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Australian Defence Force invests $5 million in 'killer robots' research
The Australian Defence Force has invested more than $5 million in researching the possibilities of artificially intelligent weaponry in an effort to design ethical killing machines.
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Research
Tips for Training Likelihood Models
This is a tutorial on common practices in training generative models that optimize likelihood directly, such as autoregressive models and normalizing flows.
Learning World Graphs to Accelerate Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
An autonomous agent often counters various tasks within a single complex environment.
Applied use cases
Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages
In the process, Ventris showed that ancient Greek first appeared in written form many centuries earlier than previously thought.
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Ethics
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.
AI strategies to include more ethics and trust
Trust, bias and ethics Around 2,500 people were questioned in the report carried out by the Chinese data company, which revealed that more companies were focusing on the trust, bias, and ethics of using higher levels of AI in their companies.
Why Responsible AI Development Needs Cooperation on Safety
We’ve written a policy research paper identifying four strategies that can be used today to improve the likelihood of long-term industry cooperation on safety norms in AI.
Robotics
IHMC's Atlas robot can navigate its own way through tight spaces
From mathematical puzzles like the famous traveling salesman problem to combining inputs from various senses, there are many functions that us dumb humans excel at but robots or AI struggle with.
Humanoid Robots Teach Coping Skills to Children With Autism
Roboticist Ayanna Howard, an IEEE senior member, has been using interactive androids to guide children with autism on ways to socially and emotionally engage with others.