Top news of the week: 15.10.2019.
Artificial intelligence, Evolutionary robotics, Red Planet, Industrial robot, Professor, Driverless car
Robotics
30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019 https://t.co/z2q1IMHV87 @Robohub #womeninrobotics https://t.co/36DJ3BIGlk
Open30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019
30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019
This week’s best tech news 📰:
• How to Stop Superhuman AI Before It Stops Us l The New York Times
• Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan l The Atlantic
& more in Space, Health & Automation
https://t.co/HuoSItE9F8
OpenThis Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 12)
From an approach to controlling superintelligent AI to a drug tailored to a single patient, check out this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.
RT @therobotreport: Diligent Robotics raises $3M in seed funding, launches Moxi hospital robot - https://t.co/pbVgD8uMaK https://t.co/4yxSEIoHlY
OpenDiligent 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.
30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019 https://t.co/z2q1IMHV87 @Robohub #womeninrobotics https://t.co/36DJ3BIGlk
Open30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019
30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019
This week’s best tech news 📰:
• How to Stop Superhuman AI Before It Stops Us l The New York Times
• Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan l The Atlantic
& more in Space, Health & Automation
https://t.co/HuoSItE9F8
OpenThis Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 12)
From an approach to controlling superintelligent AI to a drug tailored to a single patient, check out this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.
RT @therobotreport: Diligent Robotics raises $3M in seed funding, launches Moxi hospital robot - https://t.co/pbVgD8uMaK https://t.co/4yxSEIoHlY
OpenDiligent 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.
Applied Use Cases
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
OpenOpenAI 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 ...
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
OpenPyTorch 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 ...
RT @KYWeise: Two weeks after Bezos announced Amazon's "climate pledge," Amazon sponsored an oil industry event with the title "Accelerate Production" via @bcmerchant https://t.co/ZpSu7vInm3
OpenTwo Weeks After Amazon Made Its 'Climate Pledge,' It Joined Big Oil for Its 'Accelerate Production 4.0' Event
Just two weeks after Amazon pledged to radically reduce its company-wide carbon emissions, the head of its oil and gas web services subsidiary traveled to Houston, Texas, to participate in ...
Ethics
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
OpenThe 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.
This paper on our blog by Dalia Renzullo (@mcgillu) explores how the development of anthropomorphic AI technology is part of a process of social acclimatization that facilitates its use for capitalist goals.
https://t.co/z3J4ZSJrcp
OpenAnthropomorphized AI as Capitalist Agents: The Price We Pay for Familiarity
By Dalia Renzullo (Philosophy, McGill University) Abstract: The development of anthropomorphic AI technology is part of a process of social acclimatization that facilitates its use for ...
Five new human rights for the digital age (excerpt from the book ‘Technology vs Humanity’) https://t.co/TgKHJhk2U8 from 2017 but feels very much like TODAY
OpenFive new human rights for the digital age (excerpt from the book ‘Technology vs Humanity’)
This is a slightly modified and hyper-linked excerpt from my new book ‘Technology vs Humanity’. Originally posted on my blog.
Research
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.
OpenThe 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 ...
RT @egrefen: Announcing TorchBeast, an IMPALA-inspired @pytorch platform for distributed RL research. Used in a growing number of projects here at @facebookai. Project lead by Heinrich Küttler, with major effort by @nntsn et al.
Paper: https://t.co/HMYTtesSqC
Code: https://t.co/vadpUsyvaZ
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A PyTorch Platform for Distributed RL. Contribute to facebookresearch/torchbeast development by creating an account on GitHub.