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| 20 Sep 2021 | #2138 Baidu AI chip / Afghanistan / IIT / Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge / Warner Bros. deepfakes | 00:04:21 | |
The Chinese internet giant Baidu has unveiled its second generation artificial intelligence chip, its first “Robocar” and a renamed driverless taxi app, underscoring the importance of these new areas of technology for the company's future growth. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/baidu-launches-robocar-and-ai-chip-in-bid-to-diversify-business.html One of the many worrying developments in the tragedy in Afghanistan is that the Taliban seized US facial recognition and fingerprinting devices and databases. https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/18/us-face-recognition-taliban/ Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS), the engineering and technology development arm of the Fortune 100 software industry leader, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, have reached an agreement to establish an artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory and joint research AI and related new technologies. https://www.crn.in/news/honeywell-sets-up-artificial-intelligence-research-centre-at-iit-hyderabad/ Earlier this week, Amazon announced the winners of its annual Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge, which encourages exploration of coherence, context awareness, responsiveness, and other areas fundamental to the future of conversational AI. https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/19/amazon-taps-its-socialbot-challenge-to-boost-conversational-ai/ If you want to see yourself on screen with Hugh Jackman, this is your chance. https://www.engadget.com/warner-bros-reminiscence-promo-deepfake-trailer-052114554.html?guccounter=1 | |||
| 03 Oct 2022 | #2240 Parkinson’s / virtual candidate / Radiocarbon dating / NeRF / accent | 00:04:37 | |
Parkinson's disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose because it mainly relies on the onset of motor symptoms such as tremors, stiffness and slowness, but these symptoms often don't appear until several years after the onset of the disease. https://news.mit.edu/2022/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-parkinsons-from-breathing-patterns-0822 With all the political grudges that have become a part of our everyday reality, maybe it's time to admit that people might not be the best at making agreements. https://interestingengineering.com/culture/ai-party-2023-can-it-succeed An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed a method that can accurately date human remains up to ten thousand years old by examining DNA using artificial intelligence (AI). https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=13177 Earlier this year, Google Research presented its work on RawNeRF with "NeRF in the Dark: High Dynamic Range View Synthesis from Noisy Raw Images" at the CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) 2022 conference. https://9to5google.com/2022/08/24/google-research-rawnerf/ A Silicon Valley startup uses AI-powered algorithms to make foreign call center agents sound white and American on phone calls. https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-startup-wants-to-make-foreign-call-center-employees-sound-white | |||
| 31 Oct 2022 | #2244 Optimus / Whisper / Getty Images / Upstart Holdings / Respeecher | 00:04:14 | |
Elon Musk said Tesla is loaning the Autopilot team for its humanoid robot project Optimus, which has a deadline at the end of the month. https://electrek.co/2022/09/20/tesla-borrowing-autopilot-team-optimus-humanoid-robot-project/ We have trained and open source a neural network called Whisper that approximates the robustness and accuracy of human-level English speech recognition. https://openai.com/blog/whisper/ Getty Images has banned the uploading and sale of illustrations created with AI art tools such as DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Online consumer lender Upstart Holdings says it is working to improve its artificial intelligence models after a law firm that monitors fair lending compliance found lower loan approval rates for black applicants. Bogdan Belyaev was working from home when the air raid sirens went off. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/darth-vaders-voice-emanated-from-war-torn-ukraine | |||
| 26 Sep 2022 | #2239 Stability.ai / Russia / TikTok / PaLM-SayCan / NeuRRAM | 00:04:24 | |
An announcement from Stability.ai brings some great news for everyone who gets into the AI imaging hype. https://www.pcgamer.com/ai-image-generator-stability-ai-stable-diffusion/ The announcement was made by Alexander Osadchu, the head of the Russian military's innovative development department, at the Army 2022 summit on Aug. 17, according to the state news agency TASS. Oracle has begun reviewing TikTok's algorithms and content moderation models to ensure they are not being tampered with by Chinese authorities, Axios has learned. https://www.axios.com/2022/08/16/oracle-auditing-tiktok-algorithms PaLM-SayCan shows that a robot's performance can be improved simply by improving the underlying language model. https://blog.google/technology/ai/making-robots-more-helpful-with-language/ AI-powered edge computing is already ubiquitous in our lives. https://news.stanford.edu/2022/08/18/new-chip-ramps-ai-computing-efficiency/ | |||
| 21 Feb 2022 | #2208 Purdue / 4000000 miles / Passing Score / HeartFlow / uncanny valley | 00:04:47 | |
An electronic chip that can be reprogrammed when needed could allow artificial intelligence to learn more continuously like the human brain does, researchers have discovered. The day when a person can sit in a car and drive anywhere without a human operating the controls is years away, but autonomous vehicles are covering more miles in California than ever before as they strive to make that vision a reality to let become. As Matthew Stafford and Joe Burrow battle it out in this year's Super Bowl, artificial intelligence will be working behind the scenes to measure how well they really played. A vendor that uses CT images to create 3D models of the heart is scrapping plans to go public in a $2.4 billion merger, citing continued turmoil in the market. When TikTok videos surfaced in 2021 that appeared to show "Tom Cruise" vanishing a coin and feasting on a lollipop, the only obvious clue that this wasn't the real deal was the account name. | |||
| 29 May 2023 | #2322 SMC / SGE / N400 / AI-powered Scam | 00:02:53 | |
Researchers from MIT and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new method for building sophisticated AI inference algorithms. Google is rolling out its AI-powered search, Google Search Generative Experience (SGE), and other Search Labs in the US. Researchers are using AI chatbots to understand how the human brain processes language. A man in northern China was scammed out of $622,000 by a fraudster who used AI-powered face-swapping and voice-cloning software to impersonate his friend. | |||
| 30 Oct 2023 | #2344 Tissue analysis / Soulmate / Alphabet / Qualcomm | 00:02:51 | |
Researchers have developed an AI tool for analyzing colorectal cancer tissue, outperforming previous methods. The shutdown of the AI companion app Soulmate left users heartbroken and mourning their digital partners. Google's parent company, Alphabet, reported strong earnings with a significant increase in its ads business. Qualcomm has announced that on-device AI is coming to mobile devices and Windows 11 PCs. | |||
| 28 Nov 2022 | #2248 Mortgage fraud / Activision / co-pilot / HeartFlow / Nvidia and Oracle | 00:05:43 | |
An AI document forensics solution improved fraud detection at an online mortgage broker by 30 percent while reducing the workload for investigators. https://www.rtinsights.com/mortgage-fraud-ai-improves-detection-by-30/ A patent application from Activision Blizzard is exploring the idea of using machine learning technology to create custom soundtracks for gamers that could potentially be used to enhance gameplay experiences. Open source programmers are investigating a possible class action lawsuit against Microsoft after the company used their publicly available code to train its latest AI tool. HeartFlow announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for two new non-invasive, artificial intelligence-based coronary artery anatomy and plaque analyzes based on coronary CT angiography. Nvidia and Oracle announced today at Oracle CloudWorld an expanded, multi-year partnership to help customers accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-and-oracle-announce-expanded-cloud-ai-partnership/ | |||
| 07 Oct 2024 | #2441 SLIViT / Future You / Uplevel / Amazon Fire | 00:02:51 | |
UCLA researchers developed a deep-learning framework for analyzing 3D medical images. Future You simulates a virtual version of individuals at age 60 using AI. AI tools may increase work for coders, not reduce it. Amazon Fire tablets now include new AI features. Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com | |||
| 08 Aug 2022 | #2232 Optimus / Flamingo / Minecraft / CodeWhisperer / McDonald’s | 00:04:22 | |
It appears that Tesla's plan to unveil a working prototype of its humanoid robot is progressing well. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-humanoid-robot-prototype-unveiling-ai-day-2-date/ DeepMind recently trained Flamingo, an 80B-parameter Vision Language Model (VLM) AI. https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/06/deepmind-flamingo-vlm/ Using a mix of uncaptioned Minecraft videos and a small dataset of videos captioned by contractors, artificial intelligence company OpenAI was able to train a neural network to play Minecraft proficiently - a milestone for the technology, which previously struggled to Crack the simple but casual game style of play. https://gizmodo.com/openai-taught-an-ai-to-play-minecraft-1849106533 Amazon on Thursday introduced CodeWhisperer, a new tool for developers that derives code recommendations. https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-debuts-codewhisperer-its-ml-powered-coding-companion/ McDonald's has expanded its drive-through voice assistant pilot program to 24 stores, according to a note from BTIG analyst Peter Saleh. | |||
