Top news of the week: 05.08.2019.
Cognitive architecture, Human, Industrial robot, Learning, Theory, Experiment
Robotics
RT @JanelleCShane: I'm so excited to finally announce this: there's going to be an AI Weirdness book!!
https://t.co/WiI1xXVK9n https://t.co/H6V7ibXr61
OpenAn AI Weirdness book!!!
I am really really excited to announce a thing I’ve been working on for more than a year now: there’s going to be an AI Weirdness book!!!!! You can preorder it at these links: Amazon - ...
RT @JanelleCShane: I'm so excited to finally announce this: there's going to be an AI Weirdness book!!
https://t.co/WiI1xXVK9n https://t.co/H6V7ibXr61
OpenAn AI Weirdness book!!!
I am really really excited to announce a thing I’ve been working on for more than a year now: there’s going to be an AI Weirdness book!!!!! You can preorder it at these links: Amazon - ...
In Defense of “Boring” Robots
By Mikell Taylor, Senior Director of Sales Operations and Customer Support, Veo Robotics While flashy robotic technologies are fun to daydream about, they’re not rooted in practicality. ...
This week’s tech news 📰:
• Facebook Is Funding Brain Experiments to Create a Device That Reads Your Mind l MIT Technology Review
• China Has Started a Grand Experiment in AI Education. It Could Reshape How the World Learns. l MIT Technology Review
https://t.co/VOvKVZ06xo
OpenThis Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 3)
Facebook funds research in mind-reading devices and China's AI education experiment goes big in this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.
In Defense of “Boring” Robots
By Mikell Taylor, Senior Director of Sales Operations and Customer Support, Veo Robotics While flashy robotic technologies are fun to daydream about, they’re not rooted in practicality. ...
This week’s tech news 📰:
• Facebook Is Funding Brain Experiments to Create a Device That Reads Your Mind l MIT Technology Review
• China Has Started a Grand Experiment in AI Education. It Could Reshape How the World Learns. l MIT Technology Review
https://t.co/VOvKVZ06xo
OpenThis Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 3)
Facebook funds research in mind-reading devices and China's AI education experiment goes big in this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.
Applied Use Cases
RT @ConMijente: This op-ed is not a political opinion, it’s a marketing pitch.
Peter Thiel is a co-founder of Palantir.
Palantir has at least 29 active contracts with the U.S. federal government worth a combined $1.5 billion.
https://t.co/CKkkJ5jeRw
OpenGood for Google, Bad for America
At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival?
Inside the strange, wild world of America’s DIY phone farmers, who use armies of cheap old phones to generate cash to buy food, diapers, and beer through ad fraud.
https://t.co/jdmTn0wZ4a https://t.co/1A54DGTfu3
OpenAmerica’s DIY Phone Farmers
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate cash to buy food, diapers, and beer through ad fraud.
RT @OpenAI: Each Thursday at OpenAI is Learning Day: a day where employees have the option to self-study technical skills that will make them better at their job but which aren't being learned from daily work.
Here's how it works: https://t.co/swfpUfDEk3
OpenLearning Day
At OpenAI, each Thursday is Learning Day: a day where employees have the option to self-study technical skills that will make them better at their job but which aren’t being learned from ...
Research
RT @gdb: How I became a machine learning practitioner: https://t.co/s7Vnrz69mM
(Spoiler alert: you can too!) https://t.co/LInKCzCMYB
OpenHow I became a machine learning practitioner
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition ...
RT @facebookai: Dialogue research is crucial for building the next gen of intelligent #AI systems. We've made scientific advancements in 5 areas that open-domain chatbots fail in today: specificity, consistency, empathy, knowledgeability, and multimodal understanding. https://t.co/rg55v15G89 https://t.co/aIc9nGtk3B
OpenAdvances in Conversational AI
Facebook AI has made scientific progress in improving nuanced conversational skills, including consistency, specificity, and empathy.
Ethics
AI ethics is doing little more than poking around on the fringes while big tech is having a field day.
It’s time for strong regulation and new HR laws.
Let’s take off the AI mask. This is about the injustices created by big companies with tech apps, https://t.co/r5DKYztUiz
OpenWhy do emerging AI guidelines emphasize “ethics” over human rights?
It’s clear that regulation of AI must start now, but why do emerging frameworks primarily talk about ethics rather than law and human rights?
RT @NoelSharkey: Ethical Principles about AI have been pouring out over the last few years. Here is another set reduced to 5 (always good to reduce).
This one does a decent job of capturing the essence of others. Their utility remains to be seen. Sterling work @Floridi
https://t.co/UFvLzG7qKN
OpenA Unified Framework of Five Principles for AI in Society
In the ensuing discussion, we note the limitations and assess the implications of this ethical framework for future efforts to create laws, rules, technical standards, and best practices ...
.@SigalSamuel of @voxdotcom picked up our piece on social robots & empathy:
"In a paper published this week by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute, @CamLante of @mcgillu argues that empathizing with robots risks actually reducing our empathy for people..."
https://t.co/c5y4bToDDN
OpenHumans keep directing abuse — even racism — at robots
We abuse our robots. That’s a problem.