The promises and challenges of artificial intelligence and machine learning highlighted the Oct. 9 MIT Materials Day Symposium, with presentations …

Dr Brent Mittelstadt's paper'Principles alone cannot guarantee ethical AI', published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, argues that a principled approach may not be the best way to approach ethical development and governance of AI. Consensus has seemingly emerged around a set of ethical principles for AI that closely resemble the classic ethical principles of medicine, but there are several reasons to doubt that a principled approach will have comparable impact on AI development as it has historically had in medicine. The vast complexity of AI and a lack of common aims between developers and users suggest principles may be too vague and high-level to be workable. To address these shortcomings, Dr Brent Mittelstadt calls for increased support for'bottom-up' work on ethical AI. Companies must be prepared to disclose more about how they develop and audit AI systems, and work more openly with researchers and the public.

Dealing with misinformation in the digital age is a complex problem. Not only does misinformation have to be identified, tagged, and corrected, but the intent of those responsible for making the claim should also be distinguished. A person may unknowingly spread misinformation, or just be giving their opinion on an issue even though it is later reported as fact. Recently, a team of AI researchers and engineers at Dartmouth created a framework that can be used to derive opinion from "fake news" reports. As ScienceDaily reports, the Dartmouth team's study was recently published in the Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.

Editor's Note: Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news stories and expert opinions that moved the precious metals and financial markets. The Australian government is setting up two mining research centres in partnership with universities and commercial supporters, according to an announcement made on Tuesday. The centers will be based in Sydney and Adelaide. The Australian government said research activity at the University of Sydney "...will focus on data analytics related to the long-term impact of resource use on Australia's economy, society and environment. It will help develop the necessary data science skills for Australia's resource industries to make the best possible evidence-based decisions when using our natural resources." The University of Adelaide will focus on advanced sensors and data analytics.

Arterial streets surrounding the I-210 freeway in southern California, where the first traffic prediction pilot is taking place. Urban traffic roughly follows a periodic pattern associated with the typical "9 to 5" work schedule. However, when an accident happens, traffic patterns are disrupted. Designing accurate traffic flow models, for use during accidents, is a major challenge for traffic engineers, who must adapt to unforeseen traffic scenarios in real time. A team of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) computer scientists is working with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to use high performance computing (HPC) and machine learning to help improve Caltrans' real-time decision making when incidents occur.

Microsoft said its researchers had produced a piece of glass that is 7.5 centimeters long and 2 millimeters thick and contains the entire 1978 film "Superman." The feat is the culmination of years of research, made possible by recent advances in ultra-fast laser optics and artificial intelligence, Microsoft said on Monday. Researchers used lasers to carve tiny three-dimensional etchings into the glass's surface that could be read by machine-learning algorithms trained to look at the patterns created when a light is shined through the glass. The research builds on other Microsoft projects that aim to store data more efficiently in the long term. A concurrent project is centered on an invention dubbed Pelican that uses cold storage to preserve dozens of disk drives, The Register reported.

We've seen no strong evidence of misuse so far They are going against their own word, but nevertheless, it's nice to see that they are releasing everything. EDIT: The unicorn example added below from https://talktotransformer.com/, which has already been updated with the newest 1.5B parameters model. Input: In a shocking finding, scientist discovered a herd of unicorns living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in the Andes Mountains. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the unicorns spoke perfect English. Output: While there are only a few documented instances of unicorns in the wild, the researchers said the finding proves that there are still large numbers of wild unicorns that remain to be studied.

One of the most interesting sessions at Adobe MAX is traditionally the Sneaks keynote, where engineers from the company's various units show off their most cutting-edge work. These days, a lot of the work focuses on AI, often based on the Adobe Sensei platform. This year, the company gave us an early look at Project Sweet Talk, one of the featured sneaks of tonight's event. The idea here is pretty straightforward, but hard to pull off: take a portrait, either a drawing or a painting, identify the different parts of the face, then animate the mouth in sync with a voice-over. Today, Adobe's Character Animator (which you may have seen on shows like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) does some of that, but it's limited in the number of animations, and the result, even in the hands of the best animators, doesn't always look all that realistic (as far as that's possible for the kind of drawings you animate in the product).