In 2017, artists and filmmakers Lauren Lee McCarthy, Grace Lee and Tony Patrick were tasked with dreaming up the "future of work" for a residency at the University of Southern California. As part of a 3-month process of exploring ideas for the betterment of Los Angeles, the trio had to imagine what 2020 would look like. They predicted that the election year would bring about, among other things, "massive civil unrest," "a second civil war" and "a massive data dump," Lee said during a panel at Sundance 2021. "We called it the Breakdown 2020." The residency brought the trio together as they "tried to figure out what the hell world-building is," Patrick said.

The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is a follow-up project of the European Digital Art and Science Network and offers international artists working in the field of AI to win a residency at a scientific partner institution and at the Futurelab of Ars Electronica. In this open call round, artists will have the chance to apply for a residency at Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands. The theme of the residency is Astronomy x AI. The universe is much larger, more diverse, dynamic and enigmatic than our ancestors could have imagined when they first gazed at the stars. The captivating and mysterious nature of that sight makes astronomy so endlessly fascinating.

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship, to be undertaken at Imperial College London (Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department). This studentship will form part of a newly established International Centre for Spatial Computational Learning http://spatialml.net, and a supervisory team will be allocated based on the student's interest from the Imperial College supervisors participating in the Centre. This is an exciting cutting-edge project involving close collaboration between Imperial College (UK), the University of California Los Angeles (USA), the University of Toronto (Canada), and the University of Southampton (UK). The successful candidate will be based at Imperial but will have the opportunity to travel frequently to America to attend research meetings and for a placement period at either UCLA or Toronto. Traditional deep learning has been based on the idea of large-scale linear arithmetic units, effectively computing matrix-matrix multiplication, combined with nonlinear activation functions.

Stanford's new Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), an interdisciplinary, global hub for artificial intelligence thinkers, learners, researchers, developers, builders and users, is co-hosting its first HAI resident artist. The residency is a collaboration with Sundance Institute's New Frontier Lab Programs (NFLP), and co-hosts on campus are the Office of the Vice President for the Arts (VPA) and the Stanford Humanities Center. Transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins pictured with an earlier AI project, the social robot Bina48. Transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins will be on campus for a residency in the fall, developing her project Not the Only One, a multigenerational memoir of one black American family told from the "mind" of an artificial intelligence entity with an evolving intellect. She will return in April 2020 for a convening of thought-leaders exploring artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning and culture.

Together with twelve renowned art and cultural institutions, Ars Electronica recently initiated the European ARTifical Intelligence Lab initiiert. The Europe-wide initiative, scheduled to run for three years, is co-financed by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union and offers artists the opportunity to take part in a residency with scientific institutions: These include the Muntref Centro de Arte y Ciencia, the Laboratorio de Neurociencia de la Universidad Torquato Ditella in Buenos Aires or the University of Edinburgh. Interested artists who wish to develop new artistic approaches at the interface of neuroscience and artificial intelligence can apply for this first residency until February 17, 2019. The results of the residency will then be presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz and at twelve network partners throughout Europe. Mariano Sardón: In a conversation with Gerfried Stocker, the artistic director of Ars Electronica, during one of his visits to Buenos Aires a few years ago, we thought that some areas of science, such as Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, were generating a lot of results and processes which would inevitably impact on our society, and such an impact would need a space for reflection and development in a wide perspective, introducing artists in the context.

I am delighted to invite you to participate in the first Big DataTLV event in Israel to focus on HealthCare.The event takes place on April 16, 2019, in the Wohl Convention Center in the heart of Innovation Nation, Israel.

Immigration officials have abandoned their pursuit of a controversial machine-learning technology that was a pillar of the Trump administration's ''extreme vetting'' of foreign visitors, dealing a reality check to the goal of using artificial intelligence to predict human behavior. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told tech-industry contractors last summer that they wanted a system for their ''extreme vetting initiative'' that could automatically mine Facebook, Twitter, and the broader Internet to determine whether a visitor might commit criminal or terrorist acts or was a ''positively contributing member of society.'' But ICE quietly dropped the machine-learning requirement from its request in recent months, opting instead to hire a contractor that can provide training, management, and human personnel who can do the job. Federal documents say the contract is expected to cost more than $100 million and be awarded by the end of the year. After gathering ''information from industry professionals and other government agencies on current technological capabilities,'' ICE spokeswoman Carissa Cutrell said, the focus of what the agency now calls its Visa Lifecycle Vetting program ''shifted from a technology-based contract to a labor contract.''

Federal immigration officials have abandoned their pursuit of a controversial machine-learning technology that was a pillar of the Trump administration's "extreme vetting" of foreign visitors, dealing a reality check to the goal of using artificial intelligence to predict human behavior. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told tech-industry contractors last summer they wanted a system for their "Extreme Vetting Initiative" that could automatically mine Facebook, Twitter and the broader Internet to determine whether a visitor might commit criminal or terrorist acts or was a "positively contributing member of society." But ICE dropped the machine-learning requirement from its request in recent months, opting instead to hire a contractor that can provide training, management and human personnel who can do the job. Federal documents say the contract is expected to cost more than $100 million and be awarded by the end of the year. After gathering "information from industry professionals and other government agencies on current technological capabilities," ICE spokeswoman Carissa Cutrell said, the focus of what the agency now calls its Visa Lifecycle Vetting program "shifted from a technology-based contract to a labor contract."

Federal immigration officials have abandoned their pursuit of a controversial machine-learning technology that was a pillar of the Trump administration's "extreme vetting" of foreign visitors, dealing a reality check to the goal of using artificial intelligence to predict human behavior. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told tech-industry contractors last summer they wanted a system for their "Extreme Vetting Initiative" that could automatically mine Facebook, Twitter and the broader Internet to determine whether a visitor might commit criminal or terrorist acts or was a "positively contributing member of society." But ICE dropped the machine-learning requirement from its request in recent months, opting instead to hire a contractor that can provide training, management and human personnel who can do the job. Federal documents say the contract is expected to cost more than $100 million and be awarded by the end of the year. After gathering "information from industry professionals and other government agencies on current technological capabilities," ICE spokeswoman Carissa Cutrell said, the focus of what the agency now calls its Visa Lifecycle Vetting program "shifted from a technology-based contract to a labor contract."

Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Robot Dog Goes on Sale in 2019 Stephen Shankland CNET "The company has 10 SpotMini prototypes now and will work with manufacturing partners to build 100 this year, said company co-founder and President Marc Raibert at a TechCrunch robotics conference Friday. 'That's a prelude to getting into a higher rate of production' in anticipation of sales next year, he said. Made In Space Wins NASA Contract for Next-Gen'Vulcan' Manufacturing System Mike Wall Space.com "'The Vulcan hybrid manufacturing system allows for flexible augmentation and creation of metallic components on demand with high precision,' Mike Snyder, Made In Space chief engineer and principal investigator, said in a statement. Duplex Shows Google Failing at Ethical and Creative AI Design Natasha Lomas TechCrunch "But while the home crowd cheered enthusiastically at how capable Google had seemingly made its prototype robot caller--with Pichai going on to sketch a grand vision of the AI saving people and businesses time--the episode is worryingly suggestive of a company that views ethics as an after-the-fact consideration. One it does not allow to trouble the trajectory of its engineering ingenuity."