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Monthly report: March 2019

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 180 influencers like Miles Brundage and RobotShop, discussing hashtags such as #Robotics , #Robots and #Insights.
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@Miles_Brundage shared
On Mar 4, 2019
RT @jackclarkSF: We're hiring a project manager(s) at @OpenAI to support work in policy and comms. This is a high-impact role and offers candidates the chance to specialize over time. You'll work with people like @apilipis & @AmandaAskell & @Miles_Brundage and others (me) https://t.co/EFFZbzr9Ew
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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. ...

@Miles_Brundage shared
On Mar 4, 2019
RT @jackclarkSF: We're hiring a project manager(s) at @OpenAI to support work in policy and comms. This is a high-impact role and offers candidates the chance to specialize over time. You'll work with people like @apilipis & @AmandaAskell & @Miles_Brundage and others (me) https://t.co/EFFZbzr9Ew
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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 ...

@hayesbh shared
On Mar 2, 2019
RT @MSFTResearchCam: "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by @ChrisBishopMSFT is now available as a free download. Download your copy today for an introduction to the fields of pattern recognition & machine learning: https://t.co/3tOOHA8Dan #ML #Insights https://t.co/XiPYZvCrXl
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Christopher Bishop

Christopher Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, UK. He is also Professor of Comput…

@hayesbh shared
On Mar 2, 2019
RT @MSFTResearchCam: "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by @ChrisBishopMSFT is now available as a free download. Download your copy today for an introduction to the fields of pattern recognition & machine learning: https://t.co/3tOOHA8Dan #ML #Insights https://t.co/XiPYZvCrXl
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Christopher Bishop

Christopher Bishop

Christopher Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, UK. He is also Professor of Comput…

@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).

@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.

@j2bryson shared
On Mar 3, 2019
RT @FrankPasquale: “Microsoft Corp. and Salesforce have already hired ethicists to vet data-sorting AI algorithms for racial bias, gender bias and other unintended consequences” https://t.co/q2v6MelQ2J
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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.

@j2bryson shared
On Mar 3, 2019
RT @FrankPasquale: “Microsoft Corp. and Salesforce have already hired ethicists to vet data-sorting AI algorithms for racial bias, gender bias and other unintended consequences” https://t.co/q2v6MelQ2J
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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.

@engadget shared
On Mar 3, 2019
MIT's Mini Cheetah robot knows how to do backflips https://t.co/mXMWesxwXF
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MIT's Mini Cheetah robot knows how to do backflips

MIT's new Mini Cheetah robot is apparently the first four-legged machine to do backflips.

@engadget shared
On Mar 3, 2019
MIT's Mini Cheetah robot knows how to do backflips https://t.co/mXMWesxwXF
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MIT's Mini Cheetah robot knows how to do backflips

MIT's Mini Cheetah robot knows how to do backflips

MIT's new Mini Cheetah robot is apparently the first four-legged machine to do backflips.

@vkhosla shared
On Mar 7, 2019
RT @reidhoffman: What is the single most important step the tech community can take to instill trust in artificial intelligence? It's important to significantly fund research and development on A.I. safety — to contain risks and maximize positive outcomes for humanity. https://t.co/qKVeOj9XUf
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Business Leaders Set the A.I. Agenda

Eighteen leaders offer answers to questions about issues of trust, retraining and the future of work.

@vkhosla shared
On Mar 7, 2019
RT @reidhoffman: What is the single most important step the tech community can take to instill trust in artificial intelligence? It's important to significantly fund research and development on A.I. safety — to contain risks and maximize positive outcomes for humanity. https://t.co/qKVeOj9XUf
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Business Leaders Set the A.I. Agenda

Business Leaders Set the A.I. Agenda

Eighteen leaders offer answers to questions about issues of trust, retraining and the future of work.

@sciam shared
On Mar 5, 2019
For the second time, doctors appear to have put HIV into “sustained remission” with a stem cell transplant—effectively curing the recipient. https://t.co/Tdkxq98Gso
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A Second Person Has Been Effectively "Cured" of HIV

10 years after the so-called “Berlin Patient,” a second man has been put into sustained remission

@sciam shared
On Mar 5, 2019
For the second time, doctors appear to have put HIV into “sustained remission” with a stem cell transplant—effectively curing the recipient. https://t.co/Tdkxq98Gso
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A Second Person Has Been Effectively "Cured" of HIV

A Second Person Has Been Effectively "Cured" of HIV

10 years after the so-called “Berlin Patient,” a second man has been put into sustained remission

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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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Together, towards a world full of robots.

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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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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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WIRED is where tomorrow is realized.

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Senior editor at @IEEESpectrum covering robots, drones, AI. @MIT_Sciwrite alum. Engineer turned writer. Husband. Dad. Made in Brazil. [email protected]

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Contributing editor at @IEEESpectrum. I hug robots. [email protected]

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Market Intelligence for the Global Robotics Industry. Breaking News, Research, Analysis, Financial Transactions, and more!

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Singularity University’s global community empowers leaders to leverage exponential technologies to solve global grand challenges. For tech news: @SingularityHub

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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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Robotics + AI Researcher. Assistant Professor at @CUBoulder @CUEngineering working on Human-robot Collaboration, Explainable AI, Interpretable Machine Learning

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Engadget is the original home for technology news and reviews. https://t.co/6NnXn9BWso

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entrepreneurship zealot, grounded technology possibilist, believer in the power of ideas

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Awesome discoveries. Expert insights. Science that shapes the world.

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I write about mechanical brains for MIT Tech Review. Email: [email protected]

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Robotiq frees human hands from repetitive tasks. Our tools and know-how simplify collaborative robot applications, so factories can start production faster.

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Former Detroiter, Husband, Father, Grand Pa, Veteran, Think Scientifically #BlockedbyTrump

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Professor at Berkeley, Founder https://t.co/tUpn7hGJie and https://t.co/tXNm31byIK

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Director Contextual Robotics Institute, UC San Diego, Professor of Computer Science, Coordinator of Robotics-VO, Photographer, Foodie, Explorer, ...

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Love modular & educational robots. I run @Aptomica that will rent out robotics, stay tuned! Host of video show @Robotsindepth. Also @RobotsUpClose @AMA_Robotics

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