AI Essentials

It’s almost impossible to talk about digital development today without mentioning AI. For this reason, we’ve created The Essentials AI Master Topic, as well as 9 Deep Dive topics, to cover all of the news, trends and reports you need to stay up to date.

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Monthly report: April 2019

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 336 influencers like John C. Havens and Alan Winfield, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #CleverHans and #MachineLearning.
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@alan_winfield shared
On Apr 10, 2019
RT @johnchavens: Landmark IEEE Report Calls for Ethical Design of Autonomous Systems https://t.co/rmbhm4Vwv7 via @CBROnline.com
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Landmark IEEE Report Calls for Ethical Design of Autonomous Systems

www.cbronline.com

A landmark study from the IEEE urges a renewed focus on ethics as a "macro" in the design stages of autonomous and intelligent systems. Ethical AI is a...

@alan_winfield shared
On Apr 10, 2019
RT @johnchavens: Landmark IEEE Report Calls for Ethical Design of Autonomous Systems https://t.co/rmbhm4Vwv7 via @CBROnline.com
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Landmark IEEE Report Calls for Ethical Design of Autonomous Systems

Landmark IEEE Report Calls for Ethical Design of Autonomous Systems

A landmark study from the IEEE urges a renewed focus on ethics as a "macro" in the design stages of autonomous and intelligent systems. Ethical AI is a...

@hardmaru shared
On Apr 4, 2019
RT @slashML: Apple hires Ian Goodfellow https://t.co/AQPqk8rOcB
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[N] Apple hires Ian Goodfellow

www.reddit.com

141 votes and 51 comments so far on Reddit

@hardmaru shared
On Apr 4, 2019
RT @slashML: Apple hires Ian Goodfellow https://t.co/AQPqk8rOcB
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[N] Apple hires Ian Goodfellow

[N] Apple hires Ian Goodfellow

141 votes and 51 comments so far on Reddit

@Rochelle shared
On Apr 1, 2019
RT @AphraK: This is tough reading on FB content moderators in Ireland by @jenoconnell - https://t.co/g0mGJMp9Jw but it only confirms what @TarletonG and @ubiquity75 have already highlighted elsewhere.
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Facebook’s dirty work in Ireland: ‘I had to watch footage of a person being beaten to death’

www.irishtimes.com

Irish moderators watch horrific videos so you don’t have to. What does it do to them?

@Rochelle shared
On Apr 1, 2019
RT @AphraK: This is tough reading on FB content moderators in Ireland by @jenoconnell - https://t.co/g0mGJMp9Jw but it only confirms what @TarletonG and @ubiquity75 have already highlighted elsewhere.
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Facebook’s dirty work in Ireland: ‘I had to watch footage of a person being beaten to death’

Facebook’s dirty work in Ireland: ‘I had to watch footage of a person being beaten to death’

Irish moderators watch horrific videos so you don’t have to. What does it do to them?

@xamat shared
On Apr 3, 2019
It's harder to find unbiased/fair people than it is to find unbiased/fair AI: https://t.co/cTWoOJgpmM
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Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council

www.technologyreview.com

The independent council was meant to help Google’s public image, but the blowback shows just how fraught—and politicized—use of AI is becoming.

@xamat shared
On Apr 3, 2019
It's harder to find unbiased/fair people than it is to find unbiased/fair AI: https://t.co/cTWoOJgpmM
Open
Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council

Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council

The independent council was meant to help Google’s public image, but the blowback shows just how fraught—and politicized—use of AI is becoming.

@sidneyfussell shared
On Apr 15, 2019
RT @TheAtlantic: Improving AI involves more humans than tech companies want you to think, @sidneyfussell writes. https://t.co/HiICoVC9oV
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Behind Every Robot Is a Human

www.theatlantic.com

Why Amazon workers sometimes listen in on users’ conversations with Alexa, and what it tells us about the technology that powers “smart” devices

@sidneyfussell shared
On Apr 15, 2019
RT @TheAtlantic: Improving AI involves more humans than tech companies want you to think, @sidneyfussell writes. https://t.co/HiICoVC9oV
Open
Behind Every Robot Is a Human

Behind Every Robot Is a Human

Why Amazon workers sometimes listen in on users’ conversations with Alexa, and what it tells us about the technology that powers “smart” devices

@KUKA_Americas shared
On Apr 15, 2019
RT @ForceDesignInc1: "Industrial and collaborative #robots in the food industry are increasingly being deployed in primary processing and secondary processing applications." #automation @RIA_robotics https://t.co/N4eBe5koYm
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Robotics in Food Manufacturing and Food Processing

www.robotics.org

Food processing has been difficult for industrial robots and collaborative robots, but new robotic technology is enabling new applications.

