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Could Artificial Intelligence Replace Therapists?
In this article the author reflects on AI's ability to replace a therapist. This thought follows Black Lemoine's revelation about LAMDA and AI becoming sentient.
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It's alive! How belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem
AI chatbot company Replika, which offers customers bespoke avatars that talk and listen to them, says it receives a handful of messages almost every day from users who believe their online friend is sentient.
These simple changes can make AI research much more energy efficient
Tweaking the settings of the cloud service an algorithm runs on can have a big impact, researchers found. But not many people bother to do it.
Moving Beyond Mimicry in Artificial Intelligence
AI research is converging on a way to deal with many problems that once called for piecemeal or specific solutions: training large machine learning models, on vast amounts of data, to perform a broad range of tasks they have not been explicitly designed for.
Applied use cases
Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness
Deep Longevity has published a paper in Aging-US outlining a machine learning approach to human psychology in collaboration with Nancy Etcoff, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, an authority on happiness and beauty. Credit: Fedor Galkin A leading biogerontology expert, professor Vadim Gladyshev from...
FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup
FIFA, the international governing body of association football,* has announced it will use AI-powered cameras to help referees make offside calls at the 2022 World Cup.
This Startup Is Using AI to Help Keep Store Shelves Stocked
Startup Wisy developed an AI platform that uses image recognition to detect which products are out of stock or running low, as well as those that are available but haven’t yet been put on display.
Ethics
Max Tegmark on how a ‘put-up-or-shut-up’ resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection
A podcast with Max Tegmark, the founder of the Future of Life Institute, which works to reduce all sorts of threats to humanity’s future including nuclear war, synthetic biology, and AI.
Artificial Concepts of AI : Institutional Compliance and Resistance in AI Startups
According to this paper, actors within startups both conform to and resist institutional pressures. This analysis identifies a central tension for AI entrepreneurs: they often valued scientific integrity and methodological rigor.
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI
Building artificial intelligence (AI) that aligns with human values is an unsolved problem. Here we developed a human-in-the-loop research pipeline called Democratic AI, in which reinforcement learning is used to design a social mechanism that humans prefer by majority
Robotics
Rise of the woebots: why are robots always so sad?
This article questions the fact that ‘Sentient’ AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. It concludes that it might be that humans want it that way.
Toward Benchmarking of Long-Term Spatio-Temporal Maps of Pedestrian Flows for Human-Aware Navigation
This article proposes a methodology for creating high-quality criteria with interpretable results for comparing long-term spatio-temporal representations for human-aware path planning and human-aware navigation scheduling.
Today’s Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators
Medical training in the robotics age leaves tomorrow's surgeons short on skills. The da Vinci robot, from the Silicon Valley–based company Intuitive Surgical, dominates the market today. It has has more than 6,700 machines in hospitals around the world.
Research
The Francis Crick Institute and DeepMind join forces to apply machine learning to biology
DeepMind will establish a research laboratory at The Francis Crick Institute, applying machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to advance understanding of biology, including protein design and genomics.
AI Forecasting: One Year In
One year after a forecasting contest to predict AI progress on four benchmarks, this article evaluates the performance of the forecasters... that were not so good.
These simple changes can make AI research much more energy efficient
Tweaking the settings of the cloud service an algorithm runs on can have a big impact, researchers found. But not many people bother to do it.
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