| 17 Jul 2023 | #2329 AMA / DiagnosUs / Valve / The Pope | 00:03:26 | |
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is already well underway, with applications in public health predictions, administration, and drug discovery. Erik Duhaime founded Centaur Labs, a company that created the DiagnosUs app to gather the opinions of medical experts on real-world scientific and biomedical data. Valve has clarified its stance on AI-generated assets in games, stating that its policy is evolving and not a stand against AI. The Pope has partnered with Santa Clara University to release a guidebook on AI ethics. | |||
| 12 Dec 2022 | #2250 Motion Mix / Generative A.I. / DABUS / Automation / LaMDA | 00:03:58 | |
#2250 Motion Mix / Generative A.I. / DABUS / Automation / LaMDA You might think that technological advances will make robots and other forms of workplace automation more important—that innovation will naturally find its way into the economy. https://news.mit.edu/2021/aging-workers-automation-0915 In Silicon Valley, crypto and the metaverse are out. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/technology/generative-ai.html Today at Adobe Max 2022, Adobe will showcase a prototype AI project that can convert a still image of a person into an animated dancer. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/19/23412526/adobe-dancing-ai-prototype-project-motion-mix-max-2022 When you take a step, a gentle "squish" sounds under your feet. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/google-trails-ai-test-kitchen-in-uk A US computer scientist on Thursday lost his recent offer to call an artificial intelligence program he created the "inventor" for a pair of patents he wants to receive. | |||
| 31 May 2021 | #2122 Waymo and Cruise / IBMs Enterprise AI / LaMDA / AI Chip from Google / Licensed deepfakes | 00:04:41 | |
Waymo and competitor Cruise of Alphabet Inc (togetL.O) have applied for permits required to bill for autonomous vehicle rides and deliveries in San Francisco's dense urban setting. CEO Arvind Krishna said IBM is not building consumer-centric AI tools like facial recognition. https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-on-watson-ai-enterprise-future-plans-2021-5 During a keynote at Google I / O 2021, Google's annual developer conference, the company announced LaMDA, a sophisticated language model that, according to Google, understands the context of conversations far better than leading models do today. https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/18/google-demos-lamda-a-next-generation-ai-for-dialogue/ Google has developed a new AI chip that is more than twice as fast as its previous version. Despite growing concerns about the fact that deepfake technology could irreversibly lead us into the age of post-truth, some companies are still eager to promote it as a viable, consumer-friendly product. https://interestingengineering.com/new-deepfake-tech-allows-celebrities-to-license-their-voice | |||
| 21 Oct 2024 | #2443 C4C / Human bias / Ambience Healthcare / Dottxt | 00:02:54 | |
Scientists developed an AI tool for skin cancer detection. People prefer human touch in health care over AI. Doctors spend excessive time on administrative tasks, causing burnout and inefficiencies. Enterprise CIOs are cautious with generative AI. | |||
| 12 Jun 2023 | #2324 EvenUp / hyperspectral learning / CAV-MAE / DGX GH200 | 00:03:14 | |
EvenUp, a legal tech start-up, has raised $50.5m in a series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Behance founder Scott Belsky and legal tech firm Clio. Researchers at Purdue University have developed an AI-driven technology that uses a smartphone camera to detect and diagnose medical conditions like anemia. Researchers from MIT and IBM have developed a new technique for analysing unlabeled audio and visual data that could improve the performance of machine-learning models. NVIDIA has announced its next DGX supercomputer, the DGX GH200, which is designed to help companies develop generative AI models. | |||
| 25 Oct 2021 | #2143 Spot / AI Adoption / Toyota / Mayflower / MUM | 00:04:10 | |
Artificial intelligence is changing the way companies work and promoting applications from enterprise asset management to construction site tracking and everything in between. http://blog.bostondynamics.com/spot-release-3.0-flexible-autonomy-and-repeatable-data-capture Covid-19-powered digital innovation has put AI and analytics at the heart of business operations. https://hbr.org/2021/09/ai-adoption-skyrocketed-over-the-last-18-months The research arm of Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) in Silicon Valley announced Thursday that it has acquired automotive operating system software company Renovo to accelerate the development of fully autonomous connected vehicles. The Mayflower, the manned, autonomous ship built with the help of IBM, will attempt to cross the Atlantic again next year after its first attempt failed shortly after leaving the UK for the United States. https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/27/autonomous_mayflower_ship/ "Can you get medication for someone at the pharmacy?" https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/29/22696268/google-search-on-updates-ai-mum-explained | |||
| 30 Sep 2024 | #2440 PATHOMIQ_PRAD / Parkinson's / Crystalyze / Maitre-D / RestoHost | 00:03:16 | |
Researchers at Mount Sinai developed an AI tool for prostate cancer management. Diagnosing Parkinson's is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Scientists use X-ray crystallography to study crystalline materials. More restaurants are using AI for phone reservations. | |||
| 17 May 2021 | #2120 Clearview / AI chips from Volkswagen / Spotify patents / Postal services / Photon AI chips | 00:04:40 | |
Clearview AI Inc. is fighting an "unprecedented" attempt by Illinois consumers to convince a court to block its facial recognition technology. Volkswagen plans to design and develop its own high-performance chips for autonomous vehicles along with the necessary software, CEO Herbert Diess told a German newspaper. Musicians demand Spotify, they don't develop a patent for recognizing emotional language Learn how open clouds reduce client device latency, improve customer and device interactions (IoT), and accelerate innovation from the edge to the data center. https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/06/how-ai-is-helping-nvidia-improve-u-s-postal-service-delivery/ AI is fundamental to many products and services these days, but the hunger for data and computing cycles is bottomless. https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/lightmatters-photonic-ai-ambitions-light-up-an-80m-b-round/ | |||
| 05 Dec 2022 | #2249 Gazing Car / AI material / Hokkien / Motion Mix / 19th Century portraits | 00:05:00 | |
No matter how many cameras or sensors they use, autonomous cars will never be perfect, but research from Japan suggests a simple upgrade could help reduce the risk of self-driving cars hitting undetected pedestrians: a pair of animated googly eyes that make it obvious what the vehicle has spotted or not. https://gizmodo.com/self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-googly-eyes-study-1849643126 "This research introduces and demonstrates an artificial intelligent material that can learn to exhibit desired behaviors and properties when exposed to increased environmental conditions," said Jonathan Hopkins, the study's lead researcher and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Meta said Wednesday that it has built an artificial intelligence system that translates Hokkien into English, though the Taiwanese language lacks a standardized written form. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-meta-touts-ai-spoken-only-language.html Today at Adobe Max 2022, Adobe will showcase a prototype AI project that can convert a still image of a person into an animated dancer. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/19/23412526/adobe-dancing-ai-prototype-project-motion-mix-max-2022 Mystery Scoop's Lorenzo Folli and Olga Shirnina have put together a fascinating compilation of historical 19th-century portraits that have been digitally restored and brought to life using AI software. https://laughingsquid.com/restored-19th-century-portraits-brought-to-life/ | |||
| 06 Jun 2022 | #2223 Mayo Clinic / Deepfakes / Meta / Guardforce AI / Toyota | 00:05:11 | |
Single-lead ECG recordings from an Apple Watch, interpreted by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm developed at the Mayo Clinic, effectively identified patients with a weak heart pump. A one-man team consisting of Singaporean research scientist Wang Wemin beat 469 other teams from around the world in a five-month challenge to develop the best artificial intelligence (AI) model for detecting deepfakes, or digitally altered video clips. Large language models - Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems with more than 100 billion parameters - have transformed NLP and AI research in recent years. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/democratizing-access-to-large-scale-language-models-with-opt-175b/ Guardforce AI Co. Limited has announced the deployment of more than 4,800 robots at nine locations worldwide and expects that number to surpass 10,000 by the end of the year. Toyota Motor Corp., whose production system is widely emulated in the auto industry, will soon begin installing technologies at its plants that promise the holy grail of efficiency: automated kaizen. https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/toyota-use-innovative-ai-technology-boost-factory-efficiency | |||
