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@DeepMind shared
On Oct 12, 2020
How much can AI researchers learn from the field of animal cognition? Find out in a new @CellPressNews (Trends in Cognitive Sciences) paper: https://t.co/4v84d7v6aV Work by @mpshanahan & @BenBeyret, along with @MaCroPhilosophy of @imperialcollege & @LucyCheke of @Cambridge_Uni.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals

The problem of common sense remains a major obstacle to progress in artificial intelligence. Here, we argue that common sense in humans is founded on …

@DeepMind shared
On Oct 12, 2020
How much can AI researchers learn from the field of animal cognition? Find out in a new @CellPressNews (Trends in Cognitive Sciences) paper: https://t.co/4v84d7v6aV Work by @mpshanahan & @BenBeyret, along with @MaCroPhilosophy of @imperialcollege & @LucyCheke of @Cambridge_Uni.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals

Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals

The problem of common sense remains a major obstacle to progress in artificial intelligence. Here, we argue that common sense in humans is founded on …

@NandoDF shared
On Oct 31, 2020
RT @DeepMind: Excited to share #NeurIPS2020 papers on efficient and tight neural network verification, based on efficient solvers for LP and SDP relaxations. Implementations of these in JAX are also available as part of the new jax_verify library, described here: https://t.co/wh9fgit7w7 https://t.co/PTRpNhP898
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Efficient and tight neural network verification in JAX

Neural network verification is a powerful technology, offering the promise of provable guarantees on networks satisfying desirable input-output properties or specifications.

@NandoDF shared
On Oct 31, 2020
RT @DeepMind: Excited to share #NeurIPS2020 papers on efficient and tight neural network verification, based on efficient solvers for LP and SDP relaxations. Implementations of these in JAX are also available as part of the new jax_verify library, described here: https://t.co/wh9fgit7w7 https://t.co/PTRpNhP898
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Efficient and tight neural network verification in JAX

Efficient and tight neural network verification in JAX

Neural network verification is a powerful technology, offering the promise of provable guarantees on networks satisfying desirable input-output properties or specifications.

@WIREDScience shared
On Oct 1, 2020
At Toyota, researchers are experimenting with prototypes that swoop from the ceiling to take care of chores with the help of machine learning. https://t.co/1j3lx2P65D
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These Robots Use AI to Learn How to Clean Your House

At Toyota, researchers are experimenting with prototypes that swoop from the ceiling to take care of chores with the help of machine learning.

@WIREDScience shared
On Oct 1, 2020
At Toyota, researchers are experimenting with prototypes that swoop from the ceiling to take care of chores with the help of machine learning. https://t.co/1j3lx2P65D
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These Robots Use AI to Learn How to Clean Your House

These Robots Use AI to Learn How to Clean Your House

At Toyota, researchers are experimenting with prototypes that swoop from the ceiling to take care of chores with the help of machine learning.

@rivatez shared
On Oct 12, 2020
RT @richardcraib: Today we're launching Numerai Signals. It's the most important thing we've done since creating NMR. Its phase 2 of our master plan to build the world's last hedge fund. https://t.co/XcmCbULbvy
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Building The Last Hedge Fund — Introducing Numerai Signals

Numerai is now the first hedge fund to source original stock market signals, built from any dataset, from anyone in the world…

@rivatez shared
On Oct 12, 2020
RT @richardcraib: Today we're launching Numerai Signals. It's the most important thing we've done since creating NMR. Its phase 2 of our master plan to build the world's last hedge fund. https://t.co/XcmCbULbvy
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Building The Last Hedge Fund — Introducing Numerai Signals

Building The Last Hedge Fund — Introducing Numerai Signals

Numerai is now the first hedge fund to source original stock market signals, built from any dataset, from anyone in the world…

@NandoDF shared
On Oct 13, 2020
The Next Generation Of Artificial Intelligence: on self-supervised learning, federated learning and transformers https://t.co/NwCubzJcn8
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The Next Generation Of Artificial Intelligence

Five years from now, the field of AI will look very different than it does today.

@NandoDF shared
On Oct 13, 2020
The Next Generation Of Artificial Intelligence: on self-supervised learning, federated learning and transformers https://t.co/NwCubzJcn8
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The Next Generation Of Artificial Intelligence

The Next Generation Of Artificial Intelligence

Five years from now, the field of AI will look very different than it does today.

@nytimes shared
On Oct 25, 2020
In @NYTmag, Michael Steinberger reports on Palantir, the secretive tech giant that helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends. https://t.co/An7oSjJ0ij
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Does Palantir See Too Much?

The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends.

@nytimes shared
On Oct 25, 2020
In @NYTmag, Michael Steinberger reports on Palantir, the secretive tech giant that helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends. https://t.co/An7oSjJ0ij
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Does Palantir See Too Much?

Does Palantir See Too Much?

The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends.

@ScienceMagazine shared
On Oct 2, 2020
In this week's Science Podcast: FDA clinical trial failures, and an #AI that can beat curling’s top players. 🎙Listen here: https://t.co/A1OjdD00I8 https://t.co/xjnwppi10n
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FDA clinical trial failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players

On this week’s show: How robots are learning to play the tricky sport of curling and an exclusive investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of clinical trials shows “light handed, slow moving, and secretive” enforcement

@ScienceMagazine shared
On Oct 2, 2020
In this week's Science Podcast: FDA clinical trial failures, and an #AI that can beat curling’s top players. 🎙Listen here: https://t.co/A1OjdD00I8 https://t.co/xjnwppi10n
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FDA clinical trial failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players

FDA clinical trial failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players

On this week’s show: How robots are learning to play the tricky sport of curling and an exclusive investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of clinical trials shows ...

@WIRED shared
On Oct 8, 2020
Anduril is best known for supplying surveillance towers and software used to watch over the US-Mexico border and some US bases. Now, it is retooling the software behind that tech, Lattice, to connect military equipment from ground radar to fighter jets. https://t.co/95dXj3hMOW
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Behind Anduril’s Effort to Create an Operating System for War

The company, launched by Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey, is building software to connect multiple Air Force systems—allowing officers to act more quickly.

@WIRED shared
On Oct 8, 2020
Anduril is best known for supplying surveillance towers and software used to watch over the US-Mexico border and some US bases. Now, it is retooling the software behind that tech, Lattice, to connect military equipment from ground radar to fighter jets. https://t.co/95dXj3hMOW
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Behind Anduril’s Effort to Create an Operating System for War

Behind Anduril’s Effort to Create an Operating System for War

The company, launched by Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey, is building software to connect multiple Air Force systems—allowing officers to act more quickly.

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