Top news of the week: 22.05.2019.
#AI #Robotics #tech #autonomous #CAST #GoROS #drones #uk #GPUs #ML
General
The Pentagon now wants Navy pilots and sailors to report UFOs, but not because it thinks they are aliens. Via @ConversationEDU https://t.co/Fop5SGqYwW https://t.co/j4ofkzn7rn
OpenWhy Is the Pentagon Interested in UFOs?
U.S. Navy pilots and sailors wont be considered crazy for reporting unidentified flying objects, under new rules meant to encourage them to keep track of what they see. Yet just a few ...
The Pentagon now wants Navy pilots and sailors to report UFOs, but not because it thinks they are aliens. Via @ConversationEDU https://t.co/Fop5SGqYwW https://t.co/j4ofkzn7rn
OpenWhy Is the Pentagon Interested in UFOs?
U.S. Navy pilots and sailors wont be considered crazy for reporting unidentified flying objects, under new rules meant to encourage them to keep track of what they see. Yet just a few ...
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.
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
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
In just 6 months, our Fellows went from beginner to producing world-class ML contributions. Their accomplishments: MuseNet, analysis of bias/variance of gradients, implementations of very large scaling transformers, and learning adaptive weight sparsity: https://t.co/cCMIhg7qEh https://t.co/qsKgnKTENX
OpenOpenAI Fellows Fall 2018: Final Projects
Our second class of OpenAI Fellows has wrapped up, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor in the course of a 6-month apprenticeship. We are ...
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 ...
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
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
With Peter Singer, incl #ai pain. “it has become incumbent on philosophers in the 21st century to think beyond the animal world” https://t.co/ff1traMqA0 @JohnAFlood @David_Gunkel @EmergTechEthics @PabloRedux @sd_marlow @alan_winfield @j2bryson @NoelSharkey via @Cherwell_Online
OpenInterview: Peter Singer
At first glance, one could assume that Effective Altruism concerns our emotional, passionate domains rather than our logical faculties. It is a movement away from the idea that it is good ...
RT @jessRmorley: #Weeknotes https://t.co/Sil9C3J22w of full week. Ft:
@PhDruk event with @EleHrwch @Maxi_Macki @doyle_orla
Lecture @imperialcollege (inc link to slides)
Paper with @Floridi @libbykinsey @anat_elhalal https://t.co/kzCr2S4zJq
Blog https://t.co/G6ZfPTPIxA with @IndraJoshi10
OpenWeeknotes S1E8
My name is Jess. I am AI lead at the UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)(in the process of becoming NHSX). I’m also an MSc…