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Robotics

On Apr 3, 2019
@IEEESpectrum shared
RT @BostonDynamics: https://t.co/i30r5jgtsr
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Boston Dynamics Enters Warehouse Robots Market, Acquires Kinema Systems

The company famous for agile machines like Atlas and Spot wants to unleash robots in the warehouse

On Apr 2, 2019
@BotJunkie shared
Get Ready for National Robotics Week https://t.co/IWTxbY31hK https://t.co/DjyDvpfaxi
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Get Ready for National Robotics Week

It's the tenth year of the most popular robotics celebration in the U.S.

On Apr 5, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Meet the First 9 Teams https://t.co/tJFhguGzOH
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DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Meet the First 9 Teams

Nine robotics teams are participating in an integration exercise for DARPA's Subterranean Challenge this weekend

On Apr 3, 2019
@IEEESpectrum shared
RT @BostonDynamics: https://t.co/i30r5jgtsr
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Boston Dynamics Enters Warehouse Robots Market, Acquires Kinema Systems

The company famous for agile machines like Atlas and Spot wants to unleash robots in the warehouse

On Apr 2, 2019
@BotJunkie shared
Get Ready for National Robotics Week https://t.co/IWTxbY31hK https://t.co/DjyDvpfaxi
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Get Ready for National Robotics Week

It's the tenth year of the most popular robotics celebration in the U.S.

On Apr 5, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Meet the First 9 Teams https://t.co/tJFhguGzOH
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DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Meet the First 9 Teams

Nine robotics teams are participating in an integration exercise for DARPA's Subterranean Challenge this weekend

Applied Use Cases

On Apr 2, 2019
@jackclarkSF shared
RT @PartnershipAI: When is it appropriate to publish high stakes #AI research? We explored some key considerations with @OpenAI: https://t.co/SoQuQjybl3
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When Is It Appropriate to Publish High-Stakes AI Research?

By Claire Leibowicz, Steven Adler, and Peter Eckersley While openness is a long and deeply held value in AI research — for instance, the Partnership on AI (PAI) has a commitment to open ...

On Apr 8, 2019
@AINowInstitute shared
RT @katecrawford: This was SO fun. @karaswisher interviewed @mer__edith and I on why we founded the @AINowInstitute, with some real talk about the AI industry, ethics boards, inequality, and the future of regulation. ⚡️https://t.co/Qi4l6Ba0Dk
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Artificial intelligence is already here. How will it change your life?

AI Now Institute founders Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker explain everything you need to know on the latest Recode Decode.

On Apr 4, 2019
@NathanBenaich shared
RT @_jgoertler: Our interactive article that explains visually how Gaussian processes work just went live at @distillpub. Here is the link: https://t.co/sqGsNO1HCT
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A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes

How to turn a collection of small building blocks into a versatile tool for solving regression problems.

Research

On Apr 6, 2019
@xamat shared
RT @johnhewtt: Does my unsupervised neural network learn syntax? In new #NAACL2019 paper with @chrmanning, our "structural probe" can show that your word representations embed entire parse trees. paper: https://t.co/gx2hpdqyxm blog: https://t.co/lozvsD3y4R code: https://t.co/08HYOqUTnR 1/4 https://t.co/G5cHK3kJ4w
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Finding Syntax with Structural Probes

In this blog post, we’ll explore the vector representations learned by large neural networks like ELMo and BERT, which were simply trained to learn what typical English sentences are like, ...

On Apr 4, 2019
@peteskomoroch shared
RT @etzioni: The FDA wants to regulate machine learning in health care. They've released a white paper asking for our feedback. H/T @_KarenHao https://t.co/tmtNWneuEf
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The FDA wants to regulate machine learning in health care

The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is preparing to regulate AI systems that can update and improve themselves as they gorge on more training data.

On Apr 3, 2019
@jeremyphoward shared
RT @timnitGebru: 26 researchers from 21 institutions call on Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement. https://t.co/sYm6xrIrer
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Ethics

On Apr 8, 2019
@AINowInstitute shared
RT @katecrawford: This was SO fun. @karaswisher interviewed @mer__edith and I on why we founded the @AINowInstitute, with some real talk about the AI industry, ethics boards, inequality, and the future of regulation. ⚡️https://t.co/Qi4l6Ba0Dk
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Artificial intelligence is already here. How will it change your life?

AI Now Institute founders Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker explain everything you need to know on the latest Recode Decode.

On Apr 4, 2019
@aiethicslab shared
Big news! 📡 #AIethics https://t.co/obLdhbD2iz
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Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry

The controversial panel lasted just a little over a week.

On Apr 7, 2019
@johnchavens shared
RT @katrynadow: Hey #Google, sorry you lost your #ethics council, so we made one for you “A board can't just be 'some important people we know.' You need actual ethicists" cc: ⁦@mediamocracy⁩ ⁦@johnchavens⁩ ⁦@IEEESA⁩ https://t.co/NwXp0Vw1f3
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Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you

We asked experts for practical suggestions on why Google’s AI ethics council bombed and what the company should do next.