Top news of the week: 15.05.2019.
Psychology, Human, Brain, Carnegie Mellon University, Computational neuroscience, University Circle
General
A new AI acquired humanlike ‘number sense’ on its own
A new artificial intelligence seems to share our intuitive ability to estimate numbers at a glance.
Mindscape Episode 46: Kate Darling @grok_ on Our Connections with Robots. #MindscapePodcast
https://t.co/T6wSQScC0y
OpenEpisode 46: Kate Darling on Our Connections with Robots
Most of us have no trouble telling the difference between a robot and a living, feeling organism. Nevertheless, our brains often treat robots as if they were alive. We give them names, ...
"In our definition, organisms that utilize synthetic DNA nucleotides may meet our criteria as living.” Via @TheScientistLLC https://t.co/FBpFvPYbFk https://t.co/rmCltCF4ka
OpenHow to Decide If a Robot Is a Alive
How to Decide If a Robot Is a Alive | RealClearScience
A new AI acquired humanlike ‘number sense’ on its own
A new artificial intelligence seems to share our intuitive ability to estimate numbers at a glance.
Mindscape Episode 46: Kate Darling @grok_ on Our Connections with Robots. #MindscapePodcast
https://t.co/T6wSQScC0y
OpenEpisode 46: Kate Darling on Our Connections with Robots
Most of us have no trouble telling the difference between a robot and a living, feeling organism. Nevertheless, our brains often treat robots as if they were alive. We give them names, ...
"In our definition, organisms that utilize synthetic DNA nucleotides may meet our criteria as living.” Via @TheScientistLLC https://t.co/FBpFvPYbFk https://t.co/rmCltCF4ka
OpenHow to Decide If a Robot Is a Alive
How to Decide If a Robot Is a Alive | RealClearScience
AI recommends 'fashionable' outfits to millions of people in China https://t.co/6U710MGTUs https://t.co/RxwfcqSRWl
OpenAI recommends 'fashionable' outfits to millions of people in China
E-commerce giant Alibaba has built an algorithm for suggesting outfits to shoppers in China. It has made over 5 million recommendations so far
RT @laxmevy: Hey guys I wrote a thing! Climate scientists can actually predict disease outbreaks months before they even happen. My first for @SmithsonianMag!
https://t.co/igHMlWufXV
OpenHow Scientists Use Climate Models to Predict Mosquito-Borne Disease Outbreaks
The ebb and flow of rainy seasons corresponds with the hatching of millions of mosquitoes—and the spread of diseases they carry
Robotics
Today, Peter Diamandis dives into Virtual and Augmented Reality. Over $20 billion is expected to be spent globally on VR/AR technology this year alone. https://t.co/hNy9M3o2mQ
Open5 Breakthroughs Coming Soon in Augmented and Virtual Reality
In the mere matter of a decade, VR and AR will unlock limitless applications for new and converging industries.
Video Friday: This Drone Is a Flying Tray for Your Smart Home
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Sharpening stones look like tools more suited for use on a workbench than a kitchen countertop. The Work Sharp E5 wants to strip some of that intimidation away. https://t.co/kPueM9TcaH
OpenReview: Work Sharp Culinary E5 Kitchen Knife Sharpener
Spinning, flexible belts put a fine edge on your everyday blades.
Applied Use Cases
RT @AdrienneLaF: Is Mark Zuckerberg really that powerful? Or, as @alexismadrigal puts it: “What could an evil Zuckerberg do?” https://t.co/3KXmhLb9B4
OpenMark Zuckerberg’s Power Is Unprecedented
It’s not just the extent of his influence—it’s the nature of it.
RT @NYCEDC: #BlockchainWeekNYC and @blockchain_nyc are key initiatives helping to bring more inclusion to the tech industry.
https://t.co/TprgRZ4ZE0
OpenCity's still banking on blockchain by ensuring the industry is open to all
But it coincides with a deliberate effort on the part of city officials who helped launch Blockchain Week to engineer diversity into the nascent blockchain community. With key initiatives, ...
Hackers breached 3 US antivirus companies, researchers reveal https://t.co/g4C5PiA08O by @thepacketrat
OpenHackers breached 3 US antivirus companies, researchers reveal
Source code, network access being sold online by "Fxmsp" collective.
Research
RT @jeffstone500: Confidential whistleblower documents obtained by @AP show how Facebook has exaggerated its success in removing terrorist propaganda posted by Al Qadea and ISIS suporters. In fact, it looks like Facebook's algorithm is inadvertently helping them. https://t.co/CnsgXfmq5H
OpenFacebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images
WASHINGTON (AP) — The animated video begins with a photo of the black flags of jihad. Seconds later, it flashes highlights of a year of social media posts: plaques of anti-Semitic verses, ...
RT @SantoshStyles: Train your own Q&A retrieval model in TF 2.0 Keras-Bert w/Google Colab.
Out of box via pip install, just provide your own data !
https://t.co/NOWRf2KkzI
https://t.co/lkZxfXwCsC
#PoweredByTF
OpenDoc Product: Medical Q&A with Deep Language Models
Medical Q&A with Deep Language Models. Contribute to Santosh-Gupta/DocProduct development by creating an account on GitHub.
RT @verge: Deepfake Salvador Dalí takes selfies with museum visitors
https://t.co/jW6KSof031 https://t.co/jydaOprZsM
Open
Ethics
The USA-China #AI Race:
7 Weaknesses of the West
- by @danfaggella @Emerj
https://t.co/C320nRORNG https://t.co/QPHFKRuAJO
OpenThe USA-China AI Race – 7 Weaknesses of the West
Emerj is an artificial intelligence market research firm. We help companies and institutions gain insight on the applications and implications of AI and machine learning technologies.
RT @jeremiecharris: We just had an great conversation with @mcleavey about AI ethics and her latest project at @OpenAI!!
If you're interested in state-of-the-art music generation and the future of #AI, this one's for you:
https://t.co/KDyStLrczY
OpenE3: OpenAI's Christine Payne on MuseNet and AI Ethics
She studied physics at Princeton and neuroscience and medicine at Stanford. She's a classically-trained pianist. And she's just created an algorithm that cou...
AI and the Evolution of History
Will artificial intelligence improve society or cause catastrophic failures?