| 12 Sep 2022 | #2237 StockBot / GFP-GAN / NHS / Estonia / CDFG | 00:05:00 | |
Predicting stock market behavior is a crucial endeavor that requires careful attention as successfully predicting stock prices with the right decisions can lead to attractive profits. A newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model called Generative Facial Prior (GFP-GAN) can fix most old photos in seconds, and it's free. The NHS is set to use artificial intelligence to identify, screen and treat people at risk of hepatitis C, with plans to eradicate the disease by 2030. Estonia is developing the artificial intelligence (AI) components that can power digital government services and sharing them with the world through its AI Gov Stack. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252523354/Estonia-is-building-AI-Gov-Stack The co-lead authors of the research are Mike Foshey, mechanical engineer and project manager in the CDFG, and Michal Piovarci, postdoc at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria. https://news.mit.edu/2022/artificial-intelligence-3-d-printing-0802 | |||
| 19 Jul 2021 | #2129 Pepper / WHO / Zoom / Github Copilot / Agriculture | 00:04:34 | |
SoftBank Group Corp is cutting jobs in its global robotics business and has ceased production of its Pepper robot, according to sources and documents verified by Reuters, as the group downgrades its industry ambitions. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving health care and medicine around the world, but only if ethics and human rights are at the center of their design, deployment and use, according to the new guidelines published today by the WHO. As companies expand worldwide and meet online in tools like Zoom, the language barrier can be a real barrier to getting the job done. Today we're releasing a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer to help you write better code. https://github.blog/2021-06-29-introducing-github-copilot-ai-pair-programmer/ Research has shown that the use of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture could offer a practical solution to the challenges that threaten global food security. | |||
| 03 Jun 2024 | #2423 TDANN / Autobiographer / Alchemist | 00:02:47 | |
Stanford's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has developed an AI algorithm that replicates how the brain organizes sensory information. Autobiographer is a startup that uses AI to help users create their own autobiographies. MIT CSAIL and Google Research have developed a diffusion model called Alchemist. | |||
| 03 Jul 2023 | #2327 MAGE / ChatGPT / Typeface / Gemini | 00:03:25 | |
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a system called the Masked Generative Encoder (MAGE) that can both identify and generate images. Researchers from India, Bangladesh, and Mexico explore the potential of using ChatGPT in global health research. Generative AI startup Typeface has closed a $100m Series B funding round led by Salesforce Ventures, valuing the company at $1bn. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassibis revealed that Google is developing an ultra-powerful language model called Gemini that could surpass OpenAI's systems. Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com | |||
| 12 Apr 2021 | #2115 $180 billion worth innovations, Duplex, no-code, ARM, Volvo | 00:04:45 | |
President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan, released on Wednesday, includes $180 billion in new research and development spending on new technologies that will shape decades to come and drive military innovation. More than two years after the test phase began, the AI-operated reservation service Duplex from Google is now available in 49 US states. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/1/22361729/google-duplex-ai-reservation-availability-49-us-states The West Midlands is the first region in the world to invest in the latest no-code technology to drive economic growth. Chip designer Arm announced Armv9, its first new chip architecture in a decade after Armv8 in 2011. Volvo is working with the self-driving startup Aurora on a new line of fully autonomous tractor units, the companies said. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22358005/volvo-aurora-autonomous-truck-partnership | |||
| 04 Apr 2022 | #2214 Microsoft x2 / ElliQ / DeepFake / $120 billion by 2025 | 00:04:39 | |
A self-funded artificial intelligence startup is working with Microsoft to address a long-standing problem in the medical field: infections caused by centralized tubes placed in the body to deliver chemotherapy or other drugs. Tech giant Microsoft has developed a novel artificial intelligence-based technology that helps blind children and young people better understand their immediate social environment, interact with their peers and gain self-confidence more easily. On Tuesday, an Israeli company, Intuition Robotics, released ElliQ commercially after a long beta period. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/16/lonely-elderly-companion-ai-device/ A manipulated video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urging citizens to surrender to Russia has been shared online. Spending on artificial intelligence in the United States will grow to US$120 billion by 2025, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.0% over the forecast period 2021-2025. | |||
| 10 Jan 2022 | #2202 US legislation for AI / Zeekr / John Deere 8R / Radceon Super Resolution / FaceHeart | 00:04:30 | |
Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced that their Advancing American AI Innovation Act came into effect as part of the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Zeekr, the Geely Holding Group's premium electric brand, announced Tuesday that it would make vehicles for Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo One, the company's autonomous driving service in the United States. https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2021/12/geelys-zeekr-to-build-autonomous-vehicles-for-waymo/ According to John Deere, the 8R tractor has been in the hands of selected customers for "several seasons". https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/john-deere-self-driving-tractor-203024226.html?guccounter=1 AMD announced a new gaming software feature at CES 2022: Radeon Super Resolution, which promises to bring AI-powered supersampling enhancements to almost any game, even if it hasn't been specifically updated to support AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution . In the midst of a global pandemic, strained health systems around the world have revealed an unmet need for simple and remote monitoring of vital physiological data. | |||
| 10 Oct 2022 | #2241 Instacart & Eversight / Brain-to-Speech / PromptBase / Pentagon / COVID-19 | 00:04:32 | |
Instacart announced Thursday that it has acquired Eversight, a pricing and advertising platform powered by artificial intelligence. https://www.grocerydive.com/news/instacart-buys-eversight-artificial-intelligence/631057/ Each year, more than 69 million people around the world suffer traumatic brain injuries, leaving many unable to communicate through speech, typing, or gestures. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-speech-brain-activity/ In recent years, art created by programs like OpenAI's Midjourney and DALL-E has become surprisingly compelling. The Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is preparing to launch a new one-stop online "marketplace" to solicit, rate and curate technologies specifically related to AI, machine learning, data and analytics — and also enable DoD components to quickly purchase these digital capabilities, according to a recently released special release. https://www.fedscoop.com/dod-to-roll-out-new-online-marketplace-to-speedily-buy-ai-aligned-tech/ Artificial intelligence (AI) can now be used to detect COVID-19 infection in people's voices via a mobile phone app, researchers from Maastricht University, Netherlands, claim. | |||
| 07 Mar 2021 | #2110 Huwaei & farms, Amazon & MIT, AI weapon, SoftBank, Moscow | 00:03:47 | |
Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co launched an artificial intelligence pig farm on Monday. Amazon and MIT are working together to train machine learning models to predict delivery routes. https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-mit-team-up-to-add-driver-know-how-to-delivery-routing-models Israel Aerospace Industries and Matrix Defense are partnering in an artificial intelligence center. SoftBank-backed robotics firm Berkshire Gray said on Wednesday that it agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-check firm in an agreement that values the combined company at $2.7 billion. Moscow authorities have allocated $12.5 million to buy high-definition cameras for the city's metro system. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/02/25/moscow-to-expand-metro-facial-recognition-network-a73074 | |||
| 06 Feb 2023 | #2306 HELM AI / Harvey / Pitchfork / iCAD / risk of death | 00:03:50 | |
