Machine learning & AI

Govts, tech firms vow to cooperate against AI risks at Seoul summit

More than a dozen countries and some of the world's biggest tech firms pledged on Wednesday to cooperate against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, including its ability to dodge human control, as they wrapped ...

Internet

How AI discriminates and what that means for your Google habit

Safiya Umoja Noble swears she is not a Luddite. But she does think we could all learn a thing or two from the machine-bashing textile craftsmen in 19th-century Britain whose name is now synonymous with technological skepticism.

Machine learning & AI

Machine learning can help better predict city gentrification

A machine learning model developed and tested by researchers at UNSW City Futures Research Center may be able to better equip policymakers with knowledge and data about predicted neighborhood change—and with better predictive ...

Robotics

What robots can learn from therapists

A transformative experience working with very sick children changed Paul Bucci's mind about how robots used in human therapy should be designed.

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