I shared some thoughts with @RachylJones for her @semafor article "Humanizing the machines: Companies design robots to look friendlier" https://t.co/6Z3ux5HLtG
For the love of god, can robotics companies please stop demoing their robots making coffee?
e.g., https://t.co/5AetsJ2pSZ
You have no idea how privileged and detached this looks.
Also: coffee making is not a technologically unsolved problem anyone should be working on.
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I told @THR that AI is by definition conservative and therefore can't be truly funny. Why?
All Supervised Learning does, including your ML model-du-jour, is "average" the past to imagine the present, and that's literally what being conservative means.
https://t.co/dBRsqROiFB
Sad and ironic to see how the organizers of @theofficialacm@FAccTConference (with "Fairness" in its very name) are unwilling to accommodate the schedules of mothers of young children, forcing them to make impossible choices between childcare and career.
Ever wondered why social #robots look the way they do? #design
So happy to announce a new chapter written by Belinda Dunstan and myself.
I've wanted to write about this stuff for a long time, and loved working on it with Belinda during my Sabbatical.
https://t.co/9zeX2miSUj
With all of the GPT talk about "the death of writing", can anyone agree with me that we should not care?
https://t.co/13YhKhHe02
#writing#gpt3#ai#education#essay#westworld
פרק חדש: ברובוטים האינטראקציה חשובה יותר מהאינטליגנציה. @guyhoffman מביא לרובוטיקה שיעורים מעולמות האנימציה והמשחק, תכנן את שחקן התיאטרון הרובוטי הראשון, רובוט שמאלתר ג'אז בזמן אמת וגם "נהנה" מהמוזיקה, וחקר את ההשפעות הפסיכולוגיות שיש לרובוטים על בני אדם
https://t.co/BSvcpLAbP0
The Hidden Value of Prototyping for Policy Making in Tech and Beyond
@CenDemTech Research Fellow Michal Luria (@michalluria) on the use of prototyping techniques for the policy development process: https://t.co/fONLkz8kzd