Top news of the week: 22.07.2019.
#AI #FacultySummit19 #futureofwork #nlproc #aiethics
Robotics
It's become a bit of a tradition at RoboCup to have an informal match between robots and humans. https://t.co/MfoqgLNVMg
OpenWatch World Champion Soccer Robots Take on Humans at RoboCup
Humans may not be doomed at soccer quite yet
It's become a bit of a tradition at RoboCup to have an informal match between robots and humans. https://t.co/MfoqgLNVMg
OpenWatch World Champion Soccer Robots Take on Humans at RoboCup
Humans may not be doomed at soccer quite yet
Video Friday: This 3D-Printed Micro-Robot Could One Day Walk Inside Your Body https://t.co/xBmlpiggGY
OpenVideo Friday: This 3D-Printed Micro-Robot Could One Day Walk Inside Your Body
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
These little jumping robots robot are inspired by trap-jaw ants, which are ants that can fire themselves into the air by biting the ground at high speed. https://t.co/j7fCfXm5Fe
OpenSwarm Robots Mimic Ant Jaws to Flip and Jump
Trap-jaw ants inspired these small, autonomous swarm robots
Video Friday: This 3D-Printed Micro-Robot Could One Day Walk Inside Your Body https://t.co/xBmlpiggGY
OpenVideo Friday: This 3D-Printed Micro-Robot Could One Day Walk Inside Your Body
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
These little jumping robots robot are inspired by trap-jaw ants, which are ants that can fire themselves into the air by biting the ground at high speed. https://t.co/j7fCfXm5Fe
OpenSwarm Robots Mimic Ant Jaws to Flip and Jump
Trap-jaw ants inspired these small, autonomous swarm robots
Applied Use Cases
RT @gdm3000: Amazing!! Deep Learning-based NLP techniques are going to revolutionize the way we write software. Here's Deep TabNine, a GPT-2 model trained on around 2 million files from GitHub. Details at https://t.co/8J2v8Ns7n4 #nlproc https://t.co/VWB4XsyD4T
OpenAutocompletion with deep learning
TabNine is the all-language autocompleter. It uses machine learning to provide responsive, reliable, and relevant suggestions.
RT @jjvincent: it's quite something when one of the world's leading AI ethics researchers, @mer__edith, says that she simply can't pursue her work at Google, the world's biggest AI company
Whittaker's full post on leaving the company: https://t.co/qEInAptdOg
our story: https://t.co/9EuJDD8Bzq https://t.co/r670pd2pge
OpenOnward! Another #GoogleWalkout Goodbye
In April, two of the organizers of the Google Walkout, Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton, came forward with the stories of the…
Honoring Patrick Winston. We’ve lost an incredible spirit, mentor to many, fabulous contributor to #AI, & a heck of a nice guy @MIT_CSAIL @RealAAAI @compcomcon @TheOfficialACM @ComputerSociety @MSFTResearch https://t.co/MB5yDPfbDz
OpenProfessor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76
Beloved professor conducted pioneering research on imbuing machines with human-like intelligence, including the ability to understand stories.
Research
CraftAssist; open source platform for studying collaborative AI bots in Minecraft.
Brought to you by FAIR.
https://t.co/LCq62o251h https://t.co/LCq62o251h
OpenOpen-sourcing CraftAssist, a platform for studying collaborative AI bots in Minecraft
We are open-sourcing CraftAssist, a research platform for training and studying bots that collaborate with human players via in-game text chat in Minecraft. In addition, Facebook AI is ...
Bill Gates: Biggest impact of AI may be decades away, but society needs to prepare now. https://t.co/J0VY4QtAqf
OpenBill Gates: Biggest impact of AI may be decades away, but society needs to prepare now
Sometimes even Bill Gates’ crystal ball is cloudy. The Microsoft co-founder became one of the most successful tech moguls of all time by foreseeing and capitalizing on world-changing ...
Ethics
A good piece on how to apply #aiethics https://t.co/hzdtsyBuki via @VentureBeat @JohnAFlood @PabloRedux @David_Gunkel @EmergTechEthics @sd_marlow
OpenHow AI companies can avoid ethics washing
Ethics washing is unethical, but some AI companies aren't afraid to engage in the practice. Here are some ways to avoid it.
RT @80000Hours: "The Future of Humanity Institute is opening several research positions to hire researchers who specialise either in one of our most visible current areas of research (Macrostrategy, Technical AI safety, Biosecurity, and Center for the Governance of AI)."
https://t.co/lh9AYhSenY
OpenJoin our rapidly growing research teams
The Future of Humanity Institute is a multidisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford.