“Today, some of that research was described in a scientific paper from the University of California, San Francisco, where researchers have been developing “speech decoders” able to determine what people are trying to say by analyzing their brain signals. Facebook has plans to demonstrate a prototype portable system by the end of the year, although…
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3 female AI trailblazers reveal how they beat the odds and overcame sexism to become leaders in their field
Claudia Exeler, the 29-year-old using AI to help Facebook track down hacked accounts Sandra Wachter, the Oxford and Turing Fellow researcher whose work has been picked up by Google Doina Precup, the Romanian-born academic who was personally headhunted by the boss of DeepMind https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.in/miscellaneous/3-female-ai-trailblazers-reveal-how-they-beat-the-odds-and-overcame-sexism-to-become-leaders-in-their-field/amp_slidelist/70214082.cms
AI Weekly: Highlights from VentureBeat’s AI conference Transform
“Developing an data strategy should come before considering AI for your business If you “don’t have top-down support and understanding for bottom-up initiatives, you’re going to fail miserably because there’s going to be … a longer timeline for ROI.” Accelerating scale of compute use is “what keeps me up at night.” Advances in optimization and…
The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason
“Nobody tells the baby that objects are supposed to fall,” said Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Facebook and a professor at NYU…, “a lot of what they learn about the world is through observation.” While algorithms based on supervised and reinforcement learning are taught to achieve an objective through human input, unsupervised ones…
Facebook’s new poker-playing AI could wreck the online poker industry—so it’s not being released
“A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Facebook used a combination of AI techniques to out-bet and out-bluff human players in a game of six-player, no-limit Texas Hold’em. Each of the humans involved had previously won more than a million dollars at the poker table—which included Darren Elias, who holds the record for most…