In the News
AI Doesn’t Actually Exist Yet
During the past few years, all kinds of businesses have begun using what they call “artificial intelligence.” One international survey said 37 percent of organizations have, as a press release put it, “implemented AI in some form.”
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Global Threats on the Rise: Navigating Nation-State Attacks
Geopolitical tension serves as a harbinger for cyberattacks. Last year, China and Russia were responsible for almost half of all cyberattacks. Learn what types of attacks nation-states are utilizing and best practices to protect your organization.
Market News
African AI Experts Get Excluded From a Conference—Again
More than a dozen AI researchers from African countries have been refused visas to attend this year’s NeurIPS, to be held next month in Vancouver.
The situation points to perennial difficulties that academics from certain countries have obtaining travel visas to Western countries.
Yes, hyena robots are scary. But they're also a cunning marketing ploy
Created by an LA-based production company, Corridor Digital, the videos were a parody of those released by Boston Dynamics, a company that has been making robots since 1992.
Ethics
AI and gene-editing pioneers to discuss ethics at Stanford
Both revolutions can be traced back to 2012, the year that computer scientists collectively recognized the power of Li’s approach to training computer vision algorithms and that Doudna drew attention to a new gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 .
EP36 – John C. Havens on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and the Uncanny Valley
John C. Havens is Executive Director of The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems.
AI ethics is all about power
If we don’t harness it responsibly and share the gains equitably, it will lead to greater concentrations of wealth and power for the elite few who usher in this new age — and poverty, powerlessness, and a lost sense of purpose for the global majority.”
Robotics
Can AI Rescue Modern Medicine From Itself?
Associations for sub-specialties, he added, are “balkanized,” and are focused on the business aspects of medicine rather than on patient care.
RoboTurk: Human Reasoning and Dexterity for Large-Scale Dataset Creation
Our goal was to develop a data collection mechanism that captures human intelligence by collecting data that has diverse problem-solving strategies, dexterous object manipulation, and that could be collected at scale.
US opposition to Killer Robots ban
Fully autonomous weapons would lack the human judgment necessary to evaluate the proportionality of an attack, distinguish civilian from combatant, and abide by other core principles of the laws of war.
Research
Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction at Uber
Specifically, given an input time series , the encoder constructs the learned embedding vector , which is further treated as feature input to the prediction network h. During this feedforward pass, MC dropout is applied to all layers in both the encoder and the prediction network .
A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard
SAN FRANCISCO — Last fall, Google unveiled a breakthrough artificial intelligence technology called BERT that changed the way scientists build systems that learn how people write and talk.
AI and Compute
When we had enough information, we directly counted the number of FLOPs (adds and multiplies) in the described architecture per training example and multiplied by the total number of forward and backward passes during training.