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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 28, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Check out this Meetup: Women in Robotics at Playground https://t.co/fOC6UGGgiq #Meetup #PaloAlto via Meetup
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Women in Robotics at Playground

Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 6:00 PM: Join us at Playground for an evening of keynotes and lively discussion with Women in Robotics, featuring rockstar women leaders from Playground and portfolio ...

On Oct 28, 2019
@planetrobotics shared
RT @m1kek9: These impressive MIT developed voxel-building BILL-E robots are really impressive. Here’s a link to the article I read about them in: https://t.co/iDsmT1zTnj #technology #Robotics #future #scaryrobots #Space #Science https://t.co/g31og2E6w7
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Team machines: Why the next revolution in robotics is collaboration

Have you ever heard the expression 'teamwork makes the dream work'? Well, it counts for robots, too. Here are some of the exciting examples of robots that are able to work collaboratively ...

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 28, 2019
@RobotLaunch shared
svrobo: Check out this Meetup: Women in Robotics at Playground https://t.co/fOC6UGGgiq #Meetup #PaloAlto via Meetup
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Women in Robotics at Playground

Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 6:00 PM: Join us at Playground for an evening of keynotes and lively discussion with Women in Robotics, featuring rockstar women leaders from Playground and portfolio ...

On Oct 28, 2019
@planetrobotics shared
RT @m1kek9: These impressive MIT developed voxel-building BILL-E robots are really impressive. Here’s a link to the article I read about them in: https://t.co/iDsmT1zTnj #technology #Robotics #future #scaryrobots #Space #Science https://t.co/g31og2E6w7
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Team machines: Why the next revolution in robotics is collaboration

Have you ever heard the expression 'teamwork makes the dream work'? Well, it counts for robots, too. Here are some of the exciting examples of robots that are able to work collaboratively ...

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 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 ...

On Oct 23, 2019
@gleonhard shared
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy - MIT Technology Review https://t.co/kFFR8aMnIX https://t.co/QdLc1HVWXP
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy

Is this the Wright brothers moment for quantum computing? Google certainly thinks so.

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 28, 2019
@weballergy shared
RT @AndrewLBeam: Interested in coming to this year's #ML4H workshop at @NeurIPSConf? Read our synthesis and analysis of last year's workshop to get up to speed! Out now in @JAMANetworkOpen: https://t.co/F75B72p2HZ
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Trends and Focus of Machine Learning Applications for Health Research

This qualitative study analyzes submissions to a popular machine learning for health workshop to assess the current state of health research, including areas of methodologic and clinical ...

On Oct 23, 2019
@NandoDF shared
RT @seb_ruder: Most of the world’s text is not in English. We are releasing MultiFiT to train and fine-tune language models efficiently in any language. Post: https://t.co/LXMo4KGcVS Paper: https://t.co/3kh3fpfKcj With @eisenjulian @PiotrCzapla Marcin Kadras @GuggerSylvain @jeremyphoward https://t.co/QtcWhKqxyL
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Efficient multi-lingual language model fine-tuning

MultiFiT extends ULMFiT to make it more efficient and more suitable for language modelling beyond English: It utilizes tokenization based on subwords rather than words and employs a QRNN ...

Applied Use Cases

On Oct 23, 2019
@dmonett shared
RT @GaryMarcus: 2016: @GeoffreyHinton says we should stop training radiologists, because radiologists will soon be replaced by deep learning 2019: There is a shortage of radiologists. # replaced ≈ 0 What did Hinton miss? by @garymarcus & @MaxALittle⁩ https://t.co/rxTTNxaeBN
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Advancing AI in health care: It’s all about trust

Predictions a few years ago that AI would soon replace radiologists haven't come to pass. AI has a long way to go before it can become autonomous.

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 25, 2019
@AI_TechNews shared
RT @TTech_News: How #AI deep learning is transforming industrial manufacturing https://t.co/wLJuryhKkx https://t.co/t4OL6lfzk2
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How AI deep learning is transforming industrial manufacturing

According to the latest worldwide market study by ABI Research, the total installed base of AI-enabled devices in industrial manufacturing will reach 15.