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When humanity meets A.I.
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Machine learning is making pesto even more delicious
MIT Technology Review
What makes basil so good? In some cases, it’s AI. Machine learning has been used to create basil plants that are extra-delicious. While we sadly cannot report firsthand on the herb’s taste, the effort reflects a broader trend that involves using data science and machine learning to improve agriculture. The researchers behind the AI-optimized basil used…
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When AI steers tractors: How farmers are using drones and data to cut costs
Forbes
Hummingbird Technologies turns pictures of fields into instructions for tractors, and says it can cut farming costs by as much as 10%.
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How India’s data labellers are powering the global AI race
Factor Daily
As the first generation of such work that was mainly crowdsourced gave way to more advanced requirements, companies such as Infolks, iMerit and Playment have come up catering to global clients and making India an emerging hub for data labelling and annotation work.
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Revolutionizing IoT through AI: why they’re perfect together
IoT for All
IoT For All is a leading technology media platform dedicated to providing the highest-quality, unbiased content, resources, and news centered on the Internet of Things and related disciplines.
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Intel: New chip materials will enable massive AI research gains
Venture Beat
Intel VP and CTO of AI products Amir Khosrowshahi and general manager of IoT Jonathan Ballon shared thoughts about AI at VentureBeat's Transform conference.
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The AI chip landscape in 2019
ARK Invest
With competition heating up in the AI chip market, ARK was invited to present on the state of AI hardware at CogX 2019. The summary is here.
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A style-based generator architecture for generative adversarial networks
YouTube - Tero Karras FI
Paper (PDF):http://stylegan.xyz/paperAuthors:Tero Karras (NVIDIA)Samuli Laine (NVIDIA)Timo Aila (NVIDIA)Abstract:We propose an alternative generator architec...
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[DataGrid] Model generation AI
Youtube - 株式会社データグリッド
ディープラーニングを応用したGAN(敵対的生成ネットワーク)により、従来困難だった高解像度(1024×1024)の「実在しない」人物の全身画像生成に成功。We have succeeded in generating high-resolution (1024×1024) images of whole-body...
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10 Companies using machine learning in cool ways
Medium
If science-fiction movies have taught us anything, it’s that the future is a bleak and terrifying dystopia ruled by murderous sentient robots. Fortunately, only one of these things is true — but that…
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Automated machine learning and the democratization of insights
Deloitte
The predictive insights organizations can gain from the oceans of data they generate are currently limited by the availability of experts who can crunch this data. Automation may change that.
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Inside the artificial intelligence revolution: A special report, Pt. 1
Rolling Stone
An in-depth report on Artificial Intelligence: Are we on the verge of creating a new life-form – or something much darker?
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Inside the artificial intelligence revolution: A special report, Pt. 2
Rolling Stone
Part two of our in-depth report on artificial intelligence, which looks at self-driving cars, and war and surgery outsourced to robots.
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Silicon Valley looks to artificial intelligence for the next big thing
New York Times
Tech’s new architecture melds large computing clouds and artificial intelligence to create efficient computing resources and data-based businesses.
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How Google plans to solve artificial intelligence
Technology Review
Padded walls, gloomy lighting, and a ceiling with floral wallpaper. It doesn’t look like a place to make groundbreaking discoveries that change the trajectory of society. But in these simulated, claustrophobic corridors, Demis Hassabis thinks he can lay the foundations for software that’s smart enough to solve humanity’s biggest problems. “Our goal’s very big,” says…
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How AI is feeding China’s internet dragon
Technology Review
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-­looking little dog. As I chatted with one of Baidu’s AI researchers, the version of me shown on his smartphone had sprouted a very realistic-looking wet snout, fluffy…
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The wrong cognitive measuring stick
Slate
In 1950, the brilliant mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing began his seminal paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” with a simple query:...
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Ethics and artificialintelligence: The moral compass of a machine
Recode
The question of robotic ethics is making everyone tense.
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Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's wild plan to set artificial intelligence free
Wired
OpenAI wants to give away the 21st century's most transformative technology. In the process, it could remake the way people make tech.
