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Why a YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech

WIRED

Last June, Antonio Radiฤ‡, the host of a YouTube chess channel with more than a million subscribers, was live-streaming an interview with the grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura when the broadcast suddenly cut out. Instead of a lively discussion about chess openings, famous games, and iconic players, viewers were told Radiฤ‡'s video had been removed for "harmful and dangerous" content. Radiฤ‡ saw a message stating that the video, which included nothing more scandalous than a discussion of the King's Indian Defense, had violated YouTube's community guidelines. It remained offline for 24 hours. Exactly what happened still isn't clear.


Machine learning will redesign, not replace, work

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The conversation around artificial intelligence and automation seems dominated by either doomsayers who fear robots will supplant all humans in the workforce, or optimists who think there's nothing new under the sun. But MIT Sloan professor Erik Brynjolfsson and his colleagues say that debate needs to take a different tone. New research finds that specific tasks within jobs, rather than entire occupations themselves, will be replaced by automation in the near future, with some jobs more heavily impacted than others. "Our findings suggest that a shift is needed in the debate about the effects of AI: away from the common focus on full automation of entire jobs and pervasive occupational replacement toward the redesign of jobs and reengineering of business practices," the researchers write in an article published in May in the American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings. The work is by Brynjolfsson, professor Tom Mitchell of Carnegie Mellon University's machine learning department, and Daniel Rock, a doctoral candidate and researcher at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.


Can computers ever replace the classroom?

The Guardian

For a child prodigy, learning didn't always come easily to Derek Haoyang Li. When he was three, his father โ€“ a famous educator and author โ€“ became so frustrated with his progress in Chinese that he vowed never to teach him again. "He kicked me from here to here," Li told me, moving his arms wide. Yet when Li began school, aged five, things began to click. Five years later, he was selected as one of only 10 students in his home province of Henan to learn to code. At 16, Li beat 15 million kids to first prize in the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad. Among the offers that came in from the country's elite institutions, he decided on an experimental fast-track degree at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. It would enable him to study maths, while also covering computer science, physics and psychology. In his first year at university, Li was extremely shy.


"Father of Machine Learning", the Chief AI Scientist of Squirrel AI Learning, Tom Mitchell Delivered an Opening Speech at the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference(WAIC): AI for a Brighter World๏ผ

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SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 16, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On August 29th, with the theme of "Intelligent Connectivity, Infinite Possibilities", the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), co-sponsored by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Internet Information Office, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering and Shanghai Municipal People's Government, was solemnly held in Shanghai. More than 500 top universities, international organizations and the world's most influential scientists, entrepreneurs and investors in the field of artificial intelligence gathered in Shanghai. Turing Award winners Raj Reddy and Manuel Blum, former Dean of the School of Computer Science at CMU & Chief AI Scientist of Squirrel AI Learning Tom Mitchell, Nobel Prize winner George Smoot, "Father of Machine Learning", Finn E. Kydland, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA Scientific Director Jรผrgen Schmidhuber Co-founder and CEO of Tesla Elon Musk, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Tencent Pony (Huateng) Ma, Co-chairman of the United Nations High-level Group on Digital Cooperation Jack Ma etc., delivered brilliant speeches and conversations respectively. In the top-leader conversation session, Elon Musk, Co-founder and CEO of Tesla, conducted an in-depth conversation with Jack Ma, Co-chairman of the United Nations High-level Group on Digital Cooperation. When it comes to education, Musk said, "The lecture is the worst because it's too slow. It's hard to make fewer mistakes for us in predicting the future, but you have to try first, and then to adjust it according to the errors you have predicted before."


National AI plans should encourage international collaboration: expert ยท TechNode

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National artificial intelligence (AI) plans, including those drafted by China, should promote international collaboration, not just permit it, according to Tom Mitchell, former dean of Carnegie Mellon University's computer science school. Why it matters: Mitchell, known as the father of machine learning, was speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on Thursday. "What I think these national strategies need is a distinction that says for win-win applications the rational strategy for every country is not just to allow collaboration but actually to promote it. And to find ways to, for example, share medical data internationally, and share algorithms and the hard engineering work." Details: Mitchell said that AI applications in healthcare, education, and smart cities could benefit from researchers in different countries working together.


Machine learning will redesign, not replace, work

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It's time to shift the conversation around AI and machine learning from threats of job replacement to opportunities for job redesign. The conversation around artificial intelligence and automation seems dominated by either doomsayers who fear robots will supplant all humans in the workforce, or optimists who think there's nothing new under the sun. But MIT Sloan professor Erik Brynjolfsson and his colleagues say that debate needs to take a different tone. New research finds that specific tasks within jobs, rather than entire occupations themselves, will be replaced by automation in the near future, with some jobs more heavily impacted than others. "Our findings suggest that a shift is needed in the debate about the effects of AI: away from the common focus on full automation of entire jobs and pervasive occupational replacement toward the redesign of jobs and reengineering of business practices," the researchers write in an article published in May in the American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings.


Machine learning will redesign, not replace, work

#artificialintelligence

The conversation around artificial intelligence and automation seems dominated by either doomsayers who fear robots will supplant all humans in the workforce, or optimists who think there's nothing new under the sun. But MIT Sloan professor Erik Brynjolfsson and his colleagues say that debate needs to take a different tone. New research finds that specific tasks within jobs, rather than entire occupations themselves, will be replaced by automation in the near future, with some jobs more heavily impacted than others. "Our findings suggest that a shift is needed in the debate about the effects of AI: away from the common focus on full automation of entire jobs and pervasive occupational replacement toward the redesign of jobs and reengineering of business practices," the researchers write in an article published in May in the American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings. The work is by Brynjolfsson, professor Tom Mitchell of Carnegie Mellon University's machine learning department, and Daniel Rock, a doctoral candidate and researcher at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.


What is 'ground truth' in AI and deep learning?

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Why Applied Machine Learning Is Hard - Machine Learning Mastery

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Applied machine learning is challenging. You must make many decisions where there is no known "right answer" for your specific problem, such as: This is challenging for beginners that expect that you can calculate or be told what data to use or how to best configure an algorithm. In this post, you will discover the intractable nature of designing learning systems and how to deal with it. This post is divided into 6 sections inspired by chapter 1 of Tom Mitchell's excellent 1997 book Machine Learning; they are: We can define a general learning task in the field of applied machine learning as a program that learns from experience on some task against a specific performance measure. A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E. We take this as a general definition for the types of learning tasks that we may be interested in for applied machine learning such as predictive modeling.