In the News
Can you teach a machine to think?
The AI powering your weather forecast, Instagram filter, or favorite Spotify playlist is a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking machines industry pioneers have been musing about for decades.
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Research
GPT-3 & Beyond: 10 NLP Research Papers You Should Read
If you’d like to skip around, here are the papers we featured: WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema Challenge at Scale Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text
Understanding RL Vision
In this article, we apply interpretability techniques to a reinforcement learning (RL) model trained to play the video game CoinRun .
DeepMind Lab2D
DeepMind Lab2D A learning environment written in C++ and Lua for the creation of grid worlds. About DeepMind Lab2D is a system for the creation of 2D environments for machine learning.
Green AI
Since 2012, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has reported remarkable progress on a broad range of capabilities including object recognition, game playing, speech recognition, and machine translation.
Applied use cases
Scientists use artificial intelligence to forecast large-scale traffic patterns more accurately
Using an artificial intelligence (AI) technique called machine learning, the team leveraged Argonne's supercomputers to digest traffic patterns from nearly a year's worth of data taken from 11,160 sensors along the large California highway system.
Blockchain chickens and computer vision pigs
But it’s rural areas that make globalized cities possible in the first place, supplying the food, resources, and even the data to train artificial intelligence.
LinkedIn Top Voices 2020: Data Science & AI
To compile the list, we used a combination of qualitative and quantitative signals — including engagement (including reactions, comments and shares across each member’s content); posting cadence; and follower growth.
Market News
How Machine Learning is Transforming Drug Discovery
Daphne Koller, a veteran of AI, explains why she left academia for a chance to change the pharmaceutical industry.
What Happened to the Deepfake Threat to the Election?
Angie Hayden, director of product at the AI Foundation, which is testing a deepfake detection tool with media organizations and nonprofits including the BBC, also reported a quiet campaign.
How Artificial Neural Networks Paved the Way For A Dramatic New Theory of Dreams
Machine learning experts struggle to deal with "overfitting" in neural networks. Evolution solved it with dreams, says new theory.
Ethics
This Film Examines the Biases in the Code That Runs Our Lives
Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya says women and people of color look at technology from the outside—and have felt the negative impacts. Coded Bias follows MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini as she investigates and combats the racial disparities of facial recognition for people of color.
Mohamed Abdalla on Big Tech, Ethics-washing, and the Threat on Academic Integrity
Topics discussed in this episode include: How Big Tobacco used it’s wealth to obfuscate the harm of tobacco and appear socially responsible The tactics shared by Big Tech and Big Tobacco to preform ethics-washing and avoid regulation How Big Tech and Big Tobacco work to influence universities,...
AI Ethics #31: Political power of platforms, hazard contribution modes, and breaking neural networks.
This week’s overview: Research summaries: Hazard Contribution Modes of Machine Learning Components The Political Power of Platforms: How Current Attempts to Regulate Misinformation Amplify Opinion Power Guest contribution: Breaking Your Neural Network with Adversarial Examples Article summaries: The...
Robotics
As the pandemic continues, cleaning robots are showing up for duty at the office
We look around and we look ahead, and we don’t think COVID is going away, certainly not in the very near future…. And we know any time we can better clean and disinfect our facilities, that’s a good position for us.
This Arduino-powered robot is like a Roomba with a paintbrush
Can robots paint? More specifically, can they create art? The second question is, of course, open for debate, but Technovation’s robotic build shows that they can indeed wield a paintbrush.
Women in Robotics Update: Sarah Bergbreiter, Aude Billard, Cynthia Breazeal
Introducing the first of our new series of Women in Robotics Updates, featuring Sarah Bergbreiter, Aude Billard and Cynthia Breazeal from our first “25 women in robotics you need to know about” list in 2013.