Question for AI researchers: What would you say are the most important advances towards more *general* AI that have happened over the last five years? That is, general as opposed to narrow AI. (I'm writing a review of this.) 1/3
I've been sitting in on a class at MIT this semester and the professor just asked how old people were when 9/11 happened.
Long pause.
"We weren't born yet."
Y'all.
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Researchers have demonstrated that they can make a face recognition system similar to those used at airports think someone else is you. This is the equivalent of tricking a machine into allowing someone to board a flight despite being on a no-fly list. bit.ly/3gPFCxL
The Lookout accessibility app for #Android includes the ability to detect and recognize supermarket products. This technology leverages recent improvements in smartphone compute power and neural network design to run entirely on-device. Learn more at: goo.gle/31IdgiD
Artificial evolution of “swimbots”
“Witness the effects of Darwinian evolution as hundreds of simulated organisms compete for mates and food.”
Web browser demo reminds me of 2D version of Karl Sims' Evolving Virtual Creatures
by @jjventrella h/t @danbriswimbots.com/genepool/
"Who would buy an Apple phone in China if you can't use WeChat on it?"
Our head of Geo-tech @pstAsiatech raises this question in @WIRED as he, @lmatsakis
and @willknight discuss the implications of Trump's #WeChat executive order.
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"The Origin of Chemical Elements" paper, one of the most cited in astrophysics, was written by Ralph Alpher and George Gamow. Gamow liked the idea of having an author list that sounded like the first 3 Greek letters - alpha beta gamma. So he made Hans Bethe a co-author as a joke
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