AIAR Weekly #17

AIAR Weekly

Issue #17

01.04.2016

Featured material:

• [AI] Where do minds belong? - Essay about idea that mechanical/electronic intelligence may be not optimal in terms of energy consumption and maybe after its developments it will go back to biological mechanisms like human brain. Quite interesting view on potential evolutionary path.

Articles and videos:

• [R] Past, present, future of surgical robotics for fracture surgery - I'm not a big fan of surgeries. Actually, I'm not sure if anyone is a fan of surgeries. In general, fracture surgeries are quite complicated and not funny for patients and surgeons. In this TED video Sanja Dogramadzi demonstrates her approach to tackling this problem with robotics. Their prototype is not ready to perform surgeries yet, but it looks very promising and who knows, maybe it will operate you ;).
• [AI] A Japanese AI program just wrote a short novel, and it almost won a literary prize - Did you ever felt proud after writing sort or maybe even long fiction text? Did you felt that this text was so abstract that only you could write it in such form? Well, it seems that soon artificial intelligence writers might start to write their own novels and they will be at least as good as those written by humans. No job is secure now?
• [AI] Artificial Intelligence & Music as a Communications Medium - Not every TED talk starts with drum solo. This time, Sean Holden explains his views on idea that human level artificial intelligence is just around corner, and why he believe it is not a case yet.
• [AI] The Near Future of AI: The Road to Super Intelligent Apps and Machines - What could our smartphone do, if we harness AI into applications? Standard risks still applies.

Crowdfunding:

• [R] Cubetto - Cubetto creators have very high ambitions. They want to start teaching programming three years old kids, with robots. And with such cute wooden robot and simple brick programming board it seems as quite achievable goal. Definitely worth checking.

Book of the week:

• [R] Robotics: Everything You Need to Know About Robotics From Beginner to Expert (Robotics Mastery, Robotics 101) - Very short "book" which should get you familiar with basic concepts of robotics.

Courses:

• Nothing interesting this time ;(.

Jobs:

• [AI] Software Engineer - Computer Vision @ Skydio - In previous issue of AIAR Weekly I presented product from Skydio team - autonomous and very sophisticated drone. If you are interested in designing computer vision system which can be used in such devices - Skydio team might be perfect place for you. Location: Redwood City, USA. Tags: slam, c++, deep-learning, neural-networks, software-design.

Humor:

• [R] Introducing the self-driving bicycle in the Netherlands - Where can I buy it?

Kudos:

Michał Neonek, MrValgad, Tompul, Magdalena, Mucha

Appendix:

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