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@haldaume3 shared
On Jul 12, 2020
Today's been the 1st day of #icml2020: EXPO! https://t.co/chofffi0dd This is an opportunity to see ML in practice, with interactive talks, panels & demos presented by our sponsors. More @icmlconf details follow from today's newsletter to registered participants: >
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Welcome To The ICML Sponsor Expo!

Chaired by: Dr Lindsay Edwards (AstraZeneca) Join Virtual Workshop Visit AstraZeneca Booth Introducing the AI Model Efficiency Toolkit (AIMET) Sun Jul 7th 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. PDT AI, specifically deep learning, is revolutionizing industries, products, and core capabilities by ...

@haldaume3 shared
On Jul 12, 2020
Today's been the 1st day of #icml2020: EXPO! https://t.co/chofffi0dd This is an opportunity to see ML in practice, with interactive talks, panels & demos presented by our sponsors. More @icmlconf details follow from today's newsletter to registered participants: >
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Welcome To The ICML Sponsor Expo!

Welcome To The ICML Sponsor Expo!

Chaired by: Dr Lindsay Edwards (AstraZeneca) Join Virtual Workshop Visit AstraZeneca Booth Introducing the AI Model Efficiency Toolkit (AIMET) Sun Jul 7th 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. PDT AI, ...

@techreview shared
On Jul 16, 2020
RT @_KarenHao: Kind of an insane paper from @OpenAI, which won an honorable mention for best paper at the International Conference on Machine Learning this week. Researchers trained GPT-2 on pixels instead of words and created a model that can spit out images. https://t.co/6Soc3IbDJL
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OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images

In February of last year, the San Francisco–based research lab OpenAI announced that its AI system could now write convincing passages of English. Feed the beginning of a sentence or paragraph into GPT-2, as it was called, and it could continue the thought for as long as an essay with ...

@techreview shared
On Jul 16, 2020
RT @_KarenHao: Kind of an insane paper from @OpenAI, which won an honorable mention for best paper at the International Conference on Machine Learning this week. Researchers trained GPT-2 on pixels instead of words and created a model that can spit out images. https://t.co/6Soc3IbDJL
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OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images

OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images

In February of last year, the San Francisco–based research lab OpenAI announced that its AI system could now write convincing passages of English. Feed the beginning of a sentence or ...

@demishassabis shared
On Jul 18, 2020
RT @DeepMind: "What happens when you throw a pile of sand, a glob of “goop,” and a torrent of water into a box?" 'Learning to Simulate Complex Physics with Graph Networks' - presented at #ICML2020 and featured in @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/PA1Bs7sqsw
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@demishassabis shared
On Jul 18, 2020
RT @DeepMind: "What happens when you throw a pile of sand, a glob of “goop,” and a torrent of water into a box?" 'Learning to Simulate Complex Physics with Graph Networks' - presented at #ICML2020 and featured in @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/PA1Bs7sqsw
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@novapbs shared
On Jul 2, 2020
A growing coalition of AI researchers hope "to demonstrate a systematic issue with the way scientific publishing incentivizes researchers to perpetuate unethical norms." via @techreview https://t.co/Fjhknm9A1D
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AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms

The news: An open letter from a growing coalition of AI researchers is calling out scientific publisher Springer Nature for a conference paper it originally planned to include in its forthcoming book Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. ...

@novapbs shared
On Jul 2, 2020
A growing coalition of AI researchers hope "to demonstrate a systematic issue with the way scientific publishing incentivizes researchers to perpetuate unethical norms." via @techreview https://t.co/Fjhknm9A1D
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AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms

AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms

The news: An open letter from a growing coalition of AI researchers is calling out scientific publisher Springer Nature for a conference paper it originally planned to include in its ...

@amsekaran shared
On Jul 10, 2020
RT @axios: A coalition of AI groups is forming to produce a comprehensive data source on the coronavirus pandemic for policymakers and health care leaders. https://t.co/PCpu3mWDRD
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A new AI tool to fight the coronavirus

The Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against COVID-19 will produce tools that policymakers can use to fight the pandemic

@amsekaran shared
On Jul 10, 2020
RT @axios: A coalition of AI groups is forming to produce a comprehensive data source on the coronavirus pandemic for policymakers and health care leaders. https://t.co/PCpu3mWDRD
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A new AI tool to fight the coronavirus

A new AI tool to fight the coronavirus

The Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against COVID-19 will produce tools that policymakers can use to fight the pandemic

@romanyam shared
On Jul 14, 2020
Overall, we predict that AI failures and premeditated malevolent AI incidents will increase in frequency and severity proportionate to AIs’ capability. https://t.co/v23cFxF3C6
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AI Will Fail, Like Everything Else, Eventually

Overall, we predict that AI failures and premeditated malevolent AI incidents will increase in frequency and severity proportionate to AIs’ capability.

@romanyam shared
On Jul 14, 2020
Overall, we predict that AI failures and premeditated malevolent AI incidents will increase in frequency and severity proportionate to AIs’ capability. https://t.co/v23cFxF3C6
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AI Will Fail, Like Everything Else, Eventually

AI Will Fail, Like Everything Else, Eventually

Overall, we predict that AI failures and premeditated malevolent AI incidents will increase in frequency and severity proportionate to AIs’ capability.

@AnimaAnandkumar shared
On Jul 1, 2020
RT @oliviasolon: "Thanks to MIT's cavalier approach when assembling its training set, though, these systems may also label women as whores or bitches, and Black and Asian people with derogatory language." https://t.co/PIhjcVTGpO
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@AnimaAnandkumar shared
On Jul 1, 2020
RT @oliviasolon: "Thanks to MIT's cavalier approach when assembling its training set, though, these systems may also label women as whores or bitches, and Black and Asian people with derogatory language." https://t.co/PIhjcVTGpO
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@frossi_t shared
On Jul 8, 2020
RT @k_leyton_brown: AAAI 2021 CFP is now out! https://t.co/mF1B99I7Lm #AAAI2021
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Call for Papers

(Authors anticipating that they may make such a submission are free to submit their abstracts before Phase 1, in which case their paper will be included in Phase 1 bidding; however, authors are free to submit both abstracts and papers of Fast Track submissions until September 29, in which ...

@frossi_t shared
On Jul 8, 2020
RT @k_leyton_brown: AAAI 2021 CFP is now out! https://t.co/mF1B99I7Lm #AAAI2021
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Call for Papers

Call for Papers

(Authors anticipating that they may make such a submission are free to submit their abstracts before Phase 1, in which case their paper will be included in Phase 1 bidding; however, authors ...

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