Top news of the week: 23.02.2021.
Robotics
, Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley and Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute People and Robots Initiative
Our next 'conversation that matters' is on People with Disabilities and robots. Join us at 6pm PDT on Tuesday February 23rd 2021
iGibson Challenge 2021
In recent years, learning algorithms have been achieving impressive results in vision-based indoor autonomous …
Research
The AI Research Paper Was Real. The ‘Coauthor’ Wasn't
An MIT professor found his name on two papers with which he had no connection. A different paper listed a fictitious author by the name of "Bill Franks."
Rethinking ML Papers - ICLR 2021 Workshop
Rethinking how we share scientific understanding in ML
Applied Use Cases
How Oracle Sells Repression in China
In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work.
How the hybrid cloud is key to enterprise AI infrastructure strategies
Few resources are as readily available and easy to use as the cloud, and this easy access to infrastructure extends to AI workloads.
Ethics
Now that science fiction is reality, it’s time for new laws of robotics
Eighty years ago, Isaac Asimov dreamed up three rules to ensure machines would serve humanity. It’s a framework that has shaped decades of debates about AI ethics, but it needs an update. ...
Google has fired another AI ethics leader
Google has fired AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell, just a couple of months after forcing out her co-lead Timnit Gebru.
Marketing
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
A DevOps Practitioner’s Guide
The Three Crises of AI
The objectionable aspects and outcomes of AI (and its most successful commercial implementation, machine learning) …
Healthcare
Meeting the challenges of AI in health care
Philips's Tina Manoharan on artificial intelligence research in health care and the challenges of applying AI in real-world health applications.
GE Healthcare and Istanbul’s CUREA to accelerate AI-based health software development in Turkey
Using GE Healthcare’s Edison Health Services, CUREA’s team will first work on AI-based applications focused on COVID-19 and breast cancer.
Cybersecurity
Combining Three Pillars Of Cybersecurity Security
Our digital world is under assault, and we need to urgently upgrade our defenses. Three significant risk management themes have been put forward to help ameliorate the digital risk ...
The future of cybersecurity will be about ‘fighting fire with fire’
AI is already used by defenders, but it’s only a matter of time before it’s co-opted by attackers too