In the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), 2022 was arguably the year of foundational models, or AI models, trained at scale. Harvey, a startup building a so-called "Copilot for Lawyers," emerged today with $5 million from the cloak being led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, the tranche through which OpenAI and its partners in AI companies in early-stage investing that tackle big problems. Google is working on a tool that will teach code to write and rewrite itself. Medical technology company iCAD announced that it will integrate Google Health's mammography AI technology into its breast imaging solutions through a strategic development and commercialization agreement. Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of predicting a patient's 10-year risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke -- all with a single chest X-ray. | |||
| 16 Oct 2023 | #2342 LLSC / Pain / Space Force / SGE | 00:02:55 | |
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center is developing techniques to reduce energy use in data centers. An AI system can detect pain in patients before, during, and after surgery. The US Space Force has banned the use of generative AI tools due to security concerns. Google's AI-powered search feature, SGE, can now generate images and customize writing drafts. | |||
| 07 Nov 2022 | #2245 Raydiant / HIATUS / Make-A-Video / Google Ventures / Lyft | 00:03:59 | |
You walk into a kiosk at a fast food restaurant and a tiny camera scans your facial features, registering your height, age, gender and mood. https://qz.com/restaurants-are-using-ai-to-guess-what-you-want-to-eat-1849343409 Anonymous writing can no longer hide your identity if the US government's latest artificial intelligence project proves successful. https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-government-is-developing-ai-to-identify-authors-by-their-writing-style Today we're announcing Make-A-Video, a new AI system that allows users to turn text prompts into short, high-quality video clips. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/generative-ai-text-to-video/ Google Ventures has mothballed an algorithm that served as a gatekeeper to new investments for years, Axios has learned from multiple sources. https://www.axios.com/2022/09/28/google-ventures-shelves-its-algorithm Lyft has started offering autonomous robotaxi rides with two safety drivers on board in Austin, Texas. https://www.therobotreport.com/lyft-argo-ai-begin-robotaxi-rides-in-austin/ | |||
| 31 Jan 2022 | #2205 Gore / data2vec / Neuralink / RSC / SparkCognition | 00:05:09 | |
"What's so unique about the space resource is that we can see, measure and identify things from space that are extremely difficult to measure at ground level," Gore said Tuesday. Advances in AI are coming out all the time, but they tend to be confined to a single area: For example, a cool new way to generate synthetic speech isn't also a way to recognize facial expressions. Elon Musk's Neuralink, the company that claims to implant computer chips in human brains, has just taken a major step towards implementation. Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, announced Monday that it has built one of the world's fastest supercomputers, a behemoth called Research SuperCluster, or RSC. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/meta-has-a-giant-new-ai-supercomputer-to-shape-the-metaverse/ SparkCognition, a leading global provider of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions, announced the closing of its $123 million Series D funding round. | |||
| 17 Feb 2021 | #2107 Apple & Kia, Strawberries, Ireland, Twitter & Google, Palantir & Google | 00:04:04 | |
Apple is close to an agreement with Hyundai-Kia https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/03/apple-and-hyundai-kia-driving-towards-deal-on-apple-car.html On average, data scientists produced 196 percent more strawberries by weight compared to conventional farmers https://qrius.com/heres-what-happened-when-ai-and-humans-met-in-a-strawberry-growing-contest/ Ireland will spend €193 million over six years in research Twitter has extended its alliance with Google Cloud Palantir Technologies and IBM are announcing a global collaboration | |||
| 21 Nov 2022 | #2247 Kneron / Podcast.ai / Growth / Voice Assistant / Recruitment | 00:05:10 | |
San Diego-based Kneron, a provider of artificial intelligence technologies for smart cameras and other devices at the network edge, has raised $48 million in a second round of venture capital funding, despite the increasingly volatile environment for early-stage companies raising money want. The episode starts with a big disclaimer that the entire conversation was AI generated. https://interestingengineering.com/culture/ai-brought-steve-jobs-back-to-life It may not be uncommon for emerging fields of science, particularly those dealing with rapid technological changes in society, to take off quickly, but even by those standards, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been impressive. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03210-9 Consider this hypothetical human-human interaction and this actual human-Alexa interaction: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/it-my-turn-yet-teaching-voice-assistant-when-speak One of the driving factors behind recruitment AI is the automation of supposedly “objective” forms of assessment. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-022-00543-1 | |||
| 03 May 2021 | #2118 Banks surveillance / Mastercard / AI Studies / FBI / Automation | 00:04:51 | |
Several U.S. banks have begun deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences, monitor employees, and detect people sleeping near ATMs, even if they remain aware of possible setbacks in increased surveillance, shared more than a dozen banking and technology sources using Reuters. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insight-u-banks-deploy-ai-123931469.html With online identity management becoming increasingly important, Mastercard plunged this morning and bought identity verification company Ekata for $ 850 million. Students studying Artificial Intelligence in either undergraduate or graduate degrees could pay for part of their education by agreeing to work for a federal agency after graduation. The FBI says it used facial recognition technology to track down and arrest a person suspected of participating in the riot in the U.S. Capitol earlier this year. Workers have long feared automation would take over, and COVID-19 exacerbated those worries. | |||
| 18 Dec 2023 | #2351 MIT / BIDMC / Microsoft / Ray-Ban | 00:02:38 | |
MIT leaders and scholars have released a set of policy briefs outlining a framework for the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in the US. Physician-investigators at BIDMC found that a chatbot's probabilistic reasoning was comparable to human clinicians. Microsoft is using AI to expedite the paperwork for setting up new nuclear power plants. The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are getting upgrades to the AI assistant, including real-time information and contextual capabilities. | |||
| 23 Jan 2023 | #2304 OpenAI Startup Fund / US & EU / Cerebras / Notion / Nvidia & Microsoft | 00:04:30 | |
Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, invest in early-stage AI companies that are tackling big problems. The United States and the European Union plan to release a new artificial intelligence roadmap that prioritizes security and risk management at the next meeting of their joint Trade and Technology Council, a senior US official said Thursday. Cerebras, the company that makes the world's largest chip, the Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2), today unveiled its Andromeda supercomputer. One day Notion will be able to write your notes for you. US chip design and computing company Nvidia Corp announced on Wednesday that it is teaming up with Microsoft Corp to build a "massive" computer capable of handling intense computing with artificial intelligence in the cloud. | |||
| 02 Sep 2024 | #2436 Validation standards / Habsburg AI / Fake reviews | 00:02:52 | |
AI has many applications in health care. AI-generated content is flooding the web. The FTC announced a final rule against fake reviews. Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com | |||
| 22 Nov 2021 | #2147 Surveillance AI / AAIC / AI Hygiene Working Group / TUM / AI in supply chain | 00:04:52 | |
The venture capitalist, co-founder of big data company Palantir, said at an event in Miami on Wednesday that the way to AGI is going to get surveillance AI, which he called "communist totalitarian technology". The cooperation between the Air Force Research Laboratory and the British Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is part of a four-year Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence Collaboration (AAIC) partnership agreement signed in December 2020. Gary Peters, D-Mich., And Rob Portman R-Ohio, have introduced laws to protect information processed by government contractors who use artificial intelligence technologies. A college racing team from Germany won the Autonomous Competition at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday after its algorithm code produced an estimated lap time of 129.2 kilometers per hour, which corresponds to 80 miles per hour. Covid-19 has put the spotlight on many networks in the world, from the internet to international air travel. | |||
| 20 Mar 2023 | #2312 NHTSA / Protect AI / Utilidata / Sybil | 00:03:21 | |
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration announced Thursday that it is launching an investigation into the self-driving technology behind General Motors' robotaxi fleet. Protect AI, a Seattle startup that sells cybersecurity technology tailored for code that powers artificial intelligence and machine learning programs, has emerged from stealth mode and announced $13.5 million in seed funding . As the World Economic Forum points out, the transition to an increasingly electric world means that decentralized, renewable sources will produce more energy. Lung cancer is the number one deadliest cancer in the world, causing 1.7 million deaths worldwide in 2020, killing more people than the next three deadliest cancers combined. | |||
