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Monthly report: January 2019

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 162 influencers like Miles Brundage and hardmaru, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #InUteroAI and #bias.
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@johnplattml shared
On Jan 14, 2019
RT @mmitchell_ai: "We still need to get through this critical moment of deciding whether this technology is good for us...That’s why I work on “post-training” interpretability methods...That’s what the TCAV work is about." Great interview on @_beenkim's awesome work. https://t.co/Nalhxa0uVS
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A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think

www.quantamagazine.org

Neural networks are famously inscrutable, so Been Kim is developing a “translator for humans.”

@johnplattml shared
On Jan 14, 2019
RT @mmitchell_ai: "We still need to get through this critical moment of deciding whether this technology is good for us...That’s why I work on “post-training” interpretability methods...That’s what the TCAV work is about." Great interview on @_beenkim's awesome work. https://t.co/Nalhxa0uVS
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A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think

A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think

Neural networks are famously inscrutable, so Been Kim is developing a “translator for humans.”

@samim shared
On Jan 16, 2019
RT @rodneyabrooks: A media critique of media AI hype. Misses that underlying capabilities are mostly only imagined. Instead concentrates on whether it is unvarnished good. Harshly disses "ethics theatre". I fear too many friends are unwitting actors in this theatre. https://t.co/4ClfIDFFmk
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Don’t believe the hype: the media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy

www.theguardian.com

Journalists need to stop parroting the industry line when it comes to artificial intelligence

@samim shared
On Jan 16, 2019
RT @rodneyabrooks: A media critique of media AI hype. Misses that underlying capabilities are mostly only imagined. Instead concentrates on whether it is unvarnished good. Harshly disses "ethics theatre". I fear too many friends are unwitting actors in this theatre. https://t.co/4ClfIDFFmk
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Don’t believe the hype: the media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy

Don’t believe the hype: the media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy

Journalists need to stop parroting the industry line when it comes to artificial intelligence

@stanfordnlp shared
On Jan 4, 2019
Geoff Hinton on importance of university research—“One worry is that the most fertile source of genuinely new ideas is graduate students being well advised in a university. They have the freedom to come up with genuinely new ideas—we need to preserve that” https://t.co/Zzk9gSeqAg
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The 'Godfather of Deep Learning' on Why We Need to Ensure AI Doesn't Just Benefit the Rich

gizmodo.com

Martin Ford made waves with his 2015 book, Rise of the Robots, which details the many accelerating trends in automation and how they’re slated to impact business and, especially, employment. ...

@stanfordnlp shared
On Jan 4, 2019
Geoff Hinton on importance of university research—“One worry is that the most fertile source of genuinely new ideas is graduate students being well advised in a university. They have the freedom to come up with genuinely new ideas—we need to preserve that” https://t.co/Zzk9gSeqAg
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The 'Godfather of Deep Learning' on Why We Need to Ensure AI Doesn't Just Benefit the Rich

The 'Godfather of Deep Learning' on Why We Need to Ensure AI Doesn't Just Benefit the Rich

Martin Ford made waves with his 2015 book, Rise of the Robots, which details the many accelerating trends in automation and how they’re slated to impact business and, especially, ...

@Miles_Brundage shared
On Jan 6, 2019
RT @rao2z: By waiting until 8th grade to introduce #AI to the students (https://t.co/7g4lcNIX2Y), India will inevitably fall way behind in the great #AI education race. IMHO, #InUteroAI (cf https://t.co/RZ5skg6bno) remains the only sensible option.. https://t.co/9ymJ6WD6xb
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CBSE to introduce artificial intelligence courses in classes 8, 9, 10

www.hindustantimes.com

Syllabus for the artificial intelligence (AI) subject would be drafted for all the three classes. If required, the board will also help in the capacity building of schools for the teaching-learning of the new subject from the next academic session

@Miles_Brundage shared
On Jan 6, 2019
RT @rao2z: By waiting until 8th grade to introduce #AI to the students (https://t.co/7g4lcNIX2Y), India will inevitably fall way behind in the great #AI education race. IMHO, #InUteroAI (cf https://t.co/RZ5skg6bno) remains the only sensible option.. https://t.co/9ymJ6WD6xb
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CBSE to introduce artificial intelligence courses in classes 8, 9, 10

CBSE to introduce artificial intelligence courses in classes 8, 9, 10

Syllabus for the artificial intelligence (AI) subject would be drafted for all the three classes. If required, the board will also help in the capacity building of schools for the ...

@samim shared
On Jan 8, 2019
"Finland is putting 1% of their population through AI courses— to create citizens that know enough about the tech to make informed decisions about AI's role in the country's future": https://t.co/g0VaI1zogy Great. I wish 1% would know about history, culture, manners and health"
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Finland’s grand AI experiment

www.politico.eu

Inside Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence.

@samim shared
On Jan 8, 2019
"Finland is putting 1% of their population through AI courses— to create citizens that know enough about the tech to make informed decisions about AI's role in the country's future": https://t.co/g0VaI1zogy Great. I wish 1% would know about history, culture, manners and health"
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Finland’s grand AI experiment

Finland’s grand AI experiment

Inside Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence.