@KUKA_Americas shared
On Apr 15, 2019
RT @ForceDesignInc1: "Industrial and collaborative #robots in the food industry are increasingly being deployed in primary processing and secondary processing applications." #automation @RIA_robotics https://t.co/N4eBe5koYm
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Robotics in Food Manufacturing and Food Processing

Robotics in Food Manufacturing and Food Processing

Food processing has been difficult for industrial robots and collaborative robots, but new robotic technology is enabling new applications.

@johnchavens shared
On Apr 17, 2019
How do you make sure AI is trustworthy? The EU wrote a checklist. https://t.co/4QVsjgjONW
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How do you make sure AI is trustworthy? The EU wrote a checklist.

www.msn.com

The European Union wants to lead the world in developing ethical AI.

@johnchavens shared
On Apr 17, 2019
How do you make sure AI is trustworthy? The EU wrote a checklist. https://t.co/4QVsjgjONW
Open
How do you make sure AI is trustworthy? The EU wrote a checklist.

How do you make sure AI is trustworthy? The EU wrote a checklist.

The European Union wants to lead the world in developing ethical AI.

@jeremyphoward shared
On Apr 3, 2019
RT @timnitGebru: 26 researchers from 21 institutions call on Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement. https://t.co/sYm6xrIrer
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On Recent Research Auditing Commercial Facial Analysis Technology

medium.com

Concerned researchers

@jeremyphoward shared
On Apr 3, 2019
RT @timnitGebru: 26 researchers from 21 institutions call on Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement. https://t.co/sYm6xrIrer
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On Recent Research Auditing Commercial Facial Analysis Technology

On Recent Research Auditing Commercial Facial Analysis Technology

Concerned researchers

Top Influencers

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E.D., IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous & Intelligent Systems and E.D., Council on Extended Intelligence. Tweets are my own.

Follow 11.4k Followers

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Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture.

Follow 5.2k Followers

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Our mission is to make technology a greater force for good by bringing about better-informed, more conscious technology decisions through our journalism.

Follow 838.9k Followers

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risk.

Follow 4.8k Followers

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reporter @Gizmodo | policing, surveillance capitalism, and bias in algorithms | DM for signal ✨

Follow 3.6k Followers

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

Follow 1.3k Followers

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Deep learning researcher & educator. Founder: fast.ai; Faculty: USF & Singularity University; // Previously - CEO: Enlitic; President: Kaggle; CEO Fastmail

Follow 12.6k Followers

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Policy Analyst at OpenAI. Formerly: AI Policy Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. Views my own.

Follow 14.0k Followers

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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at NYU

Follow 3.8k Followers

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Researching the social implications of AI. Co-founder @AINowInstitute at NYU | Principal Researcher MSR-NYC | Distinguished Research Professor NYU |

Follow 40.8k Followers

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The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms Behind Money & Information http://t.co/XyosGJviUF Reputation/Search/Finance

Follow 22.6k Followers

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Teaching machines to discover particles. Researcher in #MachineLearning #AI. Post-doc'ing @NYU and @CERN. Scikit-Learn contributor. Belgian.

Follow 3.0k Followers

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MIT's largest lab: the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab https://t.co/oEBFg67jYJ #ai #cs #robotics #ml #nlp #bigdata #iot #datascience

Follow 57.5k Followers

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equality, transparency, fun Emeritus Professor of AI and Robotics, co-director @resprobotics, Chair of ICRAC, Head Judge on Robot Wars

Follow 7.9k Followers

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google brain resident

Follow 8.8k Followers

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I'm Rochelle, but I'm not THAT Rochelle. Labor issues, crowd work, equal rights, & more. #ShePersisted #TheResistance 🌈

Follow 2.3k Followers

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Leading Engineering at Quora. Netflix alumni. Software, Machine Learning, Data, Recsys... From Barcelona, in the Valley (i.e. immigrant turned coastal elite)

Follow 11.9k Followers

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Examining the social implications of AI @ainowinstitute Co-director, NYU Research Scientist, Google Open Research founder, certified yoga instructor.

Follow 6.6k Followers

Picture of @KUKA_RoboticsUS

Official Twitter account of KUKA Robotics Corporation, the North American headquarters for one of the world’s leading suppliers of industrial robots.

Follow 19.3k Followers

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Researching intelligence to understand what we are and to find ways to harness it wisely. I'm a senior CIFAR fellow and an adjunct prof at UBC CS.

Follow 23.3k Followers

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