Top news of the week: 26.02.2019.
#AI #MSRPodcast #AICrime #dialog #RL #ReinforcementLearning
Ethics
Digital assistants should discuss with 'moral AI' whether to report illegal or immoral activity
Academics at the University of Bergen, Norway, touted the idea at the ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society in Hawaii, last month.
RT @j2bryson: @johnchavens @azeem I agree that others' capacity to predict you is a problem (cf Why We Should Worry About AI https://t.co/xFWe5e0OP6 ), but EXTREMELY opposed to calling the models and data underlying that prediction in any way me, human, etc.–a huge civic danger, AND philosophically problematic.
OpenAI Ethics: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Society
Recently we decided it was worth rewriting and publishing the paper properly, so a radically updated version Just an Artifact: Why Machines are Perceived as Moral Agents, appeared in the ...
RT @oiioxford: NEW BLOG: Asking "Whodunnit?" in an Age of Artificial Intelligence by @Floridi, with @RosariaTaddeo & @nikitaggarwal #AI #AICrime https://t.co/Df56KmDMhv https://t.co/cujuoCZkHD
OpenAsking “Whodunnit?” in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
We recently undertook the first analysis of its kind into the threats posed by Artificial Intelligence Crime (AIC). They could also increasingly be used to steal peoples’ identity online ...
Robotics
MIND KIT Is a Modular Robotics Development Platform Now on Kickstarter
This versatile kit includes sensors, servos, and compute modules that can be combined in many different ways
Sphero's New RVR Robot Is More Hackable Than Ever
RVR is rugged, affordable, expandable, and easy to program
Research
RT @ericjang11: New blog post! An introduction to "what is meta-learning" and a tutorial on implementing MAML in 50 lines of JAX.
https://t.co/J305DvsiiT https://t.co/scVA7kW0ax
OpenMeta-Learning in 50 Lines of JAX
Github repo here: https://github.com/ericjang/maml-jax Adaptive behavior in humans and animals occurs at many time scales: when I use a n...
#MSRPodcast with Layla El Asri https://t.co/7Y92HFqsvt on the pursuit of #AI systems that can hold deeper conversations with people #ReinforcementLearning #RL #dialog @sigdial @ComputerSociety @wimlds @WiMLworkshop @RealAAAI @acmeducation @MSFTResearch
@elasri_layla
OpenTalking with machines with Dr. Layla El Asri
Episode 64, February 20, 2019 - Dr. Layla El Asri talks about the particular challenges she and other scientists face in building sophisticated dialogue systems that lay the foundation for ...
RT @bendee983: Content published by corporate PR blogs of famous #AI labs are not necessarily scientific breakthroughs. Excellent post by @zacharylipton
https://t.co/dvTWomL4X2
OpenOpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues
[latexpage] On Thursday, OpenAI announced that they had trained a language model. They used a
Applied Use Cases
RT @bcmerchant: Honestly, researching this story flat out shocked me. The lengths that Google, Microsoft, Amazon & other tech companies are going to help the oil industry accelerate the climate crisis—and the profits they're reaping in the process—is astonishing. https://t.co/3mUmUExyOp
OpenHow Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
In a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure companies, Rockwell Automation and Schlumberger Limited, announced a joint venture called ...
RT @ericjang11: New blog post! An introduction to "what is meta-learning" and a tutorial on implementing MAML in 50 lines of JAX.
https://t.co/J305DvsiiT https://t.co/scVA7kW0ax
OpenMeta-Learning in 50 Lines of JAX
Github repo here: https://github.com/ericjang/maml-jax Adaptive behavior in humans and animals occurs at many time scales: when I use a n...
RT @DeepIndaba: We are happy to announce that nominations for the 2019 Kambule and Maathai awards are now open 🤩 These awards recognise African excellence in research and applications of machine Learning and AI across our continent 🌍 Blog post with details:
https://t.co/TF2MbV8XGo https://t.co/VRZJGPKI4C
OpenThe 2019 Kambule and Maathai Awards
Today, we are proud to launch the 2019 Indaba Annual Awards programme. We again look to our continent to celebrate the African heroes who push forward the frontiers of research and its ...