Fei-Fei Li and historian Yuval Noah Harari in conversation moderated by Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief of WIREDmagazine, on whether AI can be harnessed to support rather than subvert human interests and to promote rather than undermine democracy. Tickets will be available online at noon on April 2. The event is from 7:00-8:30 PM at Memorial Auditorium.
Both Google and Microsoft in latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission have included a warning to investors under "Risk Factors" of the risks of smart machines and the potential for ethical and legal issues.
In this interview with Renewable Energy Magazine, Arun Majumdar, senior fellow at Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy, seen here at left, discusses electric vehicle adoption in the United States, the grid infrastructure and the new services and models in the automotive industry.
A newly launched initiative, Quantum Fundamentals, ARchitecture and Machines, will leverage Stanford and SLAC's strengths in quantum science and engineering to educate students and to connect a community of industry and other academic institutions. Q-FARM's initial priorities are postdoctoral and graduate fellowships and organizing research seminars. An education program for undergraduate and graduate students will also be developed to add to the current curriculum.
Stanford researchers have developed a machine learning system to create algorithms that can help engineers analyze the properties of thousands of materials to help narrow the list of ideal materials for their application. One test application of a computer generated short-list proved twice as accurate and over a thousand times faster than the human team.
The prototype chip, currently about the diameter of a pencil eraser is built using RRAM (resistive random access memory). The Stanford team made changes to the storage capacity and endurance of RRAM. The French team at CEA-LETI was responsible for grafting the RRAM onto a silicon processor.
In this Future of Everything podcast, economist Paul Oyer, who became an Uber driver to understand the gig economy, talks about how lessons from the gig economy applies for the traditional job market and how Uber is constantly reworking its payment structure to align company and drivers' interest to reduce turnover.
Georgetown Law Journal, 2019 , challenges the view that negligence relating to how the law should account for crashes involving complex automated systems can be proven indirectly through circumstantial evidence. As the ancient negligence rule of res ipsa loquitur makes plain, sometimes an accident can “speak for itself.”
Researchers from Stanford, SLAC and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have identified the process of oxygen oxidation in lithium-rich cathodes where the atomic structure of the cathode changes affecting the cathodes performance. A better understanding and ability to control this could be important for electric cars that can drive farther between charges.
