Top news of the week: 28.10.2019.

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Robotics

On Oct 23, 2019
@RobotShop shared
#Teradyne to Acquire #AutoGuide Mobile Robots in $165M Deal https://t.co/i98L44Nkhn @RoboticBusiness https://t.co/m9JdtK5GdQ
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Teradyne to Acquire AutoGuide Mobile Robots in $165M Deal

AutoGuide provides autonomy for industrial forklifts and mobile tuggers.

On Oct 23, 2019
@RoboticBusiness shared
Why #Robot-Makers Love Utilizing Urethane Molded Parts https://t.co/fTOtH0D3w9
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Why Robot-Makers Love Utilizing Urethane Molded Parts

Have you noticed that lots of robots include polyurethane parts? Here are some of the reasons why robot designers are using this material.

On Oct 23, 2019
@PeterDiamandis shared
Abundance Insider: October 23rd, 2019 https://t.co/OflM0aVLTf
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Abundance Insider: October 23rd, 2019

In this week's Abundance Insider: OpenAI's robotic hand, ANA's pursuit of avatars to replace flying, and DARPA's new inroads in BCIs.

On Oct 23, 2019
@RobotShop shared
#Teradyne to Acquire #AutoGuide Mobile Robots in $165M Deal https://t.co/i98L44Nkhn @RoboticBusiness https://t.co/m9JdtK5GdQ
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Teradyne to Acquire AutoGuide Mobile Robots in $165M Deal

AutoGuide provides autonomy for industrial forklifts and mobile tuggers.

On Oct 23, 2019
@RoboticBusiness shared
Why #Robot-Makers Love Utilizing Urethane Molded Parts https://t.co/fTOtH0D3w9
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Why Robot-Makers Love Utilizing Urethane Molded Parts

Have you noticed that lots of robots include polyurethane parts? Here are some of the reasons why robot designers are using this material.

On Oct 23, 2019
@PeterDiamandis shared
Abundance Insider: October 23rd, 2019 https://t.co/OflM0aVLTf
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Abundance Insider: October 23rd, 2019

In this week's Abundance Insider: OpenAI's robotic hand, ANA's pursuit of avatars to replace flying, and DARPA's new inroads in BCIs.

Applied Use Cases

On Oct 24, 2019
@Jaguilam2003 shared
RT @Ronald_vanLoon: 6 Steps To #AI Success [#INFOGRAPHICS] by @schmarzo | Read more here: https://t.co/NlRVGPkkcg #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepLearning #DL #BigData #PredictiveAnalytics #DataAnalytics #BI #BusinessIntelligence Cc: @CloudExpo @KirkDBorne https://t.co/XdtKR0C0S7 https://t.co/mPHC2BqVGW
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Artificial Intelligence: 6 Step Solution Decomposition Process

It’s simple. The conversation is simple because the objective is simple: How do I become more effective at leveraging (big) data and analytics (artificial intelligence) to power my ...

On Oct 21, 2019
@glichfield shared
🚨Job alert🤖 Got your finger on the pulse of AI research at the cutting edge? We’re hiring for senior editor for AI at @techreview, working alongside the terrific @_KarenHao cc @aaja @DisabledWriters @NABJ @NAHJ @najournalists @nlgja @WritersofColor https://t.co/pHXFI8w8Oc
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Senior Editor, Artificial Intelligence

About Us Our Team Careers Press Room Awards Advertise Licensing & Syndication Cambridge, MA, San Francisco, or remote We’re hiring a senior reporter to help lead our coverage of artificial ...

On Oct 24, 2019
@Jaguilam2003 shared
RT @YuHelenYu: The world's first graduate level #AI university opens in September 2020 responding to global business value derived from AI reaching almost $4 trillion by 2022. #education #futureofwork @guzmand @SpirosMargaris @kuriharan @helene_wpli @psb_dc @alvinfoo https://t.co/aFwI87aukn
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World's First University of Artificial Intelligence Opens in 2020

Back to school: The world's first graduate university of AI opens its doors in 2020.

Ethics

On Oct 25, 2019
@cccalum shared
Very "brave" (in the "Yes Minister" sense of brave) of Unilever to tell a Guardian journo that it is saving £'00,000s a year by replacing human recruiters with an AI system. https://t.co/cFEnaytuCz
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Unilever saves on recruiters by using AI to assess job interviews

System analyses body language and word choice, but polling suggests public are opposed

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 26, 2019
@dw2 shared
RT @cccalum: Fascinating discussion of existential risk from AI between Yann LeCun, Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio and others. https://t.co/u4qUAxtSZb
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Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More

An actual freaking public debate [https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156248637927143&id=722677142] about instrumental convergence, in a public space! Major respect to all ...

Research

On Oct 23, 2019
@soumithchintala shared
RT @sherjilozair: Pretty good article discussing @OpenAI's Rubik's Cube result: https://t.co/s1YNz7hGnJ This is what good criticism looks like, unlike most of the critical tweets mentioned in this article. Good work @jackyliang42 and @andrey_kurenkov.
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OpenAI's dexterous robotic hand — separating progress from PR

The Rubik’s cube solving hand is representative of a true research contribution, but its many caveats do not merit the PR hype

On Oct 25, 2019
@agibsonccc shared
RT @lawrennd: Thanks to @officeforai @element_ai and @deepmindai for funding two important schemes that attracted me from Industry back to Academia to amazing posts at @Turinginst and @Cambridge_CL! Here are some details of the plan from today's @dsa_org talk: https://t.co/Vp0gOftNLe
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From Innovation to Deployment

In this talk we introduce a five year project funded by the UK’s Turing Institute to shift the focus from developing AI systems to deploying AI systems that are safe and reliable. The AI ...

On Oct 24, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @gdb: Article on the need for responsible publication norms in AI, from @RebeccaCrootof: https://t.co/9VwVjcX7yF
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Artificial Intelligence Research Needs Responsible Publication Norms

OpenAI’s limited release of the GPT-2 language model sparked a much-needed conversation about the need for norms regarding when it is appropriate to restrict access to AI research.