Top news of the week: 21.05.2019.
#AI #Robotics #GPUs #uk #CAST #TheTwilightZone #GoROS #tech #drones #speechrecognition
General
On the latest "Babbage" podcast: Legislators in San Francisco voted to ban the use of facial recognition—is this a victory for privacy or a set back for technology? https://t.co/lVS4E7D3Rk https://t.co/oxsBwxdgia
OpenSaving face: San Francisco's ban on recognition technology
Our weekly podcast on the innovations, discoveries and gadgetry making the news
The internet has made access to indecent images of children easier. The Internet Watch Foundation works to remove them https://t.co/HuVFfGQLqr
OpenInside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity cleaning up the web
In 1996 Britain hosted about a fifth of the world’s child sexual-abuse websites. Last year it was less than 1%
We might have figured out how to keep artificial intelligence from misbehaving. https://t.co/E2FvX2eKYj
OpenHow we might protect ourselves from malicious AI
New research could make deep-learning models much harder to manipulate in harmful ways.
A nice but long article about interdisciplinary efforts at @Caltech #CAST on #autonomous systems #AI #Robotics #drones @yisongyue @AMBER_lab https://t.co/usZjbT4Bik
OpenSmart from the Start: Studying and Building Autonomous Systems
Caltech Engineering and Applied Science faculty work at the edges of fundamental science to invent the technologies of the future.
RT @YangKevinK: We (@ZvxyWu, @francesarnold) wrote a review about machine learning for protein engineering, but there's so many new papers that we can't update it quickly enough. So Zach and I made a public list of papers covering machine learning on proteins. https://t.co/KYKhcDvv2h
OpenPapers on machine learning for proteins
Listing of papers about machine learning for proteins. - yangkky/Machine-learning-for-proteins
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.
As elections loom a new divide is opening up in European politics, one that cuts across the old battle lines https://t.co/uYn75InnHT
OpenThe European Parliament elections are responding to a changed world
What does it mean to be the Europe that protects?
Pursuit of profit once encouraged China and America to work together. But commercial competition has become more zero-sum. In 2009, the ten largest internet companies by revenue were American. Now several are Chinese https://t.co/hTFK0NtygO https://t.co/ZMS3euom4j
OpenCompeting in technologyAmerica still leads in technology, but China is catching up fast
Commercial competition is turning into a zero-sum contest
Robotics
The rise of the Robot Operating System
Nearly 55 percent of total commercial robots shipped in 2024 will have at least one Robot Operating System package installed, according to ABI Research The Robot Operating System, or ROS, ...
Video Friday: Watch This Monstrous Robot Tank Bulldoze Its Way Through Obstacles https://t.co/hExtzi1Ink
OpenVideo Friday: Watch This Monstrous Robot Tank Bulldoze Its Way Through Obstacles
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Applied Use Cases
UK government announces board members of AI Council https://t.co/zvVbdJIkbj #uk #tech #ai https://t.co/QUwknRAzpc
OpenUK government announces board members of AI Council
The UK government has announced the names of board members appointed to its dedicated AI Council. As one of the global leaders in AI, the global community will be looking to who the UK has ...
The UK Government has asked DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman to join its new AI Council. More info here https://t.co/e44QSUZF2U
OpenLeading experts appointed to AI Council to supercharge the UK’s artificial intelligence sector
This comes as government celebrates the one year anniversary of the AI Sector Deal as part of the modern Industrial Strategy, which aims to realise the full potential of AI to the economy
#MSRPodcast with close colleague & friend XD Huang who has led Microsoft's efforts in #speechrecognition since the early 1990s. Interesting reflections on #languageunderstanding and #AI https://t.co/ypR0lGJsQx @xdh @MSFTResearch @compcomcon @IEEEorg @TheOfficialACM @icassp2019
OpenSpeech and language: the crown jewel of AI with Dr. Xuedong Huang
Dr. Xuedong Huang shares inside details on the latest milestones in speech and language technology on the MSR Podcast. He also explains how mastering speech recognition, translation and ...
Research
Watch us compress multiple ensembled models into a single Multi-Task Deep Neural Network via knowledge distillation for learning robust and universal text representations across multiple natural language understanding tasks. We're talking SotA in GLUE: https://t.co/sHi3ygZuFa
OpenRobust Language Representation Learning via Multi-task Knowledge Distillation
How robust is your language representation? Watch us compress multiple ensembled models into a single Multi-Task Deep Neural Network via knowledge distillation for learning robust and ...
The AI acquisitions war
Several of the top AI researchers and most lucrative products at leading tech firms came from acquisitions.
RT @NVIDIAAIDev: Microsoft Research announced a conversational #AI breakthrough using NVIDIA #GPUs for NLP tasks on the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark. https://t.co/tQhhdQYWij
OpenMicrosoft Announces New Breakthroughs in AI Speech Tasks
Microsoft AI Research just announced a new breakthrough in the field of conversational AI that achieves new records in seven of nine natural language processing tasks from the General ...
Watch us compress multiple ensembled models into a single Multi-Task Deep Neural Network via knowledge distillation for learning robust and universal text representations across multiple natural language understanding tasks. We're talking SotA in GLUE: https://t.co/sHi3ygZuFa
OpenRobust Language Representation Learning via Multi-task Knowledge Distillation
How robust is your language representation? Watch us compress multiple ensembled models into a single Multi-Task Deep Neural Network via knowledge distillation for learning robust and ...
The AI acquisitions war
Several of the top AI researchers and most lucrative products at leading tech firms came from acquisitions.
RT @NVIDIAAIDev: Microsoft Research announced a conversational #AI breakthrough using NVIDIA #GPUs for NLP tasks on the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark. https://t.co/tQhhdQYWij
OpenMicrosoft Announces New Breakthroughs in AI Speech Tasks
Microsoft AI Research just announced a new breakthrough in the field of conversational AI that achieves new records in seven of nine natural language processing tasks from the General ...
RT @NvidiaAI: .@Forbes shares the many ways @Ford is using #AI and #ML. One way? Tapping into the power of the NVIDIA DGX-1 for racing simulations. More:https://t.co/uQJrjbv37m
OpenThe Amazing Ways The Ford Motor Company Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
Ford Motor Company, ones of America's oldest companies, uses artificial intelligence and machine learning in many ways from the supply chain to production to used car sales to self-driving ...
Ethics
RT @martintisne: Congratulations to @carlykind_ for her exciting appointment as director of the @AdaLovelaceInst https://t.co/Gc6bHytaHa The UK ecosystem on #datarights is thriving, it's now time to put that influence to work both in the UK and abroad
OpenCarly Kind appointed Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute
Carly will lead the delivery of the Ada Lovelace Institute’s ambitious agenda to promote informed public understanding of the impact of AI and data-driven technologies on different groups ...
Since I wrote Technology vs Humanity almost 3 years ago https://t.co/K8p1gfbMom #techvshuman I have been collecting some new memes based on my key messages, such as 🎯 "If you don't have anything to hide, you're probably not human" 🤖 Share the nuggets as you find them as well:) https://t.co/ZACeEW1WiT
Open