@thinkmariya shared
On Jan 22, 2019
Incredible work was done in the #AI #ethics space to detect and correct #bias in algorithms, increase transparency, and improve models for high-stakes applications. We've summarized the top 10 papers from 2018 you should definitely read https://t.co/49p0XyndS7 #ML
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Recent Breakthrough Research Papers In AI Ethics

www.topbots.com

2018 was a breakthrough year for AI ethics. Researchers, practitioners, and ethicists have sounded the alarm for years over potential malicious applications of AI technologies as well as unintended consequences from flawed or biased systems. ...

@thinkmariya shared
On Jan 22, 2019
Incredible work was done in the #AI #ethics space to detect and correct #bias in algorithms, increase transparency, and improve models for high-stakes applications. We've summarized the top 10 papers from 2018 you should definitely read https://t.co/49p0XyndS7 #ML
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Recent Breakthrough Research Papers In AI Ethics

Recent Breakthrough Research Papers In AI Ethics

2018 was a breakthrough year for AI ethics. Researchers, practitioners, and ethicists have sounded the alarm for years over potential malicious applications of AI technologies as well as ...

@jeremyphoward shared
On Jan 5, 2019
RT @petercoffee: “Past surges in productivity were driven by general-purpose technologies (GPTs) like electricity [that] required numerous complementary co-inventions [over] years or even decades... We believe that AI has the potential to be the GPT of our era.” @ErikBryn https://t.co/EhfLXehVMv
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Unpacking the AI-Productivity Paradox

sloanreview.mit.edu

AI has driven soaring expectations and stock prices. So why has productivity growth declined?

@jeremyphoward shared
On Jan 5, 2019
RT @petercoffee: “Past surges in productivity were driven by general-purpose technologies (GPTs) like electricity [that] required numerous complementary co-inventions [over] years or even decades... We believe that AI has the potential to be the GPT of our era.” @ErikBryn https://t.co/EhfLXehVMv
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Unpacking the AI-Productivity Paradox

Unpacking the AI-Productivity Paradox

AI has driven soaring expectations and stock prices. So why has productivity growth declined?

@petewarden shared
On Jan 1, 2019
RT @scottturneruon: Dual 8-bit breakthroughs bring #AI to the edge - Training Deep Neural Networks with eight-bit Floating Point Numbers https://t.co/Amvu8FdmZd via @physorg_com #IBM #Research #DeepLearning #NeuralNetworks https://t.co/OHGQXRAd6h
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Dual 8-bit breakthroughs bring AI to the edge

phys.org

This week, at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), IBM researchers will showcase new hardware that will take AI further than it's been before: right to the edge. ...

@petewarden shared
On Jan 1, 2019
RT @scottturneruon: Dual 8-bit breakthroughs bring #AI to the edge - Training Deep Neural Networks with eight-bit Floating Point Numbers https://t.co/Amvu8FdmZd via @physorg_com #IBM #Research #DeepLearning #NeuralNetworks https://t.co/OHGQXRAd6h
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Dual 8-bit breakthroughs bring AI to the edge

Dual 8-bit breakthroughs bring AI to the edge

This week, at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), IBM researchers will showcase new hardware that will ...

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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.

Follow 5.0k Followers

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google brain resident

Follow 8.8k Followers

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HCI/ML Designer & Code Magician. Building tools for Enlightenment. Narrative Engineering: https://t.co/GpO9blVaQh

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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.

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

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Robot builder

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Co-Founder & CEO @Skipflag. Machine learning, AI, social computing. Former Principal Data Scientist @LinkedIn, Engineering @AOL, @MITLL, https://t.co/dMc4qAeQfK

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Head of Research & #Design at @TOPBOTS, strategy & advisory firm in enterprise #ML #AI #bots #chatbots. Writer at @Forbes, maker of lovable #UX & crappy #robots

Follow 12.0k Followers

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Using ML, AI, and data systems to benefit humanity. Now @Google.

Follow 10.1k Followers

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

Follow 8.6k Followers

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Computational Linguistics—Natural Language—Machine Learning—Deep Learning. And misc technology from Silicon Valley. (@chrmanning, @jurafsky & @percyliang)

Follow 30.3k Followers

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Google Brain researcher, machine learning professor, ex-Twitter Cortex, father of 4, wine/music/comedy enthusiast

Follow 20.5k Followers

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CTO of Jetpac, bought by Google. Apple alumnus, O'Reilly author, blogger, on the TensorFlow team at Google doing deep learning. Email: [email protected]

Follow 11.9k Followers

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

Follow 89.8k Followers

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PhD candidate @uclmr, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence

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Researcher at Facebook AI Research. Machine learning geek. Interests for language, cognition, games AI.

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computers and music are fun. https://t.co/MERUm0KXww

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data nerd wannabe. google brain robotics. i have no idea what i'm doing...

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Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI & Neuralink

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