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Monthly report: June 2019

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 204 influencers like MIT Technology Review and Joanna J Bryson, discussing hashtags such as #ai , #machinelearning and #Ethics.
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@ylecun shared
On Jun 24, 2019
RT @facebookai: We’ve developed a tool that applies natural language processing (#NLP) and information retrieval techniques directly to source code text, in order to produce a #machinelearning-based code search system. https://t.co/4FcMU5Xwza https://t.co/gvp09sRpUv
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Neural Code Search: ML-based code search using natural language queries

We’ve developed an internal tool that applies natural language processing and information retrieval techniques directly to source code text, in order to produce an machine learning-based code search system.

@ylecun shared
On Jun 24, 2019
RT @facebookai: We’ve developed a tool that applies natural language processing (#NLP) and information retrieval techniques directly to source code text, in order to produce a #machinelearning-based code search system. https://t.co/4FcMU5Xwza https://t.co/gvp09sRpUv
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Neural Code Search: ML-based code search using natural language queries

Neural Code Search: ML-based code search using natural language queries

We’ve developed an internal tool that applies natural language processing and information retrieval techniques directly to source code text, in order to produce an machine learning-based ...

@j2bryson shared
On Jun 29, 2019
RT @Boring_AI: "Neither the children not the parents have consented to the children's interactions being permanently recorded." When @amazon loses we are all better off. https://t.co/XBahTYCepT
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Amazon sued over Alexa child recordings in US

Two complaints claim the firm lacks the required consent to build and store youngsters' voice profiles.

@j2bryson shared
On Jun 29, 2019
RT @Boring_AI: "Neither the children not the parents have consented to the children's interactions being permanently recorded." When @amazon loses we are all better off. https://t.co/XBahTYCepT
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Amazon sued over Alexa child recordings in US

Amazon sued over Alexa child recordings in US

Two complaints claim the firm lacks the required consent to build and store youngsters' voice profiles.

@lawrennd shared
On Jun 30, 2019
RT @joavanschoren: We have just opened an exciting #job opportunity as a #postdoc to work on automated #machinelearning (#AutoML) as part of my #Amazon Research Award. We aim to build an AutoML Gym to train top-notch AutoML methods - with #metalearning. Please RT! #ai #ml https://t.co/cScqEZCsGl
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Post-doctoral fellow on automatic machine learning (V32.4006)

Challenging post-doctoral fellowship on automated machine learning (AutoML). We are building an AutoML playground (an 'AutoML Gym') to train AutoML systems on many different problems and get increasingly better over time. This work is part of an Amazon Research Award.

@lawrennd shared
On Jun 30, 2019
RT @joavanschoren: We have just opened an exciting #job opportunity as a #postdoc to work on automated #machinelearning (#AutoML) as part of my #Amazon Research Award. We aim to build an AutoML Gym to train top-notch AutoML methods - with #metalearning. Please RT! #ai #ml https://t.co/cScqEZCsGl
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Post-doctoral fellow on automatic machine learning (V32.4006)

Post-doctoral fellow on automatic machine learning (V32.4006)

Challenging post-doctoral fellowship on automated machine learning (AutoML). We are building an AutoML playground (an 'AutoML Gym') to train AutoML systems on many different problems and ...

@Revkin shared
On Jun 29, 2019
RT @Joi: Interview with @karaswisher for Recode - The problem with tech people who want to solve problems https://t.co/RkDtvSvpHG
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The problem with tech people who want to solve problems

On the latest Recode Decode, MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito says we need to resist the urge to oversimplify the problems we’re solving.

@Revkin shared
On Jun 29, 2019
RT @Joi: Interview with @karaswisher for Recode - The problem with tech people who want to solve problems https://t.co/RkDtvSvpHG
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The problem with tech people who want to solve problems

The problem with tech people who want to solve problems

On the latest Recode Decode, MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito says we need to resist the urge to oversimplify the problems we’re solving.

@mpshanahan shared
On Jul 1, 2019
RT @AnjaKasp: Summer reading on ethics for #AI? Int interview with and book reviews by @PaulaBoddington. Good to see the work of @WendellWallach @mathbabedotorg @mpshanahan @johnchavens on the list:-) https://t.co/WUPsdxcMb8
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Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

Advances in artificial intelligence prompt a myriad of ethical questions, says Dr Paula Boddington, as she chooses five of the best books on ethics for AI

@mpshanahan shared
On Jul 1, 2019
RT @AnjaKasp: Summer reading on ethics for #AI? Int interview with and book reviews by @PaulaBoddington. Good to see the work of @WendellWallach @mathbabedotorg @mpshanahan @johnchavens on the list:-) https://t.co/WUPsdxcMb8
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Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

Advances in artificial intelligence prompt a myriad of ethical questions, says Dr Paula Boddington, as she chooses five of the best books on ethics for AI

@techreview shared
On Jun 4, 2019
This robot spent the equivalent of a hundred years learning how to manipulate a cube in its hand. https://t.co/dZVTwwES5Q https://t.co/EdlfCC9iDH
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An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube

A reinforcement learning algorithm allows Dactyl to learn physical tasks by practicing them in a virtual-reality environment.

@techreview shared
On Jun 4, 2019
This robot spent the equivalent of a hundred years learning how to manipulate a cube in its hand. https://t.co/dZVTwwES5Q https://t.co/EdlfCC9iDH
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An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube

An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube

A reinforcement learning algorithm allows Dactyl to learn physical tasks by practicing them in a virtual-reality environment.

@techreview shared
On Jun 23, 2019
Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world. https://t.co/lGCzDsBepZ
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@techreview shared
On Jun 23, 2019
Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world. https://t.co/lGCzDsBepZ
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@j2bryson shared
On Jun 29, 2019
RT @NoelSharkey: “[It’s not] Amazon’s responsibility to make sure Rekognition is used accurately or ethically.” This is the way weapons makers talk to abrogate responsibility. ‘We just make it - don’t decide how it’s used’ HT neph @RobMcCargow Great work @DaveLeeBBC https://t.co/lbKwYuow0T
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Amazon's next big thing may redefine big

Amazon doesn't feel it has a responsibility to make sure its groundbreaking technology is always used ethically.

@j2bryson shared
On Jun 29, 2019
RT @NoelSharkey: “[It’s not] Amazon’s responsibility to make sure Rekognition is used accurately or ethically.” This is the way weapons makers talk to abrogate responsibility. ‘We just make it - don’t decide how it’s used’ HT neph @RobMcCargow Great work @DaveLeeBBC https://t.co/lbKwYuow0T
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Amazon's next big thing may redefine big

Amazon's next big thing may redefine big

Amazon doesn't feel it has a responsibility to make sure its groundbreaking technology is always used ethically.

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Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Director of AI Research at Apple

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Machine learning for medicine and biology. Senior Fellow @FlagshipPioneer / Head of Machine Learning (startup) | Assistant Professor @HarvardEpi (July 2019).

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I research intelligence to understand what we are, and to harness it wisely. Principal Scientist at DeepMind, CIFAR Fellow, Adj Prof UBC

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Founded in 2010. Building Artificial General Intelligence. The creators of #AlphaGo #AlphaZero #AlphaFold #AlphaStar and Atari DQN

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