Top news of the week: 26.01.2021.
Robotics
On the 100th Anniversary of ‘Robot,’ They’re Finally Taking Over
A century after playwright Karel Čapek coined the word “robot,” we finally have the technology to make the stuff of science fiction a reality—for better and for worse.
Google unions around the world form Alpha Global alliance
Various Alphabet unions have joined forces and created a global alliance called Alpha Global. It was created with some help from UNI Global, a federation of unions that represents 20 ...
Research
Learning to Learn Workshop
With this goal in mind, we created a list of speakers that reflects this variety in backgrounds and schools of thought …
Center for Applied Data Ethics suggests treating AI like a bureaucracy
A new research paper suggests AI practitioners adopt anthropology terms to assess large machine learning models that harm people.
Applied Use Cases
1991: First very deep learning with unsupervised pre-training
It uses unsupervised learning and predictive coding in a deep hierarchy of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to find …
Developing Algorithms That Might One Day Be Used Against You
Brian Nord is building a coalition of physicists and computer scientists to fight for more oversight in AI algorithm development.
Ethics
Beyond Engagement: Aligning Algorithmic Recommendations With Prosocial Goals
Much of the media we see online — whether from social media, news aggregators, or trending topics — is algorithmically selected and personalized. Content moderation addresses what should ...
The AI Ethics Brief #39: Sociology of AI ethics, robot testimony, believability gap, and more ...
Has the Turing Test become obsolete?
Marketing
AI in Analytics: Powering the Future of Data Analytics
Augmented analytics: the combination of AI and analytics is the latest innovation in data analytics. For organizations, data analysis has evolved from hiring “unicorn” data scientists – to ...
AI will soon outperform us in disciplines we thought were uniquely human
Thanks to developments in AI, the days of the human creative may be numbered
Healthcare
New Algorithms Could Reduce Racial Disparities in Health Care
Machine learning programs trained with patient reports, rather than doctors', find problems that doctors miss—especially in Black people.
HITLAB's Review of the 39th J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
HITLAB's Review of the 39th J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Cybersecurity
White House plans to select Rob Silvers, a Mayorkas ally, to lead DHS's cyber outfit
The Biden administration plans to select Rob Silvers, a lawyer and former Department of Homeland Security official, to run the federal agency in charge of election security and stopping ...
Combining Machine Learning with Human Intelligence to ensure Security
Integration of human intelligence and ML in Cybersecurity can better analyse framework behaviour and identify anomalous occasions reinforcing cybersecurity and minimising successful ...