Top news of the week: 26.05.2022.
Ethics
AI’s trolley problem can lead us to surprising conclusions
Autonomous machines and decision-making can lead to potentially fatal errors but machine learning and increased deployment can lead to more lives saved.
Building a culture of pioneering responsibly
When I joined DeepMind as COO, I did so in large part because I could tell that the founders and team had the same focus on positive social impact. In fact, at DeepMind, we now champion a ...
The dark secret behind those cute AI-generated animal images
Google Brain has revealed its own image-making AI, called Imagen. But don't expect to see anything that isn't wholesome.
World Building Contest
| Data Point: Global post-pandemic spending in research and development funding reaches 3.5 trillion U.S. dollars, reinvigorating scientific research and enabling new …
Better videos for a better future
Dear Futurists, We’re all influenced by the images, narratives, and videos we encounter. Sometimes we’re consciously aware of the influence, but there’s often an “under the …
When All Research Is Dual Use
In a March 2022 paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from a US pharmaceutical company who were building artificial intelligence systems for virtual drug discovery issued a ...
Will AI Lead to New Creative Frontiers or Take the Pleasure Out of Music?
We can now train machines to play and write music that goes beyond mere mimicry—but does that mean we should?
Networking Meeting Between the Wallenberg Programs WASP-HS and Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS)
Back The purpose of the meeting is to explore opportunities for joint and multidisciplinary research ventures between researchers working within data-driven life science and …