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Yuval Harari warns humans will be "hacked" if artificial intelligence is not globally regulated
The future could see the world's human data, delivered through the rising power and reach of artificial intelligence, in the hands of a powerful few - a recipe for a dystopian tomorrow populated by "hacked humans," says Yuval Noah Harari. The world-renowned author tells Anderson Cooper nations must begin cooperating to prevent this by regulating artificial intelligence and the collection of data across all nations. The interview with Harari will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday October 31, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Harari says the countries and companies that control the most data will control the world. "The world is increasingly kind of cut up into spheres of data collection, of data harvesting. In the Cold War, you had the Iron Curtain. Now we have the Silicon Curtain, that the world is increasingly divided between the USA and China," Harari tells Cooper.
Could a Dog Truly Love a Robot?
The author of Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You responds to Andrew Silverman's "Furgen." It doesn't take any special technology to see that dogs love people. Hildegard von Bingen, in the 11th century, noted that "a certain natural community of behavior binds [the dog] to humans. Therefore, he responds to man, understand him, loves him and likes to stay with him." It could fairly be said that, like Othello, dogs love not wisely, but too well.
Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in seven children in the United States experienced abuse or neglect in the past year. Child protective services agencies around the nation receive a high number of reports each year (about 4.4 million in 2019) of alleged neglect or abuse. With so many cases, some agencies are implementing machine learning models to help child welfare specialists screen cases and determine which to recommend for further investigation. But these models don't do any good if the humans they are intended to help don't understand or trust their outputs. Researchers at MIT and elsewhere launched a research project to identify and tackle machine learning usability challenges in child welfare screening.
A Simple Approach to Image Tilt Correction with Self-Attention MobileNet for Smartphones
Garg, Siddhant, Mohanty, Debi Prasanna, Thota, Siva Prasad, Moharana, Sukumar
The main contributions of our work are two-fold. First, we present a Self-Attention MobileNet, called SA-MobileNet Network that can model long-range dependencies between the image features instead of processing the local region as done by standard convolutional kernels. SA-MobileNet contains self-attention modules integrated with the inverted bottleneck blocks of the MobileNetV3 model which results in modeling of both channel-wise attention and spatial attention of the image features and at the same time introduce a novel self-attention architecture for low-resource devices. Secondly, we propose a novel training pipeline for the task of image tilt detection. We treat this problem in a multi-label scenario where we predict multiple angles for a tilted input image in a narrow interval of range 1-2 degrees, depending on the dataset used. This process induces an implicit correlation between labels without any computational overhead of the second or higher-order methods in multi-label learning. With the combination of our novel approach and the architecture, we present state-of-the-art results on detecting the image tilt angle on mobile devices as compared to the MobileNetV3 model. Finally, we establish that SA-MobileNet is more accurate than MobileNetV3 on SUN397, NYU-V1, and ADE20K datasets by 6.42%, 10.51%, and 9.09% points respectively, and faster by at least 4 milliseconds on Snapdragon 750 Octa-core.
Hierarchical Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning for Short Text Classification
Wang, Yaqing, Wang, Song, Yao, Quanming, Dou, Dejing
Short text classification is a fundamental task in natural language processing. It is hard due to the lack of context information and labeled data in practice. In this paper, we propose a new method called SHINE, which is based on graph neural network (GNN), for short text classification. First, we model the short text dataset as a hierarchical heterogeneous graph consisting of word-level component graphs which introduce more semantic and syntactic information. Then, we dynamically learn a short document graph that facilitates effective label propagation among similar short texts. Thus, compared with existing GNN-based methods, SHINE can better exploit interactions between nodes of the same types and capture similarities between short texts. Extensive experiments on various benchmark short text datasets show that SHINE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, especially with fewer labels.
Boston Dynamic's Spot robot mimics Mick Jagger's dance moves from The Rolling Stones' 'Start me up'
The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger is famous for his hip-snaking sorcery on stage, but the lead singer may have been shown up by Boston Dynamic robot'Spot' in a new video. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the British band's'Tattoo You' album, Boston Dynamics' engineers taught Spot to dance and lip-sync like Jagger in the'Start Me Up' music video. The company also trained three other Spot robots to recreate the moves of fellow band members Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts. During the video, the lead Spot moves its long neck to mimic the motions Jagger makes with his arms and the robot also opens its mouth to lip-sync along with the Rockstar. The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger is famous for his hip-snaking sorcery on stage, but the lead singer may have been shown up by Boston Dynamic robot'Spot' in a new video The veteran British band first began performing in 1962 and are the first to score a number one album on the British charts across six different decades.
LUIS - Create A Conversation App
In this article, we'll learn about LUIS – Language Understanding Intelligent Service provided by Azure. We'll get into the details of how LUIS understands our natural language and then go ahead to build an app that can detect the intention of our text. We'll go through a step-by-step process to create a weather app that can identify if we are asking about the weather situation of any city and country. LUIS is a cloud-based service for understanding text which basically solves problems in the domain of Natural Language Processing and is simple to use. Moreover, it can easily be integrated with our software development processes.