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Monthly report: September 2018

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 162 influencers like Peter Asaro and Joanna J Bryson, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #emnlp2018 and #autonomy.
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@NandoDF shared
On Sep 20, 2018
RT @GuillaumeLample: We just received the best paper award at #emnlp2018 for our work on unsupervised machine translation !! @alex_conneau @LudovicDenoyer Paper: https://t.co/B9lnhw0T4H Code: https://t.co/db7QlysCRH Blog: https://t.co/BAMuARBmEc https://t.co/YYEoqWtGXO
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Unsupervised machine translation: A novel approach to provide fast, accurate translations for more languages

Automatic language translation is important to Facebook as a way to allow the billions of people who use our services to connect and communicate in their preferred language. To do this well, curren…

@NandoDF shared
On Sep 20, 2018
RT @GuillaumeLample: We just received the best paper award at #emnlp2018 for our work on unsupervised machine translation !! @alex_conneau @LudovicDenoyer Paper: https://t.co/B9lnhw0T4H Code: https://t.co/db7QlysCRH Blog: https://t.co/BAMuARBmEc https://t.co/YYEoqWtGXO
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Unsupervised machine translation: A novel approach to provide fast, accurate translations for more languages

Unsupervised machine translation: A novel approach to provide fast, accurate translations for more languages

Automatic language translation is important to Facebook as a way to allow the billions of people who use our services to connect and communicate in their preferred language. To do this ...

@frossi_t shared
On Sep 2, 2018
RT @robmccargow: “Governing #AI: An Inside Look at the Quest to Regulate Artificial Intelligence” by @FLIxrisk https://t.co/120231uLyv
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@frossi_t shared
On Sep 2, 2018
RT @robmccargow: “Governing #AI: An Inside Look at the Quest to Regulate Artificial Intelligence” by @FLIxrisk https://t.co/120231uLyv
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@goodfellow_ian shared
On Sep 3, 2018
MIT Technology Review article on Everybody Dance Now: https://t.co/CppofyBcrp
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Easy-to-make videos can show you dancing like the stars

Want to dance like a professional ballerina or strut like a rapper? A new machine-learning technique can transfer one person’s motion to another in a simple process.

@goodfellow_ian shared
On Sep 3, 2018
MIT Technology Review article on Everybody Dance Now: https://t.co/CppofyBcrp
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Easy-to-make videos can show you dancing like the stars

Easy-to-make videos can show you dancing like the stars

Want to dance like a professional ballerina or strut like a rapper? A new machine-learning technique can transfer one person’s motion to another in a simple process.

@amsekaran shared
On Sep 6, 2018
RT @jencrozier: P-TECH in Canada! Canada needs a skills overhaul to address job disruption from emerging technologies /via @globeandmail @reganwatts @DaveRobitaille @TedFransen @kknight435ictam https://t.co/tsO4zeAY9f
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Canada needs a skills overhaul to address job disruption from emerging technologies

Companies, employees and the economy all stand to benefit from a work force that’s prepared for the new world that is around the corner

@amsekaran shared
On Sep 6, 2018
RT @jencrozier: P-TECH in Canada! Canada needs a skills overhaul to address job disruption from emerging technologies /via @globeandmail @reganwatts @DaveRobitaille @TedFransen @kknight435ictam https://t.co/tsO4zeAY9f
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Canada needs a skills overhaul to address job disruption from emerging technologies

Canada needs a skills overhaul to address job disruption from emerging technologies

Companies, employees and the economy all stand to benefit from a work force that’s prepared for the new world that is around the corner

@hardmaru shared
On Sep 7, 2018
RT @togelius: My new book, "Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence": https://t.co/3CazilmGCh This is a popular science book aimed at non-technical audiences. It's an overview of research on AI and games, and an argument that AI is crucial for games and vice versa. https://t.co/p6NV5Xb49H
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Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence (Playful Thinking)

Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence (Playful Thinking) [Julian Togelius] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <P><B>A new vision of the future of games and game design, enabled by AI.</B></P><P>Can games measure intelligence? ...

@hardmaru shared
On Sep 7, 2018
RT @togelius: My new book, "Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence": https://t.co/3CazilmGCh This is a popular science book aimed at non-technical audiences. It's an overview of research on AI and games, and an argument that AI is crucial for games and vice versa. https://t.co/p6NV5Xb49H
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Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence (Playful Thinking)

Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence (Playful Thinking)

Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence (Playful Thinking) [Julian Togelius] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <P><B>A new vision of the future ...

