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Doctors enlist artificial intelligence to help them defeat the coronavirus
Two X-ray images show signs of lung damage that were identified by an artificial intelligence program. (From Dr. Albert Hsiao) Dr. Albert Hsiao and his colleagues at the UC San Diego health system had been working for 18 months on an artificial intelligence program designed to help doctors identify...
Research
Microsoft responsible machine learning capabilities build trust in AI systems, developers say
Today, a large portion of leads on EuroBonus fraud come from an AI system that Engberg and his team built with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, a service for building, training and deploying machine learning models that are easy to understand, protect and control.
Microsoft launches Project Bonsai, an AI development platform for industrial systems
But developing AI and machine learning algorithms atop them — algorithms that could tackle processes previously too challenging to automate — requires expertise.
Prototypical Contrastive Learning: Pushing the Frontiers of Unsupervised Learning
Our method, Prototypical Contrastive Learning (PCL), unifies the two schools of unsupervised learning: clustering and contrastive learning.
A Visual Survey of Data Augmentation in NLP
Unlike Computer Vision where using image data augmentation is standard practice, augmentation of text data in NLP is pretty rare.
Applied use cases
OpenAI’s supercomputer collaboration with Microsoft marks its biggest bet yet on AGI
Roughly a year ago, Microsoft announced it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI to jointly develop new technologies for Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and to “further extend” large-scale AI capabilities that “deliver on the promise” of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Microsoft partners with OpenAI to build Azure supercomputer
OpenAI is a non-profit that was founded by one Elon Musk to promote the ethical development of artificial intelligence technologies. “This is about being able to do a hundred exciting things in natural language processing at once and a hundred exciting things in computer vision, and when you start...
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GRAPHCORE JOINS BAIDU PADDLEPADDLE HARDWARE ECOSYSTEM
PaddlePaddle is China’s first open-source, fully functional, commercial deep learning platform. Baidu co-founded PaddlePaddle in 2016, along with 13 partners, for the purpose of accelerating the wider adoption of deep learning and AI applications in the Chinese market.
Market News
Is the Brain a Useful Model for Artificial Intelligence?
“It's a bit like going and cataloging a piece of the rain forest,” Markram explained. In 1943, the psychologist Warren McCulloch and his protégé Walter Pitts, a homeless teenage math prodigy, proposed an elegant framework for how brain cells encode complex thoughts.
China’s Approach to AI Ethics
In its 2017 New Generation AI Development Plan, the Chinese State Council paved the path for a government-endorsed process of debating and adopting artificial intelligence (AI) ethics principles.
This Lab ‘Cooks’ With AI to Make New Materials
Sargent’s team cooks with carbon dioxide. Instead of releasing the pollutant into the air, or capturing and sequestering it underground, factories and power plants of the future could use renewable energy to convert the carbon dioxide into raw materials they could sell.
Ethics
Inside AI (May 15th, 2020)
Earlier this week, several AI researchers told CNBC that Musk has been spreading false information about AI, including the idea that machines will be as smart as humans in less than ten years.
Ethically Aligned Design
The implementation of ethical principles must be validated by dependable applications of A/IS in practice, and here are three ways you can start that process in your life and work: The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (The IEEE Global Initiative) has launched...
For all its sophistication, AI isn't fit to make life-or-death decisions
There is much hype about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to combat coronavirus. And, most importantly, humans possess an ethical commitment to the real over the representation.
Robotics
This Robot Can Guess How You're Feeling by the Way You Walk
Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed an algorithm called ProxEmo, which gives a little wheeled robot the power to analyze your gait in real time, and to take a guess at how you might be feeling.
5 Myths About AI and Robots (and the truth behind them)
If you've read a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots you might be a bit overwhelmed by the amount of differing information available out there. Artificially intelligent robots only constitute a very small amount of robots.
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 16)
AI Chatbots Are Swooping In Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review “Over the last few years, advances in natural-language processing have also dramatically improved on the clunky automated call systems of the past.
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