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Monthly report: September 2018

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 78 influencers like Joanna J Bryson and Miles Brundage, discussing hashtags such as #ai , #emnlp2018 and #CIG17.
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@ylecun shared
On Sep 21, 2018
RT @GuillaumeLample: We just received the best paper award at #emnlp2018 for our work on unsupervised machine translation !! @alex_conneau @LudovicDenoyer Paper: https://t.co/B9lnhw0T4H Code: https://t.co/db7QlysCRH Blog: https://t.co/BAMuARBmEc https://t.co/YYEoqWtGXO
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Unsupervised machine translation: A novel approach to provide fast, accurate translations for more languages

code.fb.com

Automatic language translation is important to Facebook as a way to allow the billions of people who use our services to connect and communicate in their preferred language. To do this well, curren…

@ylecun shared
On Sep 21, 2018
RT @GuillaumeLample: We just received the best paper award at #emnlp2018 for our work on unsupervised machine translation !! @alex_conneau @LudovicDenoyer Paper: https://t.co/B9lnhw0T4H Code: https://t.co/db7QlysCRH Blog: https://t.co/BAMuARBmEc https://t.co/YYEoqWtGXO
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Unsupervised machine translation: A novel approach to provide fast, accurate translations for more languages

Unsupervised machine translation: A novel approach to provide fast, accurate translations for more languages

Automatic language translation is important to Facebook as a way to allow the billions of people who use our services to connect and communicate in their preferred language. To do this ...

@IEEESpectrum shared
On Sep 26, 2018
On display at DARPA’s anniversary conference were a self-guiding bullet, a solar cell made of spray paint, and a surveillance device that resembles a hummingbird. https://t.co/xEDDIheLQX
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60 Years of DARPA's Favorite Toys

spectrum.ieee.org

The past and future of cutting-edge technology was on display at DARPA's 60th anniversary conference

@IEEESpectrum shared
On Sep 26, 2018
On display at DARPA’s anniversary conference were a self-guiding bullet, a solar cell made of spray paint, and a surveillance device that resembles a hummingbird. https://t.co/xEDDIheLQX
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60 Years of DARPA's Favorite Toys

60 Years of DARPA's Favorite Toys

The past and future of cutting-edge technology was on display at DARPA's 60th anniversary conference

@j2bryson shared
On Sep 7, 2018
RT @georgejoseph94: SCOOP: With secret access to NYPD CCTV @IBM created software which tags people based on their skin tone + hair/clothing color. IBM gave NYPD access, then pitched them on a new AI product which identifies people on camera as "Black," "White," and "Asian": https://t.co/4HuhciGhJL https://t.co/tRKEK4Xwtg
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IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color

theintercept.com

New York City served as IBM’s “primary testing area” for developing software that enables police to search surveillance video footage for skin color.

@j2bryson shared
On Sep 7, 2018
RT @georgejoseph94: SCOOP: With secret access to NYPD CCTV @IBM created software which tags people based on their skin tone + hair/clothing color. IBM gave NYPD access, then pitched them on a new AI product which identifies people on camera as "Black," "White," and "Asian": https://t.co/4HuhciGhJL https://t.co/tRKEK4Xwtg
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IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color

IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color

New York City served as IBM’s “primary testing area” for developing software that enables police to search surveillance video footage for skin color.

@Miles_Brundage shared
On Sep 27, 2018
RT @v_maini: Excited to share our new blog on AI safety: "Building safe artificial intelligence: specification, robustness, and assurance" https://t.co/KwMVyMXyxy Let's think long term, plan ahead, and stay ahead. :)
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Building safe artificial intelligence: specification, robustness, and assurance

medium.com

By Pedro A. Ortega, Vishal Maini, and the DeepMind safety team

@Miles_Brundage shared
On Sep 27, 2018
RT @v_maini: Excited to share our new blog on AI safety: "Building safe artificial intelligence: specification, robustness, and assurance" https://t.co/KwMVyMXyxy Let's think long term, plan ahead, and stay ahead. :)
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Building safe artificial intelligence: specification, robustness, and assurance

Building safe artificial intelligence: specification, robustness, and assurance

By Pedro A. Ortega, Vishal Maini, and the DeepMind safety team

@Miles_Brundage shared
On May 7, 2018
RT @math_rachel: Part 2 https://t.co/ktYtgBpxGr MOOC is here! Learn: multi-object detection how to read academic papers NLP transfer learning neural translation customizing resnet architectures GANs, WGAN, & CycleGAN data ethics super resolution image segmentation & more https://t.co/h2ECc9oGV2
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Making neural nets uncool again

www.fast.ai

This means that our course is unusual in that although it’s designed to be accessible with minimal prerequisites (just high school math and a year of coding experience) we show how to match or better SoTA approaches in computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), time series and ...

