Top news of the week: 21.03.2019.

#AI #ml #GTC19 #digitalneuro #wearables #medicaldevices #GAN #vid2vid #pix2pixHD #AGI

Robotics

On Mar 14, 2019
@ericoguizzo shared
Latest Generation of Lionfish-Hunting Robot Can Find and Zap More Fish Than Ever https://t.co/F9QZiR0vF9
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On Mar 15, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
Video Friday: MIT's Origami Magic-Ball Gripper https://t.co/d0K6aPfHPQ
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Video Friday: MIT's Origami Magic-Ball Gripper

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

On Mar 15, 2019
@newsbeagle shared
RT @TeklaPerry: A Peek into the Future of Wearables: Mind reading glasses, goggles that erase chronic pain, a wristband that can hear what the wearer can’t, and more futuristic wearables are on the horizon https://t.co/m5m67DGrO2 @IEEESpectrum #digitalneuro
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A Peek into the Future of Wearables

Mind reading glasses, goggles that erase chronic pain, a wristband that can hear what the wearer can’t, and more futuristic wearables are on the horizon

On Mar 14, 2019
@ericoguizzo shared
Latest Generation of Lionfish-Hunting Robot Can Find and Zap More Fish Than Ever https://t.co/F9QZiR0vF9
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On Mar 15, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
Video Friday: MIT's Origami Magic-Ball Gripper https://t.co/d0K6aPfHPQ
Open

Video Friday: MIT's Origami Magic-Ball Gripper

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

On Mar 15, 2019
@newsbeagle shared
RT @TeklaPerry: A Peek into the Future of Wearables: Mind reading glasses, goggles that erase chronic pain, a wristband that can hear what the wearer can’t, and more futuristic wearables are on the horizon https://t.co/m5m67DGrO2 @IEEESpectrum #digitalneuro
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A Peek into the Future of Wearables

Mind reading glasses, goggles that erase chronic pain, a wristband that can hear what the wearer can’t, and more futuristic wearables are on the horizon

Research

On Mar 18, 2019
@xamat shared
RT @spacy_io: Out now: spaCy v2.1! Major features include: 👽 ULMFit/BERT/ELMo-like language model pretraining 📐 Better matching & rule-based NER 🧮 Platform-independent matrix multiplication 🚀 2-3 times faster tokenization ⏳ Installation without local compilers https://t.co/FaSUUFQ405
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Introducing spaCy v2.1

Version 2.1 of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library features a huge number of features, improvements and bug fixes. In this post, we highlight some of the features we're especially ...

On Mar 19, 2019
@mat_kelcey shared
RT @NVIDIAEmbedded: Today we announced the Jetson Nano, a small but mighty #AI computer that makes it possible to create millions of intelligent systems. https://t.co/TXTF9XEEgl #GTC19 https://t.co/QxBxuXwEWR
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NVIDIA Announces Jetson Nano: $99 Tiny, Yet Mighty NVIDIA CUDA-X AI Computer That Runs All AI Models

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2019 GPU Technology Conference—NVIDIA today announced the Jetson Nano™, an AI computer that makes it possible to create millions of intelligent systems. The ...

On Mar 21, 2019
@petewarden shared
RT @huangcza: Check out our new blog post on Coconet 🥥, the #ml behind the Bach Doodle that’s live now! It’s a flexible infilling model that generates counterpoint through rewriting. https://t.co/zVUUae4N8S @koning_robot, @notwaldorf, @ada_rob, @fjord41, @AaronCourville, @douglas_eck https://t.co/uJW2fcEu2e
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Coconet: the ML model behind today’s Bach Doodle

  Have you seen today’s Doodle? Join us to celebrate J.S. Bach’s 334th birthday with the first AI-powered Google Doodle. You can create your own melody, an...

Ethics

On Mar 17, 2019
@NoelSharkey shared
RT @maria_axente: How long can DeepMind maintain its independence? Really interesting profile of Demis Hassabis, filled with info on the positioning of DeepMind within Google, and upon the internal ethics bodies and decisions that define the relationship between them. https://t.co/6kNrk5KRox https://t.co/ZwgUWR58o2
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DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge

On Mar 19, 2019
@LeverhulmeCFI shared
RT @charlotte_stix: I’m very excited to publish my new report on the European Union AI ecosystem: strategy, collaboration, talent and funding. https://t.co/KXIK28i1rm https://t.co/Wr3j7rPy03
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A SURVEY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION'S ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ECOSYSTEM

This new report surveys core components of the EU’s current AI ecosystem, providing the crucial background context for answering these questions. It outlines the EU’s high-level strategy ...

On Mar 20, 2019
@BenedictDel shared
RT @MattFenech83: Refreshingly clear and detailed strategy document released by @CDEIUK (see workplan 👇) Good to see responsibility for public engagement sit with a defined expert body in Government. Looking forward to great work of @BenedictDel & co. (HT @HetanShah) https://t.co/g0hjjsh5sg https://t.co/iJ7XmWiQnp
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Centre for Data Ethics (CDEI) 2 Year Strategy

In support of this aim, the CDEI will: Seek to build a policy and governance environment that enables data-driven technology to improve people’s lives Ensure the public’s views form the ...

Applied Use Cases

On Mar 16, 2019
@prostheticknowl shared
RT @liu_mingyu: Glad to see that our #GAN research works enable people to "generate realistic dance videos of NBA players for in-game entertainment." #pix2pixHD, #vid2vid https://t.co/ek2XfdBL6O https://t.co/Xmd9rLk35A
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Using AI to make NBA players dance

Mark Cuban would be the first to tell you that the Dallas Mavericks are not in the business of sports but instead are in the business of…

On Mar 17, 2019
@johnchavens shared
RT @maria_axente: How long can DeepMind maintain its independence? Really interesting profile of Demis Hassabis, filled with info on the positioning of DeepMind within Google, and upon the internal ethics bodies and decisions that define the relationship between them. https://t.co/6kNrk5KRox https://t.co/ZwgUWR58o2
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DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge

On Mar 15, 2019
@NathanBenaich shared
RT @lombardodier: Where is #AI headed? We discussed applications and new developments with a panel of experts: @NathanBenaich @stevecrossan and Justin Lyon @Simudyne. Read more about the #investment landscape, innovations and ethics here. https://t.co/OIpdHia0bp
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What do new developments in artificial intelligence mean for industry, investing and our society?

<p>New developments in artificial intelligence could have important implications for industry, technology, investing and our future.</p>