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Robotics

On Oct 6, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: World's most publicized robotics company? - Guess who! https://t.co/Yvo3q0wwlf https://t.co/WNcVykEDEJ
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2020 East Bay Innovation Awards

https://robohub.org/2019-robot-launch-startup-competition-is-open/ Applications are now open until September 2nd 6pm PDT. Finalists may receive up to $500k in investment offers, plus space ...

On Oct 3, 2019
@RobotShop shared
SwarmTouch: A tactile interaction strategy for human-swarm communication https://t.co/NlDJeNlAli @TechXplore_com #SwarmTouch https://t.co/vuSKeMN1aS
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SwarmTouch: A tactile interaction strategy for human-swarm communication

Researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Russia have recently introduced a new strategy to enhance interactions between humans and robotic swarms, ...

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 Oct 6, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: World's most publicized robotics company? - Guess who! https://t.co/Yvo3q0wwlf https://t.co/WNcVykEDEJ
Open

2020 East Bay Innovation Awards

https://robohub.org/2019-robot-launch-startup-competition-is-open/ Applications are now open until September 2nd 6pm PDT. Finalists may receive up to $500k in investment offers, plus space ...

On Oct 3, 2019
@RobotShop shared
SwarmTouch: A tactile interaction strategy for human-swarm communication https://t.co/NlDJeNlAli @TechXplore_com #SwarmTouch https://t.co/vuSKeMN1aS
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SwarmTouch: A tactile interaction strategy for human-swarm communication

Researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Russia have recently introduced a new strategy to enhance interactions between humans and robotic swarms, ...

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 ...

Applied Use Cases

On Oct 4, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @DeepMindAI: In our new blog post, @csilviavr and @wsisaac explain how Causal Bayesian Networks can be used to identify and address biases embedded in datasets: https://t.co/clzlyjQ2XN
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Causal Bayesian Networks: A flexible tool to enable fairer machine learning

We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all. Explore our work: deepmind.com/research

On Oct 5, 2019
@hannahdev shared
My feature for ⁦@guardianweekend⁩ today: ‘We are hurtling towards a surveillance state’: the rise of facial recognition technology https://t.co/OXSIUD0vGv
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'We are hurtling towards a surveillance state’: the rise of facial recognition technology

It can pick out shoplifters, international criminals and lost children in seconds. But as the cameras proliferate, who’s watching the watchers?

On Oct 5, 2019
@Jaguilam2003 shared
RT @SpirosMargaris: Good read Training a #MachineLearning Engineer https://t.co/mVS3j0lfIl #fintech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence @kdnuggets #DeepLearning @HaroldSinnott @pierrepinna @Ronald_vanLoon @YuHelenYu @diioannid @mclynd @jblefevre60 @antgrasso @DimDrandakis https://t.co/eDp9CBGAUZ
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Training a Machine Learning Engineer

There is no clear outline on how to study Machine Learning/Deep Learning due to which many individuals apply all the possible algorithms that they have heard of and hope that one of ...

Ethics

On Oct 8, 2019
@Floridi shared
RT @oiioxford: Monday 21 October, ‘The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence’, in conversation with Rt Revd Steven Croft, Bishop of Oxford and @oiioxford Professor @Floridi part of the IF Oxford Science and Ideas Festival. Register: https://t.co/UZy9uPl0BI @oxfordethicslab@pnhoward
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The ethics of artificial intelligence

he brave new world of artificial intelligence is coming to a mobile phone, hospital or a supermarket near you. What are the challenges and opportunities autonomous systems may bring as they ...

On Oct 8, 2019
@j2bryson shared
RT @OfficeforAI: We're organising workshops throughout the month to test our draft Guidelines for #AI procurement, and have a few places left. 📩 DM if you want to get involved. 📖 Read the Guidelines: https://t.co/3dWfSPJyuo https://t.co/dGCLDW8HjP
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Draft Guidelines for AI procurement

A summary of best practice addressing specific challenges of acquiring Artificial Intelligence in the public sector

On Oct 2, 2019
@ESYudkowsky shared
RT @gdb: A GPT-2 written essay was submitted to the Economist's youth essay contest. One judge, who did not know the essay was written by an AI, gave this review: "It is strongly worded and backs up claims with evidence, but the idea is not incredibly original." https://t.co/RbKrQvN8C0
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How to respond to climate change, if you are an algorithm

We ran our youth essay question through an artificial-intelligence system to produce an essay

Research

On Oct 4, 2019
@weballergy shared
RT @rsalakhu: Ultra-Wide Deep Nets and the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) – Blog | Machine Learning | Carnegie Mellon University https://t.co/Yw5uAftH5F
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Ultra-Wide Deep Nets and the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK)

Traditional wisdom in machine learning holds that there is a careful trade-off between training error and generalization gap. There is a "sweet spot" for the model complexity such that the ...

On Oct 2, 2019
@OriolVinyalsML shared
RT @ch402: Do you formally know Monte-Carlo and TD learning, but don't intuitively understand the difference? This is for you. https://t.co/2DR75rK40u (with @samgreydanus) https://t.co/6RwsBjFbU9
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The Paths Perspective on Value Learning

A closer look at how Temporal Difference Learning merges paths of experience for greater statistical efficiency