MACHINE BEHAVIOR NEEDS TO BE AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
What if physiologists were the only people who study human behavior at all scales: from how the human body functions, to how social norms emerge, to how the stock market functions, to how we create, share, and consume culture? What if neuroscientists were the only people tasked with studying criminal behavior, designing educational curricula, and devising policies to fight tax evasion? Source: nautil.us
NORMAN: PSYCHOPATH AI
We present you Norman, world’s first psychopath AI. Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, and represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms. Source: mit.edu
STARTING TODAY, ALL CARS IN EUROPE CAN CALL THE POLICE THEMSELVES
After a road accident, most people won’t have a cool enough head to do everything exactly right. They may forget which number to call for an emergency, or they may wait too long to call it. The accident may have been so severe that they are unable to call for help themselves, either because they are unconscious or trapped.
Read moreWRISTBAND LETS THE BRAIN CONTROL A COMPUTER WITH A THOUGHT AND A TWITCH
Every so often a news article appears that shows a disabled person directing movement of a computer cursor or a prosthetic hand with thought alone. But why would anyone choose to have a hole drilled through his or her skull to embed a computer chip in the brain unless warranted by a severe medical condition? Source: scientificamerican.com
DISTRIBUTE MESSAGES EFFECTIVELY IN SERVERLESS APPLICATIONS
In the following post, I will shed some light on how to distribute messages between AWS Lambda functions, taking in consideration service decoupling, end-to-end performance, troubleshooting, and more. Source: medium.com
BUZZWORD CONVERGENCE: MAKING SENSE OF QUANTUM NEURAL BLOCKCHAIN AI
What happens if you take four of today’s most popular buzzwords and string them together? Does the result mean anything? Given that today is April 1 (as well as being Easter Sunday), I thought it’d be fun to explore this. Think of it as an Easter egg… from which something interesting just might hatch. And to make it clear: while I’m fooling around in stringing the buzzwords together, the details of what I’ll say here are perfectly real.
Read moreTURN TENSORFLOW FUNCTIONS INTO MATHEMATICAL NOTATIONS AND DIAGRAMS
This is based on some helper classes I started writing, to help my self make less mistakes and understand the code better. It is still work in progress. I want to share the idea to see if it interests others. Source: varunajayasiri.com
TIME TO TALK ABOUT WHY SO MANY POSTGRADS HAVE POOR MENTAL HEALTH
There is a problem with the culture in science, and it is one that loads an increasing burden on the shoulders of younger generations. The evidence suggests that they are feeling the effects. (Among the tweets, one proposed solution to improving the PhD is to “treat it like professional training instead of indentured servitude with no hope of a career at the end?”.)
Read moreTESLA SAYS AUTOPILOT WAS ACTIVE DURING FATAL CRASH IN MOUNTAIN VIEW
Last week’s fatal Tesla Model X crash in Mountain View, California, occurred while the vehicle had Autopilot engaged, Tesla said in a Friday blog post. ‘Our hearts are with the family and friends who have been affected by this tragedy,’ the company said. The crash claimed the life of an Apple engineer,Walter Huang, according to the Bay Area’s ABC 7 News.
Read moreMETAPHORS CAN CHANGE OUR OPINIONS IN WAYS WE DON’T EVEN REALIZE
When we think about metaphor, we might think about how we typically learn about metaphor in school: as a poetic device or a rhetorical flourish. But, metaphors are not simply confined to the world of poetry—they are all around us. We describe time as money (“spending time”), arguments as war (“you attacked my argument,” “I defended my argument”), love as a journey (“their relationship hit a dead end”), and emotional states as directions (“he was feeling down,” “cheer up”).
Read more