Concrete problems in AI safety Amodei, Olah, et al., arXiv 2016 This paper examines the potential for accidents in machine learning based systems, and the possible prevention mechanisms we can put … (more…)

The Army has many data problems. But when it comes to the data that underlies facial recognition, one sticks out: Enemies want to poison the well. Adversaries are becoming more sophisticated at providing “poisoned,” or subtly altered, data that will mistr... (more…)

It seems like it was only a few years ago that the term “big data” went from a promising area of research and interest to something so ubiquitous that it lost all meaning, descending ultimately into the butt of jokes. As everyone piled onto the big data b... (more…)

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Andrew Ng has led teams at Google and Baidu that have gone on to create self-learning computer programs used by hundreds of millions of people, including (more…)

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