 12, 2016, available from https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dak7w/googles-ai-is-now-reig...

[2] "Googles AlphaGo AI defeats team of five leading Go players," Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch, May 26, 2017, available from https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/26/googles-alphago-ai-defeats-team-of-fiv...

[3] Microsoft made a chatbot that tweets like a teen, Jacob Kastreakes, The verge, March 23, 2016, available from https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/23/11290200/tay-ai-chatbot-released-micr...

[4] Microsoft Created a Twitter Bot to Learn from Users. It Quickly Became a Racist Jerk, Daniel Victor, The New York Times, March 24, 2016, available from https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/technology/microsoft-created-a-twitte...

[5] Microsoft shows what it learned from its Tay AI's racist tirade, Jon Fingas, Engadget, March 25, 2016, available from https://www.engadget.com/2016/03/25/microsoft-explains-tay-ai-incident/

[6] To Give A.I. the Gift of Gab, Silicon Valley Needs to Offend You, Cade Metz and Keith Collins, The New York Times, February 21, 2018, available from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/21/technology/conversational...

[7] "Facebook Is Teaching Its Computers to Understand Everything You Post," Will Oremus, Slate, June 1, 2016, available from http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/06/01/facebook_s_new_ai_eng...

[8] "Facebook spares humans by fighting offensive photos with AI," Josh Constine, TechCrunch, May 31, 2016, available from https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/31/terminating-abuse/

[9] "Facebook developing artificial intelligence to flag offensive live videos." Kristina Cooke, Reuters, December 1, 2016, available from https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-ai-video-idUKKBN13Q52M

[10] "Facebook Will Use Artificial Intelligence to Find Extremist Posts," Sheera Frenkel, The New York Times, June 15, 2017, available from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/technology/facebook-artificial-intell...

[11] "Facebook leverages artificial intelligence for suicide prevention," Natt Garun, The Verge, March 1, 2017, available from https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/1/14779120/facebook-suicide-prevention-t...

[12] "Facebook's suicide prevention AI can now do more to help people in trouble," Karissa Bell, Mashable, November 27, 2017, available from https://mashable.com/2017/11/27/facebook-ai-suicide-prevention/#4hI.WyNN...

[13] "Facebooks AI is now automatically writing photo captions," Cade Metz, Wired, April 5, 2016, available from https://www.wired.com/2016/04/facebook-using-ai-write-photo-captions-bli...

[14] "Facebook is using AI in private messages to suggest an Uber or remind you to pay a friend," Kurt Wagner, Recode, April 6, 2017, available from https://www.recode.net/2017/4/6/15203526/facebook-messenger-m-artificial...

[15] "Facebook's AI image search can 'see' what's in photos," Billy Steele, Engadget, February 2, 2017, available from https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/02/facebook-ai-image-search/

[16] Please see any of the below as examples:

Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense, Annalee Newitz, ArsTechnica, June 9, 2016, available from https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-this-movie-and-its-st...

What an infinite AI-generated podcast can tell us about the future of entertainment, James Vincent, The Verge, March 11, 2018, available from https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/11/17099578/ai-generated-podcast-procedu...

AI can write surprisingly scary and creative horror stories, Swapna Krishna, Engadget, October 31, 2017, available from https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/31/shelley-ai-writes-horror-stories-on-...

[17] Disney Research taught AI how to judge short stories, Rob Lefebvre, Engadget, October 21, 2017, available from https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/21/disney-research-taught-ai-to-judge-s...

[18] Please see any of the below as examples:

At This Years U.S. Open, IBM Wants To Give You All The Insta-Commentary You Need, Steven Melendez, Fast Company, September 2, 2016, available from https://www.fastcompany.com/3063369/at-this-years-us-open-ibm-wants-to-g...

Wimbledon to Use IBMs Watson AI for Highlights, Analytics, Helping Fans, Jeremy Kahn, Bloomberg, June 27, 2017, available from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-27/wimbledon-to-use-ibm-...

IBM is sending Watson to the Grammys, Brian Mastroianni, Engadget, January 24, 2018, available from https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/24/ibm-watson-grammys/

[19] Washington Post to Cover Every Major Race on Election Day With Help of Artificial Intelligence, Lukas I. Alpert, The Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2016, available from https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-post-to-cover-every-major-race-o...

[20] Next Target for IBMs Watson? Third-Grade Math, Elizabeth A. Harris, September 27, 2016, available from https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/nyregion/ibm-watson-common-core.html

and

Artificially intelligent math for school educators, A Fine, District Administration, October 27, 2017, available from http://districtadministration.com/artificially-intelligent-math-for-scho...

[21] IBM and MIT pen 10-year, $240M AI research partnership, Ron Miller, TechCrunch, September 6, 2017, available from https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/06/ibm-and-mit-pen-10-year-240m-ai-resear...

[22] Most Americans See Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Jobs (Just Not Theirs), Niraj Chokshi, March 6, 2018, available from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/artificial-intelligence-jobs.html

[23] Automation is going to hit workers in three waves, and the first one is already here, Erin Winick, MIT Technology Review, February 7, 2018, available from https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/610211/automation-is-going...

[24] A.I. Will Transform the Economy. But How Much, and How Soon?, Steve Lohr, The New York Times, November 30, 2017, available from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/technology/ai-will-transform-the-econ...

[25] Small cities face greater impact from automation, Brian Wang, Next Big Future, October 24, 2017, available from https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/small-cities-face-greater-impact-f...

and

The Parts of America Most Susceptible to Automation, Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, May 3, 2017, available from https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/the-parts-of-americ...

[26] What Does Work Look Like in 2026? New Statistics Shine Light on Automations Impacts, Erin Winick, MIT Technology Review, October 25, 2017, available from https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609218/what-does-work-look...

