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Could Elon Musk use Twitter to develop brain implants?
Marcello Ienca - a researcher in neurotechnology ethics at the EPFL in Switzerland - fears that with access to the sensitive data of the 330 million active users of Twitter, Neuralink could develop invasive neurotechnologies, that is, implants able to read and manipulate people’s brains by influencing their behaviour, memories, thoughts and feelings.
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In The News
The Top 10 Tech Trends In 2023 Everyone Must Be Ready For
A futurist's view on the top 10 tech trends Everyone Must Be Ready For in 2023
Will Amazon Be Replacing Recruiters With AI Software?
Last week, Amazon offered buyouts to its recruiters and could look to replace them with artificial technology software. This is in addition to the projected thousands of people who will be let go from the giant online retailer.
AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
AI safety faced the difficulty of being a research field about a far-off problem, which is why only a small number of researchers were even trying to figure out how to make it safe.
Applied use cases
Disney’s new neural network can change an actor’s age with ease
Disney Disney researchers have created a new neural network that can alter the visual age of actors in TV or film.
OpenAI upgrades GPT-3, stunning with rhyming poetry and lyrics
Refinement to AI language model generates rhyming compositions in various styles.
Now AI can write students’ essays for them, will everyone become a cheat?
Teachers and parents can’t detect this new form of plagiarism. Tech companies could step in – if they had the will to do so.
Ethics
Conflicts of Interest in the Psychedelics Ecosystem
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this panel discussion will be held virtually, as an online webinar.
Aidence and Google Health enter into collaboration to help improve lung cancer screening with AI
Aidence and Google Health announce an agreement to license Google Health’s AI research model for lung nodule malignancy prediction on CT imaging.
How the GDPR can exacerbate power asymmetries and collective data harms
Exploring how power asymmetries operate across the law and collective harms
Robotics
Robots are learning to brace themselves against walls to avoid falling
Researchers at the University of Lorraine have developed a "Damage Reflex" system (aka D-Reflex) that has a humanoid TALOS robot prop itself against a wall when one of its legs is broken, much like a human who just lost their balance.
This robot’s delicate touch scoops up liquid droplets without causing a splash
Don't be fooled by the new robotic gripper's sensitivity—it's designed to handle the most hazardous materials out there.
Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger structures
Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than themselves, from vehicles to buildings to larger robots.
Research
Stanford AI Lab Papers and Talks at NeurIPS 2022
We’re excited to share all the work from SAIL that’s being presented at the main conference, at the Datasets and Benchmarks track and the various workshops, and you’ll find links to papers, videos and blogs below.
Self-Destructing Models: Increasing the Costs of Harmful Dual Uses in Foundation Models
A growing ecosystem of large, open-source foundation models has reduced the labeled data and technical expertise necessary to apply machine learning to many new problems.
Causal Confounds in Sequential Decision Making
Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL) methods have achieved impressive results in recent years like beating the world champion at Go or controlling stratospheric balloons.
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The World AI Cannes Festival is back (Feb 9-10-11 2023) with an exceptional concentration of the world’s best AI providers, C-level executives, industry leaders and visionary start-ups committed to accelerating the progress of AI business and humanity.
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