Computer Vision News - March 2020

3 Summary AI Spotlight News 27 Yoshua Bengio’s blog: First of all, let’s start with Yoshua Bengio’s new blog . Yos hua noted that his numerous comments and posts on social media may enjoy only a temporary life. He decided to create a plac e to couch some of his thoughts that would be more permanent and easier to find. His blog is intended to cover both research que stions and broader questions — often about our society — which occupy his thoughts. One of them is the climate crisis , which he b elieves it is one of the most serious threats to humanity and the pl anet. Our interview with Yoshua Bengio . Bengio’s Blog The Internet of Wild Things: Technology and the battle against biodiversity loss and climate change: More about the climate change and other threats . This nice report showshow Artificial Intelligence andnewtechnologiesarecontributing to install a regime of benign surveillance over the natural world . The purpose is to detect what’s going wrong, understanding and fight it as needed. While the world is apparently fiddling, the planet burns and AI is telling us where and how. Read this great report Top Artificial Intelligence Influencers to Follow in 2020: This nice list of major thinkers and thought leaders in our community includes most of the names that you expect and a fewnames youprobably do not much about, together with some of the old friends of Computer Vision News: Jürgen Schmidhuber , Yann LeCun , Yoshua Bengio , Tarry Singh . Discover the whole list . Computer Vision News has found great stories, written somewhere else by somebody else. We share them with you, sometimes adding a short comment. Enjoy! We gave computers vision, now we want them to hear: In the coming fewyears, computers will begin to also process sounds to understand what’s happening around them to modify the environment, improve hearing, and notify us if something is wrong. Much like computer vision was the success story of the last decade in machine learning, the article declares that the coming one will see computers gain a sense of hearing. This will mean smarter homes, better hearing aids, and a better experience for us as we navigate an increasingly loud and confusing world. Read More… A I S P O T L I G H T N E W S