GizmodoNov 1, 2020This AI Can Tell if You Have Covid-19 Just by Listening to Your Cough, Researchers Sayverified_publisherGizmodo - Alyse StanleyIt feels like whenever I cough these days it triggers a mini-panic attack that I promptly try to quash with a steady stream of chamomile tea. …
AvatarAlec Scudderflipped into Dr. Ted's Readings TodayTL;DR: This AI summarizes research papers so you don’t have toverified_publisherTNW - Ivan MehtaReading scientific papers is a tough job. It might contain language and sections that you might not understand, and not all of it would be interesting to you. My colleague Tristan is great at traversing through these papers, but I’m just a novice. So, I would want a quick summary of a research …
Kellyflipped into Articles of NoteGoogle parts with top AI researcher after blocking paper, faces blowbackverified_publisherArs Technica - Richard Waters, Financial TimesTimnit Gebru’s exit reignites debate over diversity and free speech at tech group. Google struggled on Thursday to limit the fallout from the …
WIREDflipped into Top StoriesThe Dark Side of Big Tech’s Funding for AI ResearchWIRED - Tom SimoniteTimnit Gebru’s exit from Google is a powerful reminder of how thoroughly companies dominate the field, with the biggest computers and the most …
The Vergeflipped into The VergeAI experts say research into algorithms that claim to predict criminality must endverified_publisherThe Verge - James VincentA coalition of AI researchers, data scientists, and sociologists has called on the academic world to stop publishing studies that claim to predict an individual’s criminality using algorithms trained on data like facial scans and criminal statistics. Such work is not only scientifically illiterate, …
VentureBeatflipped into Big DataStudy finds diversity in data science teams is key in reducing algorithmic biasverified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersUpdated at 7:44 a.m. Pacific: This headline and copy has been updated to correct for a misinterpretation of the paper’s findings. Bias in AI is pervasive. From dermatological models that discriminate against patients with darker skin to exam-scoring algorithms that disadvantage public school …
Robert Sflipped into AI and RobotsResearchers develop AI that solves a matrix-based visual cognitive testverified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMultiple choice tests allow test takers to compare answers in order to eliminate less promising options. Each choice can also be weighed against the question to infer patterns that might have been missed. The ability to narrow down sets of choices in order to come up with an answer is arguably the …
SHANETHEFORTEANflipped into These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsResearchers suggest AI can learn common sense from animalsverified_publisherVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonAI researchers developing reinforcement learning agents could learn a lot from animals. That’s according to recent analysis by Google’s DeepMind, Imperial College London, and University of Cambridge researchers assessing AI and non-human animals. In a decades-long venture to advance machine …
