European lawmakers called on Thursday for EU-wide legislation to regulate the rise of robots, including an ethical framework for their development and deployment and…

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Jul 10, 2014

Commentaria on an a Facebook Apologia

Here is an interesting post, if bit of a long and rough, by Brian Keegan, a computational…

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Mar 18, 2014

The use of automated news writing algorithms is growing

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Jan 15, 2014

The Big Deal about Big Data and Deep Learning

Recently, you may have been hearing a lot about “Big Data”, this refers to our growing ability to find patterns and process very large amounts of data with or without structure. There are many reasons contributing to this but a recent set of…

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Nov 1, 2013

Review of RLDM2013 Conference

Last week I attended the first multidisciplinary conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2013) and I think I speak for most people who attended when I say I hope it becomes a regular event on the academic calendar.

I often struggle to explain to people…

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Apr 24, 2013

Was the Twitter Plunge Caused by an Algorithm Reading Twitter?

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Nov 17, 2012

Could Machines Make Art?

Fascinating study out of the University of Trento on using Machine Vision algorithms to learn how people respond emotionally to abstract art.

Link : Computers identify what makes abstract art move us

Abstract art might be easier to replicate automatically since you don’t need to…

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Jun 16, 2012

Talking Robots and Psychedelic Drugs

Baby robot learns first words from human teacher — tech — 15 June 2012 — New Scientist

I’m always glad to see more methods from research in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning getting coverage in the media and being explained with some level of detail. Take a…

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Aug 11, 2011

AAAI 2011 Wrap-Up

So I didn’t post an update about the AAAI 2011 conference every day, but really, this is more posts than I would have predicted with my prior model of my behaviour so it’s pretty good. I also wrote a separate post talking about the Computational Sustainability track.

This is just a few quick few…