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Top news of the week: 09.11.2021.

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Robotics

@ericoguizzo shared
On Nov 5, 2021
Video Friday: Your Robot Dog https://t.co/rD4x1xdnSy
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Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

@FastCompany shared
On Nov 5, 2021
Meet the VC trying to reintroduce the Pentagon to Silicon Valley https://t.co/DsFdD9z1a1
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Meet the VC trying to reintroduce the Pentagon to Silicon Valley

Meet the VC trying to reintroduce the Pentagon to Silicon Valley

Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe and others believe the DoD must give up its tight embrace of traditional contractors who lack the agility to develop high-tech defenses against future threats. 

Research

@NandoDF shared
On Nov 4, 2021
RT @koraykv: AI is already enabling progress in fundamental research areas, it also holds great potential to address global challenges like the climate crisis. Read more about recent work from our team to help tackle climate change and build AGI: https://t.co/xmnQmwwNdK
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Real-World Challenges for AGI

Real-World Challenges for AGI

Koray Kavukcuoglu, VP of Research at DeepMind, discusses some of the natural obstacles we face in the development of Artificial General Intelligence.

@hardmaru shared
On Nov 6, 2021
RT @du_yilun: How can we discover, unsupervised, the underlying objects and global factors of variation in the world? We show how to discover these factors as different energy functions. Website: https://t.co/NPAbxLpgVb w/ @ShuangL13799063, @yash_j_sharma, Josh Tenenbaum, @IMordatch (1/4) https://t.co/u2OQOlwAtG
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Applied Use Cases

@dmonett shared
On Nov 3, 2021
RT @MarisaTPP: You are the answer. Help us to change the status quo and define the future of work in AI by finding answers to our questions. Invest ten minutes of your time and fill out this survey. PLZ RT! https://t.co/Ep7ofGDrl8 https://t.co/Jx4N3Ltem1
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WAI@WORK

WAI@WORK

Help WAI to create a report that reflects the perspectives of women in AI from different regions when it comes to career choices and happiness at work.

@MIRIBerkeley shared
On Nov 4, 2021
RT @OwainEvans_UK: ML for AI Alignment bootcamp in Berkeley. Focus is on transformer models. Application deadline is soon. https://t.co/3aaaC9MOgf
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Apply to the ML for Alignment Bootcamp (MLAB) in Berkeley [Jan 3 - Jan 22]

Apply to the ML for Alignment Bootcamp (MLAB) in Berkeley [Jan 3 - Jan 22]

We (Redwood Research and Lightcone Infrastructure) are organizing a bootcamp to bring people interested in AI Alignment up-to-speed with the state of modern ML engineering. We expect to ...

Ethics

@RobWortham shared
On Nov 3, 2021
Do you think robots could ever evolve? The proposition and potential risks are discussed in this new paper from Eiben et al https://t.co/ZYKTE53XF9
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Robot Evolution: Ethical Concerns

Robot Evolution: Ethical Concerns

Rapid developments in evolutionary computation, robotics, 3D-printing, and material science are enabling advanced systems of robots that can autonomously reproduce and evolve. The emerging ...

@alan_winfield shared
On Nov 3, 2021
RT @Robotips4: We are also excited to welcome our new research associate Keri Grieman to the project, where she will focus on human-centred responsibility for robotics (among many other things). She is also a PhD-candidate in law. Please see our website for more info! https://t.co/P2J30nZH85 https://t.co/20o8FlP8Hb
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RoboTIPS

RoboTIPS

Marina Jirotka University of Oxford

Marketing

@paulroetzer shared
On Nov 5, 2021
RT @MktgAi: Want an Intro to #AI? We've created a new live, free, online course created just for you. @PaulRoetzer will lead our first class on Nov. 18 at 12pm ET. This will not be available on demand, so secure your spot and start your journey today! https://t.co/neP4DDVTLy
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Introducing Artificial Intelligence to One Million Marketers

Introducing Artificial Intelligence to One Million Marketers

Welcome to Intro to AI for Marketers, a free live class that makes basic AI education accessible to all, from college students to CMOs. Learn more here.

@mariuskarma shared
On Nov 2, 2021
ForbesTech: Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides https://t.co/C0QaVsftBD https://t.co/JjGWJyR5F4
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Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides

Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides

The nutrient content of our vegetables is down 40% over the last two decades and our soil health is suffering due to increasingly harsh herbicide use, according to Carbon Robotics founder ...

Healthcare

@Berci shared
On Nov 6, 2021
Gabriel Perna, the Senior Manager of Digital Content at Health Evolution, listed 4 challenges preventing wider clinical adoption of artificial intelligence: - Clinical workflow/poor use cases - Data integrity and biases - Ethics and regulation - Costs/ROI https://t.co/XQIW5JJ9mx https://t.co/w6MSGXvmqx
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AI in health care: Four challenges preventing wider clinical adoption

AI in health care: Four challenges preventing wider clinical adoption

Challenges with clinical workflow integration, data integrity, ethics and privacy, and ROI all remain significant barriers to increasing AI adoption.

@ahier shared
On Nov 7, 2021
RT @DeepLearn007: My Article: Smart #AI #DeepLearning in a Post-Covid World @BBNTimes_en https://t.co/pNlOmO5I7g @pierrepinna @sallyeaves @Xbond49 @SpirosMargaris @jblefevre60 @Nicochan33 @nigewillson @gvalan @Shi4Tech @HaroldSinnott @PawlowskiMario @debashis_dutta #MachineLearning #Fintech #5G https://t.co/Ig6EOW3ja4
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Smarter Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Post Covid-19

Smarter Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Post Covid-19

Artificial intelligence has quickened its progress across vaccines, autonomous vehicles, language processing, and quantum computing.

Cybersecurity

@ipfconline1 shared
On Nov 4, 2021
RT @SpirosMargaris: Trustworthy AI https://t.co/IGPpuBC85S #fintech #finserv #banking #Cloud #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #BigData @IBM @IBMData #ad #IBMPartner #TrustworthyAI @psb_dc @leimer @JimMarous @FrankJSchwab @Xbond49 @jblefevre60 @cgledhill @sallyeaves @andi_staub https://t.co/eEj9KPJcLH
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Trustworthy AI

Trustworthy AI

Before we explore the importance of trust in artificial intelligence (AI), we should first consider what is meant by the word “trust.” We…

@cybersecboardrm shared
On Nov 7, 2021
RT @ChuckDBrooks: Building greater industrial cyber resilience following Nobelium supply chain attacks (please see comments by Chuck Brooks) @ChuckDBrooks https://t.co/mNPp7dTdAc https://t.co/d57S82EAvD
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Building greater industrial cyber resilience following Nobelium supply chain attacks

Building greater industrial cyber resilience following Nobelium supply chain attacks

Underlying supply chain threats in industrial and manufacturing organizations call for intensified industrial cyber resilience.