In the News
Amazon's doorbell camera Ring is working with police – and controlling what they say
Records obtained through an information request show how Ring uses corporate partnerships to shape the communications of police departments it collaborates with, directing the departments’ press releases, social media posts and comments on public posts.
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In The News
A Breakthrough for A.I. Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test
On Wednesday, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a prominent lab in Seattle, unveiled a new system that passed the test with room to spare. It correctly answered more than 90 percent of the questions on an eighth-grade science test and more than 80 percent on a 12th-grade exam.
DeepMind details OpenSpiel, a collection of AI training tools for video games
At its core, it’s a collection of environments and algorithms for research in general reinforcement learning and search and planning in games, with tools to analyze learning dynamics and other common evaluation metrics. “We hope that OpenSpiel could have a similar effect on general [reinforcement...
Ethics
The Three Types of Artificial Intelligence: Understanding AI
When programmers embed human-like intelligence, behavior, emotions, and even when they engineer ethics into robots we say they create robots with an embedded Artificial Intelligence that is able to mimic any task a human can perform, including debating, as IBM showed earlier this year at CES Las...
FLI Podcast: Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI & China with Helen Toner & Elsa Kania
Experts Helen Toner and Elsa Kania, both of Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, discuss China’s rise as a world AI power, the relationship between the Chinese tech industry and the military, and the use of AI in human rights abuses by the Chinese government. Topics...
Robotics
Is Africa ready for weapons that call their own shots?
Often listed as part of the ‘third revolution’ in warfare, after conventional weapons and nuclear weapons, lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) will be unpredictable on the battlefield.
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Research
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
0:00 - Introduction 1:18 - First program 3:07 - Favorite programming languages 15:01 - Programming languages for machine learning 23:35 - Fast.ai intro (to be continued later) 24:31 - Ai and deep learning in medicine 32:30
GPT-2 to spew racism
Universal Adversarial Triggers for Attacking and Analyzing NLP Paper » Code » GPT-2 Demo » SQuAD Demo » Background Neural NLP models are deployed in a wide range of production systems, including fake news filters, home assistants, and machine translators.
Introducing Neural Structured Learning in TensorFlow
Neural Structured Learning (NSL) is an open source framework for training deep neural networks with structured signals.