Top news of the week: 14.10.2019.

#Diligent #Moxi #Tensorflow #PyTorch #TWiMLcon #AI #NLP #MachineLearning

Robotics

On Oct 9, 2019
@suekeay shared
RT @Robohub: 30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019 https://t.co/TFGfiZdgKJ https://t.co/1i5ynwLXk5
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30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019

30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019

On Oct 11, 2019
@Perblog shared
RT @therobotreport: Diligent Robotics raises $3M in seed funding, launches Moxi hospital robot - https://t.co/pbVgD8uMaK https://t.co/4yxSEIoHlY
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Diligent Robotics raises $3M in seed funding, launches Moxi hospital robot

The Moxi service robot is designed to retrieve hospital supplies and be friendly to humans. Diligent Robotics announced that it is now available.

On Oct 9, 2019
@tiffanyshlain shared
RT @svrobo: So pleased to be partnering with LitQuake on a great robotics and AI event with @ken_goldberg @tiffanyshlain @timoreilly @janemetcalfe and @Duncande - SF Oct 15th! https://t.co/FvfQhjCvpS
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Tiffany Shlain

View more about this event at Litquake 2019 Festival

On Oct 9, 2019
@suekeay shared
RT @Robohub: 30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019 https://t.co/TFGfiZdgKJ https://t.co/1i5ynwLXk5
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30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019

30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019

On Oct 11, 2019
@Perblog shared
RT @therobotreport: Diligent Robotics raises $3M in seed funding, launches Moxi hospital robot - https://t.co/pbVgD8uMaK https://t.co/4yxSEIoHlY
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Diligent Robotics raises $3M in seed funding, launches Moxi hospital robot

The Moxi service robot is designed to retrieve hospital supplies and be friendly to humans. Diligent Robotics announced that it is now available.

On Oct 9, 2019
@tiffanyshlain shared
RT @svrobo: So pleased to be partnering with LitQuake on a great robotics and AI event with @ken_goldberg @tiffanyshlain @timoreilly @janemetcalfe and @Duncande - SF Oct 15th! https://t.co/FvfQhjCvpS
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Tiffany Shlain

View more about this event at Litquake 2019 Festival

Applied Use Cases

On Oct 12, 2019
@jackclarkSF shared
RT @OpenAI: Now accepting applications for our 3rd class of OpenAI Scholars: a 4 month full-time program for individuals from underrepresented groups to study deep learning and produce an open-source project. Mentors include @mcleavey, @karlcobbe, @AlecRad: https://t.co/Xj5qVLi1ph
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OpenAI Scholars Spring 2020

We are now accepting applications for our third class of OpenAI Scholars, a 4 month full-time program where we provide stipends and mentorship to 8 individuals from underrepresented ...

On Oct 10, 2019
@math_rachel shared
RT @ylecun: PyTorch 1.3 is live! Mobile device deployment, model quantization, named tensors, crypto, model interpretability, detectron2... https://t.co/yYQoJqbeUi https://t.co/XbQ08r2c8B
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PyTorch 1.3 adds mobile, privacy, quantization, and named tensors

The release of PyTorch 1.3 includes support for model deployment to mobile devices, quantization, and front-end improvements, like the ability to name tensors. We’re also launching tools ...

On Oct 8, 2019
@ibogost shared
A remarkable thing about this whole “AI Ethics” trend is how the people and companies who make technology products and services all seem to think this is just *happening to them*, as if they are mere bystanders to a natural phenomenon. https://t.co/WielwJkzdE
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How to operationalize AI ethics

Panelists from LinkedIn, Center for Data Ethics, and Georgian Partners at TWIMLcon discussed how teams and organizations can operationalize responsible AI.

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 13, 2019
@RobMcCargow shared
Every day we hear claims that #AI systems are about to transform the economy, creating mass unemployment and vast monopolies. But what do professional economists think about this? | via @JMateosGarcia @nesta_uk HT @azeem https://t.co/13587hJeEG
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The economics of Artificial Intelligence today

How will AI impact jobs, workplaces and innovation? We survey the state of the art of economics research looking at these questions.

On Oct 8, 2019
@johnchavens shared
The Virtual Beings Are Arriving https://t.co/d8srlmEgg2 This is fascinating but SO much anthropomorphism along with obfuscation. "Digital humans" implies the characters are fully sentient and there's also no mention of how user's / human's data is utilized for these experiences.
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The Virtual Beings Are Arriving

Virtual beings are beginning to engage audiences at the same level as human celebrity talent. Characters that seemingly have their own souls are having their rights licensed for use in ...

Research

On Oct 12, 2019
@NandoDF shared
RT @reiinakano: https://t.co/hLzZY6N7kG ""ML frameworks don’t just enable machine learning research, they enable and restrict the ideas that researchers are able to easily explore."" Perhaps the next big step forward is something completely inexpressible in the TF/PyTorch paradigm.
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The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019

Since deep learning regained prominence in 2012, many machine learning frameworks have clamored to become the new favorite among researchers and industry practitioners. From the early ...

On Oct 9, 2019
@stanfordnlp shared
RT @bobehayes: 10 Free Top Notch Natural Language Processing Courses Includes: @fastdotai @Stanford @UnivOxford @UW @yandexcom @coursera @UCBerkeley @TelAvivUni @_inesmontani https://t.co/cp6wuHE86s #NLP #MachineLearning https://t.co/eMLNwvH5i0
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10 Free Top Notch Natural Language Processing Courses

Are you looking to learn natural language processing? This collection of 10 free top notch courses will allow you to do just that, with something for every approach to learning NLP and its ...