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No industry can afford to ignore artificial intelligence
MIT Technology Review
Sixty years ago this summer, four computer science professors established a summer project aimed at creating “artificial intelligence”—the first time this phrase was ever used. The hope was to figure out how to make machines use language and perform abstract thought. “We think that a significant advance can be made if a carefully selected group…
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Podcast: Innovation vs. invention at Google I/O
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Sam Harris on AI (from Joe Rogan Experience #804)
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The rise of self-learning software
Recode
I predict that in 10 years, every new enterprise application will be self-learning at its core.
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How science can help us make AI less creepy and more trustworthy
The Conversation
The rise of online 'chatbots' shows how artificial intelligence is becoming a part of daily life. But how do you stop them talking like a really bad PA?
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Will machines eliminate us?
MIT Technology Review
Yoshua Bengio leads one of the world’s preëminent research groups developing a powerful AI technique known as deep learning. The startling capabilities that deep learning has given computers in recent years, from human-level voice recognition and image classification to basic conversational skills, have prompted warnings about the progress AI is making toward matching, or perhaps…
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AI wants to be your bro, not your foe
MIT Technology Review
The odds that artificial intelligence will enslave or eliminate humankind within the next decade or so are thankfully slim. So concludes a major report from Stanford University on the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence. At the same time, however, the report concludes that AI looks certain to upend huge aspects of everyday life,…
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Is Artificial Intelligence permanently inscrutable?
Nautilus
Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. We deliver big-picture science by reporting on a single monthly topic from multiple perspectives. Read a new chapter in the story every Thursday.
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2016 Report
AI100
Welcome to the 2016 Report Download Full Report in PDF Browse report online by clicking on section headings in the ‘2016 Report' box to the left.
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Artificial intelligence software is booming. But why now?
New York Times
As G.E., Oracle, Salesforce.com and others push their A.I. products, it remains unclear whether potential customers understand how they will profit.
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Creative blocks
Aeon
The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible. What’s holding us up?
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IBM Watson CTO: Quantum computing could advance artificial intelligence by orders of magnitude
International Business Times
CTO of IBM Watson speaks of \'natural synergy\' between cognitive computing and quantum computing.
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Demystifying AI, ML, DL with Vishal Sikka and real world examples
Diginomics
Demystifying the marketing hype around AI is critically important to the understanding and setting of expectations of this rapidly changing field. Vishal Sikka is uniquely qualified to both discuss an shape the conversations on this topic.
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President Barack Obama on what AI means for National Security
YouTube - Wired
WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss the challenges of cyber security in ...
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President Barack Obama on how artificial intelligence will affect jobs
YouTube - Wired
WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss how artificial intelligence might up...
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There is a blind spot in AI research
Nature
Fears about the future impacts of artificial intelligence are distracting researchers from the real risks of deployed systems, argue Kate Crawford and Ryan Calo.
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Conscious exotica
Aeon
From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own?
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Artificial Intelligence: Are we engineering our own obsolescence?
Intelligence Squared
Want to join the debate? Check out the Intelligence Squared website to hear about future live events and podcasts: http://www.intelligencesquared.com _______...
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The state of Artificial Intelligence: Andrew Moore, Stuart Russell.
World Economic Forum
How close are technologies to simulating or overtaking human intelligence and what are the implications for industry and society?Speakers:-Matthew Grob, Exec...
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Probabilistic Computing takes Artificial Intelligence to the next step
Intel
By Dr. Michael Mayberry The potential impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has never been greater — but we’ll only be successful if AI can deliver
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DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
Deepmind


Today at BlizzCon 2016 in Anaheim, California, we announced our collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment to open up StarCraft II to AI and Machine Learning researchers around the world.

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The ethics of artificial intelligence
O'Reilly
A framework for thinking about AI.
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Types of AI
Futurism
Computing advances have fueled the evolution of AI. Here's a look at the 4 types of artificial intelligence.
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Global ethics forum: The pros, cons, and ethical dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence
YouTube - Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
From driverless cars to lethal autonomous weapons, artificial intelligence will soon confront societies with new and complex ethical challenges, says Yale's ...
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How Japan's radically different approach to AI could lead to wild new tech
Time
Honda's "emotionally intelligent" NeuV car highlights Japan's unique philosophy regarding artificial intelligence.
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The great A.I. awakening
New York Times
How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.
