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.

Monthly report: March 2019

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 282 influencers like Miles Brundage and RobotShop, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #aiethics and #gpt2.
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@gdb shared
On Mar 4, 2019
RT @AmandaAskell: The OpenAI policy and communications team are looking for a project manager! Very valuable position for those with project management experience to help us run things like internal groups, blog posts, and workshops. https://t.co/Epj7eGOJof
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Project Manager, Policy & Comms

As a project manager working across policy and comms you will coordinate projects ranging from workshops, to events, to convening internal groups for information hazard studies, to helping to create and run processes for the production of externally facing content such as blog posts. ...

@gdb shared
On Mar 4, 2019
RT @AmandaAskell: The OpenAI policy and communications team are looking for a project manager! Very valuable position for those with project management experience to help us run things like internal groups, blog posts, and workshops. https://t.co/Epj7eGOJof
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Project Manager, Policy & Comms

Project Manager, Policy & Comms

As a project manager working across policy and comms you will coordinate projects ranging from workshops, to events, to convening internal groups for information hazard studies, to helping ...

@johnchavens shared
On Mar 1, 2019
So stoked that me and my family are MCing UNeSCO’s https://t.co/H8vxqRP1Vq #humanAI conference on Monday. 1,800 attendees! @IEEESA
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Principles for AI: Towards a Humanistic Approach? A Global Conference - 4 March 2019, Room 1

In response to the major transformations of our societies due to AI, UNESCO - as a global laboratory of ideas, standard setter, policy advisor and capacity builder - will play a leading role in facilitating international cooperation and shaping its future. UNESCO’s mandate calls ...

@johnchavens shared
On Mar 1, 2019
So stoked that me and my family are MCing UNeSCO’s https://t.co/H8vxqRP1Vq #humanAI conference on Monday. 1,800 attendees! @IEEESA
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Principles for AI: Towards a Humanistic Approach? A Global Conference - 4 March 2019, Room 1

Principles for AI: Towards a Humanistic Approach? A Global Conference - 4 March 2019, Room 1

In response to the major transformations of our societies due to AI, UNESCO - as a global laboratory of ideas, standard setter, policy advisor and capacity builder - will play a leading ...

@FastCompany shared
On Mar 3, 2019
This is how you keep your most ambitious employees from leaving https://t.co/doFOWiai9E
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This is how you keep your most ambitious employees from leaving

Pay isn’t always what keeps them in place. Here are seven ways to keep your ambitious top performers happily employed (with you).

@FastCompany shared
On Mar 3, 2019
This is how you keep your most ambitious employees from leaving https://t.co/doFOWiai9E
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This is how you keep your most ambitious employees from leaving

This is how you keep your most ambitious employees from leaving

Pay isn’t always what keeps them in place. Here are seven ways to keep your ambitious top performers happily employed (with you).

@thinkmariya shared
On Mar 1, 2019
RT @nytimesbusiness: Building ethical artificial intelligence is an enormously complex task. It gets even harder when stakeholders realize that ethics are in the eye of the beholder. https://t.co/cZ1tH4PGOl by @cademetz
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Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible?

Idealism can eventually bow to financial pressure and artificial intelligence companies, big and small, can change course.

@thinkmariya shared
On Mar 1, 2019
RT @nytimesbusiness: Building ethical artificial intelligence is an enormously complex task. It gets even harder when stakeholders realize that ethics are in the eye of the beholder. https://t.co/cZ1tH4PGOl by @cademetz
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Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible?

Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible?

Idealism can eventually bow to financial pressure and artificial intelligence companies, big and small, can change course.

@RobotShop shared
On Mar 2, 2019
At MIT’s new computing college, a robot cheetah does backflips to celebrate https://t.co/iQJ4dGnvCl @BostonGlobe #MIT #RobotDog #Cheetah https://t.co/Gma4uhCdmW
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At MIT’s new computing college, a robot does backflips to celebrate

MIT is holding a three-day celebration of its new Schwarzman College of Computing, a $1 billion project to integrate computer science into every university department.

