Toronto-based Integrate.ai has announced the appointment of Kathryn Hume, Tyler Schnoebelen, and Jason Silver to its leadership team.
Read More
A well-funded Toronto artificial-intelligence startup founded by a former Facebook Inc. executive has snagged three marquee hires.
Read More
Every few years, I go through an exercise where I collect a giant list of values, virtues, and intentions and rank them. The whole endeavor is a pseudo-quantitative approach to something deeply qualitative, but it articulates what I’m finding meaningful and helps me choose how I spend time, energy, and money. In the past, it’s been especially useful for helping me come up with responses to tricky situations where I don’t immediately know what to do.
Read More
Professions run into ethical problems all the time. Consider engineering: the US sold $9.9b worth of arms in 2016 ($3.9b in missiles). The most optimistic reading is that instruments of death prevent death. Consider medicine: Medical research is dominated by concerns of market size and patentability, leaving basic questions like “is this fever from bacteria or virus” unanswered for people treating illnesses in low-income countries. Consider law: Lawyers upholding the law can break any normal definition of justice. Even in philosophy, ethicists are not known to be more moral than anyone else.
Read More
This is the visual version of my 5-pg paper, “Goal-oriented design for ethical machine learning and NLP”, which you can find alongside a bunch of others by going to http://ethicsinnlp.com/program.
Read More
Así lo afirma una investigación del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos. Cuando queremos describir algo particularmente indescifrable decimos que nos suena a chino. A un alemán, sin embargo, lo raro le suena a español. La lengua emblema de lo incomprensible varía según países y culturas: para franceses e ingleses es el griego, para los italianos, el árabe; para los finlandeses, el hebreo.
Read More
You don't have to know French to be able to have fun with this article (use Google Translate!). It's about why there are all these band names with all caps and no vowels...what are the patterns?
Read More
Organizations build machine learning systems so that they can predict and categorize data. But to get a system to do anything, you have to train it. This post is meant to help you figure out a budget for training data based on best practices.
Read More
To spell Finland in English, you need six different letters. To say it in emoji, Finland would like to be known as either sauna, socks, heavy-metal headbanger or “girl power.”
Read More
As linguist Tyler Schnoebelen explains, the ways we use emoji varies based on where we live and who our friends are. And some of the humorous, serious or controversial ways people use emoji have become iconic representations of language.
Read More