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We will soon be able to read minds and share our thoughts
New Scientist
EEG caps that monitor brain activity are allowing us to send thoughts to each other directly – a technology that could help people who are paralysed regain movement
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Abusing Dolores
Sam Harris
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Paul Bloom about empathy, meditation studies, morality, AI, Westworld, Donald Trump, free will, rationality, conspiracy thinking, and other topics.
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Can we balance human ethics with artificial intelligence?
Techonomy
You are driving along and your car's brakes suddenly fail. If it swerves to the left, three old men and two elderly women will die. If the...
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Google's AI has learned to become "Highly Aggressive" in stressful situations
Science Alert

We've all seen the Terminator movies, and the apocalyptic nightmare that the self-aware AI system, Skynet, wrought upon humanity.
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How artificial intelligence will change everything
Wall Street Journal
Baidu’s Andrew Ng and Singularity’s Neil Jacobstein say this time, the hype about artificial intelligence is real.
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Elon Musk Nick Bostrom Ray Kurzweil Superintelligence
YouTube - FiveSenseReality
Elon Musk and other panellists talk AI and answer the question: “If we succeed in building human-level Artificial general intelligence (AGI), then what are t...
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Wiki bots that feud for years highlight the troubled future of AI
Seeker
The behavior of bots is often unpredictable and sometimes leads them to produce errors over and over again in a potentially infinite feedback loop.
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Can AI ever be as curious as humans?
Harvard Business Review
We can’t program “aha” moments.
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A.I. is progressing faster than you think!
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Was hacked, I'll have to rewrite this later. Sources: https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cxcnOk...
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The dark secret at the heart of AI
MIT Technology Review
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors, and it showed the rising power of artificial…
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Google’s DeepMind is teaching AI how to think like a human
Vice - Motherboard
If we’re ever going to create general AI, we need to teach it to think like us.
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The real threat of artificial intelligence
New York Times
It’s not robot overlords. It’s economic inequality and a new global order.
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If you think AI is terrifying wait until it has a quantum computer brain
The Next Web
The next major advancement in quantum computing is, of course, artificial intelligence. A startup recently created a quantum machine learning algorithm.
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Truly creative A.I. is just around the corner. Here’s why that’s a big deal
Digital Trends
The issue of whether A.I. can be creative is actually among the field's most important questions. Here's why.
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28 ways artificial intelligence will affect your business and life in 2018
Huffington Post
By Katie Lundin, Customer Service Wonder Gal at crowdspring
Like it or not, the machines are claiming new territory.
And by “machines” I mea...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai compares impact of AI to electricity and fire
The Verge
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at a taped television event hosted by MSNBC and The Verge’s sister site Recode, said artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things that humanity is...
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Machines teaching each other could be the biggest exponential trend in AI
SingularityHub
Intelligent systems, like those powered by the latest round of machine learning software, aren’t just getting smarter: they’re getting smarter faster. What we might call “machine teaching”—when devices communicate gained knowledge to one another—is a radical step up in the speed at which these systems improve.
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Cooperating with machines
Nature
Since Alan Turing envisioned artificial intelligence, technical progress has often been measured by the ability to defeat humans in zero-sum encounters (e.g., Chess, Poker, or Go). Less attention has been given to scenarios in which human–machine cooperation is beneficial but non-trivial, such as scenarios in which human and machine preferences are neither fully aligned nor fully in conflict. Co
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The long-term future of AI(and what we can do about it)
YouTube - TED
Daniel Dewey is a research fellow in the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxfor...
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Robet sociopaths: playing devil's advocate with Steven Pinker on the dangers of artificial intelligence
Voice and Exit
By Max Borders To explore the implications of artificial intelligence, register for the Voice & Exit experience. Should you be afraid of the robot apocalypse? (I don’t mean...
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This computer uses light—not electricity—to train AI algorithms
Wired
Startup Fathom Computing thinks optical computing can extend the gains of Moore's Law and light the way to the future of artificial intelligence.
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Good news: A.I. is getting cheaper. That’s also bad news.
New York Times
The building blocks of artificial intelligence are becoming more affordable and easier to work with. A new report explains why that opens the door to additional risks.
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Artificial intelligence and blockchain: 3 major benefits of combining these two mega-trends
Forbes
Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two of the biggest technology trends of our time. Here we look at what would happen when you combine these two megatrends. We explore 3 major benefits that could be gained from blending AI and blockchain technology.
