Top news of the week: 02.09.2019.

Brain, Robotics, Traumatic brain injury, Cerebral cortex, Science fiction, Electroencephalography

Robotics

On Aug 29, 2019
@singularityu shared
From soccer to basketball, robots are taking over sports. Toyota's Cue 3 robot put up better numbers than one of the most popular NBA stars, Steph Curry. https://t.co/0iesxPNVCd
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Are These Robots Better Than You at Sports?

The list of robots in sports is surprisingly long and diverse. There are robot skiers, tumblers, soccer players, sumos, and even robot game jockeys.

On Aug 29, 2019
@singularityu shared
From soccer to basketball, robots are taking over sports. Toyota's Cue 3 robot put up better numbers than one of the most popular NBA stars, Steph Curry. https://t.co/0iesxPNVCd
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Are These Robots Better Than You at Sports?

The list of robots in sports is surprisingly long and diverse. There are robot skiers, tumblers, soccer players, sumos, and even robot game jockeys.

On Aug 31, 2019
@singularityu shared
This week’s best tech news 📰: • Finger Lickin’ Fake Chicken: KFC’s Fake Chicken Is as Tasty as the Real Thing l Digital Trends • This 8-Minute Galactic Primer Is the Future of AR Education l Wired & more in Computing, Robotics, & Health https://t.co/ABYq3WHPtw https://t.co/s9m3f8UZ06
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 31)

From the most advanced carbon nanotube microprocessor yet to KFC's new fake fried chicken, check out this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.

On Aug 30, 2019
@singularityhub shared
In this new study, AI learned to eyeball group size in images without explicit training. https://t.co/ojbnYrajMT
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An AI for Image Recognition Spontaneously Gained a ‘Number Sense’

Without explicit training, the network developed units sensitive to numbers, which amounted to roughly 10 percent of all computational units.

On Aug 31, 2019
@singularityu shared
This week’s best tech news 📰: • Finger Lickin’ Fake Chicken: KFC’s Fake Chicken Is as Tasty as the Real Thing l Digital Trends • This 8-Minute Galactic Primer Is the Future of AR Education l Wired & more in Computing, Robotics, & Health https://t.co/ABYq3WHPtw https://t.co/s9m3f8UZ06
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 31)

From the most advanced carbon nanotube microprocessor yet to KFC's new fake fried chicken, check out this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.

On Aug 30, 2019
@singularityhub shared
In this new study, AI learned to eyeball group size in images without explicit training. https://t.co/ojbnYrajMT
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An AI for Image Recognition Spontaneously Gained a ‘Number Sense’

Without explicit training, the network developed units sensitive to numbers, which amounted to roughly 10 percent of all computational units.

Applied Use Cases

On Aug 30, 2019
@Lederman shared
RT @juliacarriew: Here’s how Amazon literally rewrote a Gwinnett, Georgia police press release. Among the edits: changing a statement that police *cannot* access video streams to say police *will not* have access to them. 🤔 https://t.co/q2OKXMcsCO https://t.co/icX3kCg1F9
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Amazon's doorbell camera Ring is working with police – and controlling what they say

Ring shapes communications of police agencies it works with. Critics fear it’s building up a for-profit private surveillance network

On Aug 27, 2019
@MIT_CSAIL shared
DeepMind releases OpenSpiel, a framework for reinforcement learning in games with tools for visualization and evaluation. Code: https://t.co/cB16fnrlW2 Paper: https://t.co/LAhQ9Z9rtO https://t.co/gANY4Ha8ZR
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OpenSpiel: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Games

OpenSpiel is a collection of environments and algorithms for research in general reinforcement learning and search/planning in games. - deepmind/open_spiel

On Aug 28, 2019
@Sam_L_Shead shared
https://t.co/ewxbFvkqKw via @NYTimes
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How China Uses LinkedIn to Recruit Spies Abroad

Western intelligence officials say Chinese agents are contacting thousands of foreign citizens using LinkedIn, including former government officials.

Research

On Aug 26, 2019
@stanfordnlp shared
RT @julien_c: This quote from almost exactly a year ago's “NLP's ImageNet moment has arrived” by @seb_ruder: IS JUST ABSOLUTE 💯 https://t.co/c9higDPE1a https://t.co/brTPf26ygN
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NLP's ImageNet moment has arrived

Big changes are underway in the world of NLP. The long reign of word vectors as NLP's core representation technique has seen an exciting new line of challengers emerge. These approaches ...

On Aug 27, 2019
@peteskomoroch shared
RT @yieldthought: Squeezing keyword spotting into 16KB with ~91% accuracy using Kronecker decomposition https://t.co/QTs6BsJNJO #TinyML
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Taking Constrained ML to the Next Level

One the primary research thrusts of our ML Research Lab is investigating ways to bring more machine learning applications to Arm's products, and to make existing applications more efficient.

Ethics

On Aug 27, 2019
@techreview shared
RT @charlottejee: Sensible advice for kids-and adults: call software and robots "it" not "he" or (more commonly) "she" https://t.co/YVpFznzmMI
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Why We Should Teach Kids to Call the Robot ‘It’

As a new generation grows up surrounded by artificial intelligence, researchers find education as early as preschool can help avoid confusion about robots’ role.

On Aug 30, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @EBKania: I enjoyed joining @hlntnr and @ArielConn to discuss AI in China on this podcast for @FLIxrisk. You can now catch our conversation, and hopefully it makes for interesting listening! https://t.co/VcJ7fIm2Tr
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FLI Podcast: Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI & China with Helen Toner & Elsa Kania

Discussions of Chinese artificial intelligence frequently center around the trope of a U.S.-China arms race. On this month’s FLI podcast, we’re moving beyond the arms race narrative and ...

On Aug 30, 2019
@math_rachel shared
What Sci-Fi Can Teach Computer Science About Ethics-- interesting article with quotes from @cfiesler @EmanuelleBurton @JudyGoldsmith9 on their approaches to teaching CS ethics https://t.co/wVJyr4aTnQ
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What Sci-Fi Can Teach Computer Science About Ethics

Schools are adding ethics classes to their computer-science curricula. The reading assignments: science fiction.