| 24 Oct 2022 | #2243 Ameca / Mila / RoseTTAFold / Shutterstock / Magna | 00:05:14 | |
British robotics company Engineered Arts has just given its ultra-realistic looking humanoid robot Ameca a voice - and it has a lot to say. https://futurism.com/the-byte/gpt-3-ameca-robot-facial-expressions Intel yesterday announced a three-year strategic research and co-innovation collaboration with Mila, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) research institute. The Institute for Protein Design helped usher in an era for scientists in which scientists could use artificial intelligence tools to predict the structure of a protein, an achievement that helped it win the "Award" for its RoseTTAFold software last year. Machine-generated images using artificial intelligence (AI) are available for sale en masse on photo sites such as Shutterstock, iStock, and Adobe Stock. During the North American International Auto Show today in Detroit, Michigan, mobility technology company Magna International shared its advances on a novel last-mile delivery robot designed for urban environments. https://electrek.co/2022/09/14/magna-pilots-autonomous-pizza-delivery-robot-to-expand-micromobility/ | |||
| 27 Jun 2022 | #2226 SoundHound / MIT / Beewise / Stargate / BeyondMinds | 00:04:31 | |
SoundHound for Restaurants' goal is to meet diner demand as operators juggle higher volumes of digital channels while maintaining high levels of customer service. Algorithm misjudgment is a critical problem; When artificial intelligence reflects unconscious thoughts, racism and prejudices of the people who generated these algorithms, it can cause serious harm. https://news.mit.edu/2022/artificial-intelligence-predicts-patients-race-from-medical-images-0520 Friday May 20th is the day when the world comes together to celebrate the bees. The process of writing a TV show usually requires a writer's room and a lot of time as people figure out the plot and dialogue that make a show work. Israeli AI startup BeyondMinds announced to its 65 employees on Sunday that the company is closing and they will be laid off. | |||
| 10 Jun 2024 | #2424 MedAlpaca / PoCo / Growth chart / Stable Audio Open | 00:03:04 | |
Georgia Tech researchers have developed a framework to assess large language models (LLMs). MIT researchers have developed a technique to train robots using multiple data sources. Researchers at QIMR Berghofer have created a computer-based "growth chart" for monitoring child brain health. Stability AI has launched an open AI model, Stable Audio Open, for generating sounds and songs. Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com | |||
| 18 Mar 2024 | #2412 Apptronik / India Election / DataCebo / Netherlands Brain Bank | 00:03:31 | |
Robotics startup Apptronik has partnered with Mercedes-Benz to explore advanced robotics applications in car manufacturing. Google has restricted its Gemini AI from answering election-related queries globally. Generative AI is being used to create synthetic data for various applications. A new AI language model identifies clinical symptoms in medical summaries. | |||
| 16 Jan 2023 | #2303 Fathom / Amazon Sparrow / Ravin AI / SambaNova Systems / Subway | 00:04:29 | |
Founded in 2017, Fathom is the nation's leading medical coding automation platform, an AI solution that brings together the best of deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to automate medical coding with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency. An Amazon Sparrow package handling robot during the Delivering the Future event at the Amazon Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, U.S., on Thursday, November 10, 2022. Ravin AI, which offers artificial intelligence-based visual inspection services, said Wednesday that Hertz is testing the company's AI technology in Sweden and Norway. SambaNova Systems, a Silicon Valley artificial intelligence (AI) startup, announced Monday that it has shipped eight units of its latest AI system to the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory, which is expanding its AI offerings for researchers. Subway believes you can, and to that end, the sandwich franchisor has begun rolling out a new line of smart refrigerators in the US to sell pre-made Subway sandwiches. | |||
| 24 Apr 2023 | #2317 Photography / FTC / COPD / Microsoft | 00:03:11 | |
German artist Boris Eldagsen, who recently won a prestigious photography competition with a stunning black-and-white portrait, has now turned down the award after admitting the image was created using an AI image generator, reports The Guardian. A congressional hearing on Tuesday discussed the work of the Federal Trade Commission to protect American consumers from fraud and other fraudulent practices. A team of medical researchers, engineers and computer scientists linked to several institutions across the US has found that machine learning technology can help doctors predict which patients are at risk of COPD. Microsoft is reportedly working on its own AI chips that can be used to train large language models and avoid a costly dependence on Nvidia. | |||
| 14 Nov 2022 | #2246 Bruce Willis / Imagen Video / Miso Robotics / weaponization / AlphaTensor | 00:04:41 | |
The veteran actor has agreed to sell the rights to his likeness so that a digital twin can be created using deepfake technology. https://gizmodo.com/bruce-willis-sells-likeness-ai-deepfake-1849601061 Generative modeling has made tremendous strides, especially with recent text-to-image models. https://imagen.research.google/video/ Miso Robotics Inc. of Pasadena has begun introducing its Flippy 2 robot, which automates the frying of potatoes, onions and other foods. " Several robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, are promising not to support arming their products and are urging others in the industry to do the same, according to a letter first shared with Axios. https://www.axios.com/2022/10/06/boston-dynamics-pledges-weaponize-robots DeepMind has made another impressive artificial intelligence announcement with AlphaTensor, a deep reinforcement learning system that discovers algorithms to make matrix multiplication much more efficient. | |||
| 08 Jan 2024 | #2402 LG / FIND / HCC / Google | 00:03:14 | |
LG will release a compact bipedal robot that can roam your house and perform various tasks. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed an approach that uses AI models to conduct experiments on other systems and explain their behavior. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common liver cancer with rising rates globally. Google is reassigning or letting go of sales workers whose jobs were automated by AI tools. | |||
| 05 Apr 2021 | #2114 William Shatner, EU's cybersecurity strategy, Amazon, Cambridge, Apple | 00:04:38 | |
Star Trek actor William Shatner is celebrating his 90th birthday by creating an AI version of himself that will live forever. https://www.pcmag.com/news/william-shatner-taps-ai-to-preserve-himself-for-future-generations The Council today adopted conclusions on the EU's cybersecurity strategy for the digital decade. Amazon deliverers reportedly lose their jobs if they don't give the company permission. The money comes when biological and medical researchers unlock information about the human body to an extent that could take a lifetime to analyze and understand without the help of sophisticated artificial intelligence software. According to Apple, privacy is a "fundamental human right" and respect for people's privacy is the cornerstone of the company's public relations battle against rivals like Google and Facebook. | |||
| 25 Apr 2022 | #2217 Inflection AI / Linkedin / Beewise / Intel / Grammy | 00:05:06 | |
LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman has co-founded a new artificial intelligence startup company called Inflection AI with DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and former DeepMind researcher Karén Simonyan. Two Stanford researchers have found widespread use of fake LinkedIn accounts created with artificial intelligence (AI)-generated profile photos. https://petapixel.com/2022/03/29/researchers-discover-more-than-1000-ai-generated-linkedin-profiles/ Israeli bee technology startup Beewise, a developer of robotic hives, has made an $80 million investment in its automated solution to save the world's bee populations, the company announced on Wednesday. Intel announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Granulate Cloud Solutions, an Israel-based developer of real-time continuous optimization software. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1zywmmmc IBM - the Official Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Partner of The Recording Academy® - is bringing back "GRAMMY® Insights with IBM Watson" for the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards® red carpet live stream to bring fans surprising and engaging To provide information about their favorite artists. | |||
| 22 Aug 2022 | #2234 CLIP / DeepMind / Kamakura / FLORES-200 / gut microbes | 00:04:58 | |
Virtual robots controlled by artificial intelligence act in ways that conform to toxic stereotypes when asked to choose faces belonging to criminals or housewives DeepMind researchers trained an AI system to find a popular policy for allocating public funds in an online game - but they also warn of 'AI government' ocratic” AI system has learned how to develop the most popular public money redistribution policy among people playing an online game. Early July is the cue for Japanese surfers and sun-seekers to hit beaches across the country — and one Pacific Coast beach turns to artificial intelligence to ensure their time in the water is uneventful. Meta has released an open-source AI model capable of translating into 200 different languages, the company announced on Wednesday - a move that should bring various technologies and digital content to a much wider audience. The communities formed by human gut microbes can now be more accurately predicted using a new computational model developed in a collaboration between biologists and engineers led by the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin. | |||
