Top news of the week: 22.10.2019.

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Robotics

On Oct 15, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Let's see what's under the hood at OsaroAI in SF #Bots&Beer ! Limited space so RSVP early for Wed Night. https://t.co/emIIr64lka
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Bots & Beer at OSARO

Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 7:00 PM: Big thanks to our great venue and food/drink hosts Osaro in SF!OSARO is a San Francisco-based machine learning company, specializing in AI software for ...

On Oct 16, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Looking forward to great speakers at next #WomenInRobotics at DCVC with Eyrun Eyjolfsdottir Computervision Lead + Nan Rong Robotics Lead vicariousai + Brianna Swanson Head of People kindredai + Kelly Chen Partner datacollective https://t.co/KUUoMroBbS
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Women in Robotics at DCVC

Let's enjoy a Monday evening at DCVC, with rockstar women in robotics from Vicarious AI and Kindred.ai

On Oct 17, 2019
@willknight shared
Why Solving a Rubik's Cube Does Not Signal Robot Supremacy | WIRED https://t.co/HfobStdwHg
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Why Solving a Rubik's Cube Does Not Signal Robot Supremacy

OpenAI demonstrated a robotic arm successfully completing the puzzle. It didn't show the machine dropping the cube—or the 10,000 years of simulated training.

On Oct 15, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Let's see what's under the hood at OsaroAI in SF #Bots&Beer ! Limited space so RSVP early for Wed Night. https://t.co/emIIr64lka
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Bots & Beer at OSARO

Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 7:00 PM: Big thanks to our great venue and food/drink hosts Osaro in SF!OSARO is a San Francisco-based machine learning company, specializing in AI software for ...

On Oct 16, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Looking forward to great speakers at next #WomenInRobotics at DCVC with Eyrun Eyjolfsdottir Computervision Lead + Nan Rong Robotics Lead vicariousai + Brianna Swanson Head of People kindredai + Kelly Chen Partner datacollective https://t.co/KUUoMroBbS
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Women in Robotics at DCVC

Let's enjoy a Monday evening at DCVC, with rockstar women in robotics from Vicarious AI and Kindred.ai

On Oct 17, 2019
@willknight shared
Why Solving a Rubik's Cube Does Not Signal Robot Supremacy | WIRED https://t.co/HfobStdwHg
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Why Solving a Rubik's Cube Does Not Signal Robot Supremacy

OpenAI demonstrated a robotic arm successfully completing the puzzle. It didn't show the machine dropping the cube—or the 10,000 years of simulated training.

Applied Use Cases

On Oct 17, 2019
@Sam_L_Shead shared
RT @mer__edith: NEW 📣 Tech has a "green" reputation, but behind the hype it's a major contributor to climate change. Here @roeldobbe and I outline what we know about AI's massive climate impact, and what policymakers and advocates and do about it. https://t.co/nMnQr8lYfy
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AI and Climate Change: How they’re connected, and what we can do about it

On September 20th, workers from 12 tech companies joined the global climate strike, highlighting tech’s role in climate change and…

On Oct 21, 2019
@KaleighRogers shared
RT @Jeff__yates: Hi Facebook, thanks for promising to protect the 2020 US election on the day Canada has an election that some of these measures could have been useful for. https://t.co/JL4XhxoQL8
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Helping to Protect the 2020 US Elections

We’re announcing several new measures to help protect the democratic process and providing an update on initiatives already underway to stop abuse and election interference on our platform.

On Oct 22, 2019
@sidneyfussell shared
RT @Iwillleavenow: Reading the full article now. Guys. This is a full-on nightmare. (But phenomenal reporting by @loisbeckett) https://t.co/oVRjhF8SBg
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Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids

Fueled by fears of school shootings, the market has grown rapidly for technologies that monitor students through official school emails and chats

Ethics

On Oct 22, 2019
@NoelSharkey shared
RT @lizjosullivan: Woof, what a DAY. All morning at the UN with the Campaign to @BanKillerRobots, came out of stealth (finally, thanks to @WIRED!!), now omw to celebrate with the likes of @martakosmyna @NoelSharkey and @marywareham. JOIN US IF YOU CAN! https://t.co/2SZYvXdPO8
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Mix & Mingle with the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots invites you to meet our tech industry allies in New York City.

On Oct 18, 2019
@RobMcCargow shared
Algorithms Are Designed to Addict Us, and the Consequences Go Beyond Wasted Time | via @singularityhub #AI https://t.co/ICNVCRor22
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Algorithms Are Designed to Addict Us, and the Consequences Go Beyond Wasted Time

Users can begin with innocuous searches for relatively mild content, and find themselves quickly dragged towards extremist or conspiratorial material.

On Oct 15, 2019
@NoelSharkey shared
RT @DorotheaBaur: 5 scenarios for worlds that #AI might 'create': 1. Many jobs will disappear 2. There will be plenty of jobs (just different ones) 3. Our very existence is threatened 4. We’ll be healthier and live longer. Here's mine: all and none of that at the same time🤪https://t.co/AE3Kj2oyMY
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The Worlds That AI Might Create

Artificial intelligence will have a profound impact—on our jobs, our health and possibly our very existence. But that’s where consensus ends.

Research

On Oct 17, 2019
@mat_kelcey shared
RT @hardmaru: Uncertainty Quantification in Deep Learning A nice overview blog post by @simonbachstein https://t.co/ZZExu1Vlau
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Uncertainty Quantification in Deep Learning

Teach your Deep Neural Network to be aware of its epistemic and aleatory uncertainty. Get a quantified confidence measure for your Deep Learning predictions.

On Oct 17, 2019
@NandoDF shared
RT @DeepMindAI: Could machine learning aid historians in the textual preservation and restoration of inscriptions from ancient Greece? Pythia is the first ancient text restoration model that recovers missing characters from a damaged text input using deep neural networks: https://t.co/PSBgQR349v https://t.co/WqKBzlBUV2
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Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy

We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all. Explore our work: deepmind.com/research

On Oct 19, 2019
@ylecun shared
RT @cai2r: Our #AI improves #BreastCancer detection. Technical ℹ️ [Paper 🆕] https://t.co/Yei5PiYfh8 [Code] https://t.co/yTUapbgQog [Data specs] https://t.co/m058wcKfac Lay-friendly ℹ️ [Press release🆕] https://t.co/22cxiKzvmx [Explainer] https://t.co/lIUVoavOw3 @NanWu__ @kjgeras & al. https://t.co/799DX6kKHu
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Combination of Artificial Intelligence & Radiologists More Accurately Identified Breast Cancer

NYU School of Medicine researchers found their AI tool recognized patterns in screening mammogram images radiologists could not, and vice versa. Learn more.