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The Atlantic: “Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars” 2018

October 23, 2017

The Atlantic: “Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars” 2018

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Originally developed as a way to “play back” scenes that the cars experienced while driving on public roads, Carcraft, and simulation genera...

Backchannel: “The Myth of a Superhuman AI” 2018

October 09, 2017

Backchannel: “The Myth of a Superhuman AI” 2018

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There is no doubt that a super AI can accelerate the process of science. We can make computer simulations of atoms or cells and we can keep ...

The New Yorker: “A.I. versus M.D.” 2018

October 09, 2017

The New Yorker: “A.I. versus M.D.” 2018

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The most powerful element in these clinical encounters, I realized, was not knowing that or knowing how—not mastering the facts of the case,...

Scientific American: “Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?” 2018

October 03, 2017

Scientific American: “Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?” 2018

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Let us suppose there was a super-intelligent machine with godlike knowledge and superhuman abilities: would we follow its instructions? This...

The New York Times: “Artificial Intelligence is Stuck. Here’s How to Move it Forward.” 2018

August 04, 2017

The New York Times: “Artificial Intelligence is Stuck. Here’s How to Move it Forward.” 2018

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To get computers to think like humans, we need a new A.I. paradigm, one that places “top down” and “bottom up” knowledge on equal footing. B...

Google Research Blog: “Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data” 2018

Google Research Blog: “Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data” 2018

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It works like this: your device downloads the current model, improves it by learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the chang...

The New York Times: “The Great A.I. Awakening” 2018

The New York Times: “The Great A.I. Awakening” 2018

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It is important to note, however, that the fact that neural networks are probabilistic in nature means that they’re not suitable for all ta...

Twitter Personality Insights, powered by IBM Watson 2018

February 27, 2017

Twitter Personality Insights, powered by IBM Watson 2018

#AI #Social #Statistics #Twitter

If you’re on Facebook, it’s nigh impossible to not have encountered some sort of personality test at least once. I do them sometimes more fo...

Quartz: “Bill Gates: the robot that takes your job should pay taxes” 2018

February 27, 2017

Quartz: “Bill Gates: the robot that takes your job should pay taxes” 2018

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In a recent interview with Quartz, Gates said that a robot tax could finance jobs taking care of elderly people or working with kids in sch...

Ars Technica: “Why stop at assistants? Facebook has grander ambitions for modern AI” 2018

January 31, 2017

Ars Technica: “Why stop at assistants? Facebook has grander ambitions for modern AI” 2018

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The obstacles to teaching computers to reason like humans are significant. And with his 30 years of research experience in the field, LeCun...

The New Yorker: “If Animals have Rights, should Robots?” 2018

January 28, 2017

The New Yorker: “If Animals have Rights, should Robots?” 2018

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Quarrels come at boundary points. Should we consider it immoral to swat a mosquito? If these insects don’t deserve moral consideration, wha...

Ramez Naam: “The Singularity is Further than it Appears” 2018

January 09, 2017

Ramez Naam: “The Singularity is Further than it Appears” 2018

This is the so-called ‘hard takeoff’ scenario, also called the FOOM model by some in the singularity world. It’s the scenario where in a bl...

The Guardian: “Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster” 2018

December 19, 2016

The Guardian: “Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster” 2018

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The source of the problem was the system that had done so much to keep A330s safe for 15 years, across millions of miles of flying: the fly...

Verge 2021: “Humanity and AI will be inseparable” 2018

December 19, 2016

Verge 2021: “Humanity and AI will be inseparable” 2018

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Do you think we’ll get to a point where we can ask personal assistants something like, Oh, the check engine light turned on in my car, shou...

Medium: “What do games tell us about intelligence?” 2018

November 11, 2016

Medium: “What do games tell us about intelligence?” 2018

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Bill Robertie described, in a short letter to Inside Backgammon, his finding that Backgammon had a depth of 8, Chess 14, and Go 40. So wh...

Nautilus: “Human and Artificial Intelligence may be equally impossible to understand” 2018

November 09, 2016

Nautilus: “Human and Artificial Intelligence may be equally impossible to understand” 2018

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Das, Batra, and their colleagues then try to get a sense of how the network makes its decisions by investigating where in the pictures it c...

Quartz: “Google’s AI won the game Go by defying millennia of basic human instinct” 2018

November 08, 2016

Quartz: “Google’s AI won the game Go by defying millennia of basic human instinct” 2018

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The AlphaGo-Lee Sedol matchup was an intense contest between human and artificial intelligence. But it also contained several moves made by...

Rolling Stone: “Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution (Pt. 1)” 2018

November 07, 2016

Rolling Stone: “Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution (Pt. 1)” 2018

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As for the dangers of AI, LeCun calls them “very distant”. He believes the notion that intelligent machines will evolve with the trappings ...