Top news of the week: 26.08.2019.
Industrial robot, Need to know, Fold, Computer vision, Intelligence, Learning
Robotics
svrobo: I'm giving a webinar on the robotics landscape on Aug 28 - tune in to learn more about the approaching horizon where innovation meets commercialization https://t.co/v6zGxydSDf https://t.co/aReA1UiccB
OpenRobotics 2.0
We really are facing a robot revolution, but the hype and misinformation in media conceals the information that you need to know; about the technology timeline and the implications for you, ...
svrobo: I'm giving a webinar on the robotics landscape on Aug 28 - tune in to learn more about the approaching horizon where innovation meets commercialization https://t.co/v6zGxydSDf https://t.co/aReA1UiccB
OpenRobotics 2.0
We really are facing a robot revolution, but the hype and misinformation in media conceals the information that you need to know; about the technology timeline and the implications for you, ...
Self-folding robot changes shape in response to heat: https://t.co/r89gMbNVcu (@engadget @Caltech) https://t.co/O3IGMyfvRE
OpenSelf-folding 'Rollbot' changes its shape in response to heat
It starts as a flat sheet and turns into a wheel.
Children growing up in the Age of AI, won't remember a time before smartphones and they'll likely be the first to ride in self-driving cars. https://t.co/AajqChIf2F
OpenComing of Age in the Age of AI: The First Fully Digital Generation
Machine learning, computer vision, and other AI disciplines will shape this yet-unformed generation more definitively than any before it.
Self-folding robot changes shape in response to heat: https://t.co/r89gMbNVcu (@engadget @Caltech) https://t.co/O3IGMyfvRE
OpenSelf-folding 'Rollbot' changes its shape in response to heat
It starts as a flat sheet and turns into a wheel.
Children growing up in the Age of AI, won't remember a time before smartphones and they'll likely be the first to ride in self-driving cars. https://t.co/AajqChIf2F
OpenComing of Age in the Age of AI: The First Fully Digital Generation
Machine learning, computer vision, and other AI disciplines will shape this yet-unformed generation more definitively than any before it.
Applied Use Cases
RT @emilymbender: I was happy to be interviewed for this thoughtful article on automated essay scoring by @ToddFeathers for @motherboard
https://t.co/oTr4Tklsma
#nlproc folks: This serves as another call to be mindful of how what we build gets used in the world.
#ethnlp
OpenFlawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
Fooled by gibberish and highly susceptible to human bias, automated essay-scoring systems are being increasingly adopted, a Motherboard investigation has found
Women in Machine Learning Board of Directors is looking for a new member of our Policy & Research Committee @WiMLworkshop
More details here:
https://t.co/WqNi1cJr6T
OpenWiML Board of Directors Call — Policy and Research Committee
WiML Board of Directors Call — Policy and Research Committee Above image from #WOCinTechChat, Creative Commons License Seeking a motivated and responsible individual to join the Women in ...
RT @DeepMindAI: We're open sourcing Spriteworld, a flexible, procedural reinforcement learning environment: https://t.co/MkuXLYlhMq
Spriteworld is a 2-dimensional arena with movable objects, and is particularly well-suited for small-scale experiments with limited computational resources. https://t.co/Nw6Zfgg4ht
OpenSpriteworld: A Flexible, Configurable Reinforcement Learning Environment
Spriteworld: a flexible, configurable python-based reinforcement learning environment - deepmind/spriteworld
Research
RT @Waymo: Today, we're launching our Waymo Open Dataset. This high resolution lidar and camera data has been collected by our self-driving cars across a diverse range of situations. We're excited to share it directly with the research community. Download now: https://t.co/xuanMbUZrE https://t.co/xCFjqJPWYG
OpenAccess Waymo Open Dataset
The field of machine learning is changing rapidly. Waymo is in a unique position to contribute to the research community with one of the largest and most diverse autonomous driving datasets ...
RT @facebookai: Facebook AI researchers are sharing an all-attention layer to simplify the Transformer model and an adaptive attention span method to make it more efficient. Even with a much simpler architecture, these methods match or improve state-of-the-art results. https://t.co/wCbK4P7Bgv https://t.co/349bXY4dr2
OpenMaking Transformer networks simpler and more efficient
Facebook AI researchers are sharing an all-attention layer to simplify the Transformer model and an adaptive attention span method to make it more efficient. Even with a much simpler ...
Ethics
Some question “the very existence of such platforms, suggesting that they are simply too fast and too big to be effectively governed”
https://t.co/SzKJzObCJw #decelerate
OpenProbably Speech, Maybe Free: Toward a Probabilistic Understanding of Online Expression and Platform Governance
Crawford and Gillespie, supra note 10; Gillespie, supra note 7; Gorwa, supra note 9; David Kaye, Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (2019);Roberts, supra note 10; ...
“Such access is unheard-of for executives or directors of companies that sell to the government, say 3 current and former DOD officials, both to prevent opportunities for bribery or improper influence & to ensure that one company does not get advantages”
https://t.co/Q5dhiEIZpV
OpenHow Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon
Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.
Discouraging lack of progress in constraining an arms race where it's likely everyone will be a loser: "‘Killer Robots:’ Russia, US Oppose Treaty Negotiations" https://t.co/wDqyo0nSnB
Open‘Killer Robots:’ Russia, US Oppose Treaty Negotiations
Russia, the United States, and a handful of other nations investing in autonomous weapons are preventing efforts to start negotiations on a new treaty to retain meaningful human control ...