Techcrunch Robotics and AI 2019 #TCRobotics
Nextbigfuture is live blogging at the Techcrunch Robotics and AI 2019 conference and covering the panel on Building a Better Robotics Company
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VP Pence Calls for Manned Moon Landing by 2024
Yesterday, Vice President Mike Pence asked NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to accelerate lunar exploration plans during a National Space Council meeting held at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Pence calls for targeting a human landing on the Moon in 2024, the council also discussed creating a new Moon to Mars Mission Directorate. …
Beyond Deep Learning: Investing in the Future of AI – Presented by Samsung NEXT #emtechdigital
Breakthroughs in deep learning are inspiring the evolution of AI. But will this “deep learning + X” model drive AI to its fullest potential? While problem solving with more data and deeper models has a place in AI’s evolution, not every problem can be solved by this model. Samsung NEXT not only enables “deep learning …
Ethics in AI – Google Announces External AI Advisory Council #emTechDigital
Google’s VP Kent Walker announced that Google will build an external AI advisory council. They come from our continents and from many disciplines. Google will be providing a release that has the names and details of the external AI advisory council. Gideon Lichfield of MIT Technology Review asked who determines what is appropriate for Google’s …
What Does It Mean to a Researcher at Deep Mind #emtechdigital
David Budden is a Research Engineering Team Lead, DeepMind. He will discuss Engineering Intelligence. David talked about how innovation can come from anywhere in the company. A Deep Fake (fake picture) project was performed by an intern. It is a myth that deep mind does not open source. Starcraft can take a long time and …
Industry Outlook: Powering New Applied AI Solutions #emtechdigital
Naveen Rao is the Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Artificial Intelligence Products Group, Intel. Naveen views Moore’s law as an economic law. Naveen is talking about biological comparisons in order to use biology as a guide. There is a great diversity in the ecosystem. There are 300 pounds of insects for every pound of …
Improving the Science Behind AI #emtechdigital
Hardware is gating the rate of progress in Artificial Intelligence. Bill Dally is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research, Nvidia. Moore’s law is not providing performance gains but improvement is being made with specialized chips. Powerful new AI chips are developed to improve the speed and efficiency of today’s systems. The Nvidia …
Adversarial Machine Learning and Generated Objectives #emtechdigital
Gideon Lichfield is reviewing highlight from yesterdays talks at EmTech Digital 2019. Dawn Song talked about adversarial machine learning. Adversarial machine learning can be used to learn in spite of problems and actors working against you in the environment. Sergey Levine talked about a computer visualizing its own goals. This was new to Technology Review. …
Reimagining Drug Design in the Era of AI #emtechdigital
Daphne Koller is the Founder and CEO, Insitro. Insitro will integrate cutting-edge machine learning techniques with the ground-breaking innovations that have occurred in life sciences that enable the creation of the large, high-quality data sets. They will collect and use a range of very large data sets to train ML (machine learning) models to help …
AI and Robotics in the Lab: Accelerating Materials Discovery #emtechdigital
Jill Becker is the CEO and Cofounder, Kebotix. The Kebotix self-driving lab combines data and AI with robotics to discover and create advanced chemicals and materials at a faster rate and at the push of a button. Kebotix offers inventive solutions that create new, disruptive chemistries and materials at a rapid pace while reducing costs. …
Construction Sites Will Become Like Automated Manufacturing Factories #emtechdigital
Andrew Anagnost is the President and CEO, Autodesk.He discusses using AI to improve construction and many other jobs and industries. Automation and Imagination: Designing a World for 10 Billion People. Andrew sees other industries catching up to the automation that has existed in manufacturing. He sees the automation of the construction site as being one …