Top news of the week: 01.07.2019.

#GenerativeWorldModels #AI #SelfSupervised #RL #BeliefStates #DMF2019 #Toyota #ResponsibleAI #GuinnessRecord #GauGAN

Ethics

On Jun 27, 2019
@IBMWatson shared
#ICYMI: This year, @IBM was one of the few leading tech companies named in Ethisphere Institute's 2019 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. Learn more. https://t.co/VbzeBzMZA2
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Serving society ethically in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Ethisphere Institute announced its 2019 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, and IBM is one of the leading companies in the IT services category.

On Jun 25, 2019
@RobMcCargow shared
Does your #AI perform consistently in any circumstance? Is it safe from manipulation by others? Just a few of the questions business needs to be across when it comes to #ResponsibleAI: https://t.co/1BBCQ4uVDi - via @StephStammel @PwCAUdigital https://t.co/PeATwpN19p
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Robust and secure artificial intelligence: A primer for the C-suite

Creating a responsible AI system that is robust and secure requires balancing trade-offs. These decisions must be tackled by executive leadership.

On Jun 28, 2019
@APPG_AI shared
RT @katieeking: I'm off to @TeesUniBusiness for @dmfutures #DMF2019 to speak about harnessing #AI for marketing and wider business success. #EdTech is an area I'm passionate about, and #tech's impact on business and academia is something we focus on with @APPG_AI. https://t.co/DqeNRIf6lM https://t.co/MZpbolBHAO
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Katie King

Katie King is a published Author, Keynote Speaker and Consultant on marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation: www.linkedin.com/in/katieeking Katie has over 30 ...

Robotics

On Jun 26, 2019
@RethinkRobotics shared
"By providing reliable, safe and affordable cobots, manufacturers of all sizes automate more tasks on the factory floor" - Meet our partner in the UK and check out the press release about our collaboration with @ParmleyGraham! https://t.co/5d1FrAPJ8A https://t.co/8QBx0nczc3
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Meet the Smart Collaborative Robot: Sawyer

The kit includes assembly for up to 4 G ¼ thread vacuum cups (4 angle clamps, 4 extension tubes, 4 push fittings, 4 bag lip vacuum cups, 4 dual durometer cups), vacuum generator with ...

On Jun 29, 2019
@PeterDiamandis shared
Abundance Insider: June 29th, 2019 https://t.co/Z4em0BnlQJ
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Abundance Insider: June 29th, 2019

In this week's Abundance Insider: Breakthroughs in energy storage, a noninvasive mind-controlled robotic arm, and SpinLaunch’s new way of launching rockets.

On Jun 27, 2019
@RobotShop shared
#Toyota Basketball Bot Earns Guinness Record With 2,020 Perfect Throws https://t.co/LfJxTgNea2 @DigitalTrends #CueRobot #GuinnessRecord https://t.co/wboPDPkwkC
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Swish! Toyota’s basketball bot earns a Guinness record with 2,020 perfect throws

After years of trial and error, a humanoid robot built by Toyota (yes, the car company!) set a Guinness World Record for its impressive basketball shooting abilities. The robot, known as ...

General

On Jun 26, 2019
@newscientist shared
I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move https://t.co/IgZ48iwGrw https://t.co/usAtAsPDP6
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I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move

Donna Lu investigates the murky world of security tech. She finds cameras packed with artificial intelligence, fingerprint scanners and a live owl

On Jun 26, 2019
@newscientist shared
I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move https://t.co/IgZ48iwGrw https://t.co/usAtAsPDP6
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I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move

Donna Lu investigates the murky world of security tech. She finds cameras packed with artificial intelligence, fingerprint scanners and a live owl

On Jun 28, 2019
@nytimes shared
President Trump has sat down with the leaders of Japan, India and Germany at the G20 summit hours after criticizing those nations https://t.co/H003MT46mT
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G20 Summit Live Updates: Trump Meets With Top Leaders

Global leaders are set to discuss climate change, trade disputes and other issues at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Osaka, Japan.

On Jun 29, 2019
@j2bryson shared
RT @Boring_AI: "Neither the children not the parents have consented to the children's interactions being permanently recorded." When @amazon loses we are all better off. https://t.co/XBahTYCepT
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Amazon sued over Alexa child recordings in US

Two complaints claim the firm lacks the required consent to build and store youngsters' voice profiles.

