In the News
Google is developing a new superintelligent AI but ethical questions remain
Artificial intelligence is already capable of doing some incredibly useful things, like predicting flooding, diagnosing disease, and instantly translating languages. Advances in neural networks coupled with enormous computational power have allowed tech companies to create incrementally smarter AI models over the last decade.
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In The News
7 Machine Learning Libraries for Aspiring Experts
In essence, TensorFlow offers a scalable platform for building machine learning concepts like artificial neural networks (ANN), deep neural networks, and deep learning. This allows a single web address to point to a changing IP address, which is great for home users since IP addresses don't always...
A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses
Knapp, a warehouse logistics technology company and one of Covariant’s first customers, which began piloting the technology in late 2019, says it now has “a full pipeline of projects” globally, including retrofitting old warehouses and designing entirely new ones optimized to help Covariant’s robot...
CyberDog is a new ominous-looking robot from Xiaomi
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled a quadrupedal robot named CyberDog: an experimental, open-source machine that the firm says “holds unforetold possibilities.” CyberDog is the latest example of tech companies embracing the quadrupedal form factor in robotics.
Applied use cases
Bosch turns to Fetch.ai’s Collective Learning network for ‘AIoT’ trials
This week, Bosch’s team from its Economy of Things (EoT) project took its support one step further and launched machine learning trials on the Fetch.ai Collective Learning network. By combining AI and blockchain technologies via Fetch.ai’s network, Bosch expects to be able to predict potential...
The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools
The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools Documents reveal that police bought facial-recognition software, vans equipped with x-ray machines, and “stingray” cell site simulators—with no public oversight. Facebook Twitter Email Save Story Save this story for later.
Ethics
Can you trust artificial intelligence?
Features | From Pivot Magazine Why organizations must develop ethical AI in order to compete in today’s automated world It’s important for organizations to use applied ethics methodologies in the earliest design phases, instead of waiting until a prototype is being readied for market Transparency...
AI Ethics Brief #68: Combatting anti-blackness in AI, corporate governance of AI, $10 for your palm prints, and more ...
While universities in the previous century rightly provided a great value in preparing students for jobs, as jobs being bundle of tasks and those tasks rapidly changing with some being automated, we need to focus more on training students for things that will take much longer to automate, for...
(Un)Seeing China through Platform Trace Data
Meanwhile, the platform datasets that external researchers lay their hands on seldom contain information about platforms’ own methods for creating and managing data on user behavior, nor information on how they deploy such data to influence user behavior. When researchers of popular emotional...
Robotics
John Deere Doubles Down on Silicon Valley and Robots
John Deere Doubles Down on Silicon Valley and Robots The farm-equipment giant is buying Bear Flag Robotics, which makes autonomous tractors, marking its second big tech buy in four years. A tractor modified by Bear Flag Robotics tills fields autonomously.Photograph: John Deere The AI Database →...
Work/life balance for the win! The power of Simone Biles
Bots&Beer Online this week was a lot of fun as we broke into small group discussions after the robot demos, and we talked about many things! If you’re interested in learning more about Silicon Valley Robotics Startup Accelerator or becoming a company member - please reach out! [email protected]...
Video Friday: Robot Opera
The New National Theatre Tokyo presents Super Angel: "Witness the birth of a new opera, performed by Alter 3, an android with artificial life who makes friends with children in the chorus as they sing and perform together." Communication with humans is handled by security guards through the avatar...
Research
robomimic
robomimic is a framework for robot learning from demonstration. It offers a broad set of demonstration datasets collected on robot manipulation domains, and learning algorithms to learn from these datasets. This project is part of the broader Advancing Robot Intelligence through Simulated...
ELLIS PhD Program: Call for applications
Every PhD student is co-supervised by one ELLIS fellow/scholar/unit faculty and one ELLIS fellow/scholar/member based in different European countries, and conducts an exchange (min. Research areas include (but are not limited to) the following machine learning-driven research fields: Machine...
dga.ps
A classi- fier is a system that inputs (typically) a vector of discrete and/or continuous feature values and outputs a single dis- crete value, the class. The test of the learner is whether this classifier produces the correct output yt for future examples xt (e.g., whether the spam filter correctly...
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