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How UPS uses AI to outsmart bad weather
UPS already has a system called ORION that maps out last-mile delivery routes, and a technology program called EDGE focused on upgrading UPS's internal processes, NPT gives its engineers a bird’s-eye view of package volume and distribution across its pickup and delivery network.
Research
Safety Gym
Exploration is risky Reinforcement learning agents need to explore their environments in order to learn optimal behaviors. We think constrained RL may turn out to be more useful than normal RL for ensuring that agents satisfy safety requirements.
Understanding the generalization of ‘lottery tickets’ in neural networks
These results suggest that larger data sets encourage more generic winning tickets than smaller data sets. Generalizing to other domains and learning methods: RL and NLP So far, the lottery ticket phenomenon has only been tested in the context of supervised learning for vision-centric classification...
10 Important Research Papers In Conversational AI From 2019
In this paper, we propose a Transferable Dialogue State Generator (TRADE) that generates dialogue states from utterances using a copy mechanism, facilitating knowledge transfer when predicting (domain, slot, value) triplets not encountered during training.
Applied use cases
Mass. State Police Tested Out Boston Dynamics’ Spot The Robot Dog. Civil Liberties Advocates Want To Know More
“Robot technology is a valuable tool for law enforcement because of its ability to provide situational awareness of potentially dangerous environments,” state police spokesman David Procopio wrote. ''
To secure a safer future for AI, we need the benefit of a female perspective
Perhaps female acuity towards tech might be a reflection of the fact that toys for boys have less attraction for women So I spent a few hours going through a decade’s-worth of electronic records – reprints, notes and links.
Amazon’s Ring Planned Neighborhood “Watch Lists” Built on Facial Recognition
Anyone moving past a home equipped with Ring cameras is unavoidably sucked into a tech company dragnet, potential fodder for overeager chatter among the suburban xenophobe set. The fact remains that anyone moving past a home equipped with Ring cameras is unavoidably sucked into a tech company...
Market News
Buzzworthy AI: Startup’s Robo-Hives Counter Bee Population Declines
Honeybee colonies worldwide are under siege by parasites, but they now have a white knight: a band of Israeli entrepreneurs bearing AI. Beewise, an Israeli startup, is using AI in its small northern community on the border of Lebanon to monitor honeybee colonies.
To Feed the World in 2050, We Need to Build the Plants That Evolution Didn't
Part of the answer is synthetic biology: using cutting-edge genetic technology to build organisms that evolution never did. At CSIRO, we have already used synthetic biology to produce energy-rich feed for livestock.
Robotic system can plan and perform biosynthesis without human intervention
Scott Weisberg (left), Saurabh Sinha (seated), Mohammad (Sam) Hamedi Rad and Huimin Zhao (right) have combined a fully automated robotic platform with artificial intelligence to create BioAutomata, a new way to manufacture chemicals making use of biosynthetic pathways.
Ethics
Israel's national AI plan unveiled
Making Israel one of the world's five leading countries in artificial intelligence (AI) will require a NIS 1-2 billion annual investment by the government, out of the NIS 10 billion invested in this sector in Israel, according to the recommendations of a committee headed by Maj. Gen.
AI thinks like a corporation—and that’s worrying
This suggested a telling link between the organisation of human social structures and the digital tools designed to serve them. Simon says He went on to make huge contributions in a host of fields—not just political science and economics, but computer science and artificial intelligence.
Robotics
Alphabet's Dream of an 'Everyday Robot' Is Just Out of Reach
A few of the machines make the rounds of trash stations used by staff on the second floor of X’s home in a converted mall in Mountain View, practicing their navigation skills and sorting recycling from compostables and landfill waste.
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