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Robots Made Out of Branches Use Deep Learning to Walk
Designing robots is a finicky process, requiring an exhaustive amount of thought and care. In a paper presented at a NeurIPS workshop last December, a group of researchers from the University of Tokyo and Preferred Networks experimented with building mobile robots out of a couple of generic servos...
Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures
A research team in Germany has now discovered an unexpected reason why: While humans pay attention to the shapes of pictured objects, deep learning computer vision algorithms routinely latch on to the objects’ textures instead.
AIs named by AIs
One thing I’ve noticed GPT-2 doing is coming up with names that sound strangely like the names of self-aware AI spaceships in Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels.
DeepMind games—machine intelligence's next move
THE CHILD chess prodigy who created a computer that outplays human grandmasters explains how games are a testing ground for algorithms and what real-world challenges he hopes to tackle with artificial intelligence.
The best books on Ethics for Artificial Intelligence
Advances in artificial intelligence pose a myriad of ethical questions
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Research
DLRM: An advanced, open source deep learning recommendation model
To help advance understanding in this subfield, we are open-sourcing a state-of-the-art deep learning recommendation model (DLRM) that was implemented using Facebook’s open source PyTorch and Caffe2 platforms.
Post-doctoral fellow on automatic machine learning (V32.4006)
We are building an AutoML playground (an 'AutoML Gym') to train AutoML systems on many different problems and get increasingly better over time.
Transform 2019: Hear from the movers and shakers in AI
Keynote speaker: Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon AI vice president If you’re looking to train machine learning models at massive scale while keeping costs down, Amazon’s AWS also offers all kinds of AI products for developers and business executives.
Applied use cases
Top 7 Computer Vision Applications in Marketing
Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, this technology enables computers to gain a visual understanding of the world.
Deep Learning from the Foundations
It takes you all the way from the foundations of implementing matrix multiplication and back-propogation, through to high performance mixed-precision training, to the latest neural network architectures and learning techniques, and everything in between.
Harnessing artificial intelligence
The recently published “Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” takes a clearly geopolitical approach.
Ethics
Almost half of all British workers fear machines will some replace them
A worrying 39% believe they could be given the boot in favour of AI - despite 58% of those in senior management positions or above saying they trust human decision making over machines.
Making Sure AI Is Socially Responsible
A report published recently by Martha Lane Fox’s Doteveryone think tank revealed that 59 per cent of tech workers have experience of working on products that they felt might be harmful for society.
What To Expect From Generation AI?
Whether it's the learning algorithms powering You Tube Kids' content, the smart toys which listen and keep track of every interaction of their little consumers, or the educational robots that could soon replace teachers in the classroom...
Robotics
This Is the Most Powerful Robot Arm Ever Installed on a Mars Rover
Mars 2020 will be a bit bigger and capable of doing even more amazing science.
Robot Squid and Robot Scallop Showcase Bio-inspired Underwater Propulsion
We’ll take a look at two papers from ICRA this year that showed bioinspired underwater robots moving in creative new ways.
Video Friday: NASA Is Sending This Flying Robot to Saturn's Moon Titan
Dragonfly, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, is a drone-style aerial vehicle featuring eight propellers and designed to explore Saturn's moon Titan from the air.