@RobotShop shared
On Mar 2, 2019
At MIT’s new computing college, a robot cheetah does backflips to celebrate https://t.co/iQJ4dGnvCl @BostonGlobe #MIT #RobotDog #Cheetah https://t.co/Gma4uhCdmW
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At MIT’s new computing college, a robot does backflips to celebrate

At MIT’s new computing college, a robot does backflips to celebrate

MIT is holding a three-day celebration of its new Schwarzman College of Computing, a $1 billion project to integrate computer science into every university department.

@IBMWatson shared
On Mar 16, 2019
There is an increased urgency for companies to maintain trust and transparency when handling user data. @IBM is proud to be one of the few leading companies in the tech space named in Ethisphere Institute's 2019 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. https://t.co/VbzeBzMZA2
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Serving society ethically in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Ethisphere Institute announced its 2019 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, and IBM is one of the leading companies in the IT services category.

@IBMWatson shared
On Mar 16, 2019
There is an increased urgency for companies to maintain trust and transparency when handling user data. @IBM is proud to be one of the few leading companies in the tech space named in Ethisphere Institute's 2019 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. https://t.co/VbzeBzMZA2
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Serving society ethically in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Serving society ethically in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Ethisphere Institute announced its 2019 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, and IBM is one of the leading companies in the IT services category.

@jasonyo shared
On Mar 2, 2019
RT @shimon8282: This is a nice blogpost from @parnianbarekat about our paper on stabilising experience replay for deep multi-agent RL: https://t.co/nj8gjNafib
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Understanding “Stabilising Experience Replay for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning”

In order to understand this paper [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.08887.pdf] together, first, I am going to describe some basic concepts in Reinforcement Learning. You can always watch Udacity’s free course on Deep Learning with Pytorch ...

@jasonyo shared
On Mar 2, 2019
RT @shimon8282: This is a nice blogpost from @parnianbarekat about our paper on stabilising experience replay for deep multi-agent RL: https://t.co/nj8gjNafib
Open
Understanding “Stabilising Experience Replay for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning”

Understanding “Stabilising Experience Replay for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning”

In order to understand this paper [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.08887.pdf] together, first, I am going to describe some basic concepts in Reinforcement Learning. You can always watch ...

@techreview shared
On Mar 13, 2019
10 of Bill Gates’s favorite books about technology https://t.co/dsMWGek6fM
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10 of Bill Gates’s favorite books about technology

And how they helped him choose this year’s list of 10 breakthrough technologies

@techreview shared
On Mar 13, 2019
10 of Bill Gates’s favorite books about technology https://t.co/dsMWGek6fM
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10 of Bill Gates’s favorite books about technology

10 of Bill Gates’s favorite books about technology

And how they helped him choose this year’s list of 10 breakthrough technologies

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

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Together, towards a world full of robots.

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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.

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

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Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Ethics and Law; Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster; #LawTech in Practice and Education; Views My Own: #urobotwm

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co-founder https://t.co/ZvDGNlehRt + professor @usfca_msds | past: Duke math PhD, quant, early Uber eng | now: making neural nets uncool

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Official Twitter feed for the Fast Company business media brand; inspiring readers to think beyond traditional boundaries & create the future of business.

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Watson is #AI for professionals, designed for your business. Follows the IBM Social Computing Guidelines.

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

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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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Humanist/Futurist, Author, Future Explainer/Designer, Global Keynote Speaker see https://t.co/1TvAn2nTF7 New book: https://t.co/99XuSFoZvD CEO @FuturesAgency

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FLI catalyzes and supports research and initiatives to safeguard life and develop optimistic visions of the future. Official account. RT is not endorsement.

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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.

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Chief Technology & Product Officer @MetamavenAI. Editor @TOPBOTS. #AI #ML @Forbes writer, speaker, author @AppliedAIBook, maker of lovable #UX & crappy #bots

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Freelance journalist writing for the likes of @ft @wired and @forbes. Working on book #1. News tips: [email protected]

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New York Times reporter, covering A.I., driverless cars, robotics, and other big changes: [email protected]. DMs open. DM for private Signal number.

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