Our Neuralink Future

Elon Musk’s newer company “Neuralink” just demoed the brain device they’ve been working on the past 2 years during a live stream event. I’ve been waiting a long time to get a glimpse of the hardware, software, and intentions they have as they build this technology and the event was satisfying, thought provoking, and humbling. I’m going to review my impressions of the event, explain how the device works in technical detail, then make a few predictions of what it’s going to be used for in the future. It’s an exciting time to be alive, and although there are dangers involved, I have faith that we can learn from our mistakes and avoid having this tool be used for exploitation like social networks have been used for.

Learning Dexterity

OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company, discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence. They’ve trained a human-like robot hand to manipulate physical objects with unprecedented dexterity.

Their system, called Dactyl, is trained entirely in simulation and transfers its knowledge to reality, adapting to real-world physics.

Dactyl learns from scratch using the same general-purpose reinforcement learning algorithm and code as OpenAI Five. Their results show that it’s possible to train agents in simulation and have them solve real-world tasks, without physically-accurate modeling of the world.

Automatic Machine Learning (AML)

Automatic Machine Learning or “AutoML” is a field of Artificial Intelligence that is gaining a lot of interest lately. The idea is that doing any kind of task related to machine learning involves a whole lot of steps like cleaning a dataset, choosing a model, deciding what the right configurations of that model should be, deciding what the most relevant features are etc. The goal of AutoML is to automate all of that up to a point where all a data scientist would need to do is tell a machine to perform some task using a dataset and wait for it to learn how by itself. In this episode, i’m going to explain several popular AutoML techniques, then compare top AutoML frameworks like AutoKeras, Auto Sklearn, h20, Ludwig, etc. to help you decide which one will be the best for your needs.

AI and Blockchain

The Founder and CEO of WorkDone Inc., Joseph Rogers, sits down with Security Token Academy’s Adam Chapnick for this expert interview. WorkDone Inc. is bringing AI to the workplace with machine learning-based workforce automation services.