Top 10 AI Tweets That Made A Mark In 2019
2019 will go down as a year of many developments in the artificial intelligence landscape. Besides millions and millions of tweets on new innovations, AI was at the centre of constant brainstorming among experts, researchers and influencers. With the year 2019 coming to an end, here are our top 10 tweets that we found very both thoughtful and intriguing in the context of artificial intelligence (AI). Demis Hassabis In January 2019, Demis Hassabis, Founder & CEO DeepMindAI introduced with his tweet AlphaStar, the first AI  to defeat a top professional player in StarCraft which is one of the most challenging Real-Time Strategy games. In a series of matches, AlphaStar beat Team Liquid’s Grzegorz Komincz, one of the world’s best professional StarCraft players. Demis highlighted that the technology behind Alpha Star could also be used for other applications such as weather prediction. 3/3 While StarCraft is ‘just’ a (very complex!) game, I’m excited that the techniques behind #AlphaStar could be useful in other problems such as weather prediction & climate modeling, which also involve predictions over very long sequences. Peer-reviewed paper is underway.— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) January 24, 2019 Andrew NG Andrew NG, one of the most influential AI experts in the world and founder of Coursera, announced AI For Everyone on his Twitter targeted for all kinds of professionals to get started in AI. At a time when the world is moving towards democratising AI for all, the course has been highly appreciated by Twitterati. AI For Everyone is now available on @Coursera! This course will help non-engineers and engineers work together to leverage AI capabilities and build an AI strategy. If you want your company to embrace AI, this is the course to get your CEO to take! https://t.co/bzpf1ed8DL pic.twitter.com/zfaclVjnbS— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) February 28, 2019 Geoffrey Hinton The following was one of the first few tweets from Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of on artificial neural networks after he got started with Twitter. Also known as “Godfather of Deep Learning”, Hinton celebrated the winning of the Turing award along with Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio. Thanks to my graduate students and postdocs whose work won a Turing award. Thanks to my visionary mentors Inman Harvey, David Rumelhart and Terry Sejnowski. And thanks to Jeff Dean for creating the brain team that turns basic research in neural nets into game-changing products.— Geoffrey Hinton (@geoffreyhinton) March 27, 2019 Moustapha Cisse Moustapha Cisse, Research Scientist and Head of Google AI centre in Accra, Ghana shared an optimistic tweet about the future of AI education in Africa- the poorest continent in the world. So we received 7053 (!!!) applications for the African Masters in Machine Intelligence 2019/2020 (https://t.co/gFXymcVn8Z). I think #AI has a bright future in #Africa .— Moustapha Cisse (@Moustapha_6C) April 9, 2019 Lex Fridman AI researcher Lex Fridman showcased how he used GPT-2 on tweets to create AI versions of specific individuals. In the tweet, Lex gave a real tweet about tunnels from Elon Musk which was rewritten by AI versions of Justin Beiber, Kanye West and Katy Perry. In 2019,  OpenAI released the full version of a text-generating AI system which has impressed experts to create coherent text from minimal inputs. I fine-tuned GPT-2 neural net on people's tweets to create AI versions of them. Surprisingly realistic and at times profound. Here's a real tweet about tunnels from @elonmusk rewritten by AI versions of @justinbieber, @kanyewest, & @katyperry. Details: https://t.co/QVVYrYoKNt pic.twitter.com/ix2daVBFUZ— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) June 7, 2019 Ian Goodfellow Next, we have Ian Goodfellow, the inventor of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) discussed the nature of psychological barriers to the success of deep learning before 2012 using the analogy of The Roger Bannister Effect. I think that barriers to the success of deep learning before 2012 were largely psychological and have previously used the 4 minute mile story as an analogy to explain it. So this surprises me.— Ian Goodfellow (@goodfellow_ian) July 24, 2019 Elon Musk How could we not include Elon Musk in the list of top AI tweets for 2019? On September 26, 2019, Elon put out a tweet reminding people of the potential misuse of AI on social media. Elon has been a great advocate of taking caution in AI technologies as he says could have extremely negative consequences in the coming future. And he is totally right in his warning- Twitter itself has been a playground for spam bots which have been used for nefarious purposes like fraud and stealing identity. If advanced AI (beyond basic bots) hasn’t been applied to manipulate social media, it won’t be long before it is— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2019 OpenAI (Official) It was a momentous year for OpenAI. The company later in the year demonstrated through a tweet how the it trained a pair of neural networks to solve the Rubik’s Cube with a human-like robot hand. We've trained an AI system to solve the Rubik's Cube with a human-like robot hand.This is an unprecedented level of dexterity for a robot, and is hard even for humans to do.The system trains in an imperfect simulation and quickly adapts to reality: https://t.co/O04izt3KvO pic.twitter.com/8lGhU2pPck— OpenAI (@OpenAI) October 15, 2019 Anima Anandkumar Moving on, there was an intriguing tweet on AI bias from Anima Anandkumar- Bren Professor of Computing at California Institute of Technology. She reported her work on detecting bias in different samples for Deep Learning models. According to Anima, it’s  very difficult to understand and fix bias through AI algorithms for Deep Learning. https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/1203513878040207360 Rodney Brooks Finally here is Rodney Brooks, a notable robot engineer challenging Elon Musk’s promise of delivering 1 million driverless Tesla taxis on US streets by December 31, 2020. According to Rodney, the number will be zero and so far his prediction has held correct as there have been zero deployments of autonomous Tesla taxis in 2019. Let's count how many truly autonomous (no human safety driver) Tesla taxis (public chooses destination & pays) on regular streets (unrestricted human driven cars on the same streets) on December 31, 2020. It will not be a million. My prediction: zero. Count & retweet this then. https://t.co/FLWjjPJToB— Rodney Brooks (@rodneyabrooks) May 8, 2019
2019 will go down as a year of many developments in the artificial intelligence landscape. Besides millions and millions of tweets on new innovations, AI was at the centre of constant brainstorming among experts, researchers and influencers. With the year 2019 coming to an end, here are our top 10 tweets that we found very […]
Besides millions and millions of tweets on new innovations, AI was at the centre of constant discussions among experts and prominent researchers
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Vishal Chawla is a senior tech journalist at Analytics India Magazine and writes about AI, data analytics, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and blockchain. Vishal also hosts AIM's video podcast called Simulated Reality- featuring tech leaders, AI experts, and innovative startups of India.