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NXP launches AI Ethics initiative
With secure, power-efficient edge computing and AI, everyday devices not only sense their environments, but also interpret, analyze, and act in real time on the data collected. Published in a new whitepaper entitled The Morals of Algorithms, the company details its comprehensive framework for AI principles: non-maleficence, human autonomy, explicability, continued attention & vigilance, and privacy and security by design. These principles are rooted in NXP's corporate values, ethical guidelines, and a long tradition of building some of the world's most sophisticated secure devices. The AI framework evolved as a result of a cross-company collaboration, including inputs and insights across engineering and customer-facing teams around the world. NXP is a vanguard in the AI revolution with a portfolio of microcontrollers (MCUs) and processors optimized for machine learning applications "at the edge" of networks, including thermostats, security systems, car sensors, robots and industrial automation and other devices, thereby making them not only intelligent but faster, more flexible, and more secure.
Interesting AI/ML Articles You Should Read This Week (Oct 11)
This particular article needs more visibility on Medium, especially to Machiner Learning practitioners. Wael transcribes an interview with Michael Kanaan, an individual that held an AI leadership role in the US Airforce, and is currently working with MIT's primer AI Lab. Early on in the interview, Michael quickly discards the stereotypical portrayal of AI within Hollywood movies and provides the reader with a more accurate description of AI. Michael accurately points out that what we call AI are simply machine learning algorithms that can derive patterns from data, which in turn creates a predictive model of subject of interest, such as a person's behaviour, stock prices etc. The interview goes on to include discussions around the type of individuals that are suitable for roles in AI, a conversation in which Michael debunks the myth that AI-based positions are reserved for individuals with a STEM(Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) background.
1000X Cheaper, 300X Faster: How Amazon Is Disrupting Robot Intelligence
This robot is not exactly in the cloud: Wall-E from the movie by Pixar. Bringing a new robot to market is exciting: new capability, new hardware, new services. The problem is when you get to software, where everything feels harder and takes longer than you think it should. Like Tesla's full self-driving, which has all the hardware and intelligence it needs -- with the possible exception of LIDAR -- but is perpetually just ... about ... to ... arrive ... and even so, was recently savaged by Consumer Reports as buggy and ineffective. Hardware is necessary, but software provides the animating intelligence that allows it to do useful, efficient, and safe work.
[R][NeurIPS 2020 Demo] Humans-in-the-loop molecule design UI with 50+ deep learning models!
Looks like an interesting tool but without traditional wet-lab experiments why should chemists believe your suggestions? While a good chemist can often come up with a reasonable explanation why a change helps after seeing changes in assay results (e.g. If you want to try get a compound made and tested perhaps contact the team at Covid Moonshot and see if there's a feasible use case. My PI (one of the leads) says they're always interested in new candidates/triage strategies. Another issue might be that the synthetic accessibility of your candidates after large numbers of augmentation steps may become low.
Algorithms of Social Manipulation - KDnuggets
Do you know how your apps work? Are you aware of what tech companies are doing in the back with your data? And what's more revealing: do you know which of your action are actually influenced by those apps? When you take a trip with Uber, buy stuff on Amazon, or watch a movie on Netflix: when are you consciously deciding and when are you being heavily influenced? Tech companies are not passively observing your behavior and acting as a consequence: they are influencing your behavior, so you become more predictable.