“From the Archive” features historical content shining a light on past successes in AI.

This week we feature RoboCup highlights from 1997 to 2011.

ICRL, the International Conference on Learning Representations, was held May 6th to 9th 2019 in New Orleans.

Relive the conference through some of the top tweets (#ICLR2019).

By Anusha Nagabandi and Ignasi Clavera

Humans have the ability to seamlessly adapt to changes in their environments: adults can learn to walk on crutches in just a few seconds, people can adapt almost instantaneously to picking up an object that is unexpectedly heavy, and children who can walk on flat ground can quickly adapt their gait to walk uphill without having to relearn how to walk. This adaptation is critical for functioning in the real world.

A recent paper in Nature reports on a new technology created by UC San Francisco neuroscientists that translates neural activity into speech. Although the technology was trialled on participants with intact speech, the hope is that it could be transformative in the future for people who are unable to communicate as a result of neurological impairments.

The Partnership on AI has announced an initiative to define best practices for transparency in machine learning.

In this episode of Computing Up, David Jensen, Professor and Director of the Knowledge Discovery Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talks with Michael Littman and Dave Ackley – because causality.