Top news of the week: 11.09.2020.
Leverhulme Trust, Mobile phone, Human, Biometrics, Differential calculus, Fred Trump
Applied Use Cases
RT @nikaletras: Postdoc position available (3-year) to work with me on multimodal representations for analysing political ads (collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of political scientists and psychologists). If you are interested drop me an email or dm #NLProc
https://t.co/iWVXN3eV02
OpenResearch Associate in Natural Language Processing
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering We are seeking a Research Associate to work with Dr. Nikolaos Aletras (member of the NLP Group) on developing novel methods for analysing the …
Meet @Tableau. Analytics for:
✔️Anyone
✔️Anywhere
✔️Any data
That's the consensus after @Gartner_inc's BI Bake-Off. Join the conversation and learn how you can use data to change the world.
https://t.co/U3dnYGPxFC
OpenA virtual Gartner BI Bake Off: Analytics for anyone, anywhere, with any data
And that’s part of the magic of Tableau that we wanted to shine through in our demo: Tableau offers unlimited data exploration through intuitive, visual analysis that allows …
RT @BachFrancis: Integration by parts rules again this month! A single equation with diverse applications to randomized smoothing, differentiable perturbed optimizers, and score functions.
https://t.co/mDxDIZe2PL
OpenThe many faces of integration by parts – II : Randomized smoothing and score functions
After a short review on integration by parts and its applications to score functions, I will present four quite diverse applications, to (1) optimization and randomized smoothing, …
"[Y]et another example of the media overhyping AI, as the source of either our damnation or our salvation. In the long-run, those sensationalist tactics won’t benefit the field—or the people that AI can both help and hurt."
#AI #hype
https://t.co/Exk9BmYfB7
OpenThe Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with AI media hype
The Guardian today published an article purportedly written "entirely" by OpenAI's GPT-3. But the the newspaper's grand claims aren't all they seem.
China plans new data policy in response to Trump admin’s “bullying”
A “certain country” keeps making baseless claims, China foreign minister says.
VisionLabs face biometrics and body temperature scanning deployed by McDonald’s Russia
McDonald’s Russia has installed facial recognition and body temperature scanning technology from VisionLabs to scan customers to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to TAdvisor. The ...
Trump vows not to extend TikTok deadline beyond September 15 https://t.co/ZAftLPkpEm by @binarybits
OpenTrump vows not to extend TikTok deadline beyond September 15
TikTok could face a US ban if it doesn't find a US buyer in the next five days.
From viral conspiracies to exam fiascos, algorithms come with serious side effects https://t.co/FOgltFlGrH
OpenFrom viral conspiracies to exam fiascos, algorithms come with serious side effects
A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws