Top news of the week: 21.02.2019.

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Research

On Feb 17, 2019
@NalKalchbrenner shared
RT @wellingmax: Assistant prof position open at AMLAB / U. Amsterdam. https://t.co/XTFXWTMXyd
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Tenure track Assistant professor Geometric Machine Learning

The Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLAB) at the Institute for Informatics (IvI) of the Faculty of Sciences (FNWI) has a tenure track position at the …

On Feb 14, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @KelseyTuoc: OpenAI scaled up some work they'd been doing with unsupervised learning for language AIs, and the results are incredible: https://t.co/xA6Fmk5d8A
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An AI helped us write this article

An impressive new language AI writes product reviews and news articles. Its creators are worried about misuse.

On Feb 17, 2019
@kastnerkyle shared
@faroit @samim Yes, definitely on all counts. The SANE2017 talks highlight a ton of different methods https://t.co/yITlRW67ui too. Do you know how the method you linked compares to something like "Phasebook and Friends" https://t.co/tbBjiOO22z? I'm bookmarking and prioritizing future reading :D
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SANE 2017 - Speech and Audio in the Northeast

It was a follow-up to SANE 2012, held at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), SANE 2013, held at Columbia University, SANE 2014, held at MIT CSAIL, SANE 2015, (already!) (Note: the ...

Ethics

On Feb 19, 2019
@David_Gunkel shared
@SvenNyholm @bronwynwilliams @EmergTechEthics @lvgaldieri @PKathrani @PabloRedux @sd_marlow @DorotheaBaur Thanks, @SvenNyholm @bronwynwilliams is not only familiar with #robortights, she wrote a fantastic review at https://t.co/ZqoAsuJ2TT
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Robot Rights

Can robots have rights? Should robots have rights? These deceptively big questions regarding “roborights” are shaping up to be among the Big Issues debated by law makers, scientists, en…

On Feb 19, 2019
@j2bryson shared
RT @SpirosMargaris: 10 #AI influencers you should be following on Twitter https://t.co/6ZAqqz6vrl #fintech #insurtech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning @Jenny_Darmody @siliconrepublic @AndrewYNg @j2bryson @katecrawford @MFordFuture @drfeifei @rodneyabrooks @kath0134 @ylecun @tessalau https://t.co/bo21OLxbCD
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10 AI influencers you should be following on Twitter

Want to expand your knowledge of the AI world? Make sure you’re following these AI influencers on Twitter.

On Feb 19, 2019
@FLIxrisk shared
The legend of King Midas: an ancient reminder that humans don't always know how to define their goals. Could AI be the modern version of the golden touch, doing what we asked but not what we wanted? Stuart Russell thinks so, & he's working on a solution: https://t.co/psyibd527S https://t.co/0bVLcRIj6y
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Artificial Intelligence and the King Midas Problem

Prominent artificial intelligence researcher, Stuart Russell, talks about his work and compares the problem of AI value alignment to the King Midas myth.

Robotics

On Feb 15, 2019
@Perblog shared
RT @OpenRoboticsOrg: How to speed #robotics development with the cloud https://t.co/yDHGJEZloH via @therobotreport @_RicardoTellez_ @rosorg #GoROS https://t.co/hQyRK2wvWN
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How to speed robotics development with the cloud

A lack of standards has hindered the development of autonomous robots, but the Robot Operating System and a cloud robotics development platform can help.

On Feb 20, 2019
@MistyRobotics shared
Great to see #robots in the news. Shows that the market for robots is coming of age. https://t.co/f21CM1dVuw #robotics #developers
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Lenovo leads $10 million investment in robotics startup Vincross

Lenovo is leading a $10 million funding round in Vincross, a Beijing-based robotics company with plans to release educational and companion robots.

On Feb 17, 2019
@singularityhub shared
Sensors and Machine Learning Are Giving Robots a Sixth Sense https://t.co/hwTSTgAgSw
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Sensors and Machine Learning Are Giving Robots a Sixth Sense

Robots with chemical sensors could be highly accurate in smell and taste, but building in a robot’s sense of itself and its body is far more difficult.

Applied Use Cases

On Feb 14, 2019
@thinkmariya shared
How well does AutoML actually work? Rachel Thomas of https://t.co/muPbmHyOZi breaks down the promises but also the pitfalls of approaches like Google's neural architecture search https://t.co/huCJ0H2Hdk #AI #ML #AutoML #deeplearning
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An Opinionated Introduction To AutoML And Neural Architecture Search

Rachel Thomas, Co-founder of fast.ai, offers an in-depth discussion of the promises and challenges of neural architecture search, with a focus on Google AutoML

On Feb 17, 2019
@vnfrombucharest shared
RT @wellingmax: Assistant prof position open at AMLAB / U. Amsterdam. https://t.co/XTFXWTMXyd
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Tenure track Assistant professor Geometric Machine Learning

The Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLAB) at the Institute for Informatics (IvI) of the Faculty of Sciences (FNWI) has a tenure track position at the …

On Feb 14, 2019
@thinkmariya shared
Given the challenges of hiring machine learning & AI talent, many companies look to AutoML as a potential solution. Rachel Thomas of https://t.co/muPbmHyOZi examines whether the reality of Google's AutoML promises live up to hype https://t.co/dEf5BMiDqe #AI #ML #AutoML
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Making neural nets uncool again

It’s a small world indeed… The dataset collection The following categories are currently included in the collection: Image classification, with a focus on fine-grained classification and ...