Top news of the week: 23.07.2019.

#AI #MoonRobots #SpaceExploration #aiethics #nlproc

Robotics

On Jul 19, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
Video Friday: This 3D-Printed Micro-Robot Could One Day Walk Inside Your Body https://t.co/xBmlpiggGY
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On Jul 19, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
Video Friday: This 3D-Printed Micro-Robot Could One Day Walk Inside Your Body https://t.co/xBmlpiggGY
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On Jul 18, 2019
@IEEESpectrum shared
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
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Swarm Robots Mimic Ant Jaws to Flip and Jump

Trap-jaw ants inspired these small, autonomous swarm robots

On Jul 20, 2019
@RobotShop shared
50 Years After Moon Landing, Robots Continue to Explore the Cosmos https://t.co/iMkP46r3Cx @RoboticBusiness #MoonRobots #SpaceExploration https://t.co/MqfU0k5j5H
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50 Years After Moon Landing, Robots Continue to Explore the Cosmos

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, when humans walked on the Moon. Robots played a large part in that, as well as continuing space missions.

On Jul 18, 2019
@IEEESpectrum shared
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
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Swarm Robots Mimic Ant Jaws to Flip and Jump

Trap-jaw ants inspired these small, autonomous swarm robots

Ethics

On Jul 17, 2019
@tabithagold shared
Powerful advice from @mer__edith for how to build real guardrails for safe AI ⚖️Create DIY unions 📝 Demand to know what you are working on and how it's used 🔦Protect whistle blowers 🎙 Build solidarity with those outside your company https://t.co/TOIr9WIGFH
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Onward! 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…

On Jul 18, 2019
@PKathrani shared
A good piece on how to apply #aiethics https://t.co/hzdtsyBuki via @VentureBeat @JohnAFlood @PabloRedux @David_Gunkel @EmergTechEthics @sd_marlow
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How 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.

Applied Use Cases

On Jul 17, 2019
@olivercameron shared
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
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Autocompletion with deep learning

TabNine is the all-language autocompleter. It uses machine learning to provide responsive, reliable, and relevant suggestions.

On Jul 22, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @gdb: We've raised $1 billion from Microsoft and will be working together to build next-generation supercomputers, with the goal of building a platform within Azure which will scale to AGI: https://t.co/5tzkVusSRJ
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Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed [https://openai.com/charter/] economic benefits. We're ...

Research

On Jul 19, 2019
@ylecun shared
CraftAssist; open source platform for studying collaborative AI bots in Minecraft. Brought to you by FAIR. https://t.co/LCq62o251h https://t.co/LCq62o251h
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Open-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 ...