Top news of the week: 09.07.2019.

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Research

On Jul 3, 2019
@egrefen shared
RT @GoAbiAryan: Why does most of the bad reporting always happen around games esp OpenAI and DeepMind products? Is over-promising the key reason? Or is it simply the Placebo Effect? https://t.co/754dM1B3jy https://t.co/Pc3P5nyDgZ
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Transform 2019: Hear from the movers and shakers in AI

Artificial intelligence is transforming business and offering significant strategic and practical opportunities, from natural language processing and smart speech to IoT and edge computing. ...

On Jul 6, 2019
@kastnerkyle shared
RT @StephanZheng: New paper on much faster RL by learning graph representations of the world https://t.co/tbXjZU9C7H! World graphs capture the structure of the world and can be used to focus exploration: https://t.co/u50Ac3Bcbq w/ Wendy Shang, Alex Trott, @CaimingXiong @RichardSocher @SFResearch https://t.co/o02pKYrTtN
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Applied Use Cases

On Jul 8, 2019
@thinkmariya shared
RT @math_rachel: Excited to share our newest https://t.co/ktYtgBpxGr course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing All code & videos are available for free online, please check it out! https://t.co/yORn9f0Cgw
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Making neural nets uncool again

It’s a small world indeed… The dataset collection The following categories are currently included in the collection: Image classification, with a focus on fine-grained classification and ...

On Jul 7, 2019
@Jaguilam2003 shared
RT @techreview: Researchers have developed a machine-learning system capable of deciphering lost languages. https://t.co/j4hNQ5MfBe
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Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages

Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.

Robotics

On Jul 2, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
Robots Made Out of Branches Use Deep Learning to Walk https://t.co/CIRRhgHaqc
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Robots Made Out of Branches Use Deep Learning to Walk

Researchers used deep reinforcement learning to teach these strange robots how to move

On Jul 3, 2019
@ericoguizzo shared
This Is the Most Powerful Robot Arm Ever Installed on a Mars Rover https://t.co/OWNrlbFalA
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This Is the Most Powerful Robot Arm Ever Installed on a Mars Rover

How NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed the robot arm for the Mars 2020 rover

On Jul 3, 2019
@IEEESpectrum shared
Most people don’t spend time thinking about what’s in the waste they flush down the toilet. But health officials do. Some are analyzing wastewater to check for viruses, chemicals, and both illegal and prescription drugs. https://t.co/fiqANp5AM0
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Combating the Opioid Crisis, One Flush at a Time

Startup Biobot Analytics monitors wastewater to identify at-risk neighborhoods

On Jul 2, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
Robots Made Out of Branches Use Deep Learning to Walk https://t.co/CIRRhgHaqc
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Robots Made Out of Branches Use Deep Learning to Walk

Researchers used deep reinforcement learning to teach these strange robots how to move

On Jul 3, 2019
@ericoguizzo shared
This Is the Most Powerful Robot Arm Ever Installed on a Mars Rover https://t.co/OWNrlbFalA
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This Is the Most Powerful Robot Arm Ever Installed on a Mars Rover

How NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed the robot arm for the Mars 2020 rover

On Jul 3, 2019
@IEEESpectrum shared
Most people don’t spend time thinking about what’s in the waste they flush down the toilet. But health officials do. Some are analyzing wastewater to check for viruses, chemicals, and both illegal and prescription drugs. https://t.co/fiqANp5AM0
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Combating the Opioid Crisis, One Flush at a Time

Startup Biobot Analytics monitors wastewater to identify at-risk neighborhoods

Ethics

On Jul 6, 2019
@erikbryn shared
RT @mitsmr: What Does an #AI Ethicist Do? —@tdav, @mit_ide https://t.co/3cL1vu5Nng
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What Does an AI Ethicist Do?

Tim O’Brien explains his role as Microsoft’s first full-time manager for AI policy and ethics.

On Jul 3, 2019
@johnchavens shared
RT @maria_axente: Excellent read on #AI4Children from @fede_guerrini "What To Expect From Generation AI?" in @Forbes A timely article for the work we are doing at #GenAI programme at @wef 📣 @eddankatz and @UNICEF 's #GenerationAI 📣 @stevevosloo h/t @RobMcCargow https://t.co/v1DRuk7kaq https://t.co/pDnCSxNPvV
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What To Expect From Generation AI?

Artificial Intelligence is going to change the world. Children will be among the most affected.

On Jul 8, 2019
@RobMcCargow shared
NIST releases #AI engagement plan in response to Trump executive order | via @VentureBeat https://t.co/hWb9OxpGMB
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NIST releases AI engagement plan in response to Trump executive order

The U.S. Department of Commerce released a plan for federal engagement in the creation of artificial intelligence standards in line with U.S. interests.