In the News
The Virtual Beings Are Arriving
Cross highlights that “fans are constantly craving a personal connection with their heroes and, while social media offers fans a glimpse into their world, it is not possible for celebrities to engage directly with millions of fans across multiple platforms.
Sponsor
Edge AI Summit - The industry event interfacing Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence
The Edge AI Summit focuses on the challenges of disaggregating AI processing across the edge computing paradigm, from cloud to device via localized ‘fog’ compute nodes near the network edge.
In The News
An AI Pioneer Wants His Algorithms to Understand the 'Why'
“Current approaches to machine learning assume that the trained AI system will be applied on the same kind of data as the training data.
'We are hurtling towards a surveillance state’: the rise of facial recognition technology
In May, Ed Bridges, a public affairs manager at Cardiff University, launched a landmark legal case against South Wales police.
Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991
First Very Deep NNs, Based on Unsupervised Pre-Training (1991) My first idea to overcome the Deep Learning Problem mentioned above was to facilitate supervised learning in deep RNNs by unsupervised pre-training of a hierarchical stack of RNNs (1991)
Applied use cases
The Next Word
Paul Lambert, who oversees Smart Compose for Google, told me that the idea for the product came in part from the writing of code—the language that software engineers use to program computers.
How to operationalize AI ethics
In recent months, Thomas was named director of a new organization that mixes research, policy, and education called the Center for Applied Data Ethics at University of San Francisco.
Causal Bayesian Networks: A flexible tool to enable fairer machine learning
By defining unfairness as the presence of a harmful influence from the sensitive attribute in the graph, CBNs provide us with a simple and intuitive visual tool for describing different possible unfairness scenarios underlying a dataset.
Ethics
From information to I, Robot: the reality of AI ethics
Most people know the three laws of fantasy and popular science writer Isaac Asimov, the American behind I, Robot: 1 A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
The ethics of artificial intelligence
What are the challenges and opportunities autonomous systems may bring as they are more deeply integrated within our human experience?
Robotics
2020 East Bay Innovation Awards
Open Topic: Phase I/II Program Program Details: Phase I: $50K (3 months) Phase II: $1.5M (27 months) Phase III: Commercialization/ Federal Contract Program Details: Phase II: $750K (15 months) Phase III: Commercialization/ Federal Contract **** DOE Cohort of Innovator Applications Three of the...
30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019
Alice Agogino CEO & CTO – Squishy Robotics Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration, developed from the research at the BEST Lab or Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities Lab.
Research
Need help getting started with Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and OpenCV?
Once you have OpenCV installed on your Windows system all code examples included in my tutorials should work (just understand that I cannot provide support for them if you are using Windows).
Ultra-Wide Deep Nets and the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK)
These kernels correspond to infinitely wide deep networks whose parameters are chosen randomly, and only the top (classification) layer is trained by gradient descent.