Month: June 2017
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Shared today on Twitter
The APAC Innovation Summit on Robotics and Embedded AI is kicking off with welcome remarks from robot Albert Einstein. 😳 https://t.co/cWiRdJU6Yd
Kaz Soto from Google telling us about the many ways machine learning is used there – including saving energy in data center cooling systems. https://t.co/hF3HRC5uCF
Kewpie (mayonnaise people) used ML and TensorFlow to spot bad potato cubes! Worked best when computer made sound to alert human sorter. https://t.co/OoCnD7Kjq7
Robert Morris from IBM Research telling us about history of their AI efforts with Go, backgammon, chess – and Jeopardy. (Hi @KenJennings!) https://t.co/i10Rd8uQpm
Watson gave some bad answers – like thinking Toronto was US city. You can’t risk those errors when using AI to diagnose cancer. https://t.co/LLdwy8oe8f
AI creates efficiencies – reducing wasted medical treatments that don’t work (est at 50%); giving loans to folks w/out credit history. https://t.co/PsRr2DrSOW
AI doesn’t have to result in middle-class job losses, “hollowing out” of middle that leads to “electing politicians who do crazy things…”
As you may imagine, there was a big chuckle at that.
Watching a demo of Clinicbot. 😳 https://t.co/aRlh4Gi0AN
Listening to @DanitGal from @IEEEorg talking about ethical considerations of AI. v1 of standard is here: https://t.co/gSPRpH6SuS https://t.co/JTvpMvglmO
Goal of ethical standards for AI – moving beyond both fear and uncritical admiration for technological advancement. 👏 https://t.co/Utn19ebcAj
An AI learned to lie to people when playing poker. What happens when a medical AI is incentivised to lie to humans?
“Ethics” vary based on culture and religion. @IEEEorg’s goal with standards to to provide a method for engineers to think about consequences
What happens when humans aren’t in decision making loop? Imagine combat robots fighting in tunnels, with no connection to controllers…
@starbuxman What is it?? I can’t see it on iOS Tweetdeck, Twitter app, or Twitter web. 😭
@starbuxman 😍😍😍😍
Dr. Deepu Talla from @nvidia walking us through the Big Bang of modern AI in the past 5 years. https://t.co/d2RF6rC3Nl
Nvidia Jetson is an embedded AI supercomputer the size of a credit card. Full software platform. Lots of uses! https://t.co/gEMxg5UB43 https://t.co/Ow2AlCUFOT
When can I get a service robot that loads the dishwasher?! Turns out their are some key challenges we haven’t cracked yet. https://t.co/5OzQnfIHOE
BeachBot – autonomous robot that creates large scale beach art! How charming. 😍 https://t.co/Yip7Cmr2AC https://t.co/hkuqJatw55
So neat – @Wingtra is a drone that combines best aspects of helicopter and airplane. https://t.co/Rjtpjl8eHn https://t.co/d0Gkqf7frL
@k_c_madden Definitely not cuddly!
@jstangroome Hopefully the IEEE can publish a standard on that and declare my husband wrong for all eternity. 😂
In most countries so far, more robots = lower unemployment. The jobs robots are doing are dangerous, dirty, or dull. https://t.co/KSLPrDu10z
@AmanAlam She showed graphs from a lot of different countries, but I didn’t get a snap of the slide.
@AmanAlam I found an essay that includes the graph she showed: https://t.co/tg8AOOrmrv
@AmanAlam Scroll down to “So, do robots displace human workers? This turns out to depend on what country you’re talking about…”
@AmanAlam India not shown though, and I don’t have FT sub to see the original data.
@rbtcollins I found an essay that includes the graph she showed, which has some add’l context: https://t.co/tg8AOOrmrv
@MichelePlayfair I wondered that too. I’m guessing 🍪 don’t work. 😂
@candeira @MichelePlayfair Well, sure, if you’re going to legit answer the question and ruin my joke.
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Shared today on Facebook
I’m at a Robotics conference in Hong Kong, hearing about how artificial intelligence will help humanity. Yes, some jobs will be lost, but new industries will also be enabled. There is tremendous potential to reduce inefficiencies, like eliminating medical treatments that don’t work and enabling loans to people without credit histories. A panelist just cautioned however against the “hollowing out of the middle,” which inspires fear and leads to “electing politicians who do crazy things.” That got a big chuckle.
Some of the smartest people in the world, laughing at the President in disbelief.
This is what it’s like now, being outside the US.
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Shared today on Twitter
@essjayeff Thanks. Missed the article but I talk about the Belgian train spies in my knitting & programming talk.
@fbz So excited for you! Well done. Proud to have supported!
RT @fbz: yes. yes, this was my dream. generative knits. no two are the same. factory of one, crunch crunch! https://t.co/Su1cDZ5jlk
If this hoodie actually goes on sale, I will have to break my “No clothes buying in 2017” resolution. ✊️ https://t.co/3PYtbn1quL https://t.co/d36fXjgD67
Today’s plan is to escape the horrors of the world. Going well so far. So happy. 😍❤️ https://t.co/ehxKwPbMDa
Lots of sugar + weird Finnish music + anthropomorphic stuffed animals + jet lag = totally surreal experience. Is this real life??
Hong Kong. https://t.co/NTjcHxhI5a https://t.co/ts3xvtYK1D
Random couple insisted I join their photo, so insisted I get a copy too. 😂 #andbruceleemakesfour https://t.co/IyOXnN0oGH https://t.co/kAtzIfyeN0
I just saw WW, and I ❤️ed it. Robin Wright punching fascists is my new spirit guide. https://t.co/Dtdi6CzsWE
@MichelePlayfair Necklace doesn’t count. 😉
Once again waiting for ramen in a giant queue in sweltering heat. https://t.co/RFEYyO5Y7j https://t.co/PGcshJhXPJ
Can you have a religious experience based on spicy pork tonkatsu ramen and cold beer? Because I think I just did. https://t.co/8kOWyWbXJj
@charis Sooooo worth it!!
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Shared today on Facebook
When I’m not travelling for work – yeah, this.
At the Moomin Cafe escaping the awful world. This place makes me so happy! @ Moomin Cafe
Hong Kong.
Random couple insisted I join their photo, so insisted I get a copy too. 😂 #andbruceleemakesfour
Once again waiting for ramen in a giant queue in sweltering heat.
Can you have a religious experience based on spicy pork tonkatsu ramen and cold beer? Because I think I just did. @ 一蘭 香港銅鑼湾店