@Miles_Brundage shared
On May 7, 2018
RT @math_rachel: Part 2 https://t.co/ktYtgBpxGr MOOC is here! Learn: multi-object detection how to read academic papers NLP transfer learning neural translation customizing resnet architectures GANs, WGAN, & CycleGAN data ethics super resolution image segmentation & more https://t.co/h2ECc9oGV2
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Making neural nets uncool again

Making neural nets uncool again

This means that our course is unusual in that although it’s designed to be accessible with minimal prerequisites (just high school math and a year of coding experience) we show how to match ...

@pabbeel shared
On May 16, 2018
AI progress is largely driven by data + compute + human ingenuity. A look at the increasing amount of compute in AI over recent years by Dario Amodei and @Hernandez_Danny from @OpenAI https://t.co/GPd5G12vBW
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AI and Compute

blog.openai.com

Since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.5 month doubling time (by comparison, Moore's Law had an 18 month doubling period).

@pabbeel shared
On May 16, 2018
AI progress is largely driven by data + compute + human ingenuity. A look at the increasing amount of compute in AI over recent years by Dario Amodei and @Hernandez_Danny from @OpenAI https://t.co/GPd5G12vBW
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AI and Compute

AI and Compute

Since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.5 month doubling time (by comparison, Moore's Law had an 18 month doubling ...

@RobotLaunch shared
On Sep 6, 2018
svrobo: On August 30, the State of California unanimously adopted legislation in support of the Future of Life Institute’s Asilomar AI Principles. https://t.co/a0M8yZzdsn https://t.co/R6hqcq2FWj
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State of California Endorses Asilomar AI Principles

futureoflife.org

On August 30, the State of California unanimously adopted legislation in support of the Future of Life Institute’s Asilomar AI Principles. The Asilomar AI Principles are a set of 23 principles intended to promote the safe and beneficial development of artificial intelligence.

@RobotLaunch shared
On Sep 6, 2018
svrobo: On August 30, the State of California unanimously adopted legislation in support of the Future of Life Institute’s Asilomar AI Principles. https://t.co/a0M8yZzdsn https://t.co/R6hqcq2FWj
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State of California Endorses Asilomar AI Principles

State of California Endorses Asilomar AI Principles

On August 30, the State of California unanimously adopted legislation in support of the Future of Life Institute’s Asilomar AI Principles. The Asilomar AI Principles are a set of 23 ...

@j2bryson shared
On Sep 22, 2018
A couple months old, but this looks like quite a sensible account of the future of work #jobs #ai #aiethics https://t.co/Nrs0sTs4nw
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Facing the Future of Work

foreignpolicy.com

How to adapt to robots, AI, trade wars, and an aging world.

@j2bryson shared
On Sep 22, 2018
A couple months old, but this looks like quite a sensible account of the future of work #jobs #ai #aiethics https://t.co/Nrs0sTs4nw
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Facing the Future of Work

Facing the Future of Work

How to adapt to robots, AI, trade wars, and an aging world.

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Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Cognition, Culture, & Society; AI Ethics, Safety, & Policy. Vaguely professional tweets—for more: @j2blather; fewer: @j2breve

Follow 11.3k Followers

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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 12.2k Followers

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

Follow 14.8k Followers

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Follow 93.2k Followers

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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]

Follow 6.7k Followers

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The latest technology news and analysis from world's leading engineering magazine.

Follow 128.7k Followers

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Director of AI at Tesla. Previously a Research Scientist at OpenAI, and CS PhD student at Stanford. I like to train Deep Neural Nets on large datasets.

Follow 141.5k Followers

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OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company, discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence. We're hiring: https://t.co/XxM7UoAwz9

Follow 255.0k Followers

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Postdoc, @BiDlab/@UCBerkeley EECS. Fellow, @UCBIDS. EECS PhD, @MIT_CSAIL. Past and future pug owner.

Follow 3.5k Followers

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Supporting the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies in Silicon Valley.

Follow 9.8k Followers

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R&D Leader | Board Director | Scientist | Business Owner | Disruptive Tech | Founder Women in Robotics AU | MBA | PhD Earth Sciences #superstarsofSTEM

Follow 661.0 Followers

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Bringing robots into the real world, startup by startup, event by event, deal by deal. @svrobo @robogard @robohub #robotlaunch

Follow 10.4k Followers

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Prof (CS @Stanford), Director (Stanford AI Lab), Chief Scientist AI/ML (Google Cloud), CoFounder/Chair @ai4allorg, Researcher #AI #computervision #ML cogneuro

Follow 279.6k Followers

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