Top news of the week: 02.10.2019.

#Womeninrobotics #Meetup #Berkeley #MegaBots #eBay #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning

Robotics

On Sep 27, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Join us to celebrate Women in Robotics on Ada Lovelace Day at CITRIS FindingAda with Women In Technology Institute and #Womeninrobotics svrobo at UC Berkeley https://t.co/lbqLdrOVTB https://t.co/57d1hMaP0X
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Ada Lovelace Day Celebration of Women in Robotics

Celebrate the contributions of women leaders in robotics and discover hands-on pathways into tech for all.

On Oct 1, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Check out this Meetup: Ada Lovelace Day Celebration for Women in Robotics https://t.co/fNDBd3PPrx #Meetup #Berkeley via Meetup
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Ada Lovelace Day Celebration for Women in Robotics

Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 1:00 PM: Celebrate the contributions of women leaders in robotics and discover hands-on pathways into tech for all.About this EventThe Women in Tech Initiative, a joint ...

On Sep 28, 2019
@RobotShop shared
MegaBots calls it quits, puts battle robots on eBay https://t.co/pGxtn4ZrIW @engadget #MegaBots #eBay https://t.co/mFJ4b6tPAB
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MegaBots calls it quits, puts battle robots on eBay

Need to start a robot army on the cheap? Defunct startup MegaBots will happily sell you theirs.

On Sep 27, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Join us to celebrate Women in Robotics on Ada Lovelace Day at CITRIS FindingAda with Women In Technology Institute and #Womeninrobotics svrobo at UC Berkeley https://t.co/lbqLdrOVTB https://t.co/57d1hMaP0X
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Ada Lovelace Day Celebration of Women in Robotics

Celebrate the contributions of women leaders in robotics and discover hands-on pathways into tech for all.

On Oct 1, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Check out this Meetup: Ada Lovelace Day Celebration for Women in Robotics https://t.co/fNDBd3PPrx #Meetup #Berkeley via Meetup
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Ada Lovelace Day Celebration for Women in Robotics

Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 1:00 PM: Celebrate the contributions of women leaders in robotics and discover hands-on pathways into tech for all.About this EventThe Women in Tech Initiative, a joint ...

On Sep 28, 2019
@RobotShop shared
MegaBots calls it quits, puts battle robots on eBay https://t.co/pGxtn4ZrIW @engadget #MegaBots #eBay https://t.co/mFJ4b6tPAB
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MegaBots calls it quits, puts battle robots on eBay

Need to start a robot army on the cheap? Defunct startup MegaBots will happily sell you theirs.

Applied Use Cases

On Sep 30, 2019
@MIT_CSAIL shared
Out today: TensorFlow 2.0. The framework includes tight Keras integration, expanded datasets, GPU acceleration features and more: https://t.co/Skx1QkUXVe (v/@TensorFlow) https://t.co/WWLrChhxaK
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TensorFlow 2.0 is now available!

Earlier this year, we announced TensorFlow 2.0 in alpha at the TensorFlow Dev Summit. Today, we’re delighted to announce that the final…

On Sep 28, 2019
@Jaguilam2003 shared
RT @thinksysinc: What Is The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning? - @Forbes #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning https://t.co/RjY0ICZkPm
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What Is The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning?

There is little doubt that Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are transformative technologies in most areas of our lives. While the two concepts are often used ...

On Sep 26, 2019
@MIT_CSAIL shared
RT @lexfridman: Here's my conversation with Regina Barzilay, a professor at MIT, about deep learning for natural language processing and for cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment. https://t.co/s9mLQpMoG2 https://t.co/ooqkKV5ZN3
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Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

Regina Barzilay is a professor at MIT and a world-class researcher in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology...

Ethics

On Sep 29, 2019
@FrankPasquale shared
“Ethics is more a habit or muscle, than a code (in either sense). It’s a way of thinking and reasoning, not a rigid framework. It’s nurtured in real life contexts and built up more like case law than a constitution” https://t.co/E0slYzNqnk
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AI ethics and the limits of code(s)

Geoff Mulgan suggests five ways AI ethics needs to be radically reshaped

On Sep 25, 2019
@Floridi shared
RT @oiioxford: EY comes together with coalition to help establish ethical artificial intelligence systems with @oiioxford academic @floridi joining the advisory new board https://t.co/2f96WywR5i via @YahooFinance
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EY comes together with coalition to help establish ethical artificial intelligence systems

NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EY today announced it is coming together with the Partnership on AI, a multistakeholder not-for-profit corporation formed to better understand the ...

On Sep 25, 2019
@David_Gunkel shared
In https://t.co/VtcM1BxVNz, @j2bryson writes: "I'm inclined to say that there's only one real relationship between AI & humans, that of the moral agents to their artefacts, the relationship of authorship." The argument has weight. But Shelley may have already complicated things. https://t.co/XWslsQb0MP
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Is There a Human-AI Relationship?

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, art, and higher education

Research

On Sep 30, 2019
@janexwang shared
RT @ermonste: If all training images for a GAN/VAE/PixelCNN have 2 objects, will they only generate images with 2 objects? If trained on (🔵,💙,🔴), will they also generate ❤️? Find out in @shengjia_zhao's blog post on generalization and bias for generative models. 👉https://t.co/xgVTrzPjiJ https://t.co/yzgpQidYWW
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On Sep 26, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @chipro: YES!!! I can't wait to see what we can achieve by applying NLP techniques to programming languages 🥳 - 6m functions across 6 programming languages - 99 natural language queries - 4k annotations to denote how relevant a function is to a query https://t.co/8jC9SMq9wT
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Introducing the CodeSearchNet challenge

We’re announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge and releasing a large dataset for natural language processing and machine learning.

On Sep 30, 2019
@NandoDF shared
RT @WiMLworkshop: We’re excited to announce that we are opening up registration to the WiML workshop co-located with NeurIPS in Vancouver, Canada on Friday October 4th at 11AM EDT! Limited capacity so register early! Click the link to register: https://t.co/MMIQfUM1iT
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Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML 2019)

The 14th WiML Workshop is co-located with NeurIPS in Vancouver, British Columbia on Monday, December 9th, 2019.