Top news of the week: 17.08.2022.
Deep Learning Alone Isn’t Getting Us To Human-Like AI
Artificial intelligence has mostly been focusing on a technique called deep learning. It might be time to reconsider.
Why Amazon Paid $1.7 Billion for a Roomba
How a robot born as a $10,000 prototype found its way into the middle of a $1.7 billion deal.
Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics
Hyundai announced the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, which aims to advance research in artificial intelligence and robotics. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass.
Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.
How to craft effective AI policy
A conversation about equity and what it takes to make effective AI policy. This episode was taped before a live audience at MIT Technology Review’s annual AI conference, EmTech Digital. ...
Neurotechnologically Augmented Lawyers? Billable Units of Attention? New Study Sees Threats and Opportunities for Neurotechnology and the Law
The rise of artificial intelligence has led some to speculate that robots could someday replace lawyers in performing many legal tasks. But what if chips in lawyers' brains — or some other ...
Artificial intelligence was supposed to transform health care. It hasn’t.
Machine learning could improve medicine by analyzing data to improve diagnoses and target cures, but technological, bureaucratic, and regulatory obstacles have slowed progress.
ADS Invited Speakers
She joined Xerox Research Centre Europe in 2013 as a research scientist in the computer vision team, working on topics including fine-grained visual categorization, image …