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Deep Learning Primer
Frank Tobe
02 Apr 2015
The technology that unlocks intelligence from big data - deep learning - is explained in this video by Max Welling, a professor at the University of Amsterdam, and a founder of the Dutch deep learnin...
Talking Machines: The automatic statistician and electrified meat, with Zoubin Ghahramani
Talking Machines
26 Mar 2015
In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic S...
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Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester
Audrow Nash
20 Mar 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christina Brester, from the Siberian State Aerospace University, about her research on a method to identify emotional state from speech. This method performs sp...
Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)
Talking Machines
17 Mar 2015
We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us abo...
Talking Machines: History of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun
Talking Machines
26 Feb 2015
In episode five of Talking Machines, we hear the first part of our conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook...
Forget Singularity, let’s talk Multiplicity: Ken Goldberg on AI at the WEF
Audrow Nash
23 Feb 2015
Each January, the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting takes place in Davos, Switzerland. This event is one of the preeminent economic conferences in the world, and this year, there was a majo...
The new AI and robotics: Lecture by Fabio Bonsignorio
In this video lecture Fabio Bonsignorio talks about novel ideas that might just lead to a paradigm change robotics that will allow us to apply robot systems to natural environments, and not just...
Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach
Talking Machines
12 Feb 2015
In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She's also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women ...
Programming safety into self-driving cars
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
06 Feb 2015
For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...
Human insights inspire solutions for household robots
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
05 Feb 2015
People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Techn...
Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy
Talking Machines
29 Jan 2015
On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...
Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever
Talking Machines
15 Jan 2015
Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
Introducing Talking Machines: Your window into the world of machine learning
Talking Machines
01 Jan 2015
Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat
Rodney Brooks
11 Nov 2014
Recently there has been a spate of articles in the mainstream press, and a spate of high profile people who are in tech but not AI, speculating about the dangers of malevolent AI being developed, and ...
“Chappie” movie to explore human reaction to AI, machine learning
Hallie Siegel
04 Nov 2014
A new action/sci-fi thriller by Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) is due in theatres March 6, 2015. Starring Sharlto Copley, Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel, and Sigourney Weaver, Chappie follows an exper...
IBM reinvents itself by establishing a frontier homestead for cognitive computing | Forbes
Hallie Siegel
27 Oct 2014
At the forefront of IBM’s reinvention journey is a $1 billion investment in Jeopardy-winning Watson, which it hopes will usher in a new era of “cognitive computing.” Earlier this month, Rometty ...
Google adds to DeepMind, acquiring 2 UK startups and partnering with Oxford U
Frank Tobe
27 Oct 2014
In January, 2014, Google acquired London-based DeepMind Technologies for $643 million. Now it is adding to that purchase with two more companies, ten new hires and a substantial contribution to Oxford...
‘Person of Interest’ Season 4 will tackle big questions about AI | Mashable
Hallie Siegel
24 Sep 2014
For three seasons, CBS's Person of Interest has tried to raise questions about who's watching us. But starting Tuesday, the show will shine a light on a subject producers think no one is keeping an ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Inman Harvey “Metaphorical homunculi: we don’t really have little men inside our heads”
Nathan Labhart
11 Sep 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15
In this guest lecture, Inman Harvey from the University of Sussex, UK, talks about Representation and its issues....
On internal models, consequence engines and Popperian creatures
Alan Winfield
08 Sep 2014
So. We've been busy in the lab the last few months. Really exciting. Let me explain.
For a couple of years I've been thinking about robots with internal models. Not internal models in the classical...
ShanghAI Lectures: Kevin Warwick “AI with biological brains”
Nathan Labhart
04 Sep 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15
In this guest lecture, Kevin Warwick from the University of Reading, UK, talks about a closed-loop interface between a biological network and a robot, ...
Algorithm looking at art finds connections art historians had never noticed | Medium
Hallie Siegel
03 Sep 2014
Of course, Saleh and co do not claim that this kind of algorithm can take the place of an art historian. After all, the discovery of a link between paintings in this way is just the starting point for...
We should not be privileging the singularity hypothesis | Alan Winfield via The Guardian
Alan Winfield
03 Sep 2014
By worrying unnecessarily [about the Singularity hypothesis] I think we’re falling into a trap: the fallacy of privileging the hypothesis. And – perhaps worse – taking our eyes off other risks ...
Your robot doggie could really be pleased to see you
Alan Winfield
02 Sep 2014
There have been several stories in the last few weeks about emotional robots - robots that feel. Some are suggesting that this is the next big thing in robotics. It's something I wrote about in t...
ShanghAI Lectures: Tamas Haidegger “Humans-robots-humans: Who is operating who?”
Nathan Labhart
28 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-08
In this guest lecture, Tamás Haidegger from Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary, talks about Computer-Integrated Surgery, giv...
Inroads in perception
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2014
Google's recent acquisition of Emu Messenger is just one of many items in recent news about improvements in perception and artificial intelligence (AI)....
ShanghAI Lectures: Rüdiger Dillmann “Programming by Demonstration”
Nathan Labhart
21 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15
In this guest lecture, Rüdiger Dillmann from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, talks about paradigms for robot learning and the proper...
ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Enhancing Autonomy and Safety of Assistive Robots”
Nathan Labhart
14 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15
In this guest lecture, Weidong Chen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, talks about the design of assistive robots, especially a robotic whe...
Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein’s monster | Alan Winfield via The Guardian
Hallie Siegel
12 Aug 2014
The doomsayers believe that humanity will be overwhelmed by creating machines that – like Terminator's Skynet – become ever-more clever and reach a singularity. They're wrong.
Read more by Alan W...
ShanghAI Lectures: Barbara Webb “AI – Artificial Insects”
Nathan Labhart
07 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-08
In this guest lecture, Barbara Webb from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, talks about using robots to model biology, human and insect brains, a...
When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
01 Aug 2014
Levine and How developed an algorithm that can efficiently calculate just how much information any node in the graph gives you about any other — what in information theory is called “mutual inform...
ShanghAI Lectures: Dustin Li “Embodied Development for an Autonomous Delivery Robot”
Nathan Labhart
31 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-01
In this guest lecture, Dustin Li from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China, talks about the design of a robot that autonomously d...
What would be the energy cost of artificially evolving human-equivalent AI?
Alan Winfield
28 Jul 2014
Want to create human-equivalent AI? Well, broadly speaking, there are three approaches open to you: design it, reverse-engineer it or evolve it. The third of these - artificial evolution - is attrac...
ShanghAI Lectures: Thierry Bücheler “Latest Insights on Human Collective Intelligence”
Nathan Labhart
24 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-24
In this guest lecture, Thierry Bücheler from the AI Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland, talks about collective intelligence, quality and critica...
ShanghAI Lectures: Fumiya Iida “Soft robotics approach toward artificial ontogenetic development”
Nathan Labhart
17 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-17
Artificial ontogenetic development has been nicely demonstrated by many computer simulation studies in the past. There are, however, still a number o...
Could software replace your doctor? | USA Today
Hallie Siegel
10 Jul 2014
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