Nov 4, 2020

🤖 State of AI Ethics | Deep Learning & Geoff Hinton | AI & Surveillance

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Artificial Intelligence Weekly

Your essential reading list for all things AI.

This week: The State of AI Ethics Report (Oct 2020), AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”, Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition technology, AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world, and much more. As usual, we report on the latest VC investment rounds in notable AI startups. On the M&A front, some 4 AI startups were acquired by Apple, Intel and British Grocer “Ocado”.

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AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”

Thirty years ago, Hinton’s belief in neural networks was contrarian. Now it’s hard to find anyone who disagrees, he says.

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The State of AI Ethics Report (Oct 2020)

The State of AI Ethics Report (October 2020) captures the most relevant developments in AI Ethics since July of 2020.

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Why are Twitter and the billionaire founder of Supercell backing this London VC Fund?

London-based Air Street Capital raises $17 million to invest in early-stage tech and life science companies built around artificial intelligence.

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Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition technology

“Face match… find me a squirt,” wrote a Verkada sales director in Slack. The company was valued at $1.6 billion earlier this year.

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AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world

Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary motion to plate tectonics, but they’re notoriously hard to solve.

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Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves

The retail giant is ending its push to have machines developed by Bossa Nova Robotics rove stores to keep track of inventory, after discovering during the coronavirus pandemic that humans can help get similar results.

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Funding and M&A Updates

Techstars Startup Digest Artificial Intelligence Weekly is curated by:

	Aashay Mody - 👨‍💻 Growth at Anvil \| 🤖 AI Digest Curator at Startup Digest \| 🎓 NYU Stern Alum aashay.mody@startupdigestmail.com
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