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The future of AI research is in Africa
The hassle of traveling within the region isn’t the only thing making things difficult for Africa’s research community: the difficulty of traveling out of the region has often left its researchers out of the international conversation. In the last few years, the machine-learning community has blossomed, applying the technology to challenges like food security and health care.
Here are 10 ways AI could help fight climate change
Within each domain, it breaks out the contributions for various subdisciplines within machine learning, including computer vision, natural-language processing, and reinforcement learning. This could, for example, help create solar fuels, which can store energy from sunlight.
Working AI: At the Office with VP of Applied Deep Learning Research Bryan Catanzaro
When Bryan Catanzaro returned to Nvidia in 2016 to head the new Applied Deep Learning Research lab, he was the only member. Three years later, he’s leading a team of 40 researchers pushing the boundaries of deep learning.
Sponsor
AI Hardware Summit | The Industry Event For The AI Chip Ecosystem
Following a sold-out event in 2018, the AI Hardware Summit returns to Mt. View, September 17-18. Habana Labs launched last year and this year the summit guarantees announcements that will define the industry for the next 12 months. Keynotes include; John L. Hennessy, Alphabet, Inc., Lip-Bu Tan, Cadence Design Systems and Walden International and Naveen Rao, Intel.
Research
Harnessing artificial intelligence
The recently published “Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” takes a clearly geopolitical approach, and emphasises that: “Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States"
Open-sourcing PyRobot to accelerate AI robotics research
To provide similar utility in AI robotics research, we’ve collaborated with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to build PyRobot.
Applied use cases
Top 8 Trends From ICLR 2019
Unsupervised representation learning & transfer learning. A major goal of unsupervised representation learning is to discover useful data representations from unlabeled data to use for subsequent tasks.
Aggression Detectors: The Unproven, Invasive Surveillance Technology Schools Are Using to Monitor Students
By deploying surveillance technology in public spaces like hallways and cafeterias, device makers and school officials hope to anticipate and prevent everything from mass shootings to underage smoking.
Training Imagenet in 3 hours for $25; and CIFAR10 for $0.26
Posted: May 2, 2018 Benchmark results DAWNBench is a Stanford University project designed to allow different deep learning methods to be compared by running a number of competitions.
Ethics
How CEOs can tap AI’s full potential
Successfully augmenting human expertise with artificial intelligence and other smart technologies starts with the person at the top CEOs must create a strategy for combining people and technology to change the way work gets done
What Does an AI Ethicist Do?
The issue began to take off at the company in 2016, when CEO Satya Nadella spoke at a developer conference about how the company viewed some of the ethical issues around AI, and later that year published an article about these issues.
2030Vision AI for Impact
2030Vision AI for Impact. Presented at CogX 2019 Luciano Floridi; Director, Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute
Robotics
They welcomed a robot into their family, now they’re mourning its death
Williams, 44, asked Jibo questions, requested music, and played its games. Cynthia Breazeal, an associate professor at the university, founded and directs MIT’s Personal Robots Group, which she started with the goal of studying robots, AI, and how humans interact with them.
iRobot enters the classroom with acquisition of Root Robotics
Today the company announced that it's acquired Root Robotics, and it will add the Root educational coding robot to its lineup.
Boing Goes the Trampoline Robot
“I wanted to study quadrupedal jumping control, but I didn’t have custom-made powerful actuators, and I didn’t want to have to design elastic legs."