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How to operationalize AI ethics

October 7, 2019
Last week, I moderated a panel at TWIMLcon about how teams and organizations can operationalize responsible AI that combined perspectives from three people from different corners of the tech and AI community. Rachel Thomas is best known as cofounder of fast.ai, a popular free online deep learning course. In recent months, Thomas was named director of a new organization that mixes research, policy…
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AI in messaging: Hard to solve, but full of promise

October 6, 2019
There is a huge whitespace waiting to be filled by the tech companies that recognize the power and potential of messaging. Roughly 63% of people prefer to share information on “dark social,” or closed, private messaging environments like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.
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Artificial stupidity: ‘Move slow and fix things’ could be the mantra AI needs

October 6, 2019
“Let’s not use society as a test-bed for technologies that we’re not sure yet how they’re going to change society,” warned Carly Kind, director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an artificial intelligence (AI) research body based in the U.K. “Let’s try to think through some of these issues — move slower and fix things, rather than move fast and break things.” Kind was speaking as…
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DeepMind’s AI can apply learned knowledge to complete novel tasks

October 3, 2019
Can AI agents learn to generalize beyond its immediate experience? That’s an open question in machine learning research, and an area of acute interest for firms like Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind. In a study conducted in collaboration with Stanford and the University College London, DeepMind scientists investigated whether systems could apply the knowledge they’d learned in one…
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Osaro raises $16 million to make warehouse robots smarter with AI

October 3, 2019
Osaro, a San Francisco startup developing AI-based solutions for industrial robots, today announced that it’s closed a $16 million series B funding round led by King River Capital (KRC), with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, Founders Fund, Fenox Venture Capital, GiTV Fund, and existing and strategic investors. It brings the startup’s total raised to $29.3 million coming after a…
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