Top news of the week: 07.05.2019.

Machine learning, Learning, Supervised learning, Autonomous robot, Social, Artificial intelligence

Robotics

On May 3, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
Video Friday: Watch This 'RoboCop' Make a Traffic Stop https://t.co/9gHDkPzA85
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On May 1, 2019
@BotJunkie shared
RT @guyhoffman: I see Jibo, Cozmo, and Kuri as huge success stories. Here's what we can learn from them: https://t.co/DamCaYkVrW
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Anki, Jibo, and Kuri: What We Can Learn from Social Robots that Didn't Make It

It's been a tough few years for social home robots: Where do we go from here?

On May 1, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @OpenAI: Applications are open for the third class of OpenAI Fellows, a program designed for accomplished people who want to transition into AI research from another domain: https://t.co/WGygQzytkA Check out the projects from our first class of Fellows: https://t.co/Qnk4y6eHDG https://t.co/99TXtvuwLM
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OpenAI Fellows Summer Class of ’18: Final Projects

Our first cohort of OpenAI fellows have completed their final projects, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor.

On May 3, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
Video Friday: Watch This 'RoboCop' Make a Traffic Stop https://t.co/9gHDkPzA85
Open
On May 1, 2019
@BotJunkie shared
RT @guyhoffman: I see Jibo, Cozmo, and Kuri as huge success stories. Here's what we can learn from them: https://t.co/DamCaYkVrW
Open

Anki, Jibo, and Kuri: What We Can Learn from Social Robots that Didn't Make It

It's been a tough few years for social home robots: Where do we go from here?

On May 1, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @OpenAI: Applications are open for the third class of OpenAI Fellows, a program designed for accomplished people who want to transition into AI research from another domain: https://t.co/WGygQzytkA Check out the projects from our first class of Fellows: https://t.co/Qnk4y6eHDG https://t.co/99TXtvuwLM
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OpenAI Fellows Summer Class of ’18: Final Projects

Our first cohort of OpenAI fellows have completed their final projects, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor.

Ethics

On May 4, 2019
@katecrawford shared
RT @veenadubal: I wrote something about why we should all care about & stand in solidarity with the ⁦@GoogleWalkout⁩ activists! Who stands between you and AI dystopia? These Google activists https://t.co/08acyYF726
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Who stands between you and AI dystopia? These Google activists

In this brave new digital world, the most effective oversight had come from an unlikely and surprising source: white-collar tech workers within Google

On May 7, 2019
@CSERCambridge shared
RT @FLIxrisk: The major worry with general AI has been an "intelligence explosion"--that it could, on its own, design even more intelligent AI. But there are other concerns we need to address. Here, FLI cofounder @vkrakovna elaborates: https://t.co/p4M3jIgClC https://t.co/5EmZRtJPvP
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Risks From General Artificial Intelligence Without an Intelligence Explosion

“An ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind.” – ...

On May 7, 2019
@FrankPasquale shared
“Simone Weil crisply explained why what we have come to call a ‘free market of ideas’ must fail: facts cost labor, fictions do not” https://t.co/1xriNWvwHt
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What Turing Told Us About the Digital Threat to a Human Future

It is not just that we are staring at our phones as catastrophe looms. It is that by staring at our phones we are collaborating with our hydrocarbon and digital oligarchs in the ...

Research

On May 7, 2019
@ogrisel shared
RT @FeryalMP: This is awesome! You can watch livestream of #iclr2019 workshops! https://t.co/M1ApaEaxgq
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The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is the premier gathering of professionals

The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called ...

On May 1, 2019
@jeremyphoward shared
RT @gdb: I'm extremely impressed with the work done by our Fellows, who we train over 6 months to become outstanding ML contributors. Examples include MuseNet by @mcleavey (https://t.co/67TUxOn4IM) and CoinRun by @karlcobbe (https://t.co/DoO4johaot). Apply today! https://t.co/8qZ0sHg81K
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Quantifying Generalization in Reinforcement Learning

We’re releasing a new training environment, CoinRun, which provides a metric for an agent's ability to transfer its experience to novel situations, and has already helped clarify a ...

On May 7, 2019
@deliprao shared
RT @MSFTResearch: We're excited to announce that Yikang Shen, Shawn Tan, Alessandro Sordoni @murefil and Aaron Courville received the Best Paper Award at @ICLR2019. Discover their work on Ordered Neurons: Integrating Tree Structures into Recurrent Neural Networks: https://t.co/pOWER2s4TY #ICLR2019 https://t.co/5KijcIQSDZ
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Brief Report: Ordered Neurons: Integrating Tree Structures into Recurrent Neural Networks

Background: Most linguists believe that language is hierarchically structured. Understanding and producing language would imply an acquired competence for nested tree structures governing ...

Applied Use Cases

On May 1, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @OpenAI: Applications are open for the third class of OpenAI Fellows, a program designed for accomplished people who want to transition into AI research from another domain: https://t.co/WGygQzytkA Check out the projects from our first class of Fellows: https://t.co/Qnk4y6eHDG https://t.co/99TXtvuwLM
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OpenAI Fellows Program

The OpenAI Fellows program is for people who want to be Machine Learning Researchers and have previously demonstrated excellence in another field. As a Fellow, you'll work with a mentor to ...

On May 2, 2019
@thinkmariya shared
RT @eytan: After many years in the making, we're open-sourcing Facebook's Adaptive Experimentation platform, Ax, and BoTorch, a library for Bayesian optimization research, built on PyTorch. https://t.co/1wpFnlqmPg https://t.co/vX8HeLF0Sg
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Open-sourcing Ax and BoTorch: New AI tools for adaptive experimentation

We are open-sourcing BoTorch and Ax, two new tools that leverage adaptive experimentation to efficiently tackle optimization challenges in tuning software configurations, machine learning ...

On May 1, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @OpenAI: Applications are open for the third class of OpenAI Fellows, a program designed for accomplished people who want to transition into AI research from another domain: https://t.co/WGygQzytkA Check out the projects from our first class of Fellows: https://t.co/Qnk4y6eHDG https://t.co/99TXtvuwLM
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OpenAI Fellows Summer Class of ’18: Final Projects

Our first cohort of OpenAI fellows have completed their final projects, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor.