Top news of the week: 16.05.2019.
#AI #TheTwilightZone #grid #weather #machinelearning #responsibleAI
Applied Use Cases
An all-but invisible underclass of labor has evolved behind the artificial intelligence revolution. Critics call them AI sharecroppers. https://t.co/SpMkjTizSL
Open
RT @alison_sander: Technology companies keep users in the dark about how their data are used in AI systems. Often, not even the companies themselves can anticipate where all that information might lead, @sidneyfussell reports: https://t.co/OrVGBziYQt
OpenThe AI Supply Chain Runs on Ignorance
Tech companies often fail to tell users how their data will be employed. Sometimes, the firms can’t even anticipate it themselves.
A new sci-fi masterpiece (not from Netflix!) that you're going to want to binge https://t.co/ll7o8BTOq3
OpenThe new show ‘Culturesport’ puts 90s rave culture, tech paranoia, and anime into a psychedelic blender
Watch the first episode right now and have your mind blown.
General
From #TheTwilightZone to Star Trek, @TwilightZoneLDN Producer Ron Fogelman explores the relationship between science & science fiction on our blog 💫👽 https://t.co/QdGf4lIlI6
📸 Captain Kirk's Communicator which inspired the idea for the world's first mobile phone prototype https://t.co/kx0NMLKMCZ
OpenThe Middle Ground Between Science and Superstition
Ron Fogelman, Producer of 'The Twilight Zone' stage production, looks at the inextricable link between science and science fiction.
RT @SLAClab: .@nytimes article about using #AI to handle severe #weather highlights GRIP (Grid Resilience & Intelligence Platform), a project co-led by @SLAClab & @BerkeleyLab which aims "to apply #machinelearning to the power #grid" @apilipis @LSchelhas @mayank_malik_
https://t.co/l50ITGV1TY
OpenHow A.I. Can Help Handle Severe Weather
Researchers from industry, academia and government agencies are finding new ways to repair the problems of hurricanes, flooding, drought and wildfires.
"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
From #TheTwilightZone to Star Trek, @TwilightZoneLDN Producer Ron Fogelman explores the relationship between science & science fiction on our blog 💫👽 https://t.co/QdGf4lIlI6
📸 Captain Kirk's Communicator which inspired the idea for the world's first mobile phone prototype https://t.co/kx0NMLKMCZ
OpenThe Middle Ground Between Science and Superstition
Ron Fogelman, Producer of 'The Twilight Zone' stage production, looks at the inextricable link between science and science fiction.
RT @SLAClab: .@nytimes article about using #AI to handle severe #weather highlights GRIP (Grid Resilience & Intelligence Platform), a project co-led by @SLAClab & @BerkeleyLab which aims "to apply #machinelearning to the power #grid" @apilipis @LSchelhas @mayank_malik_
https://t.co/l50ITGV1TY
OpenHow A.I. Can Help Handle Severe Weather
Researchers from industry, academia and government agencies are finding new ways to repair the problems of hurricanes, flooding, drought and wildfires.
"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 platform that learns from private patient data could lead to algorithms that diagnose illnesses, prevent disease, and extend lives. by @willknight https://t.co/NLisZPNBmW
OpenHow AI could save lives without spilling medical secrets
The first big test for a platform that lets AI algorithms learn from private patient data is under way at Stanford Medical School.
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
Ethics
How to think about inclusion in tech, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein https://t.co/1rNubrJ7F3 @IBJIYONGI @gregmepstein
OpenHow to think about inclusion in tech, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Part 2)
Technology is very much in the business of, quite literally, changing the world. When I was deciding whether to write for TechCrunch, I tried to imagine a human life on this planet, in 20 ...
Dystopian Reading Mashup.
Read @danfaggella's recent post at @Emerj "The USA-China AI Race--7 Weaknesses of the West" alongside Nick Bostrom's "Vulnerable World Hypothesis."
https://t.co/IrRo7jjrLx
https://t.co/e7vZTHb2X3
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 @vdignum: Very good article on a very important topic, AI literacy. HT @johnchavens
#responsibleAI #AI
https://t.co/GeymvrmeNv
OpenHow to Teach Kids About AI
A researcher at MIT Media Lab has designed a middle-school curriculum to help demystify algorithms and their effects.
Research
The AI acquisitions war
Several of the top AI researchers and most lucrative products at leading tech firms came from acquisitions.
RT @TensorFlow: We’re excited to share that weight pruning is now part of the TensorFlow Model Optimization Toolkit!
Learn how sparsity can dramatically reduce model sizes with negligible accuracy loss.
Read here → https://t.co/bhOm3s6ixP https://t.co/GdngCLKjDa
OpenTensorFlow Model Optimization Toolkit — Pruning API
Since we introduced the Model Optimization Toolkit — a suite of techniques that developers, both novice and advanced, can use to optimize…
RT @roybahat: So worth reading the original research on invisible (digital) work that @marylgray has done... https://t.co/P0CcuKfmbf
(thank you for joining us this morning!)
OpenHow Silicon Valley’s successes are fueled by an underclass of ‘ghost workers’
"Ghost work" is powering our technology.
Robotics
What's New In Robotics? 10.05.2019
Good morning. In this week's news mix: Yaskawa's new European plant opens, Ford's 'Survival' robot is unveiled and why Albrecht Jung has deployed 8 cobots in 5 years. We also admire an ...
The Hunt for a CRISPR Antidote Just Heated Up
The point isn’t to fuel public fear of the tool; rather, it’s to look far ahead at potential dangers and find preventive treatments or countermeasures.
RT @Robohub: The social animals that are inspiring new behaviours for robot swarms https://t.co/gxb2Y2hUtm https://t.co/GLs3xtc5Eh
OpenThe social animals that are inspiring new behaviours for robot swarms
The social animals that are inspiring new behaviours for robot swarms