AI and Robots

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Machine Learning
Why machine learning engineer is the best job in America, not developer or data scientist
TechRepublic - Macy Bayern
While data scientists and developers may have more job openings, machine learning jobs have higher salaries and faster growth, according to …
Machine Learning
Lush Is Using Machine Learning and AI to Make Wasteful Packaging and Signage Irrelevant
Adweek - By Sammy Nickalls
Lush is known for its colorful soaps and bath bombs, but the brand has consistently prioritized going green above all else—and its very first SXSW …
Technology
Widespread worry around the social effects of swiftly advancing AI
Axios - Kaveh Waddell
A central promise of artificial intelligence is to automate away tedious routine tasks, but a lingering worry is that it will chip away at our …
Artificial Intelligence
Can artificial intelligence solve the mysteries of quantum physics?
phys.org - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Under the direction of Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua, a research group at Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School of Engineering and Computer …
News (China)
China to introduce AI courses to primary, secondary schools
china.org.cn - 蔺丽瑶
China will push for Artificial Intelligence (AI) courses to be offered at primary and secondary schools and popularize programming education in …
Machine Learning
AI’s Paradox: The Unsolvable Problem of Machine Learning
psychologytoday.com - Cami Rosso
Artificial intelligence (AI) is trending globally in commerce, science, health care, geopolitics, and more areas. Deep learning, a subset of machine …
Deep Learning
Data Science Is Now Bigger Than 'Big Data'
Forbes - Kalev Leetaru
In a world in which “big data” and “data science” seem to adorn every technology-related news article and social media post, have the terms finally reached public interest saturation? As the use of large
Cognitive Computing
China may overtake the US with the best AI research in just two years
MIT Technology Review - Will Knight
The number of influential AI research papers coming from China is increasing rapidly, a data analysis shows. White House plans to cut funding for …
Machine Learning
SAS deep learning with Python made easy using DLPy
sas.com
I look forward to Pi Day every year at SAS because it's a day of celebration including yummy pies and challenging games that challenge you to recall …
Technology
MIT’s deflated balloon robot hand can pick up objects 100x its own weight
TechCrunch - Brian Heater
Soft, biologically inspired robots have become one of the field’s most exciting offshoots, with machines that are capable of squeezing between obstacles and conforming to the world around them. A joint
Technology
Tiny claws let drones perch like birds and bats
TechCrunch - Devin Coldewey
Drones are useful in countless ways, but that usefulness is often limited by the time they can stay in the air. Shouldn’t drones be able to take a load off too? With these special claws attached, they
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence progress gets gummed up in silos and cultural issues
ZDNet - Joe McKendrick
Survey finds things slow-going for AI and robotic process automation, Silos have always been considered a bad thing for enterprise IT environments, …
Technology
This robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but it can lift 100 times its weight
The Verge - James Vincent
A soft robot that’s perfect for packing groceries If someone asked you to imagine a robot, says Daniela Rus, a professor at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), you’d
Cognitive Computing
Mozilla releases Iodide, an open source browser tool for publishing dynamic data science
VentureBeat - Kyle Wiggers
Mozilla wants to make it easier to create, view, and replicate data visualizations on the web, and toward that end, it today unveiled Iodide, an “experimental tool” meant to help scientists and engineers
Raspberry Pi
PiArm Raspberry Pi robotic arm
geeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey
SB Components has designed a new Raspberry Pi robotic arm equipped with 6-axis digital servo motors and 360 degrees of rotation freedom. Specifically …
Artificial Intelligence
The Symbiotic Nature of AI and Neuroscience
psychologytoday.com - Cami Rosso
Neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) are two very different scientific disciplines. Neuroscience traces back to ancient civilizations, and …
Data Science
Liveness Detection with OpenCV
pyimagesearch.com - Adrian Rosebrock
In this tutorial, you will learn how to perform liveness detection with OpenCV. You will create a liveness detector cable of spotting fake faces and …
Artificial Intelligence
The non-profit org founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman to save the world from artificial intelligence has decided to pursue
Quartz
article https://share.qz.com/news/2330217/ Quartz OpenAI was supposed to be the antidote to the terrors of artificial intelligence by eschewing profits. But the organization says it will now try to make
Artificial Intelligence
Nine companies are steering the future of artificial intelligence
sciencenews.org - Maria Temming
In ‘The Big Nine,’ futurist Amy Webb explores the political and economic factors that are shaping artificial intelligence.
Technology
Blind users can now explore photos by touch with Microsoft's Seeing AI
TechCrunch - Devin Coldewey
Microsoft’s Seeing AI is an app that lets blind and limited-vision folks convert visual data into audio feedback, and it just got a useful new feature. Users can now use touch to explore the objects and
Technology Policy
Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent
NBC News - Olivia Solon
People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say. Facial recognition can log you into your iPhone, criminals
Technology
Google Lookout uses AI to describe surroundings for the visually impaired
ZDNet - Campbell Kwan
Using similar underlying technology as Google Lens Google has launched its Lookout app, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help the visually …
Innovation
Teen Inventor Designs Noninvasive Allergy Screen Using Genetics and Machine Learning
smithsonianmag.com - Rachael Lallensack
One of Ayush Alag’s earliest memories is of biting into a chocolate bar with cashew nuts and suddenly feeling his throat get itchy. For most of his …
Cognitive Computing
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
Quanta Magazine - Dan Falk
The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is …
Software Development
Taxonomies, Ontologies And Machine Learning: The Future Of Knowledge Management
Forbes - Kurt Cagle
As an ontologist, I’m often asked about the distinctions between taxonomies and ontologies, and whether ontologies are replacing taxonomies. The second question is easy to answer: “No.” Both taxonomies
Microsoft
Microsoft's new AI Business School teaches execs how to lead AI initiatives, for free
TechRepublic - Alison DeNisco Rayome
The online courses are meant to help business leaders define an AI strategy for their company. As companies grapple with how to implement artificial …
Artificial Intelligence
Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Digital Marketing
gecdesigns.com - Authors - GEC Designs
Digital Marketing 10 effects of Artificial Intelligence on Digital Marketing, What is Artificial Intelligence? and 3 Types of AI are briefly discussed …
Singularity
Artificial intelligence, robotics and automation could herald a utopia for humankind
heraldscotland.com - Neil Mackay
IT was Amy who made Darrell M West realise that we are already living in the future. West, one of the big brains at the acclaimed Brookings Institute …
Science
Watching this soft robotic hand move is strangely hypnotic
bgr.com - Mike Wehner
Robotic technology had come a long way in the past couple of decades, with more intelligent machines capable of superhuman feats that were once …