Top news of the week: 31.07.2019.

#AI #BigData #privacy #DigitalTransformation #aiethics

Robotics

On Jul 25, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
RT @BotJunkie: I went diving at NASA's astronaut training facility to report this story on @HoustonMech and their transforming robot submarine, Aquanaut. On the cover of @IEEESpectrum next month! https://t.co/oUx7BFWsGE https://t.co/TkoAPzab7r
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Meet Aquanaut, the Underwater Transformer

Houston Mechatronics built a robot sub that transforms into a skilled humanoid

On Jul 25, 2019
@AutomatonBlog shared
RT @BotJunkie: I went diving at NASA's astronaut training facility to report this story on @HoustonMech and their transforming robot submarine, Aquanaut. On the cover of @IEEESpectrum next month! https://t.co/oUx7BFWsGE https://t.co/TkoAPzab7r
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Meet Aquanaut, the Underwater Transformer

Houston Mechatronics built a robot sub that transforms into a skilled humanoid

On Jul 26, 2019
@BotJunkie shared
Video Friday: A Two-Armed Robot That Balances on a Ball https://t.co/7YUMB2m0I2 https://t.co/xAd1Smnyv5
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Ethics

On Jul 29, 2019
@Floridi shared
RT @AnjaKasp: The sheer volume of proposed (AI) principles threatens to overwhelm and confuse. How might this ‘principle proliferation’ be solved, asks @Floridi and @JoshCowls & identifies five core principles. RT @NoelSharkey https://t.co/2Pt1sbcU0Q https://t.co/2vjY5xAkfg
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A Unified Framework of Five Principles for AI in Society

In the ensuing discussion, we note the limitations and assess the implications of this ethical framework for future efforts to create laws, rules, technical standards, and best practices ...

On Jul 25, 2019
@oiioxford shared
RT @Floridi: RT @SmartmicrosUSA: Technology needs ethics @Floridi explains why https://t.co/1Bb7OCr51h #AI #BigData #privacy #DigitalTransformation @oiioxford @oxfordethicslab @Ethics @IEthics @ethics_centre @apa_blog @StanfordEthics @journethics
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Technology needs ethics. Oxford philosopher Luciano Floridi explains why

Luciano Floridi has never been kind with technology. In ’95, when the web as we know it today did not exist and he was a PhD Philosophy…

Applied Use Cases

On Jul 31, 2019
@olivercameron shared
RT @gdb: How I became a machine learning practitioner: https://t.co/s7Vnrz69mM (Spoiler alert: you can too!) https://t.co/LInKCzCMYB
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How I became a machine learning practitioner

For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition ...

On Jul 26, 2019
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @DeepMindAI: We’re excited to announce the results of our research collaboration with @Waymo, applying Population Based Training (PBT) to help make the process of training neural nets in their self-driving cars more effective and efficient. https://t.co/O78PBpdBs1 https://t.co/70kchhbcOO
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How evolutionary selection can train more capable self-driving cars

Waymo’s self-driving vehicles employ neural networks to perform many driving tasks, from detecting objects and predicting how others will behave, to planning a car's next moves. Training an ...

Research

On Jul 29, 2019
@peteskomoroch shared
RT @arkosiorek: We recently developed a new, unsupervised version of capsule networks (with @sabour_sara, @yeewhye, and @geoffreyhinton). I hope that my new blog will make it easier to understand some ideas that led to this work. Enjoy! https://t.co/c1MuHRKYOD https://t.co/s22uL3pGlH
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Stacked Capsule Autoencoders

Objects play a central role in computer vision and, increasingly, machine learning research.With many applications depending on object detection in images an...