@DilSamarasinghe

Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate at UNSW Australia | AI Enthusiast

 Canberra, Australia
research.unsw.edu.au/people/miss-dilini-samarasinghe-widana-arachchige
Joined January 2013
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Dilini Samarasinghe retweeted
UNSW Canberra@UNSWCanberra22 Jun 2022
Flow state but for robots 🤖 #UNSWCBR researchers, including @DilSamarasinghe, are bringing together psychology and autonomous agents in a multidisciplinary approach to artificial intelligence to boost complex problem solving: bit.ly/3QBBjIO
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TED Business@TEDpartners23 Mar 2022
What if robots could build and optimize themselves? Computer scientist Emma Hart (@HartEmma) explains how the three ingredients of biological evolution can be replicated digitally to build robots that can self-assemble and adapt to any environment. bit.ly/3NcUDdM
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MIT Technology Review
@techreview2 Aug 2021
Scientist racing to track the evolution of covid tap into a little-known system developed by a few young researchers in Scotland. trib.al/wfAlJC0

Meet the people who warn the world about new covid variants

Scientist racing to track the evolution of covid tap into a little-known system developed by a few young researchers in Scotland.

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MIT Technology Review
@techreview26 Jan 2021
Buddhism teaches us to focus our energy on eliminating suffering in the world. That’s an important message for AI ethics. bit.ly/3om8rEU
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MIT Technology Review
@techreview26 Jan 2021
Researchers are using the theory of affordance to develop a new approach to artificial intelligence. bit.ly/3qQpNvj

A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world

The concept: When we look at a chair, regardless of its shape and color, we know that we can sit on it. When a fish is in water, regardless of its location, it knows that it can swim. This is known...

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Google DeepMind
@GoogleDeepMind30 Nov 2020
In a major scientific breakthrough, the latest version of #AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to one of biology's grand challenges - the “protein folding problem”. It was validated today at #CASP14, the biennial Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (1/3)
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The root-brain hypothesis

Many thinkers start to think loftier thoughts as they get older. They zoom out; they try to take in the bigger picture, the 32,000-foot…

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MIT Technology Review
@techreview30 Jul 2020
Researchers are teaching machines to program themselves in an effort to write faster and more efficient software. bit.ly/3hHmPom
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Dr. Ay. Poulain Maubant@AymericPM13 Jul 2020
Et l'article de Pratyusha Kalluri, qui commence à être un peu visible dans le monde francophone : nature.com/articles/d41586-0… (Il n'est pas long. Lisez-le et participez à sa diffusion.)
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MIT Technology Review
@techreview13 Jul 2020
Contact tracing apps in France and Australia have sent out almost no virus notifications. But the public needs to bear in mind that these apps are likely to be only a small part of the fight against covid-19—rather than a magic answer to the problem. bit.ly/2Ze1Q6d

8 million people, 14 alerts: why some covid-19 apps are staying silent

Critics have rounded on contact tracing apps in France and Australia for sending out almost no virus notifications. But experts say it’s not a total failure—as long as we learn what went wrong.

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Neha Kumar@nehakumar30 Apr 2020
.@nonlogic and @DilSamarasinghe of the @ACM_FCA put together this lovely blog post to share members' experiences of coping with COVID (and covered every continent)! medium.com/acmfca/the-road-t…

The Road to the Future of Computing: Paved with a Pandemic

Our new cohort of the Future of Computing Academy kicked off in December, and has since been busy defining projects for the next year…

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Google Engineers 'Mutate' AI to Make It Evolve Systems Faster Than We Can Code Them sciencealert.com/coders-muta…
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Dilini Samarasinghe retweeted
VentureBeat
@VentureBeat11 Mar 2020
Microsoft researchers create AI ethics checklist with ML practitioners from a dozen tech companies venturebeat.com/2020/03/10/m…
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MIT Technology Review
@techreview12 Mar 2020
We have no idea what comes after Moore's Law. That's a problem. bit.ly/2vSsvJS
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The Coronavirus, and Why Humans Feel a Need to Moralize Epidemics

In the face of an unending and often frightening cycle, we seek not merely material cause but moral purpose—a price paid or a lesson learned from sickness.

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MIT Technology Review
@techreview6 Mar 2020
Artificial intelligence has glaring weaknesses because it still lacks common sense. bit.ly/38pn5Dq
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