Top news of the week: 29.06.2021.
Robotics
#GlobalAussies: Robotics expert Andra Keay is helping Aussie deep tech startups go global
Andra is an Advance member based in California, who's continuously growing opportunities for Australia on the global stage. She discusses her journey and provides some tips to help ...
What Neuralink and other BCIs can and can't do
Elon Musk's BCI startup wants to make people more than human by putting computers in their heads but a number of neurology researchers aren’t quite so bullish on these fantastical promises..
Research
google-research / deeplab2
DeepLab2 is a TensorFlow library for deep labeling, aiming to provide a unified and state-of-the-art TensorFlow codebase for dense pixel labeling tasks. - google-research/deeplab2
[R] Machine Learning with Applications journal on Elsevier
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Applied Use Cases
App Taps Unwitting Users Abroad to Gather Open-Source Intelligence
The Premise app pays users, many in the developing world, to do tasks like taking photos and completing surveys for clients including the U.S. military.
Beyond Fairness: Towards a Just, Equitable, and Accountable Computer Vision
Workshop to discuss works (and bringing invited speakers) hoping to move the computer vision field beyond the fairness rhetoric.
Ethics
Mobilising the intellectual resources of the arts and humanities
Challenging and redrawing framings of technology to serve human flourishing and justice
9 ethical AI principles for organizations to follow
As organizations increasingly apply artificial intelligence, they must address ethical and moral concerns. This analysis proposes 9 ethical principles.
Marketing
Podcast: Hired by an algorithm
Major companies are turning to AI to screen applicants and predict future job performance.
How WesternUnion is fighting back against fintech startups
The saying goes that, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” That may or may not be true, but at least one “old dog” is working hard to disprove that saying. Western Union has been ...
Healthcare
Executive Outlook: Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
Experts address how health systems should harness the power of AI in new CCM report available to download.
The Alarming Blind Spots in Health Care AI
Artificial intelligence promises to make medicine smarter. But what happens when these software systems don't work as advertised?
Cybersecurity
Industry 4.0: the fourth industrial revolution – guide to Industrie 4.0
Industry 4.0 is the evolution to cyber-physical systems, representing the fourth industrial revolution on the road to an end-to-end value chain with IoT and decentralized intelligence in ...
Fact check: Quantum computing may transform cybersecurity eventually – but not yet
Most organizations will need to protect their data from quantum codebreaking in the future. But when is too early (or too late) to buy?