Gods and Robots In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman. See omnystudio.com/listener... See More Episodes arXiv Whitepapers The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research Machine learning currently exerts an outsized influence on the world, increasingly affecting institutional practices and impacted communities. It is therefore critical that we question vague conceptions of the field as value-neutral or universally beneficial, and investigate what specific values the... Three Generative, Lexicalised Models for Statistical Parsing In this paper we first propose a new statistical parsing model, which is a generative model of lexicalised context-free grammar. We then extend the model to include a probabilistic treatment of both subcategorisation and wh-movement. Results on Wall Street Journal text show that the parser performs... The Fallacy of AI Functionality Deployed AI systems often do not work. They can be constructed haphazardly, deployed indiscriminately, and promoted deceptively. However, despite this reality, scholars, the press, and policymakers pay too little attention to functionality. This leads to technical and policy solutions focused on... More featured content News Articles Seeing the whole from some of the parts Keeping web-browsing data safe from hackers Stay in the loop. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly update on the latest podcast, news, events, and jobs postings. E-mail Leave this field blank In Farming, a Constant Drive For Technology Do AI systems really have their own secret language? The downside of machine learning in health care AI and machine learning are improving weather forecasts, but they won’t replace human experts In bias we trust? In India, Digital Snooping on Sanitation Workers When self-driving cars crash, who’s responsible? Courts and insurers need to know what’s inside the ‘black box’ Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves More news