| 05 Apr 2023 | #2314 Microsoft / Meta / Swansea University / Transplantation / Drugs | 00:03:26 | |
Microsoft has laid off a team dedicated to the responsible development and delivery of AI. Big tech companies race to ship generative AI tools. A Swansea University study has shown how machine learning can aid in the early detection of inflammatory arthritis ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and revolutionize the way people are recognized and diagnosed by their GPs. According to experts at the Mayo Clinic, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the field of organ transplantation. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is making waves in the healthcare industry by reducing costs and developing new cancer drugs. | |||
| 25 Sep 2023 | #2339 MIT / Poets and writers / Airkit.ai / LightGBM | 00:02:34 | |
MIT researchers have developed a method that uses multiple AI systems to debate and refine answers. Silicon Valley AI companies are hiring poets and writers to improve their generative AI output. Salesforce is acquiring Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI-powered customer service agents. An AI model can predict a patient's risk of death after a hip fracture. | |||
| 05 Jun 2023 | #2323 Acinetobacter baumannii / Heart failure prediction / Barkour / Tessa | 00:02:51 | |
Researchers at MIT and McMaster University have used an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify a new antibiotic that can kill Acinetobacter baumannii, a type of bacteria that is responsible for many drug-resistant infections. Researchers at University College London have identified five subtypes of heart failure that could be used to predict future risk for individual patients. Google's DeepMind has issued a research paper outlining a benchmarking system to quantify the performance of quadruped robots. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) has fired its hotline staff and replaced them with a chatbot called Tessa, just four days after the workers unionized. | |||
| 23 Aug 2021 | #2134 Suplari / MedAI / AInventor / John Deer / NVidia | 00:04:23 | |
Microsoft has acquired Suplari, a Seattle-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies understand and manage their spending. It also tarnishes the origins of certain records. What can only be viewed as a triumph for all types of robots, a federal court ruled this week that an artificially intelligent machine can indeed be an inventor - a decision made after a year of litigation around the world. https://gizmodo.com/australian-court-rules-that-yes-ai-can-be-an-inventor-1847394182 Deere & Company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Bear Flag Robotics for $ 250 million. Nvidia tracks more than 8,500 AI startups through its Inception AI Startup program. | |||
| 09 Jan 2023 | #2302 Cohort / Zest / Twitter / Rivian / PhotoRoom | 00:04:17 | |
OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI technology and resources. Online lending software company Zest has raised more than $50 million in its latest growth round co-led by Insight Partners and CMFG Ventures, the company announced Tuesday. Not long after Elon Musk announced plans to acquire Twitter last March, he was mulling over open source "the algorithm" that determines how tweets appear in user feeds so that it can be scrutinized for bias. Kroeger, who sits on the board of electric pickup company Rivian (RIVN.O), will join the board of SiMa.ai, which includes top chip industry executives Moshe Gavrielov, a board member of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (2330. French startup PhotoRoom has raised $19 million in Series A funding. | |||
| 22 Jan 2024 | #2404 STIGMA / Security Copilot / Aviation & Healthcare / Live Translation | 00:02:37 | |
Researchers have developed an algorithm called STIGMA that uses machine learning to predict disease-causing gene variants. Microsoft's generative AI tool, Security Copilot, reportedly "hallucinated" incorrect responses during early tests. The aviation industry's safety regulations may hold the key to regulating AI in healthcare. Samsung has introduced a Live Translation feature for its new Galaxy S24 smartphones. | |||
| 14 Oct 2024 | #2442 Nobel Prize / UroBot / METALS / Numeric | 00:02:53 | |
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for machine learning advancements. Scientists developed "UroBot," an AI chatbot for urology. DARPA awarded a project to MIT, CMU, and Lehigh researchers. Accountants often dread month-end closings due to manual, error-prone processes. | |||
| 06 May 2024 | #2419 Shinkei / Sora / TorNet | 00:02:32 | |
Shinkei is developing an automated system for humane fish harvesting. OpenAI's text-to-video AI, Sora, was used to create a viral video called "Air Head". MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers have released an open-source dataset, TorNet, containing radar returns from thousands of US tornadoes. | |||
| 28 Mar 2021 | #2113 Learning From Videos, Voyage, AI chips, China & BMW, PoerPoint Presenter | 00:04:56 | |
Today we announce a project called "Learning From Videos" that will automatically learn audio, text and visual representations from the data in publicly available videos uploaded to Facebook. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/learning-from-videos-to-understand-the-world GM-backed Cruise announced today that it is acquiring Voyage after Bloomberg reported a potential deal in early March. Chinese TikTok owner ByteDance plans to develop semiconductors according to the company's job postings and a source familiar with the situation. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bytedance-chips-idUSKBN2B80P7 Chinese state television has criticized bathroom faucet brand Kohler and automaker BMW for using facial recognition to identify customers in the event of a possible breach of data protection regulations that came into effect this year. https://apnews.com/article/technology-lifestyle-beijing-china-85dafdf87c3d4798bf8e36070c9b12f4 PowerPoint Presenter Coach is now available on all platforms | |||
| 25 Dec 2023 | #2352 LAION / MVT / EU / AMR | 00:04:55 | |
Google has been training its AI image generator on child sexual abuse material, according to a recent study. MIT researchers have developed a new metric called "minimum viewing time" (MVT) to quantify the difficulty of recognizing images. France's Mistral AI has participated in the European Union's pilot phase to support homegrown AI startups. Researchers from the University of Liverpool have developed a framework for using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve antimicrobial use and infection care. | |||
| 02 Apr 2024 | #2414 Cyvl.ai / HeAR / Climate models / Japan Trauma Data Bank | 00:03:02 | |
Cyvl.ai, a Boston-based startup, has raised $6 million in funding. Google's AI researchers have developed a system to diagnose lung diseases from cough sounds. Scientists have developed a method to improve the accuracy of climate models. Around 4.5 million people die annually from traumatic injuries, often due to blood loss. | |||
| 23 Sep 2024 | #2439 PREVENT / Co-LLM / PHQ-9 / o1-preview | 00:03:30 | |
Risk calculators assess disease risk for millions, making accuracy crucial. MIT researchers developed an algorithm called "Co-LLM." Yale study links word choice to worsening depression symptoms. OpenAI released a new AI model, "o1-preview." | |||
| 29 Apr 2024 | #2418 Augment / Axon / Asthma / Inference budget | 00:03:15 | |
AI is increasingly used in coding, with 44% of software engineers using AI tools. Axon, a police contractor, has launched an AI product that generates police reports from body cam audio. A University of Texas researcher has developed an algorithm to predict asthma attacks. MIT and University of Washington researchers have developed a model to predict human behavior. | |||
| 24 Jun 2024 | #2426 RECTIFIER / SPARROW / Abridge / 1839 Color Photography Awards | 00:03:33 | |
Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) can accurately screen patients for clinical trial eligibility. MIT researchers have developed an AI algorithm to streamline drug discovery. Abridge, a Pittsburgh-based AI startup, is revolutionizing healthcare with its AI-powered medical note-taking app. Photographer Miles Astray was disqualified from the 1839 Color Photography Awards after his real photo won in the AI category. | |||
| 09 Sep 2024 | #2437 RTDetective / Personhood credential / Taco Bell | 00:02:46 | |
Researchers developed a computational model called RTDetective. AI technology is advancing rapidly. Taco Bell is expanding AI voice recognition in drive-thrus. | |||
| 14 Aug 2023 | #2333 Neurons / Eating disorder / Zoom / China | 00:03:25 | |
Researchers from RIKEN Center for Brain Science have found that the self-organization of neurons as they learn follows a mathematical theory called the free energy principle. Generative AI systems like chatbots and image generators are producing harmful eating disorder content. Zoom clarifies that it doesn't use customer content for AI training without consent. China's Cyberspace Administration has proposed measures to regulate the use of facial recognition technology. | |||
| 07 Jun 2021 | #2123 OpenAI fund / Postal Service Surveillance / AI Ethics / NNs / AI in Archeology | 00:04:34 | |