@romanyam shared
On Sep 18, 2018
Another review of AI Safety & Security: "I predict that it will quickly become widely accepted as essential reading in the rapidly expanding and increasingly important fields of AI futurology, AI... https://t.co/qfOwfhKV4U
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An essential collection on AI safety and security

The xxix+443-page book Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security , edited by Roman Yampolskiy, has been out for a month or two. Among ...

@romanyam shared
On Sep 18, 2018
Another review of AI Safety & Security: "I predict that it will quickly become widely accepted as essential reading in the rapidly expanding and increasingly important fields of AI futurology, AI... https://t.co/qfOwfhKV4U
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An essential collection on AI safety and security

An essential collection on AI safety and security

The xxix+443-page book Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security , edited by Roman Yampolskiy, has been out for a month or two. Among ...

@PeterAsaro shared
On Sep 5, 2018
RT @PCHannon: Why “killer robots” should be banned: Fundamental moral and legal principles are at stake https://t.co/cVY8BWKSJt
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Why “killer robots” should be banned: Fundamental moral and legal principles are at stake

The U.S. military is already testing a Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System. Such weaponry should be off limits

@PeterAsaro shared
On Sep 5, 2018
RT @PCHannon: Why “killer robots” should be banned: Fundamental moral and legal principles are at stake https://t.co/cVY8BWKSJt
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Why “killer robots” should be banned: Fundamental moral and legal principles are at stake

Why “killer robots” should be banned: Fundamental moral and legal principles are at stake

The U.S. military is already testing a Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System. Such weaponry should be off limits

@PeterAsaro shared
On Sep 14, 2018
RT @NiklasSchoernig: One of the problems of the #LAWS debate: security implications of #automation & #autonomy underrepresented. Ban sceptics, who are unimpressed by ethical or legal arguments, should read @paul_scharre https://t.co/ZGbYVK1WHR
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A Million Mistakes a Second

Ultrafast computing is critical to modern warfare. But it also ensures a lot could go very wrong, very quickly. 

@PeterAsaro shared
On Sep 14, 2018
RT @NiklasSchoernig: One of the problems of the #LAWS debate: security implications of #automation & #autonomy underrepresented. Ban sceptics, who are unimpressed by ethical or legal arguments, should read @paul_scharre https://t.co/ZGbYVK1WHR
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A Million Mistakes a Second

A Million Mistakes a Second

Ultrafast computing is critical to modern warfare. But it also ensures a lot could go very wrong, very quickly. 

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Philosopher of Technology | Asst. Prof. @TNSMediaStudies @TheNewSchool | Scholar @StanfordCIS | Vice-Chair @ICRACnet

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Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Cognition, Culture, & Society; AI Ethics, Safety, & Policy. Vaguely professional tweets—for more: @j2blather; fewer: @j2breve

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Program Lead, Cognitive Computing, Academic Initiatives & Public Affairs @IBM. #AI. views are my own. ❤️🤖

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google brain resident

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Writer #superintelligence https://t.co/ia4H1dtZCy Researcher #AI Professor #CS Director #cybersecurity Advisor @MIRIBerkeley, @GCRInstitute. Past @Singularityu

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CEO, AIlen Institute for AI (AI2); Professor, UW CSE; Venture Partner, Madrona. https://t.co/TqO84WeA9I

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FOLLOWS YOU. Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Architectures, Computation, occasional consumption of caffeinated beverages

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AI Policy Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford. PhD candidate, Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, ASU. Views my own.

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AI Research @facebook // ex CEO @WitNL, VirtuOz

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Founder at @FastForwardLabs. Data Scientist in Residence at @accel. I ♥ data and cheeseburgers.

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Researching intelligence to understand what we are and to find ways to harness it wisely.

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Principal research scientist @awscloud, Associate Professor (on leave)@UCIrvine, #MachineLearning #optimization #Tensors

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Professor of Learning Research at MIT Media Lab, director of Lifelong Kindergarten research group, and head of the Scratch Team (http://t.co/0fr5MgQn9H)

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writer/reporter/rhymes with spiel ethan.chiel@gmail or ethanchiel@protonmail

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Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, DeepMind

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Research scientist in AI safety at DeepMind. Co-founder of Future of Life Institute @flixrisk.

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Founder & CEO, DeepMind - the developers of #AlphaGo and Atari DQN. Working on General AI. Trying to understand what is *really* going on in the universe.

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Research scientist at OpenAI. Previously CS PhD student at Stanford. I like to train Deep Neural Nets on large datasets. On a quest to solve intelligence.

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