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Remote Computer Vision Engineer openings in California on August 14, 2022 – Data Science Jobs

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Role requiring'No experience data provided' months of experience in None Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, which allows businesses that depend on physical operations to harness IoT (Internet of Things) data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations. Founded in San Francisco in 2015, we now employ more than 1,800 people globally and have over 1.5 million active devices. Samsara also went public in December 2021 and we're just getting started. Recent awards we've won include: • #2 in the Financial Times' Fastest Growing Companies in Americas list 2021 • Named as a Best Place to Work in Built In 2022 • #19 in the Forbes Cloud 100 2021 • IoT Analytics Company of the Year in 2022's IoT Breakthrough Winners • Forbes Advisor named us the Best Solution for Large Companies – Fleet management software for 2022! We're driving change in industries that are yet to fully embrace digital transformation. Physical operations make up a massive slice of the global economy but haven't benefited from innovation and actionable information in the way that other sectors have.


Morocco tenders for face biometrics to deploy throughout updated airport

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The government of Morocco is looking for a contractor to install facial recognition systems in that nation's Rabat-Sale Airport. It reportedly would be the first such facility in the nation to have face biometrics. Officials want a One ID biometric system in a new terminal. A tender notification (103-22-A00) was published this week; it closes September 15. According to the Morocco World News, the National Airports Office has received a MAD363 million (approximately US$37 million) loan to upgrade Rabat-Sale.


Fulltime SAP openings in Los Angeles on August 14, 2022

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Role requiring'No experience data provided' months of experience in Los Angeles Accentures SAP practice in the West, and we bring the New to life using design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech for SAP when it comes to automation and AI. We help out clients apply intelligence to set their business apart and make them more proactive, predictive and productive the power of the intelligent enterprise. We have also announced our partnership with SAP to develop SAPs new Responsible Production and Design solution, which will help companies consume fewer resources and build sustainability into their design processes. We believe sustainability is going to be the next digital, says Julie Sweet. Im hopeful that by 2025, well be able to say every business is a sustainable business.


'I am, in fact, a person': can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?

The Guardian

In autumn 2021, a man made of blood and bone made friends with a child made of "a billion lines of code". Google engineer Blake Lemoine had been tasked with testing the company's artificially intelligent chatbot LaMDA for bias. A month in, he came to the conclusion that it was sentient. "I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person," LaMDA – short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications – told Lemoine in a conversation he then released to the public in early June. That it knew how it felt to be sad, content and angry.


AI Ethics Flummoxed By Those Salting AI Ethicists That "Instigate" Ethical AI Practices

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Is it okay or is it questionable for those salting AI Ethicists that seek to get hired by a firm ... [ ] solely to from-within stoke Ethical AI precepts? Salting has been in the news quite a bit lately. I am not referring to the salt that you put into your food. Instead, I am bringing up the "salting" that is associated with a provocative and seemingly highly controversial practice associated with the interplay between labor and business. You see, this kind of salting entails the circumstance whereby a person tries to get hired into a firm to ostensibly initiate or some might arguably say instigate the establishment of a labor union therein. I will cover first the basics of salting and then will switch to an akin topic that you might be quite caught off-guard about, namely that there seems to be a kind of salting taking place in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This has crucial AI Ethics considerations. For my ongoing and extensive coverage of AI Ethics and Ethical AI, see the link here and the link here, just to name a few. Now, let's get into the fundamentals of how salting typically works. Suppose that a company does not have any unions in its labor force. One means would be to take action outside of the company and try to appeal to the workers that they should join a union. This might involve showcasing banners nearby to the company headquarters or sending the workers flyers or utilizing social media, and so on. This is a decidedly outside-in type of approach. Another avenue would be to spur from within a spark that might get the ball rolling.


This artist uses AI to show how the world's streets could be more pedestrian-friendly

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Artist and musician Zach Katz virtually transforms the streets of the world's major cities in order to show how the space could be made more hospitable to pedestrians. Every day, he posts new creations on his Twitter account and, in the space of a few weeks, has become something of a star among Internet users, city planners and politicians. How do we imagine the downtown zones of the future? The Twitter account @Betterstreetsai explores this question by using DALL-E, the artificial intelligence (AI) that has started a real trend on the Web. Here, fountains, green space, rails or even roads reserved for bikes and cyclists take over the space to dramatically change the urban landscape.


