Top news of the week: 17.06.2019.
Brain, Artificial intelligence, Networks, Neural network, Scientific method, Sony
Applied Use Cases
RT @IrmACTU: La #musique est Êmotionnelle, et les plateformes de #streaming possèdent une mine de donnÊes liÊes à nos Êtats Êmotionnels, à nos humeurs et à nos sentiments... https://t.co/2rslEWd4vF
OpenBig Mood Machine
Inside Spotifyâs emotional surveillance-driven quest for total ad domination.
RT @AI_RRI_Ethics: Excited to be part of "Your Mark On The World" with @devindthorpe on @Forbes https://t.co/FIXIkVCrjY
Sharing insights about my new @UNUCPR report on #AI converging tech & conflict prevention https://t.co/gMYn5HA1NL @johnchavens @e_cousens @DKTechAmb @SColesPorter @besiana_kadare https://t.co/GDTt9bO6xr
OpenDonât Fear The BotsâFear The Humans Who Control Them
Eleonore Pauwels, a research fellow on emerging cyber-technologies at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, recently published a report highlighting the threats and ...
Report on Algorithmic Risk Assessment Tools in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
Relative to OECD and Historical Baselines Exhibit 1 - Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, World Prison BriefâBirkbeck, University of London (2015/2016 data) Note: U.S. 1960 figure ...
General
First off, what are deepfakes? Hereâs an explanation of the artificial intelligence behind them. https://t.co/lBb6tBA85x
OpenInside the world of AI that forges beautiful art and terrifying deepfakes
Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are fueling creativityâand controversy. Hereâs how they work.
First off, what are deepfakes? Hereâs an explanation of the artificial intelligence behind them. https://t.co/lBb6tBA85x
OpenInside the world of AI that forges beautiful art and terrifying deepfakes
Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are fueling creativityâand controversy. Hereâs how they work.
Advances in artificial intelligence could supercharge surveillance cameras, allowing footage to be constantly monitored and instantly analyzed https://t.co/RfsczID2BD
OpenHow Surveillance Cameras Could Be Weaponized With A.I.
Advances in artificial intelligence could supercharge surveillance cameras, allowing footage to be constantly monitored and instantly analyzed, the A.C.L.U. warned in a new report.
Advances in artificial intelligence could supercharge surveillance cameras, allowing footage to be constantly monitored and instantly analyzed https://t.co/RfsczID2BD
OpenHow Surveillance Cameras Could Be Weaponized With A.I.
Advances in artificial intelligence could supercharge surveillance cameras, allowing footage to be constantly monitored and instantly analyzed, the A.C.L.U. warned in a new report.
RT @tooso_ai: Great news for cognitively-inspired #AI, as robotics legend @rodneyABrooks and @GaryMarcus joined forces to start a new venture. We will surely follow their journey and continue discussing their ideas (as we did in https://t.co/TgDwru2ytO). Good luck! https://t.co/fwDvOWld52
OpenIn Praise of Artificial Stupidity
Why todayâs A.I. is not âreallyâ A.I., but it may not matter that much to you.
What explains the large variation in individual metabolism? A new study documented, for the first time, substantial and surprising variations in how well participants processed fats and carbohydrates, even among identical twins. https://t.co/sOUmkofyvt
OpenNutrition for One? Scientists Stalk the Dream of a Personalized Diet
No single food regimen works for everyone. A new study is the most comprehensive effort yet to understand why.
Research
RT @facebookai: Weâre open sourcing AI Habitat, a powerful new simulation platform for training agents in hyperdetailed, photorealistic 3D reconstructions of physical environments. We hope this research milestone will unify & accelerate the promising field of Embodied AI. https://t.co/kQlRuksWGP https://t.co/rpxebhJBAq
OpenOpen-sourcing AI Habitat, an advanced simulation platform for embodied AI research
Weâre releasing AI Habitat, a powerful new open source simulation platform for training agents in photo-realistic 3D reconstructions of physical environments.
RT @yaringal: Really excited to release Bayesian Deep Learning Benchmarks - please share with others who you think might like this, and have a look at the blog/repo/colab:
https://t.co/ZKqN40da1S
This work was done over a period of a year and a half by many collaborators @OATML_Oxford https://t.co/iCXgG8H3Wy
OpenBayesian Deep Learning Benchmarks
Bayesian Deep Learning Benchmarks. Contribute to OATML/bdl-benchmarks development by creating an account on GitHub.
RT @hardmaru: Weight Agnostic Neural Networks đŚ
Inspired by precocial species in biology, we set out to search for neural net architectures that can already (sort of) perform various tasks even when they use random weight values.
Article: https://t.co/bpe6V3Rp9m
PDF: https://t.co/7OJGEsRnVV https://t.co/El2uzgxS5I
OpenWeight Agnostic Neural Networks
Networks that can already (sort of) perform tasks with random weights.
Robotics
What's New In Robotics? 14.06.2019
Good morning. In this week's news mix: MIT algorithm predicts human movement, a prototype medical cobot is unveiled, and Ford's use of cobots 'growing exponentially.' We also meet a ...
RT @spikedonline: âNo, robots are not going to take over the world. Robots themselves are not the problem. We humans design the robots. And it's our obligation to build robots that we donât need to worry about.â
@j2bryson on what we get wrong about AI
https://t.co/r1Nv38Wymm
OpenAI: inhuman after all?
Joanna Bryson on what the world gets wrong about robots and AI.
Jaco Is a Low-Power Robot Arm That Hooks to Your Wheelchair https://t.co/uc4VoCiWCe https://t.co/8EQcrw8R3F
OpenJaco Is a Low-Power Robot Arm That Hooks to Your Wheelchair
The lightweight carbon fiber arm has three fingers and six degrees of freedom
Ethics
RT @AJEnglish: How Artificial Intelligence empowers governments and corporations and diminishes accountability https://t.co/YvIJlJfD1W â #AJOpinion, by @cori_crider https://t.co/9ZR93gGjqb
OpenArtificial intelligence reinforces power and privilege
Computational surveillance empowers governments and corporations and diminishes accountability.
18 exponential changes we can expect in the year ahead https://t.co/9E5NWopiJB https://t.co/0YpJY8YzKN
Open18 Exponential Changes We Can Expect in the Year Ahead
Where will the trajectory of the tech world, from cryptocurrencies to Silicon Valley culture, take us in 2018?
Blair unmoved by robot hype
One of the stars of last week's Artificial Intelligence in Legal Services Summit was retired Commercial Court supremo Sir William Blair, now professor of financial law and ethics at Queen ...