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How hard will the robots make us work?
Google, Amazon, and a plethora of smaller companies have announced AI systems that listen to calls and coach workers or automatically assess their performance.
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In The News
Why your brain is not a computer
This kind of weak emergence cannot explain the activity of even the simplest nervous systems, never mind the working of your brain, so we fall back on strong emergence, where the phenomenon that emerges cannot be explained by the activity of the individual components.
Reinforcement-learning AIs are vulnerable to a new kind of attack
In the last few years researchers have found many ways to break AIs trained using labeled data, known as supervised learning. In 2017, Sandy Huang, who is now at DeepMind, and her colleagues looked at an AI trained via reinforcement learning to play the classic video game Pong.
Applied use cases
AI Driven Entertainment
The main challenge for this assignment, just like any other Machine Learning & Natural Language Understanding (NLU) projects, was to find a good source of data that we can train and evaluate our algorithms on.. Datasets for Spoken Language or Dialogs There were some datasets available for research...
Neural architecture search, imitation learning and the optimized pipeline with Dr. Debadeepta Dey
Episode 108 | February 26, 2020 Dr. Debadeepta Dey is a Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at MSR and he’s currently exploring several lines of research that may help bridge the gap between perception and planning for autonomous agents, teaching them to make decisions...
Top 10 Best Artificial Intelligence Courses You Must Try
In this course you will learn the meaning behind common AI terminology, including neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, and data science, What AI realistically can-and cannot-do, How to spot opportunities to apply AI to problems in your own organization
Ethics
As humanity’s relationship with AI grows, experts call for protective framework
We’re facing a fourth industrial revolution through the rapid development of AI and technology – but as our relationship with AI grows, so does its potential to disrupt our lives.
Pentagon Confirms Alka Patel to Lead the Implementation of Its New Ethical AI Principles
The Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has hired Alka Patel to lead the implementation of its new ethical principles for using artificial intelligence in warfare, Nextgov confirmed.
NeurIPS requires AI researchers to account for societal impact and financial conflicts of interest
For the first time ever, researchers who submit papers to NeurIPS, one of the biggest AI research conferences in the world, must now state the “potential broader impact of their work” on society as well as any financial conflict of interest, conference organizers told VentureBeat.
Robotics
Ancient animistic beliefs live on in our intimacy with tech
Recently, science has come to understand the emotions of social bonding, and I think it helps us understand why it’s so easy to fall into these ‘as-if intimacies’ with things.
How Selfish Are You? It Matters for MIT’s New Self-Driving Algorithm
For greater success on roads that are still dominated by us mercurial humans, the CSAIL team believes, driverless cars should take our personalities into account.
Flippy the burger-flipping robot is changing the face of fast food as we know it
They just program the SOP, the standard operating procedure, for what they want to cook and how they want to cook it.” To put it in terms more grandiose than a fast food robot possibly warrants, it’s like general intelligence vs. current narrow A.I.
Research
The Illustrated Self-Supervised Learning
Image Colorization Formulation: What if we prepared pairs of (grayscale, colorized) images by applying grayscale to millions of images we have freely available?
AI Residency: Gaining skills in machine learning through mentorship and real-world applications
A personal journey: How my path through the residency unfolded I am currently an AI Residency Program Manager, based at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
Machine Learning for Everyone
Separate socks by based on color, documents based on language, music by genre" Today used for: – Spam filtering – Language detection – A search of similar documents – Sentiment analysis – Recognition of handwritten characters and numbers – Fraud detection From here onward you can comment with...
Largest gift in Berkeley’s history will create a ‘hub’ for advancing data science
(UC Berkeley photo by Jill Hodges) UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) will soon have a brick-and-mortar home, thanks to an anonymous $252 million gift to seed the construction of a new “Data Hub” on the open space.