Top news of the week: 09.11.2021.
Robotics
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
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.
Unsupervised Learning of Compositional Energy Concepts
Unsupervised Learning of Compositional Energies
Applied Use Cases
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.
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
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 ...
Marketing
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.
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
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.
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
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…
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.