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On Sep 22, 2020
@NathanBenaich shared
RT @fleurdevie: It's launch day! 🚀 Thrilled to welcome the first group of distributors & channel partners to the brand-new Graphcore Partner Program. Read on for more: https://t.co/IxzPE0IO6N #datacenter #artificialintelligence #ai #hpc #channelpartners #innovation #resellercommunity #vars
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ANNO‌‍UNC‌‍ING‌ G‍R‌A‌P‌HC‍O‌R‌‍E’S G‌‍LOBA‌L P‌AR‍TNER‌ PR‌‍O‌‍G‌RAM

Graphcore announces the launch of the Graphcore Elite Partner Program; a global network of channel partners, serving our customers around the world.

On Sep 22, 2020
@kaliouby shared
This summer @Affectiva teamed up with @Ronit_Avni’s @Localizedworld for our virtual #AI #education program to help build a pipeline of diverse AI talent 👏 Read more below: https://t.co/msKm8qE8y3 @wef @YGLvoices #SDI20 #internship #empath #diversity #inclusion CC: @taniyatts https://t.co/rf4wWCbgDv
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Here’s why AI needs a more diverse workforce

Here’s why AI needs a more diverse workforce

Companies and governments need to ensure that those developing artificial intelligence don’t perpetuate or accelerate bias.

On Sep 20, 2020
@arstechnica shared
The Android 11 interview: Googlers answer our burning questions https://t.co/JRZkndh2Af by @RonAmadeo
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The Android 11 interview: Googlers answer our burning questions

The Android 11 interview: Googlers answer our burning questions

Android engineers Dave Burke and Iliyan Malchev are back for our yearly Q&A.

On Sep 23, 2020
@johnporche shared
RT @noUpside: ✍ I wrote an article for The Atlantic on the age of AI-generated media and text, and how society will adapt to increasing unreality. Since I’ve been playing with GPT-3 for a few weeks, I used it to generate some of the writing in the article (verbatim) 💻https://t.co/CmFgQHUgQJ
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The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite

The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite

Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.

On Sep 22, 2020
@vnfrombucharest shared
RT @FidlerSanja: Code for the Deformable Grid (DefGrid) paper is now released -- instead of processing images on fixed grids as in traditional pipelines, we learn to deform the grid in end2end manner. Plug&play module, nice accuracy boosts! Code: https://t.co/c77XQBvD3E https://t.co/5sT31rlVhN https://t.co/wYbs2VeGSA
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fidler-lab / defgrid-release

fidler-lab / defgrid-release

Official PyTorch implementation of Deformable Grid (ECCV 2020) - fidler-lab/defgrid-release

On Sep 22, 2020
@erichorvitz shared
On building a consortium around Premonition https://t.co/2Oq0WbFCkJ a multiyear aspirational effort @msftresearch to track progression of disease over regions @NSF @PittTweet @IHME_UW @JohnsHopkinsSPH #MSFTCSO
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Buzzworthy AI: Microsoft expands its Premonition mosquito-tracking outbreak prediction system

Buzzworthy AI: Microsoft expands its Premonition mosquito-tracking outbreak prediction system

The researchers behind Microsoft Premonition say they’re ramping up a forecasting system for mosquito-borne disease outbreaks in Texas’ most populous county.

On Sep 21, 2020
@zacharylipton shared
Cool, accessible, article on Counterfactually Augmented Data (https://t.co/OaWuZFXEyq) by data scientists at Kili Technology: https://t.co/AQHyybDfM6
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Counterfactual data augmentation to speed up NLP data labeling

Counterfactual data augmentation to speed up NLP data labeling

Counterfactual data augmentation to speed up NLP data labeling As algorithms grow more complex, they also grow hungry for more data, to be able to learn precisely the meaning of the ...

On Sep 18, 2020
@sidneyfussell shared
RT @EvanSelinger: I know there are many hot takes on Facebook's Project Aria. But @joejerome's analysis is a must-read. He looks beyond project specifics to the bigger picture. What's worrisome? The quest to create a digital duplicate of the physical world! #MapsArePower https://t.co/Wojjsk9LJl
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The Race to Map Reality so Silicon Valley Can Augment It Is On

The Race to Map Reality so Silicon Valley Can Augment It Is On

We have gotten used to mapping roads, but AR changes the game by encouraging us to map every square foot of space on the planet.