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The malicious use of artificial intelligence: Forecasting, prevention, and mitigation
EFF
In the coming decades, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies are going to transform many aspects of our world. Much of this change will be positive; the potential for benefits in areas as diverse as health, transportation and urban planning, art, science, and cross-cultural...
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New malicious AI report outlines biggest threats of the next 5 years
Singularity Hub
Somewhere between the excessively hyped prospects of AI that will do everything for us and AI that will destroy the world lies reality: a complex, ever-changing set of risks and rewards. A new report looks at potentially malicious uses of AI in the next five years.
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AI has a hallucination problem that's proving tough to fix
Wired
Machine learning systems, like those used in self-driving cars, can be tricked into seeing objects that don't exist. Defenses proposed by Google, Amazon, and others are vulnerable too.
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AI will eclipse Moore’s Law as a driver of tech innovation.
Medium
Artificial intelligence will have a bigger impact than Moore’s Law, the dynamic relationship that drove the tech industry to today’s gargantuan scale. But ultimately, the value AI creates will be…
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Asking the right questions about AI
Medium
In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles will…
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Neuroevolution will push AI development to the next level
Information Week
Next up for developing artificial intelligence systems is automated neural-net architecture search.
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One machine to rule them all: A ‘Master Algorithm’ may emerge sooner than you think
The Next Web
Will robots dream in ones and zeros? Can they appreciate a rose by any other name? Perhaps a new class calculus will provide us with those answers, and machines with consciousness.
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4 obstacles to ethical AI (and how to address them)
HPE
Data bias, opacity, data monopoly, and job loss are issues that plague the field of artificial intelligence. Here are some simple solutions to these problems.
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Powering AI: The explosion of new AI hardware accelerators
Info World
Specialized hardware platforms are the future of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning at every tier and for every task in the cloud-to-edge world in which we will live
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Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games
MIT Technology Review
With all the excitement over neural networks and deep-learning techniques, it’s easy to imagine that the world of computer science consists of little else. Neural networks, after all, have begun to outperform humans in tasks such as object and face recognition and in games such as chess, Go, and various arcade video games. These networks…
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The deep-learning revolution: How understanding the brain will let us supercharge AI
Tech Republic
Terry Sejnowski, one of the fathers of the field of deep learning, on what's next in the machine-learning revolution.
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Preserving outputs precisely while adaptively rescaling targets
Deepmind
Multi-task learning - allowing a single agent to learn how to solve many different tasks - is a longstanding objective for artificial intelligence research. Recently, there has been a lot of excellent progress, with agents like DQN able to use the same algorithm to learn to play multiple games including Breakout and Pong. These algorithms were used to train individual expert agents for each
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Artificial intelligence system uses transparent, human-like reasoning to solve problems
MIT
Artificial intelligence model from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Intelligence and Decision Technologies Group sets a new standard for understanding how a neural network makes decisions.
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Building safe artificial intelligence: specification, robustness, and assurance
Medium
In this inaugural post, we discuss three areas of technical AI safety: specification, robustness, and assurance.
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DARPA wants to build ‘contextual’ AI that understands the world
Venture Beat
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a pioneer in AI. At VB Summit 2018, Dr. Brian Pierce, director of its Innovation Office, spoke about ongoing efforts.
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Awful AI
GitHub
?Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness - daviddao/awful-ai
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Fei-Fei Li's quest to make AI better for Humanity
Wired
AI has a problem: The biases of its creators are getting hard-coded into its future. Fei-Fei Li has a plan to fix that—by rebooting the field she helped invent.
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The genius neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
Wired
Karl Friston’s free energy principle might be the most all-encompassing idea since Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. But to understand it, you need to peer inside the mind of Friston himself.
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A skeptic’s guide to thinking about AI
Fast Company
This week, at the research institute AI Now‘s annual symposium, experts debated some of the most critical issues in society through the lens of AI. The event brought together law and politics…
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Neuromorphic computing is a big deal for A.I., but what is it?
YouTube - Seeker
Engineering computers to work like brains could revolutionize technology as we know it. Here’s everything you need to know about neuromorphic computing.Get 2...
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Cognitive computing: More human than artificial intelligence
Interesting Engineering
Cognitive computing may sound like just another form of AI, but this sophisticated computing platform is fundamentally different—and much more powerful.
