Top news of the week: 13.08.2019.
#NeurIPS2019 #NCCRRobotics #aiethics #AI #MineRL #ethicalAI #robots #robotethics
Robotics
svrobo: RT Robohub: #292: Robot Operating System (ROS) & Gazebo, with Brian Gerkey https://t.co/lOWiYD1BoU https://t.co/c8murxgxob
OpenRobot Operating System (ROS) & Gazebo, with Brian Gerkey
Robot Operating System (ROS) & Gazebo
svrobo: RT Robohub: #292: Robot Operating System (ROS) & Gazebo, with Brian Gerkey https://t.co/lOWiYD1BoU https://t.co/c8murxgxob
OpenRobot Operating System (ROS) & Gazebo, with Brian Gerkey
Robot Operating System (ROS) & Gazebo
Inflatable Robot Astronauts and How to Control Them
Safety regulations are part of why robots don’t work alongside humans more often, but soft robots would be safer to use in healthcare or around children.
The future of rescue robotics https://t.co/i3O26bgKmC @Robohub #NCCRRobotics https://t.co/15rf1fkqYV
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Inflatable Robot Astronauts and How to Control Them
Safety regulations are part of why robots don’t work alongside humans more often, but soft robots would be safer to use in healthcare or around children.
The future of rescue robotics https://t.co/i3O26bgKmC @Robohub #NCCRRobotics https://t.co/15rf1fkqYV
OpenApplied Use Cases
RT @josephfcox: New: Leaked documents, screenshots, & audio show Microsoft contractors are listening to some Skype calls. Includes people talking about relationships, personal issues, etc. Publicly Skype says this analysis is done by AI; fails to mention humans do it too https://t.co/4sYwmN37zk
OpenRevealed: Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls
Documents, screenshots, and audio obtained by Motherboard show that humans listen to Skype calls made using the app's translation function.
RT @Aaroth: A nice article about a questionable earthquake-damage prediction startup: https://t.co/k0pTiXwrJ0 (quoting @zacharylipton!) Predicting rare events is a hard problem because you don't have much data for validation. But apparently selling those predictions is more easily solved.
OpenThis High-Tech Solution to Disaster Response May Be Too Good to Be True
Major cities are turning to a Silicon Valley start-up to help save lives in an emergency. But some fear its promise has been dangerously exaggerated.
This format of setting a paper in dialogue with its critics formally has a rich tradition in journal culture but it's rare in AI/ML. This is an exciting development from @ch402 & the @distillpub team, and I hope they run many more of these:
https://t.co/TY6wEy9Jb1
OpenAdversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features
Six comments from the community and responses from the original authors
Research
RT @MSFTResearch: Latest @Project_Malmo-based competition challenges participants to create agents capable of mining a diamond in Minecraft with limited training time and data. See the role @CarnegieMellon students played in organizing the contest and sign up: https://t.co/xO5PGs3YfS #NeurIPS2019
OpenMicrosoft Research Blog
Latest Project Malmo-based competition challenges participants to create agents capable of mining a diamond in Minecraft with limited training time and data. Find out the role Carnegie ...
RT @goodfellow_ian: Check out the call for papers for the Bayesian deep learning workshop at NeurIPS 2019: https://t.co/jb9hdA7isJ
OpenBayesian Deep Learning
Bayesian Deep Learning Workshop at NIPS 2017 — December 9, 2017, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, US.
RT @alan_karthi: Brilliant piece from @drnigam and colleagues, on the need to consider downstream action/ clinical consequence from ML models in their evaluation. https://t.co/lzfcmgPewj
OpenMaking Machine Learning Models Clinically Useful
This Viewpoint reviews conventional ways of assessing performance of machine learning models to diagnose or predict outcomes, but emphasizes that if machine learning is to improve patient ...
Ethics
RT @PartnershipAI: "We genuinely believe that the market will reward those actors that show accountability up and down the entire chain of AI creation and deployment,” says Samir Goswami, The Partnership on AI's chief operating officer, in @TheEIU by @michael_e_gold: https://t.co/Wh4AxzDmYS
OpenDon’t be evil?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has, of late, been the subject of so many announcements, proclamations, predictions and premonitions that it could occupy its own 24-hour cable news channel. ...
RT @MattFenech83: Malta opens Ethical #AI Framework for public consultation. Very keen to hear what #aiethics-types as well as anyone else who might be interested in regulation of emerging tech in Malta/EU thinks about it. Views due by 6th Sept.
https://t.co/7aSuRz6KCj
https://t.co/2tKFKXlnoj
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Lawyers, programmers, ethicists and other stakeholders have one month to tell the government what they make of an Artificial Intelligence framework document published on Fridya. The Malta ...
RT @twimlai: We're joined this week by Dr. Kate Darling (@grok_) Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab (@medialab) to discuss robot ethics, the future of human-robot psychology and literally everything in between. Drop everything and listen here: https://t.co/5d5TjdpEdN #robots #AIethics https://t.co/CBee80HoGn
OpenHuman-Robot Interaction and Empathy with Kate Darling
Today we’re joined by Dr. Kate Darling, Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab, focusing on robot ethics and social interaction.