Stanford AI Index: Lax LLM Reponsibility, AI for Science Accelerates, Impact on Workers, US Leads China in Models

The AI Index Report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI is out, it’s an annual,  thoroughgoing snapshot of the state of AI begun by the HAI in 2019. This year’s edition presents new estimates on AI training….

Video Highlights: Andrew Ng on Career Advice / Reading Research Papers

Stanford University, CS230 is a widely revered course to learn the foundations of Deep Learning, understand how to build neural networks, and learn how to lead successful machine learning projects. Students learn about Convolutional networks, RNNs, LSTM, Adam, Dropout, BatchNorm, Xavier/He initialization, and more. In the video lecture below, Andrew Ng Adjunct Professor, Computer Science, presents Lecture 8 which touches on career advice and also tips for reading research papers.

Livestream: Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference

insideAI News, a Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference media collaborator, is pleased to present the WiDS Stanford livestream. The Global WiDS Conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field. This annual one-day technical conference features outstanding women doing outstanding work.

RCE Podcast Looks at Reproducibility of Scientific Results

“In recent years there has been increasing concern about the reproducibility of scientific results. Because scientific research represents a major public investment and is the basis for many decisions that we make in medicine and society, it is essential that we can trust the results. Our goal is to provide researchers with tools to do better science. Our starting point is in the field of neuroimaging, because that’s the domain where our expertise lies.”

Intel Developer Summer Workshops Coming to Stanford

Intel is offering a 4-part summer series of developer training workshops at Stanford University to introduce high performance computing tools.

Video: Will AI & Robotics Make Humans Obsolete?

“IBM has developed new scale-up and scale-out systems — with 16 million neurons — that will be presented in Dr Modha’s pioneering research talk. Watson wins at Jeopardy and enters industrial applications while AlphaGo defeats the human Go champion. No day goes by before the dooms day prediction of AI infused Robots taking over our world comes up in the news. Visions of HAL and Terminator coming alive? Will Artificial Intelligence make us obsolete?”