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Monthly report: March 2019

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 204 influencers like Miles Brundage and Jack Clark, discussing hashtags such as #gpt2 , #streetlearn and #AI.
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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 ...

@stanfordnlp shared
On Mar 2, 2019
RT @sheabrownethics: Three Ph.D students in AI at Stanford, Shushman Choudhury, @michellearning and @andrey_kurenkov absolutely crush it with a comprehensive survey of #AIEthics, complete with tons of resources. Not your average blog post, and well worth the read! #ethicalai https://t.co/ltzmkuYRcE
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In Favor of Developing Ethical Best Practices in AI Research

Disclaimer: this is an opinion piece that represents the views of its authors, and not all of SAIL. We would like to thank SAIL professors Fei-Fei Li, Christopher Manning, and Dorsa Sadigh for providing invaluable comments and feedback on this post.

@stanfordnlp shared
On Mar 2, 2019
RT @sheabrownethics: Three Ph.D students in AI at Stanford, Shushman Choudhury, @michellearning and @andrey_kurenkov absolutely crush it with a comprehensive survey of #AIEthics, complete with tons of resources. Not your average blog post, and well worth the read! #ethicalai https://t.co/ltzmkuYRcE
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In Favor of Developing Ethical Best Practices in AI Research

In Favor of Developing Ethical Best Practices in AI Research

Disclaimer: this is an opinion piece that represents the views of its authors, and not all of SAIL. We would like to thank SAIL professors Fei-Fei Li, Christopher Manning, and Dorsa Sadigh ...

@xamat shared
On Mar 3, 2019
RT @etzioni: Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? By ⁦@CadeMetz⁩ extreme title for a thought-provoking article. Best line: “the foxes are guarding the hen house.” https://t.co/izPn8f5f2k
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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.

@xamat shared
On Mar 3, 2019
RT @etzioni: Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? By ⁦@CadeMetz⁩ extreme title for a thought-provoking article. Best line: “the foxes are guarding the hen house.” https://t.co/izPn8f5f2k
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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.

@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
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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 ...

@MSFTResearch shared
On Mar 1, 2019
Through its partnership with @NSF, Microsoft Research supported researchers around the country with Azure cloud computing credits. Read how a team from @EmoryUniversity is using the resources in its pursuit of more accurate AI diagnoses: https://t.co/F4JHFMMOWY
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Cloud computing aids researchers in solving the unsolvable in medical data labeling

Through its partnership with the National Science Foundation, Microsoft is supporting researchers around the country with Azure cloud computing credits. Read how a team from Emory University is using the resources in its pursuit of more accurate AI diagnoses

@MSFTResearch shared
On Mar 1, 2019
Through its partnership with @NSF, Microsoft Research supported researchers around the country with Azure cloud computing credits. Read how a team from @EmoryUniversity is using the resources in its pursuit of more accurate AI diagnoses: https://t.co/F4JHFMMOWY
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Cloud computing aids researchers in solving the unsolvable in medical data labeling

Cloud computing aids researchers in solving the unsolvable in medical data labeling

Through its partnership with the National Science Foundation, Microsoft is supporting researchers around the country with Azure cloud computing credits. Read how a team from Emory ...

@RichardSocher shared
On Mar 1, 2019
The need for ethicists is on the rise as AI becomes more widely adopted. @baxterkb from the @Salesforce research team talked to @WSJProAI about her role in building out ethical AI practice and how to fix biases in business processes: https://t.co/dFuZXNpSwv
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Need for AI Ethicists Becomes Clearer as Companies Admit Tech’s Flaws

The initial euphoria over AI’s potential is giving way to the realization that the tech industry will need ethicists to guard against problems caused by artificial intelligence.

@RichardSocher shared
On Mar 1, 2019
The need for ethicists is on the rise as AI becomes more widely adopted. @baxterkb from the @Salesforce research team talked to @WSJProAI about her role in building out ethical AI practice and how to fix biases in business processes: https://t.co/dFuZXNpSwv
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Need for AI Ethicists Becomes Clearer as Companies Admit Tech’s Flaws

Need for AI Ethicists Becomes Clearer as Companies Admit Tech’s Flaws

The initial euphoria over AI’s potential is giving way to the realization that the tech industry will need ethicists to guard against problems caused by artificial intelligence.

@ericjang11 shared
On Mar 2, 2019
Nice post by @AlexIrpan on AlphaStar and the technical contributions it combined: https://t.co/h06zde6QeK
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An Overdue Post on AlphaStar, Part 2

This is part 2 of my post about AlphaStar, which is focused on the machine learning implications. Click here for part 1.

@ericjang11 shared
On Mar 2, 2019
Nice post by @AlexIrpan on AlphaStar and the technical contributions it combined: https://t.co/h06zde6QeK
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An Overdue Post on AlphaStar, Part 2

An Overdue Post on AlphaStar, Part 2

This is part 2 of my post about AlphaStar, which is focused on the machine learning implications. Click here for part 1.

@alexjc shared
On Mar 4, 2019
RT @ruchowdh: Controversial opinion: it is easy to pull together a high level list of ought to’s and we are drowning in them. Let’s stop being self congratulatory for “thought leadership” and start doing things. It is much much easier said than done. https://t.co/A22exrMqOY
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Seeking Ground Rules for A.I.

It’s not easy to encourage the ethical use of artificial intelligence. But here are 10 recommendations.

@alexjc shared
On Mar 4, 2019
RT @ruchowdh: Controversial opinion: it is easy to pull together a high level list of ought to’s and we are drowning in them. Let’s stop being self congratulatory for “thought leadership” and start doing things. It is much much easier said than done. https://t.co/A22exrMqOY
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Seeking Ground Rules for A.I.

Seeking Ground Rules for A.I.

It’s not easy to encourage the ethical use of artificial intelligence. But here are 10 recommendations.

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