Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin riled the tech community this morning when he told Axios' Mike Allen that displacement of jobs by artificial intelligence and automation is "not even on my radar screen" because the technology is "50-100 more years" away. ... (more…)
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DeepMind AlphaGo Team Receive Inaugural IJCAI Marvin Minsky Medal for Outstanding Achievements in AI
The team behind DeepMind’s world-beating AlphaGo system were today announced as the recipients of the inaugural Marvin Minsky Medal, given by the IJCAI ... (more…)
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Researchers from the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, EPFL (Lausanne) and Sciteb Ltd have found a mathematical means of helping regulators and business manage and police Artificial Intelligence systems' biases towards making unethical, and ... (more…)
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In the summer of 2020, I stumbled across the most remarkable Twitter exchange. Yann LeCun, one of the figures most responsible for the modern state of AI and machine learning (ML), had been temporarily hounded off Twitter by a researcher at Google* named ... (more…)
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The price being discussed could value Nuance at about $56 a share, a 23% premium to Friday’s close. (more…)
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