Top news of the week: 12.02.2019.

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Research

On Feb 10, 2019
@stanfordnlp shared
RT @LukaszJDebowski: By @chrmanning: Last Words: Computational Linguistics and Deep Learning https://t.co/cStGKJf8IH
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Last Words: Computational Linguistics and Deep Learning

The Deep Learning Tsunami Deep Learning waves have lapped at the shores of computational linguistics for several years now, but 2015 seems like the year when the full force of...

On Feb 7, 2019
@thinkmariya shared
Conversational interfaces are permeating all of our digital experiences - at home, at work, and on the go. Learn how recent research breakthroughs in conversational #AI improves the performance & #UX of #chatbots & intelligent agents https://t.co/kgZkUMHWqo #NLP #ML #bots
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Top Research Papers in Conversational AI For Chatbots And Intelligent Agents

Conversational interfaces are permeating all aspects of our digital experiences. Digital assistants work alongside human agents to provide customer support. Chatbots are used to both market ...

On Feb 11, 2019
@dennybritz shared
A good summary of criticisms of Deep Learning for Vision (https://t.co/TCcC6cxDCq). IMO one overarching issue is that research is done to beat benchmarks and publish papers, rarely “regularized” by real-world problems with data characteristics that may be significantly different.
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The Limitations of Deep Learning for Vision and How We Might Fix Them

History of Deep Learning We are witnessing the third rise of deep learning. The first two waves — 1950s–1960s and 1980s–1990s — generated considerable excitement but slowly ran out of ...

Ethics

On Feb 6, 2019
@FLIxrisk shared
If a robot commits a war crime, who takes the blame? Philosopher @PeterAsaro talks autonomy, agency, & liability — and explains how these concepts are evolving in the modern age: https://t.co/qEuPjyeyZF #AI #ResponsibleAI https://t.co/A0jbIjz0b1
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Who is Responsible for Autonomous Weapons?

Who assumes the blame when autonomous weapons take innocent lives? Peter Asaro is working to develop legal approaches for addressing liability with AI.

On Feb 11, 2019
@David_Gunkel shared
@inversedotcom “I have yet to see a well-reasoned and/or persuasive argument for granting A.I. or robots citizenship. I do see good reasons to consider questions of legal personality for A.I.s & robots, but that is an entirely different set of questions.” https://t.co/W2Xqd5VkkD
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Robot Citizenship: Why Our Artificial Assistants May One Day Need Passports

SingularityNET is working with the Maltese government to explore the idea.

On Feb 7, 2019
@IBMWatson shared
In an essay published by @ColumbiaSIPA, Francesca Rossi of @IBMResearch explores how the purpose of enterprise #AI "is to augment humans’ capabilities and to allow humans to make better—that is, more informed and grounded—decisions." https://t.co/VKpZbYWao0
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Building Trust In Artificial Intelligence

What is Artificial Intelligence?Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a scientific discipline aimed at building machines that can perform many tasks that require human intelligence. AI started ...

Robotics

On Feb 8, 2019
@BotJunkie shared
RT @ArmyResearchLab: Robots should rescue Soldiers, not the other way around. So the Army Research Laboratory is developing software to help robots pick themselves up after a fall. #FutureFocused #Innovate https://t.co/DU9FiVpqkF
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I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up

“We hope that we can prevent that situation from ever being a problem again, where the robot can right itself and return to the vehicle so the Soldier isn’t tempted to risk his own life for ...

On Feb 5, 2019
@IEEESpectrum shared
Researchers are developing a new robot that combines a bipedal design with a drone-like thruster system for balancing, agility, and the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound. https://t.co/SNqoEeUrtC
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Caltech Building Agile Humanoid Robot by Combining Legs With Thrusters

Leonardo augments humanoid legs with thrusters to help it run and jump

On Feb 5, 2019
@RobotShop shared
5 #humanoid robots to watch in 2019 https://t.co/0wwkpjt3hX @therobotreport #BostonDynamics #UBTech #Toyota #Honda #Cassie https://t.co/Q6eZzBNWOy
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5 humanoid robots to watch in 2019

Humanoid robots have been in development for decades, but have only proven useful in labs. These five are trying to find purpose in the real world.

Applied Use Cases

On Feb 10, 2019
@math_rachel shared
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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 Feb 7, 2019
@thinkmariya shared
Conversational interfaces are permeating all of our digital experiences - at home, at work, and on the go. Learn how recent research breakthroughs in conversational #AI improves the performance & #UX of #chatbots & intelligent agents https://t.co/kgZkUMHWqo #NLP #ML #bots
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Top Research Papers in Conversational AI For Chatbots And Intelligent Agents

Conversational interfaces are permeating all aspects of our digital experiences. Digital assistants work alongside human agents to provide customer support. Chatbots are used to both market ...

On Feb 9, 2019
@stevelevine shared
RT @jonaweiss: @tfadell @kschwabable @jape @gringreen @ThomasErdbrink @lordstern1 @stevelevine @axios @StianReklev @Global_Policy @nigewillson @KNWLTN @techvibes @DenisMcDonough @singularityu @elonmusk @StefWKight @KeithBradsher @comradewong @JanePerlez @georgetoparis @DavidBarboza2 @RenatHeuberger @McKinseyChina @bencaldecott @TheSmithSchool @chinadialogue @iGDP_2C @EnergyFdn @sorenelbech @e_bartholomew @princesa4s @ChathamHouse @martinwolf_ @isabelhilton @Sir_David_King @EmmaHowardBoyd @climatemegan @ClimateHome @EnvMkts @JaneStevensen @nikkibartlett @tomfriedman Reading: 1) #China is playing next-generation #leapfrog with the West: https://t.co/B4u9hDoFw9 2) https://t.co/O4xEpiqkOD By @kavehwaddell @axios & @CNASdc (Rprt) #AI #ML #Robotics #quantum #computing C: @DenisMcDonough @algore @JoeBiden @BarackObama
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Understanding China's AI Strategy

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.