[27] Googles AI sounds like a human on the phone should we be worried? James Vincent, The Verge, May 9, 2018, available from https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17334658/google-ai-phone-call-assistan...

and

Google now says controversial AI voice calling system will identify itself to humans, Nick Statt, The Verge, May 10, 2018, available from https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/10/17342414/google-duplex-ai-assistant-v...

[28] Google's Duplex AI could soon be running call centers, Chris Merman, The Inquirer, July 6, 2018, available from https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3035476/google-duplex-could-so...

[29] Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence, Dave Gershgorn, Quartz, January 2, 2017, available from https://qz.com/875491/japanese-white-collar-workers-are-already-being-re...

[30] IBM Unveils System That Debates With Humans, Cade Metz and Steve Lohr, The New York Times, June 18, 2018, available from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/technology/ibm-debater-artificial-int...

[31] Inside Amazons $3.5 million competition to make Alexa chat like a human, James Vincent, The Verge June 13, 2018, available from https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/13/17453994/amazon-alexa-prize-2018-comp...

[32] "Google AI group that's mastering Go is now taking on healthcare," Jacob Kastrenakes, Feruary 25, 2016, available from https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/25/11112366/deepmind-health-launches-med...

[33] Amazon, Google and Microsoft to attend White House AI summit, John Fingas, Engadget, May 8, 2018, available from https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/08/white-house-ai-summit/

and

White House Announces Select Committee of Federal AI Experts, Aaron Boyd, NextGov, May 10, 2018, available from https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/05/white-house-announces-sele...

[34] The White House promises to release government data to fuel the AI boom, Will Knight, MIT Technology Review, June 5, 2018, available from https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611331/the-white-house-promises-to-re...

[35] Google used AI to sort millions of historical Life photos you can explore online, James Vincent, The Verge, March 7, 2018, available from https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/7/17091392/google-ai-photo-tagging-life-...

[36] Google AI experiment has you talking to books, Mariella Moon, Engadget, April 14, 2018, available from https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/14/google-ai-experiment-talk-to-books/

[37] Allen Institute for AI Eyes the Future of Scientific Search, Cade Metz, Wired, November 11, 2016, available from https://www.wired.com/2016/11/allen-institute-ai-eyes-future-scientific-...

[38] Artificial intelligence is going to make it easier than ever to fake images and video, James Vincent, The Verge, December 20, 2016, available from https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/20/14022958/ai-image-manipulation-creat...

[39] Facebook: Don't freak out about artificial intelligence, Richard Nieva, CNET, December 1, 2016, available from https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-artificial-intelligence-filter-bubble...

[40] AI will rob companies of the best training tool they have: grunt work, Sarah Kessler, Quartz, May 11, 2017, available from https://qz.com/979812/how-ai-will-change-the-shape-of-organizations/

[41] In the AI Age, Being Smart Will Mean Something Completely Different, Ed Hess, Harvard Business Review, June 19, 2017, available from https://hbr.org/2017/06/in-the-ai-age-being-smart-will-mean-something-co...

[42] Artificial Intelligences White Guy Problem, Kate Crawford, The New York Times, June 25, 2016, available from https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligenc...

and

AI facial analysis demonstrates both racial and gender bias, Swapna Krishna, Engadget, February 12, 2018, available from https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/12/facial-analysis-ai-has-racial-gender...

[43] AI can be sexist and racist its time to make it fair, James Zhou and Laura Schiebinger, Nature, July 18, 2018, available from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05707-8

[44] Googles parent company is using AI to make the internet safer for LGBT people, Maria LaMagna, MarketWatch, March 14, 2018, available from https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-artificial-intelligence-can-make-t...

[45] The Future of AI Depends on High-School Girls, Lauren Smiley, The Atlantic, May 23, 2018, available from https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/ai-future-women/5...

[46] Googles DeepMind Launches Ethics Group to Steer AI, George Dvorsky, Gizmodo, October 4, 2017, available from https://gizmodo.com/google-s-deepmind-launches-ethics-group-to-steer-ai-...

[47] Why artificial intelligence researchers should be more paranoid, Tom Simonite, Wired, February 20, 2018, available from https://www.wired.com/story/why-artificial-intelligence-researchers-shou...

[48] Techs Ethical Dark Side: Harvard, Stanford and Others Want to Address It, Natasha Singer, The New York Times, February 12, 2018, available from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/business/computer-science-ethics-cour...

[49] Artificial intelligence doesnt have to be evil. We just have to teach it to be good. Ryan Holmes, Recode, November 30, 2017, available from https://www.recode.net/2017/11/30/16577816/artificial-intelligence-ai-hu...

[50] Elon Musk Snags Top Google Researcher for New AI Non-profit," Cade Metz, Wired, December 11, 2015, available from https://www.wired.com/2015/12/elon-musk-snags-top-google-researcher-for-...

[51] "Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft form new AI alliance," Lance Ulanoff, Mashable, September 9, 2016, available from https://mashable.com/2016/09/29/partnership-on-ai/#2WlFh7QQNqqx

[52] Apple to Start Publishing AI Research to Hasten Deep Learning, Alex Webb, Bloomberg, December 6, 2016, available from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-06/apple-to-start-publis...

[53] 'We can't compete': Why universities are losing their best AI scientists, Ian Sample, The Guardian, November 1, 2017, available from https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/01/cant-compete-universitie...

[54] Facebook adds A.I. labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, pressuring local universities, Cade Metz, The New York Times, May 4, 2018, available from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/technology/facebook-artificial-intell...

[55] Microsoft creates an AI research lab to challenge Google and DeepMind, Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch, July 12, 2017, available from https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/microsoft-creates-an-ai-research-lab-t...

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