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The rise of a new generation of AI avatars
Singularity Hub
We’re close to building Earth’s “avatar layer”—where millions of lifelike avatars fill the world around us, connecting businesses to customers in new ways.
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Numenta publishes breakthrough theory for intelligence and cortical computation
Eurekalert
Numenta researchers propose a broad framework for understanding what the neocortex does and how it works. 'The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence' proposes that every part of the neocortex learns complete models of objects and concepts, rather than learning one model of the world.
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AlphaStar: The inside story
YouTube - DeepMind
In recent years, StarCraft, considered to be one of the most challenging Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games and one of the longest-played esports of all time, ha...
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StarCraft is a deep, complicated war strategy game. Google’s AlphaStar AI crushed it.
Vox
DeepMind has conquered chess and Go and moved on to complex real-time games. Now it’s beating pro gamers 10-1.
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Kai-Fu Lee presents the era of AI
YouTube - Upfront Ventures
Kai-Fu Lee discusses the rapid progress of artificial intelligence in China and the implications this has on the present and the future.
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AI experts are studying the way that kids' brains develop, and it could be a game-changer for the technology
Business insider
Researchers are looking more closely at how kids learn to improve artificial intelligence systems
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Episode 85: A conversation with Ilya Sutskever
VoiceInAI
In this episode, Byron and Ilya Sutskever of Open AI talk about the future of general intelligence and the ramifications of building a computer smarter than us.
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Confronting the risks of artificial intelligence
McKinsey & Company
Organizations can mitigate advanced-analytics and AI risks by embracing three principles.
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Will artificial intelligence enhance or hack humanity?
Wired
Historian Yuval Noah Harari and computer scientist Fei-Fei Li discuss the promise and perils of the transformative technology with WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson.
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The AI sharecroppers
Axios
The people who affix labels to data so computers can understand what it is.
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Artificial Intelligence in China with Jeffrey Ding
ARK Invest
On episode 23 of ARK's For Your Innovation podcast, Jeffrey Ding, creator of the ChinAI newsletter, joins to talk about AI in China.
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The human pursuit of artificial intelligence
Youtube - TEDx - Thore Graepel
What is intelligence? And how can we create it in machines? Thore Graepel takes us inside the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and reveals its potential...
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Half of organisations have incorporated ethics into AI strategy
Techerati
A new IDC report has shed light on the importance of ethics to the AI strategies of organisations as they ramp up their use of the technology.
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Darkest Before The Dawn: AI research will go "dark" just before the singularity
Reddit
26 votes, 15 comments. AI research labs are slowly becoming dark. This is something OpenAI has mentioned it might do and is now playing with partial …
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Google’s new ‘Data Echoing’ technique reduces the time required for AI training
NBPostGazette
The artificial intelligence research wing of Google, Google Brain, has suggested a new procedure to enhance the speed of AI training. In a paper release
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Hybrid chip paves way for ‘thinking machines’
Asia Times
Chinese researchers have developed a hybrid chip architecture that could move the world a step closer to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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The brain inspires a new type of artificial intelligence
EurekAlert
Using advanced experiments on neuronal cultures and large scale simulations, scientists at Bar-Ilan University have demonstrated a new type of ultrafast artifical intelligence algorithms -- based on the very slow brain dynamics -- which outperform learning rates achieved to date by state-of-the-art learning algorithms.

In an article in Scientific Reports, the researchers rebuild the bridge
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Cheat sheets for AI, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Big Data
Becoming Human
Over the past few months, I have been collecting AI cheat sheets. From time to time I share them with friends and colleagues and recently I have been getting asked a lot, so I decided to organize and…
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The AI chip landscape in 2019
ARK invest
With competition heating up in the AI chip market, ARK was invited to present on the state of AI hardware at CogX 2019. The summary is here.
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AI and Compute
OpenAI
We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.4-month doubling time (by comparison, Moore’s Law had a 2-year doubling period).
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The danger of AI is weirder than you think
Youtube - TED
Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more.The danger of artificial i...
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AI R&D is booming, but general intelligence is still out of reach
The Verge
The 2019 AI Index report gives us a clear look at the world of artificial intelligence, with data points related to investment, research, and interest from around the world. What it also reminds us is that, despite the hype, AI’s ability is still limited in a number of important ways.
