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Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
National tests like the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) serve as gatekeepers to higher education, while state assessments can determine everything from whether a student will graduate to federal funding for schools and teacher pay.
Research
Evaluating and Testing Unintended Memorization in Neural Networks
This article covers two aspects of our upcoming USENIX Security paper that investigates to what extent neural networks memorize rare and unique aspects of their training data.
PHYRE: A new AI benchmark for physical reasoning
Inspired by popular physics-puzzle games, we developed PHYRE (the name refers to PHYsical REasoning) to include multiple tasks that are simple for humans but daunting for current AI techniques.
Spriteworld: A Flexible, Configurable Reinforcement Learning Environment
Research Associate in Reinforcement Learning
Allen School’s latest faculty additions will strengthen UW’s leadership in robotics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more
Applied use cases
The Planet Needs a New Internet
To save the internet and ourselves, we’ll need to harden and relocate the infrastructure we’ve built, find cleaner ways to power the web, and reimagine how we interact with the digital world.
Introducing the New Snorkel
New Ways to Build & Manage Training Data Snorkel is motivated by the observation that as modern machine learning models have become increasingly performant and easy-to-use, building and managing training datasets has increasingly become the key development bottleneck.
Market News
The future has arrived. Want proof? Check out these amazing robotic exoskeletons
First shown off at IFA 2018 and then again at CES 2019, this lower body robotic exosuit is designed to enhance wearers’ leg movements to aid with activities such as warehouse workers lifting heavy objects.
A.I. Is Learning From Humans. Many Humans.
They were trained to annotate all kinds of digital images, pinpointing everything from stop signs and pedestrians in street scenes to factories and oil tankers in satellite photos.
Ethics
'Killer robots' are not science fiction - they're here
It can be remote controlled at the moment, but they’re rushing to make it fully autonomous so it can go out on its own.
Performance Metaphors and Philosophy of Technology, 1st Edition
Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart devices and robots, it is important and urgent to construct conceptual frameworks that help us to understand and evaluate them.
Top 10 of 2019: AI and Deep Learning Content Recommended by Experts
Ethically Aligned Design, White Paper, Recommended by John C Havens, IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics
Robotics
These Are the Meta-Trends Shaping the Future (at Breakneck Speed)
Increasing Global Abundance Resources are becoming more abundant all over the world, and fewer people are seeing their lives limited by scarcity.
Robotics 2.0
What are the technological, economic and social drivers, and the corresponding implications of this robot revolution?
Robot Launch Global Startup Competition
ToyADMOS: ToyADMOS is designed around three tasks: production inspection of a toy car, fault diagnosis of a fixed machine (toy conveyor), and fault diagnosis for a machine.
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