Top news of the week: 25.04.2019.
Artificial intelligence, Human, Industrial robot, Input, Sexual harassment, Isaac Asimov
Ethics
Further to our discussions on #10AIEthicsPrinciples, please see this: AI ethics governance: 7 key factors to consider https://t.co/mp7TR8WNRi @JohnAFlood @PabloRedux @David_Gunkel @EmergTechEthics @sd_marlow @DorotheaBaur
OpenAI ethics governance: 7 key factors to consider
Tech companies that create AI systems might encounter ethical challenges. When you're forming an AI ethics committee, be sure to think about these seven critical points.
RT @BrishenRogers: According to @nytimes, both Google and Boeing have retaliated against workers rather than listening to their concerns. Worker voice isn't just a union issue. It also helps ensure public safety and workplace equality.
https://t.co/7cF1Q0P8eF
OpenGoogle Employees Say They Faced Retaliation After Organizing Walkout
Two Google workers who called for an employee protest over the company’s treatment of sexual harassment said they were demoted or told their role would change.
RT @ccansu: What you get when those who never worked in Applied Ethics write about it. So much is wrong with this article, hard to start counting.@Forbes @cccalum
1-"AI ethics" doesn't attribute moral agency to AI.Just like environmental ethics doesn't to plants.(1/4)
https://t.co/IzjX1PJTpB
OpenDoes AI Ethics Have A Bad Name?
Amid the talk of robots and AI stealing our jobs, one industry benefiting mightily from the dramatic improvements in AI is the AI ethics industry. Members of this community are active in ...
Research
RT @pabbeel: Thrilled to be teaching a new course on Deep Unsupervised Learning with @peterxichen (ImprovedGAN, InfoGAN, PixelCNN++, VLAE, PixelSNAIL, Flow++), @hojonathanho (Flow++, GAIL), @aravind7694 (Flow++).
Follow along here:
https://t.co/pzJQptPAdN
Lecture vids go up once captioned https://t.co/CtftvW86FX
OpenCS294-158 Deep Unsupervised Learning Spring 2019
About: This course will cover two areas of deep learning in which labeled data is not required: Deep Generative Models and Self-supervised Learning. Instructors: Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, ...
RT @OpenAI: Releasing the Sparse Transformer, a network which sets records at predicting what comes next in a sequence — whether text, images, or sound. Improvements to neural 'attention' let it extract patterns from sequences 30x longer than possible previously: https://t.co/FZlDEPsi1A https://t.co/1cn1PO2nJX
OpenGenerative Modeling with Sparse Transformers
We've developed the Sparse Transformer, a deep neural network which sets new records at predicting what comes next in a sequence—whether text, images, or sound. It uses an algorithmic ...
RT @gdb: Final OpenAI Five stats:
- Competitive: 7,215 wins, 42 losses (99.4% winrate, 15,019 total players)
- Cooperative: 35,466 games (18,689 total players)
gg all!
https://t.co/SvZsP6dp8p
OpenOpenAI’s Dota 2 bot defeated 99.4% of players in public matches
San Francisco-based OpenAI says its AI-imbued Dota 2 bot beat a whopping 99.4% of players in public matches over the course of several days.
Robotics
Video Friday: Boston Dynamics' Spot Robots Pull a Truck, and More
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Brain Implant Can Say What You’re Thinking
A brain-computer interface that records signals in the motor cortex can synthesize speech from activity in a user’s brain
Paris Firefighters Used This Remote-Controlled Robot to Extinguish the Notre Dame Blaze https://t.co/GMeHE3d4ZH https://t.co/e1JcMFcMeC
OpenParis Firefighters Used This Remote-Controlled Robot to Extinguish the Notre Dame Blaze
Colossus can carry heavy hoses into spots that are too dangerous for human firefighters to enter
Video Friday: Boston Dynamics' Spot Robots Pull a Truck, and More
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Brain Implant Can Say What You’re Thinking
A brain-computer interface that records signals in the motor cortex can synthesize speech from activity in a user’s brain
Paris Firefighters Used This Remote-Controlled Robot to Extinguish the Notre Dame Blaze https://t.co/GMeHE3d4ZH https://t.co/e1JcMFcMeC
OpenParis Firefighters Used This Remote-Controlled Robot to Extinguish the Notre Dame Blaze
Colossus can carry heavy hoses into spots that are too dangerous for human firefighters to enter
Applied Use Cases
RT @OpenAI: Releasing the Sparse Transformer, a network which sets records at predicting what comes next in a sequence — whether text, images, or sound. Improvements to neural 'attention' let it extract patterns from sequences 30x longer than possible previously: https://t.co/FZlDEPsi1A https://t.co/1cn1PO2nJX
OpenGenerative Modeling with Sparse Transformers
We've developed the Sparse Transformer, a deep neural network which sets new records at predicting what comes next in a sequence—whether text, images, or sound. It uses an algorithmic ...
RT @sleepinyourhat: 🚨GLUE News!🚨
In a couple of weeks, we'll launch SuperGLUE as a reboot of the GLUE benchmark for general-purpose methods for language understanding. Same setup; new task formats; hard even for BERT.
Medium: https://t.co/PEcfLTDUz0
PDF: https://t.co/urH5m35I65 https://t.co/62fmOJ1SC2
OpenIntroducing SuperGLUE: A New Hope Against Muppetkind
Over the past year, a machine learning models have dramatically improved scores across many language understanding tasks in NLP. ELMo…
RT @kateconger: "If we can’t fight fear, then people aren’t going to speak up and we’re not going to listen to the voices that need to be heard.” https://t.co/AjF5oqI9nY
OpenGoogle Employees Say They Faced Retaliation After Organizing Walkout
Two Google workers who called for an employee protest over the company’s treatment of sexual harassment said they were demoted or told their role would change.