In the News
AI is reinventing the way we invent
The biggest impact of artificial intelligence will be to help humans make discoveries we couldn’t make on our own.
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Market News
Will the future of work be ethical?
Described as a “godfather to the [humanist] movement” by The New York Times Magazine in recognition of his efforts to build inclusive, inspiring, and ethical communities for the nonreligious and allies, Greg was also named “one of the top faith and moral leaders in the United States” by Faithful...
This is how Facebook’s AI looks for bad stuff
The context: The vast majority of Facebook’s moderation is now done automatically by the company’s machine-learning systems, reducing the amount of harrowing content its moderators have to review.
30 AI people in Europe to follow on Twitter
Jack Kelly (Open Climate Fix) Jack Kelly left DeepMind (not many people do) in order to set up a non-profit climate change startup.
Applied use cases
Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle
If a relative asked how Facebook handled hate speech, for example, the chatbot — which is a simple piece of software that uses artificial intelligence to carry on a conversation — would instruct the employee to answer with these points: Facebook consults with experts on the matter. The answers were...
How ImageNet Roulette, an Art Project That Went Viral by Exposing Facial Recognition’s Biases, Is Changing People’s Minds About AI
As with other recent viral art initiatives like FaceApp and Google Arts & Culture’s art Doppelgänger-finder, people were uploading images of themselves to a website where an AI, trained on the most widely used image recognition database, analyzed what it saw.
Ethics
An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
Consider three separate results from the last several weeks that were reported in leading media outlets in ways that were fundamentally misleading: Earlier this week on November 24th, The Economist published an interview with OpenAI's GPT-2 sentence generation system, misleadingly said that GPT-2’s...
The Artificial Intelligence Industry and Global Challenges
From China's point of view, artificial intelligence is an important tool for strong foreign policy, military dominance, economic success and for controlling one's own population.
Robotics
What's New In Robotics? 29.11.2019
In this week's news mix: China's 'zero-gravity' cobot, Boots announces a 135 cobot pilot and Vectios Automation unveils cobot welding tool.
Alphabet Is Developing a Robot to Take Over Boring Everyday Tasks
Alphabet wants to change that by developing what they call the Everyday Robot, which could learn to help us out with our daily chores.
Research
Procgen Benchmark
Using the environment is easy whether you’re a human or AI: We’ve found that all of the Procgen environments require training on 500–1000 different levels before they can generalize to new levels, which suggests that standard RL benchmarks need much more diversity within each environment.
10 Cutting-Edge Research Papers In Computer Vision From 2019
To address this problem, the researchers suggest joint optimization of resolutions and scales of images at training and at test time: The analysis shows that: increasing the size of image crops at test time compensates for the random selection of RoC at training time; using lower resolution crops at...