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Ethics

On Mar 27, 2019
@PKathrani shared
Google announces AI ethics panel https://t.co/FjHIdVINpT
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Google announces AI ethics panel

The group will meet to discuss how emerging technologies should - or perhaps should not - be used.

On Mar 29, 2019
@PKathrani shared
'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley https://t.co/jPDVnnw1NJ @JohnAFlood @PabloRedux @David_Gunkel @EmergTechEthics @sd_marlow @DorotheaBaur @bronwynwilliams
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'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley

As algorithms play a growing role in criminal justice, education and more, tech advisory boards and academic programs mirror real-world inequality

On Mar 28, 2019
@gleonhard shared
Forbes Insights: The Growing Marketplace For AI Ethics https://t.co/Hzxwg0eezm
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The Growing Marketplace For AI Ethics

A brief roundup of some of the more influential ethical-AI frameworks and models to emerge around the globe—from the Asilomar Principles to best-practice recommendations from the AI Now ...

Research

On Mar 27, 2019
@ylecun shared
Official citation from the Association for Computing Machinery for the 2018 Turing Award. https://t.co/MqSDwzLc2C https://t.co/MqSDwzLc2C
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On Mar 28, 2019
@janexwang shared
RT @pushmeet: Over several decades, software engineers have developed a toolkit for debugging - from unit testing to formal verification. Our Robust & Verified AI team works on analogous approaches for ensuring that machine learning systems are robust at deployment: https://t.co/sFBrtWxCAq
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Towards Robust and Verified AI: Specification Testing, Robust Training, and Formal Verification

Bugs and software have gone hand in hand since the beginning of computer programming. Over time, software developers have established a set of best practices for testing and debugging ...

On Mar 27, 2019
@hugo_larochelle shared
RT @Tech_NYT: Three Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence Win Turing Award March 27, 2019 at 04:30AM For their work on neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio will share $1 million for what many consider the Nobel Prize of computing. … https://t.co/zFuMnxaKEu https://t.co/UnEWL8oj15
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Three Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence Win Turing Award

For their work on neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio will share $1 million for what many consider the Nobel Prize of computing.

Robotics

On Mar 25, 2019
@ericoguizzo shared
GITAI Partners With JAXA to Send Telepresence Robots to Space https://t.co/hYMq1yaG4L
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GITAI Partners With JAXA to Send Telepresence Robots to Space

The founder and CEO of SCHAFT joins space robotics startup GITAI to develop telepresence robots

On Mar 26, 2019
@BotJunkie shared
RT @ryanmhickman: We let the NY Times into the Robotics at Google lab, and they wrote a thing. Nice to show off some of the work being done with bots from @FetchRobotics and @Universal_Robot among others. https://t.co/Yc2mptNtJ0
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Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program

In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced.

On Mar 27, 2019
@ericoguizzo shared
Google Teaches Robot to Toss Bananas Better Than You Do https://t.co/n6LJrcDSVf
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Google Teaches Robot to Toss Bananas Better Than You Do

TossingBot, developed by Google and Princeton, can teach itself to throw arbitrary objects with better accuracy than most humans

On Mar 25, 2019
@ericoguizzo shared
GITAI Partners With JAXA to Send Telepresence Robots to Space https://t.co/hYMq1yaG4L
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GITAI Partners With JAXA to Send Telepresence Robots to Space

The founder and CEO of SCHAFT joins space robotics startup GITAI to develop telepresence robots

On Mar 26, 2019
@BotJunkie shared
RT @ryanmhickman: We let the NY Times into the Robotics at Google lab, and they wrote a thing. Nice to show off some of the work being done with bots from @FetchRobotics and @Universal_Robot among others. https://t.co/Yc2mptNtJ0
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Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program

In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced.

On Mar 27, 2019
@ericoguizzo shared
Google Teaches Robot to Toss Bananas Better Than You Do https://t.co/n6LJrcDSVf
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Google Teaches Robot to Toss Bananas Better Than You Do

TossingBot, developed by Google and Princeton, can teach itself to throw arbitrary objects with better accuracy than most humans

Applied Use Cases

On Mar 27, 2019
@stevelevine shared
RT @rodneyabrooks: Very well deserved. They worked hard and long on an idea that was not popular at the time, and they changed the world. @ylecun https://t.co/VzT7fjOtV3
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Three Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence Win Turing Award

For their work on neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio will share $1 million for what many consider the Nobel Prize of computing.

On Mar 26, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @j2bryson: So this is happening. I have no idea what I'm getting myself into, other than some idea of who I'm getting into it with. I'll certainly do my best to do good. https://t.co/BAMB8ndSz5 #aiethics
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An external advisory council to help advance the responsible development of AI

Last summer we announced Google’s AI Principles, an ethical charter to guide the responsible development and use of AI in our research and products. To complement the internal governance ...

On Mar 27, 2019
@MIT_CSAIL shared
Congratulations to this year's Turing Award winners: deep learning pioneers Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton & Yann LeCun. https://t.co/5U4gq49XrW #ACMTuringAward #machinelearning #deeplearning #ML #DL (v/@TheOfficialACM) https://t.co/7wlpnItKhS
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