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2010 – 2019: The rise of deep learning
The Next Web
No other technology was more important over the past decade than artificial intelligence. Stanford’s Andrew Ng called it the new electricity, and both Microsoft and Google changed their business strategies to become “AI-first” companies. In
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EUV: Lasers, plasma, and the sci-fi tech that will make chips faster
Engadget
Microchips are one of the most complicated objects humanity has created, packing billions of transistors into a chip only a few centimeters across. These tra...
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Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier
IEEE
Computers using Cerebras’s chip will train these AI systems in hours instead of weeks
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Samsung's new Neon project is finally unveiled: It's a humanoid AI chatbot
CNET
These realistic chatbots aren't meant to replace humans but "to make us more human." Just don't ask them for the weather forecast.
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The duture of AI depends on Asia
The Diplomat
Recent geopolitical, economic and epidemic shocks in Asia reveal the real value of the region in the global economy and its future impact on world’s technological development.
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7 type of Artificial intelligence
Brainstorming box
There are several types of artificial intelligence which have been developed and helping humans in a various range of activities.
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Google open-sources framework that reduces AI training costs by up to 80%
VentureBeat
Google recently open-sourced SEED RL, a framework that scales AI model training across thousands of machines while reducing costs.
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The Cost of AI training is improving at 50x the speed of Moore’s Law: Why it’s still early days for AI
ARK Invest
Based on the pace of AI training cost declines, AI is in very early days. ARK believes AI will scale from $1 trillion to $30 trillion by 2037.
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Physics-enhanced neural networks learn order and chaos
APS Physics
Artificial neural networks are universal function approximators. They can forecast dynamics, but they may need impractically many neurons to do so, especially if the dynamics is chaotic. We use neural networks that incorporate Hamiltonian dynamics to efficiently learn phase space orbits even as nonlinear systems transition from order to chaos. We demonstrate Hamiltonian neural networks on a widely
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The ‘Android Of Self-Driving Cars’ built a 100,000X cheaper way to train AI for multiple trillion-dollar markets
Forbes
How do you beat Tesla, Google, Uber and the entire multi-trillion dollar automotive industry to a full self-driving car?
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Machines can learn unsupervised 'at speed of light' after AI breakthrough, scientists say
Independent
Performance of photon-based neural network processor is 100-times higher than electrical processor
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OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
Technology Review
“Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco–based developer and artist, tweeted last week. That pretty much sums up the response on social media in the last few days to OpenAI’s latest language-generating AI.   OpenAI first described GPT-3 in a research paper published in May. But last week it…
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Google’s TF-Coder tool automates machine learning model design
VentureBeat
Google researchers developed a tool, TF-Coder, that automates the process of developing AI and machine learning models in TensorFlow.
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A new Brain-Inspired learning method for AI saves memory and energy
SingularityHub
Rather than processing big batches of data at once, the approach simply learns from data as it becomes available, cutting the required memory and energy.
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Neurosymbolic AI to give us machines with true common sense
Medium
Machines with common sense, which rely on an emerging AI technique known as neurosymbolic AI, could greatly increase the value of AI for businesses and society at large.
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The fourth generation of AI is here, and it’s called ‘Artificial Intuition’
TheNextWeb
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most powerful technologies ever developed, but it’s not nearly as new as you might think. In fact, it’s undergone several evolutions since its inception in the 1950s. The first generation of AI was ‘descriptive analytics,’ which answers the question, “What happened?” The second, ‘diagnostic analytics,’ addresses, “Why did […]
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Brain-Inspired electronic system could make Artificial Intelligence 1,000 times more energy efficient
SciTechDaily
Extremely energy-efficient artificial intelligence is now closer to reality after a study by UCL researchers found a way to improve the accuracy of a brain-inspired computing system. The system, which uses memristors to create artificial neural networks, is at least 1,000 times more energy effici
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Artificial Intelligence: A modern approach (4th edition) on the alignment problem
LessWrong
Previously: AGI and Friendly AI in the dominant AI textbook (2011), Stuart
Russell: AI value alignment problem must be an "intrinsic part" of the field's
mainstream agenda (2014)

The 4th edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach came out this
year. While the 3rd edition published in 2009 mentions the Singularity and
existential risk, it's notable how much the 4th edition gives the ali
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A brief history of neural nets and deep learning
SkynetToday
The story of how neural nets evolved from the earliest days of AI to now.