On Jun 28, 2019
@nytimes shared
President Trump has sat down with the leaders of Japan, India and Germany at the G20 summit hours after criticizing those nations https://t.co/H003MT46mT
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G20 Summit Live Updates: Trump Meets With Top Leaders

Global leaders are set to discuss climate change, trade disputes and other issues at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Osaka, Japan.

On Jun 29, 2019
@j2bryson shared
RT @Boring_AI: "Neither the children not the parents have consented to the children's interactions being permanently recorded." When @amazon loses we are all better off. https://t.co/XBahTYCepT
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Amazon sued over Alexa child recordings in US

Two complaints claim the firm lacks the required consent to build and store youngsters' voice profiles.

On Jun 28, 2019
@amsekaran shared
RT @mjfitzgerald14: The @IBM Corporate Responsibility Report is out today, and highlights some of the amazing work @datapriestess, @krvarshney & the @IBMResearch team did in 2018 to build trustworthy #AI. Bravo! https://t.co/qrRFtmuxh6
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2018 Corporate Responsibility Report

Trust and responsibility have been cornerstones of IBM’s business since the beginning. These core values permeate our culture, from the labs to the boardroom. And they manifest in every ...

On Jun 28, 2019
@ChemistryWorld shared
Artificial life didn’t start with computers and robots – centuries ago alchemists were experimenting with blood, magnets, sulfur, and iron to create homunculi https://t.co/xahDoTTIpg
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Exhibition: AI: More than Human

The Barbican Centre's AI: More than Human exhibition explores AI's origins in history and culture, and delves into the ways the technology is set to change the way we think about ...

Research

On Jun 29, 2019
@olivercameron shared
RT @liu_mingyu: A #GauGAN timelapse video created by @neilbickford from @nvidia Again, live demo is available at https://t.co/M6a1fDtRdg https://t.co/FwzLXyGPGd
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NVIDIA AI PLAYGROUND

Interact with live demos based on NVIDIA Research, with links to whitepapers and GitHub source code

On Jun 29, 2019
@jeremyphoward shared
This paper does a great job of explaining why we need to move past the separation of pre-written ops/kernels separated from end-user code. It's obstructing research. This is something Swift/MLIR is working to fix. https://t.co/hOILMvkSaV
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Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut

Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19 In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmabil…

On Jun 25, 2019
@FeryalMP shared
RT @DeepSpiker: Happy share our work: Shaping Belief States with Generative Environment Models for RL Thanks Karol Gregor, Frederic Besse, Yan Wu, Hamza Merzic and @avdnoord ! https://t.co/JkuDsWmlcT https://t.co/Hkkhbe6Rja #RL #SelfSupervised #GenerativeWorldModels #BeliefStates https://t.co/CyDVyTkYRM
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Shaping Belief States with Generative Environment Models for RL

Shaping Belief States with Generative Environment Models for RL Karol Gregor, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Frederic Besse, Yan Wu, Hamza Merzic, Aaron van den Oor...

On Jun 26, 2019
@samim shared
Interview with George Gilder https://t.co/dSrjthBmvP on "Life after Google" & emergence of a new world order: https://t.co/5hPGS4XgYa
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George Gilder: Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future

Recorded on August 28, 2018 Is blockchain the technology of the future? George Gilder, author of Life After Google, argues that bitcoin and blockchain techno...

Applied Use Cases

On Jun 24, 2019
@johnchavens shared
Why engineers need to understand data privacy laws https://t.co/iOl4SDcakw @katrynadow NICE
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Why engineers need to understand data privacy laws

Industry initiatives are underway in the U.S. to explore data privacy and how deep in the design process it should start, but in the meantime, U.S. engineers need to understand and be ...

On Jun 27, 2019
@Jaguilam2003 shared
2019 Paris Air Show: Highlights https://t.co/JcUkER88rZ
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2019 Paris Air Show: Highlights

The 2019 Paris Air Show may have lacked the glamour of a new aircraft program announcement, but the composites industry represented is clearly gearing up for next-generation aerospace ...

On Jun 28, 2019
@stevelevine shared
RT @axios: Casinos and gambling websites, already adept at tilting long-term odds in their favor, are getting a leg up from technology that could inject even more certainty into their profit calculations. https://t.co/MmntKraTO9
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Casinos are using AI for even greater advantage

But nudging gamers to play more could propel some toward excess and addiction.