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@hardmaru shared
On Jul 3, 2019
RT @GoAbiAryan: Why does most of the bad reporting always happen around games esp OpenAI and DeepMind products? Is over-promising the key reason? Or is it simply the Placebo Effect? https://t.co/754dM1B3jy https://t.co/Pc3P5nyDgZ
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Transform 2019: Hear from the movers and shakers in AI

Artificial intelligence is transforming business and offering significant strategic and practical opportunities, from natural language processing and smart speech to IoT and edge computing. While t…

@hardmaru shared
On Jul 3, 2019
RT @GoAbiAryan: Why does most of the bad reporting always happen around games esp OpenAI and DeepMind products? Is over-promising the key reason? Or is it simply the Placebo Effect? https://t.co/754dM1B3jy https://t.co/Pc3P5nyDgZ
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Transform 2019: Hear from the movers and shakers in AI

Transform 2019: Hear from the movers and shakers in AI

Artificial intelligence is transforming business and offering significant strategic and practical opportunities, from natural language processing and smart speech to IoT and edge computing. ...

@NandoDF shared
On Jul 6, 2019
RT @avishkar58: Hello African data engineers and scientists! Are you interested in working at DeepMind? We're recruiting! See https://t.co/kIihP5fc0j for details. @DeepIndaba
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Software/Data Engineer, London

Snapshot We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic software engineer who is interested in joining a mission driven company working on diverse research projects. Diverse sets of noisy data sets are critical to breaking new ground and producing state of the art results in research on ...

@NandoDF shared
On Jul 6, 2019
RT @avishkar58: Hello African data engineers and scientists! Are you interested in working at DeepMind? We're recruiting! See https://t.co/kIihP5fc0j for details. @DeepIndaba
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Software/Data Engineer, London

Software/Data Engineer, London

Snapshot We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic software engineer who is interested in joining a mission driven company working on diverse research projects. Diverse sets of noisy ...

@ylecun shared
On Jul 28, 2019
RT @_KarenHao: The theory that explains why babies understand gravity could bring about the next AI revolution. My latest story for @techreview summarizes @ylecun's ideas, based on a webinar he gave yesterday through @TheOfficialACM. https://t.co/O6DWMgbbB0
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The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason

Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist, believes unsupervised learning will bring about the next AI revolution.

@ylecun shared
On Jul 28, 2019
RT @_KarenHao: The theory that explains why babies understand gravity could bring about the next AI revolution. My latest story for @techreview summarizes @ylecun's ideas, based on a webinar he gave yesterday through @TheOfficialACM. https://t.co/O6DWMgbbB0
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The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason

The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason

Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist, believes unsupervised learning will bring about the next AI revolution.

@frossi_t shared
On Jul 24, 2019
RT @mjfitzgerald14: "Working on world-scale social problems also helps IBM and other tech companies to investigate ways of scaling their solutions to fit world-scale business problems." @IBMResearch's @datapriestess & @krvarshney in @Forbes via @BernardMarr https://t.co/tgfZIuXmhl
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Artificial Intelligence For Good - Also Makes Business Sense

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to do a lot of good in the world. In this post we look at how AI has been used to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges and why doing so is also good for business.

@frossi_t shared
On Jul 24, 2019
RT @mjfitzgerald14: "Working on world-scale social problems also helps IBM and other tech companies to investigate ways of scaling their solutions to fit world-scale business problems." @IBMResearch's @datapriestess & @krvarshney in @Forbes via @BernardMarr https://t.co/tgfZIuXmhl
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Artificial Intelligence For Good - Also Makes Business Sense

Artificial Intelligence For Good - Also Makes Business Sense

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to do a lot of good in the world. In this post we look at how AI has been used to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges and why doing ...

@GaryMarcus shared
On Jul 3, 2019
RT @MaxALittle: @raf_abate @DrHughHarvey https://t.co/Pvo6Kf76es Nice summary of recent work demonstrating quite clearly: CNNs exploit texture; are not as much of an advance over classical CV algorithms as supposed; benchmarks (e.g. ImageNet) are too confounded to be rigorous tests of CNN superiority. @GaryMarcus
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Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes.

@GaryMarcus shared
On Jul 3, 2019
RT @MaxALittle: @raf_abate @DrHughHarvey https://t.co/Pvo6Kf76es Nice summary of recent work demonstrating quite clearly: CNNs exploit texture; are not as much of an advance over classical CV algorithms as supposed; benchmarks (e.g. ImageNet) are too confounded to be rigorous tests of CNN superiority. @GaryMarcus
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Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes.

@newscientist shared
On Jul 13, 2019
James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life https://t.co/Ib2ex8sfM2 https://t.co/l8FQt2Dm7R
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James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

New Scientist interviewed James Lovelock to discuss Gaia’s Novacene and our new AI overlords, microwaving hamsters for science and why Elon Musk’s Mars mission is ‘crazy’

@newscientist shared
On Jul 13, 2019
James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life https://t.co/Ib2ex8sfM2 https://t.co/l8FQt2Dm7R
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James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

New Scientist interviewed James Lovelock to discuss Gaia’s Novacene and our new AI overlords, microwaving hamsters for science and why Elon Musk’s Mars mission is ‘crazy’

@ylecun shared
On Jul 19, 2019
CraftAssist; open source platform for studying collaborative AI bots in Minecraft. Brought to you by FAIR. https://t.co/LCq62o251h https://t.co/LCq62o251h
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Open-sourcing CraftAssist, a platform for studying collaborative AI bots in Minecraft

We are open-sourcing CraftAssist, a research platform for training and studying bots that collaborate with human players via in-game text chat in Minecraft. In addition, Facebook AI is releasing a baseline AI bot and the tools and data we used to build it.

@ylecun shared
On Jul 19, 2019
CraftAssist; open source platform for studying collaborative AI bots in Minecraft. Brought to you by FAIR. https://t.co/LCq62o251h https://t.co/LCq62o251h
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Open-sourcing CraftAssist, a platform for studying collaborative AI bots in Minecraft

Open-sourcing CraftAssist, a platform for studying collaborative AI bots in Minecraft

We are open-sourcing CraftAssist, a research platform for training and studying bots that collaborate with human players via in-game text chat in Minecraft. In addition, Facebook AI is ...

@AndrewLBeam shared
On Jul 13, 2019
@fchollet @Miles_Brundage FWIW I refer to this article from the Guardian written in 2006 when I lecture about Go. It states that using searching strategies a la chess/Deep Blue it would take until the 22nd century, and ends with a quote about how Go may never be solved: https://t.co/yrT2NHmlr2
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Computers just can't seem to get past Go

Chess is a doddle compared to this ancient oriental game of strategy that has programmers and scientists scratching their heads, writes Charles Arthur.

@AndrewLBeam shared
On Jul 13, 2019
@fchollet @Miles_Brundage FWIW I refer to this article from the Guardian written in 2006 when I lecture about Go. It states that using searching strategies a la chess/Deep Blue it would take until the 22nd century, and ends with a quote about how Go may never be solved: https://t.co/yrT2NHmlr2
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Computers just can't seem to get past Go

Computers just can't seem to get past Go

Chess is a doddle compared to this ancient oriental game of strategy that has programmers and scientists scratching their heads, writes Charles Arthur.

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