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This week, CIMON the robot is cranky on the ISS, ESA plays with CERN and AI Chips, shrooms pushing for legality in Oregon, AI powered predictive policing in the UK, Army recruits gamers, and Nephilim is the creature of the week! Go follow us on our new Twitch channel! Join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of Nov.26th-Dec. 4th YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS! (Updates on stories) In Video Debut, CIMON the ISS Robot Throws an Unexpected Tantrum Cyborg Plant Controls a Robot to Move Itself Towards Light - Motherboard TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI OH MY! The TED Interview: Ray Kurzweil on what the future holds next | TED Talk Britain Is Developing an AI-Powered Predictive Policing System This is when experts think we’ll build a truly intelligent AI - The Verge This AI Inserts Unsettling Digital Ghosts Into Normal Pictures - Digg Gastrograph: Can an AI App Make Food Taste Better? - The Atlantic Air Force warns electromagnetic pulse weapons in Iran, Russia and North Korea could destroy America | Daily Mail Online Little Sophia: A New Robot Citizen Has Entered Our World Meet the Nightmare Robot That Trains Employees by Acting Like an Awful Customer | Digital Trends Toyota untethers its T-HR3 humanoid robot thanks to 5G BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM China’s gene-editing doctor He Jiankui is reportedly missing China Opens a `Pandora's Box' of Genetic Engineering - Bloomberg SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Google Is Developing Dossiers on Students Using Their Classroom Products, Disclosures Show Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool | Reuters Amazon improves Alexa's ability to recognize conversation topics by 35% | VentureBeat How limiting social media reduces depression and loneliness Google staffers discussed burying conservative news outlets, but tech giant claims talks didn't amount to anything | Fox News CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! VOA Vows Independence As Trump Calls For 'Worldwide Network' : NPR President-Elect Donald Trump - as Foretold in a 1990 Heavy Metal Story! - Heavy Metal Brazil's new foreign minister believes climate change is a Marxist plot | World news STORIES THAT DOVETAIL OTHER RESEARCH Report: More Than One Million US Pagans, Numbers Still Growing Oregon is close to becoming the first US state to legalise magic mushrooms SPACE/ALIEN/ETs/UFOs NASA expert says alien life may have ALREADY visited Earth | Daily Mail Online GAMERS! The U.S. Army Has A New Plan To Recruit Gamers
This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
In this show I speak with Greg Diamos, senior computer systems researcher at Baidu. Greg joined me before his talk at the Deep Learning Summit, where he spoke on “The Next Generation of AI Chips.” Greg’s talk focused on some work his team was involved in that accelerates deep learning training by using mixed 16-bit and 32-bit floating point arithmetic. We cover a ton of interesting ground in this conversation, and if you’re interested in systems level thinking around scaling and accelerating deep learning, you’re really going to like this one. And of course, if you like this one, you’re also going to like TWiML Talk #14 with Greg’s former colleague, Shubho Sengupta, which covers a bunch of related topics. This show is part of a series of shows recorded at the RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit in Montreal back in October. This was a great event and, in fact, their next event, the Deep Learning Summit San Francisco is right around the corner on January 25th and 26th, and will feature more leading researchers and technologists like the ones you’ll hear here on the show this week, including Ian Goodfellow of Google Brain, Daphne Koller of Calico Labs, and more! Definitely check it out and use the code TWIMLAI for 20% off of registration.