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The future of mobile AI
MIT Technology review
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to expand to power everything from security and facial recognition software to autonomous vehicles and mobile apps. In “Women leading the future of mobile AI,” a video series sponsored by Qualcomm Technologies, MIT Technology Review CEO Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau explores the latest AI advances on software tools, mobile platforms, and algorithmic advancem
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Google AI introduces Menger, a massive large-scale distributed reinforcement learning (RL) infrastructure
MarkTechPost
Google AI Introduces Menger, A Massive Large-Scale Distributed Reinforcement Learning (RL) Infrastructure. Reinforcement learning (RL)
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State of AI report
Dropbox
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!
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The future of AI depends on 9 companies. If they fail, we’re doomed.
TechTalks
In The Big Nine, Amy Webb discusses the consequences of not fixing the broken state of artificial intelligence.
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The next generation of artificial intelligence
Forbes
Five years from now, the field of AI will look very different than it does today.
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IBM's artificial intelligence strategy is fantastic, but AI also cut 30% of its HR workforce
Forbes
IBM CEO, Ginni Rometty is bullish on AI and the positive impact it can have on its employees.
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Artificial Intelligence can now write amazing content -- What does that mean for humans?
Forbes
Written language generation was once thought to be a task humans were uniquely qualified to do. Today, with advances in AI and specifically natural language generation, AI is proving its expertise with all kinds of content types from news reports and social media posts to financial reports.
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An AI frenzy at universities
Axios
They're adding professors, classes and programs, but there is still a massive talent shortage.
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Why every company needs an Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy for 2019
Forbes
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most transformative technology available to businesses today. No matter how big or small, or what sector or industry you are in, your business needs an AI strategy. Here we look at why.
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Amazon's Rekognition software lets cops track faces: Here's what you need to know
CNET
Amazon wants to provide facial recognition software to law enforcement and businesses. We have questions.
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Mastercard braces for retail's AI-fueled future
CIO
Hyperpersonalized and machine-to-machine commerce driven by 5G, IoT and AI will reshape retail as we know it , says Jorn Lambert, the company’s executive vice president of digital solutions.
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Promising artificial intelligence startup ideas for 2020
IT Pro Portal
The most promising AI ideas for startups changing the world.
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Ethics for the ai-enabled warfighter — the human 'warrior-in-the-design'
The Hill
We need a set of principles to guide human warfighters in employing lethal autonomous weapon systems.
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AI systems dealing with human emotions
BBVA Openmind
Can IA replicate the procedures of humane emotions? Keith Darlington analyzes the concept or "artificial emotions" and the latest trends in this field
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When AI needs a human assistant
The Verge
For years, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (or mTurk) has been a kind of open secret in the tech world, a place where AI companies can hire human labor to train their algorithms.
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New radio brings ai voice assistant to law enforcement
Government Technology
Motorola Solutions is touting what it calls the first virtual assistant for law enforcement, available through a new two-way radio that also includes a rugged touchscreen and LTE connectivity.
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North carolina county uses ai for property revaluations
Government Technology
In what is billed as a pilot of the company’s AI technology, SAS worked hand-in-hand with the Wake County, N.C., tax administrator to determine how much every one of the county’s 400,000 properties should be valued.
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How army futures command plans to grow soldiers’ artificial intelligence skills
Defense News
Gen. Mike Murray is pushing three new efforts to drive innovation in the Army.
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Superteams
Deloitte
“Superteams”—groups of people and intelligent machines working together—are the next step in AI’s continuing integration into the world of work.
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How artificial intelligence might save time
Education Week
Teachers: Could you use an extra 13 hours in your work week, or for your personal life? That might be possible in the future, according to a report published last month by McKinsey & Company.
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What AI can learn from parents
The Wall Street Journal
Like raising children, training an artificial intelligence means balancing obedience and independence.
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NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data
Engadget
NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks..
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Will artificial intelligence ever live up to its hype?
Scientific American
Replication problems plague the field of AI, and the goal of general intelligence remains as elusive as ever
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New deep learning method helps robots become jacks-of-all-trades
Singularity Hub
The robot interacts with its environment through a process of trial-and-error and is rewarded for carrying out the correct actions.
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How AI Trading Technology Is Making Stock Market Investors Smarter
Built In
AI trading has had a big influence on the stock market. Check out these 9 trading companies using AI.