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Artificial intelligence reinforces power and privilege
Advanced nations and the world's biggest companies have thrown billions of dollars behind AI - a set of computing practices, including machine learning that collate masses of our data, analyse it, and use it to predict what we would do. An inventor of virtual reality, Lanier worked with AI pioneer...
Open-sourcing AI Habitat, an advanced simulation platform for embodied AI research
To accelerate progress in this space, we’re sharing AI Habitat, a new simulation platform created by Facebook AI that’s designed to train embodied agents (such as virtual robots) in photo-realistic 3D environments.
Video Friday: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Tries Dexterous Robot Hands
Last week at the re:MARS conference, Amazon CEO and aspiring supervillain Jeff Bezos tried out this pair of dexterous robotic hands, which he described as “weirdly natural” to operate.
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Research
The human pursuit of artificial intelligence | Thore Graepel | TEDxExeter
Thore Graepel is a research group lead at DeepMind and chair of machine learning at University College London.
Bayesian Deep Learning Benchmarks
Bayesian Deep Learning Benchmarks In order to make real-world difference with Bayesian Deep Learning (BDL) tools, the tools must scale to real-world settings.
Applied use cases
What do machine learning practitioners actually do?
It will address what it is that machine learning practitioners do, with Part 2 explaining AutoML and neural architecture search (which several high profile figures have suggested will be key to decreasing the need for data scientists) and Part 3 will cover Google’s heavily hyped AutoML product .
Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets
“It has all the hallmarks.” Experts who reviewed the Jones profile’s LinkedIn activity say it’s typical of espionage efforts on the professional networking site, whose role as a global Rolodex has made it a powerful magnet for spies.
Ethics
Workshop on Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in Computer Vision at CVPR 2019
Kate Saenko is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, and the director of the Computer Vision and Learning Group.
Safe and Ethical AI Research Fellows
The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.
Robotics
Massive 3D Dataset Helps Robots Understand What Things Are
PartNet is a new semantic database of common objects that brings a new level of real-world understanding to robots.
Avatar Love? New ‘Black Mirror’ Episode Explores How VR Could Impact Relationships
Like most Black Mirror episodes, these explore the sometimes disturbing implications of tech advancements on humanity.