Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room by Kevin Hartnett in Quanta Magazine 20 September 2018
Machine learning has yet to grow up. Machine learning is like a primary school child. It has...
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I want to make a chemical brain by Roman Hooper in NewScientist 15 September 2018
Consciousness in silico will not work. So says the chemist, Lee Cronin. He believes that the...
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Head full of brains, shoes full of feet in The Economist 1 September 2018
As AI becomes more human, it grows stronger. Supervised machine learning has made great strides in...
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Robot laws by Douglas Heaven in NewScientist 4 August 2018
Asimov’s three laws of robotics get overhauled. Asimov was clearly on the right track when he...
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Start-ups gain edge in new era of computing by Richard Waters in Financial Times 070618
It’s not all going the way of the cloud. The move towards the cloud has centralised more and more...
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From A&E to AI in The Economist 9 June 2018
AI continues to transform medical diagnostics. This is a useful article updating the reader on the...
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Machine theory of mind by NC Rabinowitz et al at DeepMind 21 February 2018
How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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Building Machines that Learn and Think for Themselves by M Botvinick et al in Behavioural and Brain Sciences 2017
Homing in on the conceptual design of a thinking machine. There is growing agreement all round on...
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Imagination-augmented agents for deep reinforcement learning by T Weber, S Racaniere, DP Reichert et al 19 July 2017
Planning strategies in the real world takes imagination. A team at DeepMind has developed an...
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Equilibrium Propagation: Bridging the Gap between Energy-Based Models and Backpropagation by B Scellier and Y Bengio in Front. Comput. Neurosci. 4 May 2017
Could equilibrium propagation be nature’s way of doing backpropagation? This paper is absolutely...
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AI-spy in The Economist 31 March 2018
AI will boost productivity but it’s not all good news. This week, The Economist has devoted a...
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A Skinner box for software in The Economist 24 March 2018
The Turing box may offer a standardised method of testing AI. A team of researchers has devised a...
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Four funny ways AI has outsmarted us by Chelsea Whyte in NewScientist 24 March 2018
Funny algorithms make a serious point. NewScientist reports on an amusing collection of algorithms...
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The Shallowness of Google Translate by Douglas Hofstadter in The Antlantic 30 January 2018
Understanding the point about understanding the point. We are all familiar with the point that...
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Common sense, the Turing Test, and the quest for real AI by Hector J Levesque 2017
Today’s AI still miles off equalling human common sense reasoning. Levesque makes a key point...
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Theory of a machine’s mind by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 3 March 2018
AIs can now understand, or at least read, other AIs’ minds. DeepMind’s new Theory of Mind-net AI...
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The Economist Special Report on Autonomous Vehicles 3 March 2018
A timely and comprehensive review of autonomous vehicles. The Economist report first brings the...
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Sensing trouble ahead, FT Big Read Driverless vehicles 22 February 2018
Fundamental questions raised about practicalities of 3D mapping. Each driverless car company is...
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Optimization as a model for few-shot learning by S Ravi and H Larochelle at ICLR 2017
Interesting new research on how to effect few-shot learning. AI researchers are making progress in...
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AI in society, The unexamined mind in The Economist 17 February 2018
Work goes on to get AI to open its black box. This is a timely and wide-ranging article on a...
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