Feb 5, 2021

🤖 A life surrounded by AI | Top AI labs | State of AI ethics 2021

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Artificial Intelligence Weekly

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This week: Imagining a life surrounded by AI, the top AI labs, the state of AI ethics, and more.

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Imagine a life surrounded by AI | Harvard Gazette

Harvard’s AI+Art project aims to get people thinking about how artificial intelligence may impact our lives in the future.

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Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model | VentureBeat

Researchers at Google claim to have trained a natural language model containing over a trillion parameters.

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This Company Uses AI to Outwit Malicious AI | WIRED

Robust Intelligence is among a crop of companies that offer to protect clients from efforts at deception.

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The Capitol riot is spurring new interest in gun-detection AI | Fast Company

Facial detection has all sorts of technological and ethical problems. What if we tried to prevent crime by using software to spot weapons?

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AI researchers rank the top AI labs worldwide | CNBC

DeepMind, OpenAI, and Facebook AI Research are fighting it out to be the top AI research lab in the world.

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Nine Experts on the Single Biggest Obstacle Facing AI and Algorithms in the Next Five Years | Emerging Tech Brew

Hear from industry voices like Andrew Ng and Cathy O'Neil—plus leaders at Google, Microsoft, Waymo, Salesforce, and more.

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Report: The State of AI Ethics - Jan 2021 | Montreal AI Ethics Institute

The report opens with The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook — an exclusive piece by a group of MIT professors & research scientists about the mistreatment of Dr. Timnit Gebru by Google and the broader historical significance.

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Funding Updates

CCC Information Services to Go Public in $6.5 Billion SPAC Merger | WSJ
Weights & Biases raises $45M for its machine learning tools | TechCrunch
Run:AI raises $30M Series B for its AI compute platform | TechCrunch
Superb AI Raises $9.3M in Series A Funding | FinSMEs

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