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How Do We Use Artificial Intelligence Ethically?
Communicate clearly with people (externally and internally) about what AI can do and its challenges. Their data set included far more white faces than non-white faces, so when they trained AIs to use this data, they worked better on white faces than non-white ones. Whenever an organization...
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In The News
GPT-4: Sam Altman Confirms Rumours
In what can be called an exciting development, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, in a question-answer session in AC10 online meetup, spoke about the impending GPT-4 release.
AI caramba, those neural networks are power-hungry: Counting the environmental cost of artificial intelligence
Now there's a machine learning algorithm for everything, but while the world marvels at the applications, some researchers are worried about the environmental expense.
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Applied use cases
Is This Weed-Spotting, Yield-Predicting Rover the Future of Farming?
The robot, developed by Alphabet Inc.’s X, will make its public debut at the Smithsonian. Project Mineral, one of X’s current efforts, is focused on finding an effective way to address the global food security crisis through “computational agriculture,”
Can AI Write Disinformation?
Participants Andrew Lohn is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he works on the CyberAI Project. Prior to joining CSET, he was an Information Scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he led research focusing mainly on cybersecurity and artificial...
Has AI found a new Foundation?
If an AI watches a video that shows a person drinking cranberry grape juice, it must not only recognize the objects, but realize that the juices have been mixed, the mixture has been drunk, and the person has quenched their thirst.
Ethics
From Impoverished Intelligence to Abundant Intelligences
Courtesy of the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Workshops The epistemology problem stems from a series of assumptions that are built into how we design and deploy our computational systems.
IEEE Launches New Standard to Address Ethical Concerns During Systems Design
PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) today announced the launch of IEEE 7000™-2021 - IEEE Standard Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns...
A New AI Lexicon: Power
We also counted the number of papers that included a Github link; per Graph 2, an increasing number of papers include links to source code, which is encouraging in terms of transparency. For instance, fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, and graph machine learning often...
Robotics
With New Roomba j7, iRobot Wants to Understand Our Homes
A year ago, we spoke with iRobot about their shift from autonomy to human-robot collaboration when it comes to home robot interaction, and and Genius 3.0 adds some useful features based on this philosophy, including: Clean While I'm Away: with your permission, the iRobot app will use your phone's...
Why robotics and artificial intelligence will be bigger than the discovery of the New World | Column
The World Economic Forum estimates that while 85 million jobs will be displaced, 97 million new jobs will be created across 26 countries by 2025 due to the growth of artificial intelligence technology. Today, few in our modern world need to be convinced that computing and other advanced...
IROS2020 ‘Black in Robotics’ special series
Apart from the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2020 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) original series Real Roboticist that we have been featuring in the last weeks, another series of three videos was produced together with Black in Robotics and the support of Toyota Research Institute. In...
Research
A Stanford Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Ignites Debate
A Stanford Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Ignites Debate A research paper that dubs some artificial intelligence models "foundational" is sparking a dispute over the future of the field. Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images The AI Database → End User Research Sector Research Technology Natural...
Review: Deep Learning on Sets
We tried to find a mece (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) division of the methods out there into four different paradigms, which also make up the four sections of this blog post: Permuting & Averaging Sorting Approximating Invariance Learning on Graphs Whether perfectly mece or not, we...
LM-Critic: Language Models for Unsupervised Grammatical Error Correction
LM-Critic: Language Models for Unsupervised Grammatical Error Correction This repo provides the source code & data of our paper: LM-Critic: Language Models for Unsupervised Grammatical Error Correction (EMNLP 2021). @InProceedings{yasunaga2021language, author = {Michihiro Yasunaga and Jure Leskovec...
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