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    Artificial Intelligence


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    Learning for Collaboration, Not Competition, with Jakob Foerster

    Jakob Foerster, an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, dives into his work on multi-agent reinforcement learning.
    25 January 2022, by

    How artificial intelligence will transform higher education
    As AI surpasses human abilities in Go and poker – two decades after Deep Blue trounced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov – it is seeping into our lives in ever more profound ways. It affects the wa...
    09 August 2017, by and

    New AI algorithm monitors sleep with radio waves
    More than 50 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders, and diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s can also disrupt sleep. Diagnosing and monitoring these conditions usually requires a...
    09 August 2017, by

    Is AI powered government worth it?
    From the Australian government’s new “data-driven profiling” trial for drug testing welfare recipients, to US law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology and the deployment of propr...
    27 July 2017, by

    Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos
    There are few things social media users love more than flooding their feeds with photos of food. Yet we seldom use these images for much more than a quick scroll on our cellphones. Researchers from MI...
    20 July 2017, by

    Shrinking data for surgical training
    Laparoscopy is a surgical technique in which a fiber-optic camera is inserted into a patient’s abdominal cavity to provide a video feed that guides the surgeon through a minimally invasive procedure...
    21 June 2017, by

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    Talking machines: Graphons and “inferencing”
    In episode two of season three Neil takes us through the basics on dropout, we chat about the definition of inference (It's more about context than you think!) and hear an interview with Jennifer Chay...
    30 May 2017, by

    On the future of human-centered robotics
    Science and technology are essential tools for innovation, and to reap their full potential, we also need to articulate and solve the many aspects of today’s global issues that are rooted in the pol...
    16 May 2017, by

    An AI Primer for mechatronics
    This week I attended an “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roundtable” of leading scientists, entrepreneurs and venture investors. As the discussion focused mainly on basic statistical techniques, I l...
    11 May 2017, by

    What is machine learning?
    In this article, we explain in plain language machine learning....
    10 May 2017, by , and

    Does AI pose a threat to society?
    Last week I had the pleasure of debating the question "does AI pose a threat to society?" with friends and colleagues Christian List, Maja Pantic and Samantha Payne. The event was organised by the B...
    03 May 2017, by

    Hosts of Talking Machines: Neil Lawrence and Ryan Adams
    Talking Machines is entering its third season and going through some changes. Our founding host Ryan is moving on and in his place, Neil Lawrence of Amazon is taking over as co-host. We say thank you ...
    28 April 2017, by

    Machine learning requires careful stewardship says Royal Society
    The many potential social and economic benefits from advances in AI-based technologies depend entirely on the environment in which these technologies evolve, says the Royal Society. According to a new...
    25 April 2017, by

    Explained: Neural networks
    In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google’s latest automatic translator — have resulted from a technique...
    18 April 2017, by

    CSAIL launches artificial intelligence initiative with industry
    From self-driving cars to the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI) has reached new levels of sophistication in recent years. With that in mind, this week MIT’s Computer Science and Artif...
    12 April 2017, by

    Robot’s Delight: Japanese robots rap about their artificial intelligence
    "Robot’s Delight - A Lyrical Exposition on Learning by Imitation from Human-Human Interaction" is a video submission that won Best Video at the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot...
    28 March 2017, by

    Baidu loses A.I. star Andrew Ng
    In a surprise move which shook Baidu's stock, Andrew Ng, Baidu's Chief Scientist and partner with Baidu's founder Robin Li Yanhong in expanding Baidu's AI activities into machine learning, driverless ...
    23 March 2017, by

    Bosch and Nvidia partner to develop AI for self-driving cars
    Amongst all the activity in autonomously driven vehicle joint ventures, new R&D facilities, strategic acquisitions (such as Mobileye being acquired by Intel) and booming startup fundings, two bi...
    17 March 2017, by

    Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?
    Whether an A.I. ought to be granted patent rights is a timely question given the increasing proliferation of A.I. in the workplace. Examples: Daimler-Benz has tested self-driving trucks on public road...
    09 March 2017, by

    Robohub Digest 02/17: Asilomar AI principles, robot tax, drone art and Super Bowl LI
    A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
    06 March 2017, by and

    Artificial intelligence: Utopia or dystopia?
    Artificial intelligence (AI) already plays a major role in human economies and societies, and it will play an even bigger role in the coming years. To ponder the future of AI is thus to acknowledge th...
    02 March 2017, by

    Artificial intelligence: Understanding how machines learn
    From Jeopardy winners and Go masters to infamous advertising-related racial profiling, it would seem we have entered an era in which artificial intelligence developments are rapidly accelerating. But ...
    24 February 2017, by

    At what point should an intelligent machine be considered a person?
    Science fiction likes to depict robots as autonomous machines, capable of making their own decisions and often expressing their own personalities. Yet we also tend to think of robots as property, and ...
    22 February 2017, by

    Legal artificial intelligence: Can it stand up in a court of law?
    In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly mentions what has become known as the “10,000-hour rule”, which states that to become world-class in any field you must devote 10,000 hours of “...
    21 February 2017, by

    Putting data in the hands of doctors
    Computer scientist Regina Barzilay is working with MIT students and medical doctors in an ambitious bid to revolutionize cancer care. She is relying on a tool largely unrecognized in the oncology wor...
    17 February 2017, by

    5 global problems that AI could help us solve
    There’s a great deal of concern over artificial intelligence; what it means for our jobs, whether robots will one day replace us in the workplace, whether it will one day lead to robot wars. But cur...
    10 February 2017, by

    Researchers add a splash of human intuition to planning algorithms
    Every other year, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling hosts a competition in which computer systems designed by conference participants try to find the best solution to a...
    09 February 2017, by

    Technical challenges in machine ethics
    Machine ethics offers an alternative solution for artificial intelligence (AI) safety governance. In order to mitigate risks in human-robot interactions, robots will have to comply with humanity’s e...
    08 February 2017, by

    Why artificial intelligence could be key to future-proofing the grid
    A recent Conversation piece pointed out that the British electricity mix in 2016 was the cleanest in 60 years, with record capacity from renewable energy, mainly from wind and solar power. But one pro...
    03 February 2017, by

    The infrastructure of life part 2: Transparency
    Part 2: Autonomous Systems and Transparency In my previous post I argued that a wide range of AI and Autonomous Systems (from now on I will just use the term AS as shorthand for both) should be reg...
    03 February 2017, by

     
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