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Edition #78 - October 29th, 2021
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🎦 Just how good has CCTV surveillance got?
Researchers with Sichuan University have written a paper summarizing recent progress in pedestrian Re-ID. Re-ID is the task of looking at a picture of a person, then a different picture of that person from a different camera and/or angle, then figuring out that those images are of the same people. It’s one of the scarier applications of AI, given that it enables low-cost surveillance via the CCTV cameras.
🌈 Do computers have the same biases as humans?
Bias in facial recognition is one of the most controversial issues of the current moment in AI. Now, a new study from researchers from multiple US universities has found something surprising - computers are far more accurate than non-expert humans at facial recognition, and they display similar (though not worse) biases.
🤖 DeepMind makes MuJoCo FREE
DeepMind has bought MuJoCo, a widely-used physics simulator that underpins a lot of robotics research. The strange thing is DeepMind has bought MuJoCo to make it free. You can download MuJoCo for free now, and DeepMind says in the future it's going to develop the software as an open source project "under a permissive license".
🇫🇷 French Touch
🥵 Mila permet de vivre l’expérience de catastrophes naturelles pour sensibiliser l’opinion
Pour faire prendre conscience à la population de l’impact d’une catastrophe naturelle, l’institut québécois d’Intelligence Artificielle Mila a lancé la semaine dernière le site “Ce climat n’existe pas”.
https://ceclimatnexistepas.com/
🌐 Première stratégie de l’OTAN en matière d’Intelligence Artificielle
Dans le cadre de son Agenda OTAN 2030, l'OTAN a donc adopté une stratégie visant à maintenir son avance dans sept technologies de rupture d’importance clé : intelligence artificielle, données et informatique, systèmes autonomes, technologies quantiques, biotechnologies, technologies hypersoniques et espace. L’intelligence artificielle pose question, en particulier lorsqu’elle est combinée à d’autres comme le big data, les systèmes autonomes ou les biotechnologies. Les ministres de la Défense des pays de l’OTAN ont donc approuvé une première stratégie.
A big thanks to our sources: https://jack-clark.net/, https://www.actuia.com/, https://thevariable.com/news/, https://techcrunch.com/, https://read.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/
#DeepMing #OTAN #Mila #Bias
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