Top news of the week: 20.08.2019.

#Exoskeletons #top10 #ai #readinglist #AssistiveTechnology #EksoVest #AInotjustdeeplearning #AInotready #DARPA #ML

Robotics

On Aug 20, 2019
@RobotShop shared
The Future Has Arrived. Want Proof? Check Out These Amazing Robotic #Exoskeletons https://t.co/xWTbyVRD5z #DARPA #LG #Samsung @DigitalTrends https://t.co/EQEsa4BWly
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The future has arrived. Want proof? Check out these amazing robotic exoskeletons

From Aliens’ Power Loader to the Combat Jackets from Edge of Tomorrow, science fiction is full of amazing assistive robot exosuits that can be worn by humans to increase their capabilities. ...

On Aug 20, 2019
@RobotShop shared
The Future Has Arrived. Want Proof? Check Out These Amazing Robotic #Exoskeletons https://t.co/xWTbyVRD5z #DARPA #LG #Samsung @DigitalTrends https://t.co/EQEsa4BWly
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The future has arrived. Want proof? Check out these amazing robotic exoskeletons

From Aliens’ Power Loader to the Combat Jackets from Edge of Tomorrow, science fiction is full of amazing assistive robot exosuits that can be worn by humans to increase their capabilities. ...

On Aug 20, 2019
@singularityhub shared
AI demystifies biological vision—and that’s just the start. https://t.co/cMMxND13Yg
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How Researchers Used AI to Better Understand Biological Vision

The results illustrate how scientists are now striving to complete the virtuous circle: tapping AI to probe natural intelligence.

On Aug 14, 2019
@singularityu shared
From self-driving vehicles to electric cars, the future of driving is here. https://t.co/p4vqjbIfUu
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Driverless Electric Trucks Are Coming, and They’ll Affect You More Than You Think

Trucks don't get as much love as cars, but come on—probably 90 percent of the things you ate, bought, or used today were at some point moved by a truck.

On Aug 20, 2019
@singularityhub shared
AI demystifies biological vision—and that’s just the start. https://t.co/cMMxND13Yg
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How Researchers Used AI to Better Understand Biological Vision

The results illustrate how scientists are now striving to complete the virtuous circle: tapping AI to probe natural intelligence.

On Aug 14, 2019
@singularityu shared
From self-driving vehicles to electric cars, the future of driving is here. https://t.co/p4vqjbIfUu
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Driverless Electric Trucks Are Coming, and They’ll Affect You More Than You Think

Trucks don't get as much love as cars, but come on—probably 90 percent of the things you ate, bought, or used today were at some point moved by a truck.

Applied Use Cases

On Aug 15, 2019
@davegershgorn shared
RT @AnimaAnandkumar: @awscloud So many scientists have repeatedly asked @awscloud to stop selling its flawed Rekognition tool to law enforcement. Yet, response is unscientific fraudulent claims. https://t.co/1f9UZPxRNA #AInotready #AInotjustdeeplearning
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AI experts are calling on Amazon to stop selling facial recognition to law enforcement

Scientists think it's too soon for law enforcement to use the technology.

On Aug 16, 2019
@NathanBenaich shared
RT @SnorkelML: Very excited to announce Snorkel v0.9, the biggest update to our open source framework for programmatically labeling, transforming & structuring training datasets for #ML. We add new core ops, algs, tutorials, and a full redesign of the core lib https://t.co/3RqFH9EjPq #snorkelML
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Introducing the New Snorkel

Introducing our biggest update to Snorkel yet, version 0.9.

On Aug 17, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @etzioni: Machine learning depends on human labeling by @CadeMetz https://t.co/4gWiPY7cuu That's why @allen_ai has ethical guidelines for crowd work: https://t.co/30YDVRw8Ji
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A.I. Is Learning From Humans. Many Humans.

Artificial intelligence is being taught by thousands of office workers around the world. It is not exactly futuristic work.

Research

On Aug 20, 2019
@demishassabis shared
RT @DeepMindAI: We're open sourcing Spriteworld, a flexible, procedural reinforcement learning environment: https://t.co/MkuXLYlhMq Spriteworld is a 2-dimensional arena with movable objects, and is particularly well-suited for small-scale experiments with limited computational resources. https://t.co/Nw6Zfgg4ht
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Spriteworld: A Flexible, Configurable Reinforcement Learning Environment

Spriteworld: a flexible, configurable python-based reinforcement learning environment - deepmind/spriteworld

Ethics

On Aug 16, 2019
@nikitaljohnson shared
As part of our Summer Series of blog posts, we've put together a list of some of our favourite pieces of content we’ve been recommended this year. https://t.co/pdOWQF4kyc #top10 #readinglist #recommendations #ai #dl https://t.co/vkyTafhG6G
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Top 10 of 2019: AI and Deep Learning Content Recommended by Experts

As part of our Summer Series of blog posts, we've put together a list of some of our favourite pieces of content we’ve been recommended this year.

On Aug 15, 2019
@PKathrani shared
RT @David_Gunkel: I had the unique opportunity to provide a back cover endorsement for the new @Routledge_Phil book from @MCoeckelbergh "Moved by Machines." This one is definitely a game changer. https://t.co/drQp3WwGh1 https://t.co/e6cTd0TTcl
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Performance Metaphors and Philosophy of Technology, 1st Edition

Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart devices, robots, and artificial intelligence and their impact on the lives of people and on society, it is important and urgent ...

On Aug 15, 2019
@FrankPasquale shared
Police robots for Brexit: “We know the UK are developing autonomous weapons. Could we see autonomous weapons at the Border in the North? Maybe” https://t.co/FD1TxoEYZh
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'Killer robots' are not science fiction - they're here

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots has one main message – all weapons must have meaningful human control