In the News
Americans Need a Bill of Rights for an AI-Powered World
Americans Need a Bill of Rights for an AI-Powered World. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is developing principles to guard against powerful technologies—with input from the public. Data sets that fail to represent American society can result in virtual assistants that don’t...
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In The News
Whistleblower: Facebook undermines kids and democracy. Will Congress do something?
Social media reform is a complex issue and the litany of terms that come up in debates around the topic, from algorithms to mis- and dis-information and more, can obscure the societal implications of billions of users spending significant chunks of waking life scrolling through their social media feeds. One former employee of Facebook, however, seemed to boil down all the complexity and lay out just what was at stake: Facebook, Frances Haugen told Congress on Tuesday, promotes ethnic violence, harms kids, and threatens democratic governance.
DeepMind is developing one algorithm to rule them all
Veličković noted DeepMind has also worked on a Google Maps application that applies graph networks to predict travel times. The initial success stories of deep learning were exactly in replacing handcrafted heuristics for, say, image recognition with deep neural networks.” This is the starting point...
Artificial Intelligence Market 2021
More on AI market trends: AI Software Trends Artificial intelligence features Big data: Without big data to learn from and otherwise code the actions of an AI tool, the solution cannot develop algorithms that successfully complete tasks. More on AI and communication: Conversational Artificial...
Applied use cases
Deep learning helps predict traffic crashes before they happen
To get ahead of the uncertainty inherent to crashes, scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence (QCAI) developed a deep learning model that predicts very high-resolution crash risk maps. Fed on a combination...
Wendy’s Envisions AI-Rich Apps With New Google Cloud Deal
Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. Kevin Vasconi, chief information officer of Wendy’s. Photo: The Wendy's Company For its part, Google Cloud gains a high-profile customer in a bid to raise its...
IBM says AI can help track carbon pollution across vast supply chains
Companies are under increasing pressure to quantify and reduce their footprints. Finding sources of pollution across vast supply chains may be one of the largest barriers to eliminating carbon pollution. For some sources of pollution, like electricity or transportation, it's relatively easy. But for others like agriculture or consumer electronics, tracing and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions can be a time-consuming, laborious process. It generally takes an expert around three to six months—sometimes more—to come up with an estimate for a single product.
Discover The Essentials State of AI Report Q2
After thoroughly analyzing industry trends and our engagement data, we’ve gathered valuable insights on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Stay tuned for the best articles from leading industry experts as we bring you our first-ever State of AI Report for Q2 from our sister newsletter, AI Essentials.
Ethics
We need to talk about transhumanism
Wood says he’s a huge advocate of life extension — and thinks Aubrey de Grey’s prediction that we’ll soon be living well into four figures is correct. Wood is also 'very much in favour' of creating Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) — robots smarter than humans — and believes they’ll likely...
3 predictions for the future of responsible technology
They include responsible investing, targeted regulations and incorporating tech ethics into higher education. This multi-stakeholder project community has made the case for both human-rights-based and ethics-based approaches to the responsible use of technology, promoted the use of behavioural...
Study finds that few major AI research papers consider negative impacts
In recent decades, AI has become a pervasive technology, affecting companies across industries and throughout the world. These innovations arise from research, and the research objectives in the AI field are influenced by many factors. Together, these factors shape patterns in what the research accomplishes, as well as who benefits from it — and who doesn’t.
Robotics
These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk Researchers used specialized chips and simulation software to teach a four-legged robot to navigate stairs and blocks. A simulation with more than 4,000 virtual robots helped teach a real robot how to climb and descend steps.Courtesy of...
50 women in robotics you need to know about 2021
On the good news front, the IEEE RAS Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee recently completed a several year study of gender representation in conference leading roles at RAS-supported conferences. The paper “Gender Diversity of Conference Leadership” by Laura Graesser, Aleksandra Faust, Hadas...
Autonomous Racing Drones Dodge Through Forests at 40 kph
The trick here, to the extent that there's a trick, is that the drone performs a direct mapping of sensor input (from an Intel RealSense 435 stereo depth camera) to collision-free trajectories. Conventional obstacle avoidance involves first collecting sensor data; making a map based on that sensor...
Research
Stacking our way to more general robots
The task is simple: stack the red object on top of the blue object within 20 seconds, while the green object serves as an obstacle and distraction. In “Skill Mastery,” our goal is to train a single agent that’s skilled in stacking a predefined set of five triplets. In “Skill Generalisation,” we use...
Overview of PaddleFL
Horizontal Federated Learning: Federated Averaging [2], Differential Privacy [6], Secure Aggregation[11] Vertical Federated Learning: Two-party training with PrivC[5], Three-party training with ABY3 [10] Recent Feature Release Roadmap 2021.08: Two party federated learning in vertical scenario...
Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B - the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Generative Language Model
As the successor to Turing NLG 17B and Megatron-LM, MT-NLG has 3x the number of parameters compared to the existing largest model of this type and demonstrates unmatched accuracy in a broad set of natural language tasks such as: Completion prediction Reading comprehension Commonsense reasoning...
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