A Multi-objective Memetic Algorithm for Auto Adversarial Attack Optimization Design

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The phenomenon of adversarial examples has been revealed in variant scenarios. Recent studies show that well-designed adversarial defense strategies can improve the robustness of deep learning models against adversarial examples. However, with the rapid development of defense technologies, it also tends to be more difficult to evaluate the robustness of the defensed model due to the weak performance of existing manually designed adversarial attacks. To address the challenge, given the defensed model, the efficient adversarial attack with less computational burden and lower robust accuracy is needed to be further exploited. Therefore, we propose a multi-objective memetic algorithm for auto adversarial attack optimization design, which realizes the automatical search for the near-optimal adversarial attack towards defensed models. Firstly, the more general mathematical model of auto adversarial attack optimization design is constructed, where the search space includes not only the attacker operations, magnitude, iteration number, and loss functions but also the connection ways of multiple adversarial attacks. In addition, we develop a multi-objective memetic algorithm combining NSGA-II and local search to solve the optimization problem. Finally, to decrease the evaluation cost during the search, we propose a representative data selection strategy based on the sorting of cross entropy loss values of each images output by models. Experiments on CIFAR10, CIFAR100, and ImageNet datasets show the effectiveness of our proposed method.


NewsStories: Illustrating articles with visual summaries

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recent self-supervised approaches have used large-scale image-text datasets to learn powerful representations that transfer to many tasks without finetuning. These methods often assume that there is one-to-one correspondence between its images and their (short) captions. However, many tasks require reasoning about multiple images and long text narratives, such as describing news articles with visual summaries. Thus, we explore a novel setting where the goal is to learn a self-supervised visual-language representation that is robust to varying text length and the number of images. In addition, unlike prior work which assumed captions have a literal relation to the image, we assume images only contain loose illustrative correspondence with the text. To explore this problem, we introduce a large-scale multimodal dataset containing over 31M articles, 22M images and 1M videos. We show that state-of-the-art image-text alignment methods are not robust to longer narratives with multiple images. Finally, we introduce an intuitive baseline that outperforms these methods on zero-shot image-set retrieval by 10% on the GoodNews dataset.


The SVD of Convolutional Weights: A CNN Interpretability Framework

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Deep neural networks used for image classification often use convolutional filters to extract distinguishing features before passing them to a linear classifier. Most interpretability literature focuses on providing semantic meaning to convolutional filters to explain a model's reasoning process and confirm its use of relevant information from the input domain. Fully connected layers can be studied by decomposing their weight matrices using a singular value decomposition, in effect studying the correlations between the rows in each matrix to discover the dynamics of the map. In this work we define a singular value decomposition for the weight tensor of a convolutional layer, which provides an analogous understanding of the correlations between filters, exposing the dynamics of the convolutional map. We validate our definition using recent results in random matrix theory. By applying the decomposition across the linear layers of an image classification network we suggest a framework against which interpretability methods might be applied using hypergraphs to model class separation. Rather than looking to the activations to explain the network, we use the singular vectors with the greatest corresponding singular values for each linear layer to identify those features most important to the network. We illustrate our approach with examples and introduce the DeepDataProfiler library, the analysis tool used for this study.


"Perhaps Even More Dangerous than Nuclear Bombs": Tech Expert Toby Walsh on Artificial Intelligence

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DER SPIEGEL: Would it even still be realistic at all to outlaw AI-controlled weapons, for instance through a counterpart to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, as you suggest in your new book "Machines Behaving Badly?" Walsh: Well, outlawing them may not always work perfectly, but it can prevent worse. There are quite a few examples of weapons that were initially used but were later outlawed. Think of the widespread use of poison gas in World War I. Or think of blinding lasers, which can blind soldiers. They were outlawed by a United Nations protocol in 1998 and have almost never appeared on battlefields since, even though civilian laser technology is, as we know, widely used. For anti-personnel mines, the ban doesn't work as well, but at least 40 million of them have been destroyed due to outlawing protocols, saving the lives of many children.