Top news of the week: 24.03.2020.

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Robotics

On Mar 19, 2020
@Robotiq_Inc shared
The Cobot Experience: AJung Moon & Resolving Human-Cobot Resource Conflicts https://t.co/AeKB2rwS4P
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The Cobot Experience: AJung Moon & Resolving Human-Cobot Resource Conflicts

The Cobot Experience: AJung Moon & Resolving Human-Cobot Resource Conflicts

Leading roboethicist and human-robot interaction expert AJung Moon talks industrial robot ethics and human-cobot and resource conflicts.

On Mar 22, 2020
@karpathy shared
Neuroevolution of Self-Interpretable Agents https://t.co/IYtVK9LffC creative work from @hardmaru et al. Love the combo of indirect param encodings, grad-free optimization (CMA-ES), allowing non-differentiable modules and forward pass only, policy interpretability, and robustness.
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Neuroevolution of Self-Interpretable Agents

Neuroevolution of Self-Interpretable Agents

Evolved to focus on a fraction of its vision critical for survival.

Research

On Mar 24, 2020
@soumithchintala shared
RT @sedielem: New blog post: 'Generating music in the waveform domain' https://t.co/zQ1gxuLBmV A comprehensive overview of the field and some personal thoughts, based on a tutorial I gave at @ismir2019 with @jordiponsdotme and Jongpil Lee back in November. Comments / feedback welcome! https://t.co/vzWJxptw8p
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Generating music in the waveform domain

Generating music in the waveform domain

This is a write-up of a presentation on generating music in the waveform domain, which was part of a tutorial that I co-presented at ISMIR 2019 earlier this month.

On Mar 20, 2020
@kastnerkyle shared
RT @MIT_CSAIL: This robotic mouth chants algorithmically generated prayers: https://t.co/2thGez8uDX https://t.co/6NSULGvXOl
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The Prayer

The Prayer

Diemut Strebe, author of concept and final design The production is a collaboration with Regina Barzilay, Tianxiao …

Applied Use Cases

On Mar 19, 2020
@lmatsakis shared
There's a confirmed case of Covid-19 at an Amazon warehouse in Queens https://t.co/Jka49ixtlY
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Exclusive: Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse

Exclusive: Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse

Workers at the Queens, New York, facility say employees were expected to come in for their night shift after the case was identified. Amazon denies this.

On Mar 23, 2020
@AI_TechNews shared
US Department of Energy to invest $40m in #AI and machine learning research - https://t.co/tUjdkUyeks https://t.co/BWKvSTZUde
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US Department of Energy to invest $40m in AI and machine learning research

US Department of Energy to invest $40m in AI and machine learning research

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to provide funds up to $40 million over a three-year period for new research in data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning to ...

Ethics

On Mar 24, 2020
@j2bryson shared
@mikenning @DrRESmith @ruha9 anyway re AI ethics https://t.co/xFWe5e0OP6
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AI Ethics: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Society

AI Ethics: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Society

Recently we decided it was worth rewriting and publishing the paper properly, so a radically updated version Just an …

On Mar 20, 2020
@aiethicslab shared
"While #AI is an astonishing asset for the responsible development of our societies, it also gives rise to major ethical issues. [..] Can freedom of action be guaranteed when our desires are anticipated and guided?" @UNESCO #AIethics https://t.co/I1Htjvzhy6
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Towards an Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Towards an Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

AI could open up tremendous opportunities for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Its applications ...

Marketing

On Mar 19, 2020
@RAlexJimenez shared
CIOs face uphill climb in finding skilled artificial intelligence talent https://t.co/Et2tZ6VrGn #AI #innovation
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CIOs face uphill climb in finding skilled artificial intelligence talent

CIOs face uphill climb in finding skilled artificial intelligence talent

For the past four years, the strongest demand for people with AI skills has not come from the IT department but from other business areas, Gartner data shows.

On Mar 23, 2020
@VladoBotsvadze shared
RT @stephatkins: The Artificial Intelligence Industry and Global Challenges #ArtificialIntelligence via https://t.co/UjgP4Ojc0F https://t.co/TT3LByiKud
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The Artificial Intelligence Industry and Global Challenges

The Artificial Intelligence Industry and Global Challenges

Whoever controls the strongest artificial intelligences controls the world. Artificial intelligence is the most important technology of the 21st century. It is therefore important to ...

Healthcare

On Mar 18, 2020
@WearablesExpert shared
RT @JohnNosta: U.S. government, tech industry discussing ways to harness location data to combat coronavirus https://t.co/vuX8rzBz8I via @seattletimes #digitalhealth #healthtech #coronavirus #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve
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U.S. government, tech industry discussing ways to harness location data to combat coronavirus

U.S. government, tech industry discussing ways to harness location data to combat coronavirus

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts about how they can use data gleaned from Americans' phones to ...

On Mar 19, 2020
@KirkDBorne shared
Powering #PrecisionMedicine with #Artificialintelligence: https://t.co/3gWl3i5W9O by @Intel #BigData #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #NeuralNetworks #HealthTech https://t.co/BPHaX26ceD
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Powering Precision Medicine with Artificial Intelligence

Powering Precision Medicine with Artificial Intelligence

Precision medicine is one of the most exciting and encouraging advances in healthcare today. It is moving us from one-size-fits-all healthcare to personalized, data-driven treatment that ...

Cybersecurity

On Mar 20, 2020
@menlosecurity shared
Artificial intelligence is a growing trend within the #cyber community, but many security professionals still seem to prefer the human analysis. @lancewhit and @TechRepublic have more details on a recent industry survey here: https://t.co/OwOSWiZZCb
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Cybersecurity pros are using artificial intelligence but still prefer the human touch

Cybersecurity pros are using artificial intelligence but still prefer the human touch

More than half of organizations have adopted AI for security efforts, but a majority are more confident in results verified by humans, according to WhiteHat Security.

On Mar 19, 2020
@mclynd shared
RT @CaseyCRL: Innovative #security measures such as #AI and #ML are playing a greater role in the enterprise. v/ ⁦@ZDNet⁩ TY ⁦@CaseyCRL⁩ #CSuite @BillMew @sallyeaves @robmay70 @techpearce2 @rtehrani @PVynckier @DrJDrooghaag @lkafle @missdkingsbury @mclynd https://t.co/6ZDAnOPyMZ
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CIO Jury: Artificial intelligence and machine learning an essential part of cybersecurity

CIO Jury: Artificial intelligence and machine learning an essential part of cybersecurity

Innovative security measures such as AI and ML are playing a greater role in the enterprise.