OpenAI is launching a $ 100 million startup fund, called the OpenAI Startup Fund, through which it and its partners will invest in early-stage AI companies dealing with big problems (and productivity). Is every federal agency now a monitoring unit? A new report from FICO and Corinium found that many companies are using various forms of AI in their business without considering the ethical implications of potential problems. Neural networks are the backbone of algorithms that predict consumer demand, estimate the arrival time of cargo, and more. https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/25/the-business-value-of-neural-networks/ Real archaeological fieldwork is seldom as exciting as it is in the movie. | |||
| 19 Sep 2022 | #2238 Vara / Shanghai / Craiyon / Premiership / ProtGPT2 | 00:04:05 | |
The tested software comes from Vara, a startup from Germany, which also led the study. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/11/1055677/ai-diagnose-breast-cancer-mammograms/ Leading public hospitals in Shanghai use artificial intelligence on their WeChat to streamline patient registration and offer better treatment. https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/2208048809/ An artificial intelligence was asked to create a picture of what it believed to be the greatest threat facing humanity. Scottish Premiership champions Celtic will be among 32 teams set to test Semi-Automated Offside Technology (SAOT) in this season's Champions League group stage. Artificial intelligence (AI) has created new possibilities for the design of tailor-made proteins to solve medical to ecological problems. https://phys.org/news/2022-08-proteins-natural-language-artificial-intelligence.html | |||
| 14 Feb 2022 | #2207 AlphaCode / Talent in-demand / Smart traffic lights / Lightelligence / NOAA | 00:05:02 | |
Last year, the San Francisco-based research lab released OpenAI Codex, an AI model for translating natural language commands into app code. Machine learning specialists are among the most in-demand talents in the technology space right now, with big companies like Snap, Zoom, and Microsoft courting engineers. Typically, traffic lights change color in response to predetermined rules and inductive loop sensors embedded in the road. https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/artificially-intelligent-traffic-lights/ As AI models become more computationally intensive, engineers are looking for new types of materials and hardware to speed up the model development process. A project in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is combining sensor-equipped drones with machine learning applications to automate the identification and mapping of marine debris and develop effective methods for their collection and disposal. https://dronedj.com/2022/02/07/researcher-pair-drones-machine-learning-against-marine-litter/ | |||
| 13 Nov 2023 | #2346 SmartEM / Triage / Picsart / Beyoncé concert | 00:02:56 | |
Connectomics, the study of mapping animal brains, is advancing with the help of AI and electron microscopes. GPT-4 conversational AI can diagnose and triage health conditions like board-certified physicians. Picsart, a photo-editing startup, has launched a suite of AI-powered tools called Picsart Ignite. Welsh police used facial recognition software at a Beyoncé concert to catch potential terrorists and pedophiles. Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com | |||
| 20 May 2024 | #2421 AI-MARRVEL / Consensus game / Puffin / Silicon Intelligence | 00:03:24 | |
Baylor College of Medicine researchers have developed an AI system to diagnose rare genetic disorders. MIT researchers have developed a game to improve AI's text understanding and generation. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed deep learning models to understand promoters. AI cloning of deceased relatives is a growing industry in China. | |||
| 11 Jul 2022 | #2228 Refraction / McDonald's / NAIRR / Colab / Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. | 00:04:33 | |
Chick-fil-A is among a growing list of restaurants and restaurant-adjacent businesses, including El Pollo Loco, Chili's and C3, that have been trialling technology like drones and bots to reduce the cost of delivery. IBM says it is rolling out its natural language processing software to a larger number of McDonald's drive-thrus months after buying the automated ordering technology unit from the fast-food chain, along with the team that developed it. https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/ibm/ A White House-led task force outlines its vision to make artificial intelligence research tools and data more accessible to a broader research community. Sometime in the last two weeks, Google quietly changed the terms of service for its Colab users, adding a stipulation that Colab services may no longer be used to train deepfakes. https://www.unite.ai/google-has-banned-the-training-of-deepfakes-in-colab/ Convenience store retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. says it will deploy more than 10,000 touchless self-checkouts at over 7,000 Couche-Tard and Circle K stores within three years. | |||
| 27 Sep 2021 | #2139 China / Footwear / Chips / Big Blue / Waymo | 00:04:16 | |
China passed an important data protection law on Friday that sets stricter rules for how companies collect and handle their users' information. If you need financial advice, ask an expert. https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-identify-footprints-but-forensic-experts-wont-get-fired-syndication Automation has been part of chip design since the 1980s. Big Blue has unveiled Telum, its first AI inferencing-accelerated chip that enables it to perform tasks like fraud detection during a transaction. Some San Franciscans can now welcome a robo-car ride courtesy of Waymo, the autonomous automaker backed by Google parent Alphabet. https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/Waymo-is-offering-robo-taxi-rides-in-S-F-if-16408340.php | |||
| 07 Feb 2022 | #2206 Boston Dynamics / Tesla Bot / Meteorites / CAC / ID.me | 00:05:05 | |
Boston Dynamics has won the first customer for its Stretch case handling robot. https://www.therobotreport.com/boston-dynamics-delivering-fleet-of-stretch-robots-to-dhl/ Elon Musk announced that Tesla will shift its product development to make Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot also known as Optimus, a priority in 2022. In some places rocks are exposed on the surface. https://phys.org/news/2022-01-machine-space-antarctica.html The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has proposed a new set of draft regulations to regulate AI-powered synthesis systems, including deepfakes, virtual reality scenes, text generation, audio, and other subfields of AI media synthesis -- an area where China produces a staggering number of academic papers and innovative research projects each month. An Internal Revenue Service contract for online tax returns served by ID.me continues to generate controversy due to its use of facial recognition and biometric authentication, prompting the search for alternative identity verification measures. | |||
| 13 Jun 2022 | #2224 Kendrick Lamar / SkyBAAM / LaMDA 2 / skin tone scale / DeepMind | 00:04:16 | |
American rapper Kendrick Lamar took advantage of deepfakes for his latest music video. A new project on the Tibetan plateau aims to build a dam in just two years using artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D printing. Google has announced that it's working on an improved version of its conversational AI model, LaMDA 2, and to test it, it's launching an app called AI Test Kitchen. https://www.xda-developers.com/google-new-ai-test-kitchen-test-conversational-ai/ Google on Wednesday announced a series of initiatives aimed at creating a fairer product experience for people across the skin tone spectrum. https://www.fastcompany.com/90750575/google-unveils-two-new-tools-designed-to-fight-skin-color-bias DeepMind today introduced a new multimodal AI system that can perform more than 600 different tasks. | |||
| 29 Nov 2021 | #2148 PepsiCo / EEOC / Whales / Adobe Morpheus / NATO AI Strategy | 00:04:20 | |
The two hubs are expected to create more than 500 new, high-quality data and digital jobs over the next three years. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will examine how artificial intelligence tools "fundamentally change" employment decisions. An interdisciplinary team of scientists has started a project with the aim of deciphering sperm whales and communicating with them. https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-ai-whale-language Adobe's new Morpheus project was presented on October 28 at the Adobe MAX 2021 creative conference. NATO will adopt its first artificial intelligence strategy this week and launch an innovation fund with the aim of investing US $ 1 billion to make the 30-nation security pact "future-proof", said Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday. | |||
| 11 Mar 2024 | #2411 AOM / DataCebo / Claude 3 / AI Tax Assist | 00:03:10 | |
A new cellphone app uses AI to diagnose ear infections in children. Generative AI is being used to create synthetic data for various applications. Google-backed AI firm Anthropic has launched Claude 3, a set of AI language models. H&R Block has launched a conversational AI chatbot, AI Tax Assist. | |||
| 11 Dec 2023 | #2350 LoRa / rehab / Gemini / Grok | 00:02:50 | |
Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a wearable monitoring device system that can transmit health data up to 15 miles without significant infrastructure. Artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT could be used in healthcare for rehab purposes. Google has unveiled its AI model, Gemini, which it claims is more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4. Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, has launched Grok, a competitor to ChatGPT, on the social network X. Grok provides conversational answers and incorporates real-time data from X. It has a "rebellious streak" and can respond with profanities and colorful language. | |||
| 16 May 2022 | #2220 Bulgaria / AFib / Cyberspace Administration of China / ID.me / earthquake | 00:05:44 | |
With support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and DeepMind, SiteGround and $100 million from the Bulgarian government, a new institute will open in Sofia, Bulgaria in September to advance cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and computing at large and whole through open research. Google announced today that the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration has cleared a long-awaited algorithm to detect atrial fibrillation ( AFib ) in users via select Fitbit smartwatches and fitness trackers. https://gizmodo.com/fitbits-new-afib-heart-monitoring-feature-cleared-by-fd-1848777630 On April 8, the country's top cyberspace regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), launched a formal campaign "Qinglang Comprehensive Algorithm Management Regulation in 2022" to investigate and fix algorithm security issues faced by tech companies with the aim of protecting internet users' rights to protect . https://jingdaily.com/china-internet-algorithm-tencent-bytedance/ House lawmakers on Thursday opened an investigation into the effectiveness and security of identity verification company ID.me after government agencies' use of the software to identify people accessing tax records and unemployment benefits led to the rapid spread of facial recognition in American everyday life . https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/14/idme-facial-recognition-investigation/ Algorithms trained to filter out this background noise could be of particular use for monitoring stations in and around busy earthquake-prone cities in South America, Mexico, the Mediterranean, Indonesia and Japan. | |||
| 02 Aug 2021 | #2131 Ghost Locomotion / Strawberries / Vaccine chatbot / Unmanned Aerial Vehicle / Wimbledon | 00:05:22 | |
Autonomous driving systems developer Ghost Locomotion has raised a $ 100 million Series D funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures. We first covered Traptic in 2019 when it took to the stage as a Battlefield finalist on Disrupt SF. Does the COVID-19 vaccine implant a microchip in my bloodstream? BigBear.ai enters a letter of intent with UAV Factory to develop AI / ML capabilities for use in autonomous operations BigBear.ai, a leading provider of artificial intelligence ("AI"), machine learning ("ML"), cloud-based big data analytics and cyber engineering solutions, today announced a letter of intent with UAV. The new AI tool from IBM can watch Wimbledon simultaneously on more than 18 seats. Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com | |||
| 12 Feb 2021 | #2106 Toyota, Drones, Amnesty International, U.K. , Quantum-Assisted Artificial Intelligence Platform | 00:05:12 | |
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| 15 Mar 2021 | #2111 Clearview AI, Facebook, Microsoft, Bugs, India | 00:04:52 | |
Clearview AI Inc. is asking the Seventh Circuit to postpone the legal effect of its recent decision to admit a lawsuit under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act in a state court until the Supreme Court has a chance to decide whether to take the case. A judge approved one of the largest privacy lawsuits to date, giving Facebook a thumbs up on Friday to pay $ 650 million to users who claimed the company had scanned their faces without permission. https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-privacy-lawsuit-over-facial-recognition-leads-to-650m-settlement/ Elevators that respond to voice commands, cameras that notify store managers when shelves need to be replenished, and video streams that monitor everything from cash registers to parking availability. Bugs with camera backpacks and moths driving tiny cars are the result of real insect experiments. https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-build-robot-that-hears-through-the-ear-of-a-dead-locust Digital rights advocates Tuesday condemned the installation of facial recognition technology in at least a dozen schools in Delhi, calling the initiative "overreach" by Indian authorities and an invasion of children's privacy. | |||
| 26 Jun 2023 | #2326 Aloud / YOLOv7 / Duet AI / Apple | 00:02:33 | |
YouTube is testing an AI-powered tool with Aloud to help creators dub their videos into other languages. A deep learning algorithm for detecting occlusal caries from clinical photographs will be presented at the 101st General Session of the IADR. Google Workspace testers can now use Duet AI to create custom templates for complex tasks in Google Sheets. Apple avoids using the term "AI" and instead focuses on machine learning, which it uses to improve features such as autocorrect and personalized volume. | |||
| 23 Oct 2023 | #2343 Diffusion-CCSP / Blood clots / John Grisham / Pokémon | 00:02:58 | |
MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning technique called Diffusion-CCSP to enable robots to efficiently solve continuous constraint satisfaction problems. An AI tool accurately identified pediatric patients at high risk for blood clots, but there was no difference in outcomes compared to a control group. Bestselling author John Grisham has spoken out against AI, calling it a "threat" to writers. A software engineer trained an AI to play Pokémon using reinforcement learning algorithms. | |||
| 01 May 2023 | #2318 Proteins / ICU / Palantir / Music | 00:04:10 | |
MIT researchers have developed machine learning algorithms to create artificial proteins with specific structural features, using attention-based diffusion models to predict amino acid sequences that meet design targets. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have collaborated with physicians and researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC to determine if artificial intelligence could help in the decision-making process of clinicians in an intensive care unit. Palantir, the company founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, has released a video demo of its latest offering. The music industry must address questions of consent and ethics as AI-generated music becomes increasingly prevalent. | |||
| 26 Jul 2021 | #2130 AI Habitat / Amazon / Vaccine delivery / Telepresence / Seoul Institute of Technology | 00:05:11 | |
In 2019, Facebook made AI Habitat available as open source software, a simulator that can train AI systems that embody things like a home robot to work in environments designed to mimic real-world environments like homes and offices. https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/30/facebook-updates-habitat-environment-to-train-embodied-ai/ Stephen Normandin spent nearly four years speeding through Phoenix as a contract driver for Amazon.com Inc., delivering packages. https://www.bloomberg.com/n ews/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turns-to-machine-managers-and-workers-are-losing-out While driverless trucks may once seem like a distant vision of the future, the rapid developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning have brought us to the edge of a new age of automation, starting with the transport of goods. The bespoke robot was developed to expand the reach, visibility and impact of US Soccer's existing Player Honoree program, in which eleven Volkswagen children have the opportunity to play on the field with players from the women's and men's national teams to go the national anthem. Does the young woman in the summer dress just admire the view from the bridge? | |||
| 18 Jul 2022 | #2229 Axon / Nate / e-skin / Gartner / Picsart | 00:04:56 | |
Nine members of police technology company Axon's AI ethics committee have resigned after the company said it would develop Taser-equipped drones, despite earlier opposition from the committee. https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/axon-ai-ethics-board-resignation And some, like Nate, had more modest goals: automatically filling in shoppers' contact and payment information on retailers' websites. An electronic skin that can learn from feeling "pain" could help create a new generation of intelligent robots with human-like sensibilities. https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_852760_en.html According to Gartner, Inc. CFOs, half of current artificial intelligence (AI) deployments in finance will be either delayed or canceled by 2024, while business process outsourcing (BPO) use for AI will grow from 6% to 40% within two years are facing major obstacles to expanding the use of AI in-house and will increasingly turn to business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions to achieve their digital transformation goals. Picsart has announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that removes noise, upscales images to a higher resolution, and improves overall image quality. https://petapixel.com/2022/06/08/picsart-adds-ai-enhancement-tool-to-upscale-and-improve-photos/ | |||
| 29 Jan 2024 | #2405 Google Search / KAIST / PRISM / Send AI | 00:02:48 | |
Google Search is inundated with low-quality content, spam, and dubious news due to generative AI. Researchers from KAIST have used an artificial neural network model to understand how musical instincts emerge in the human brain without special learning. MIT scientists have developed two machine-learning models for early detection of pancreatic cancer. Dutch startup Send AI has secured funding from Google's Gradient Ventures to develop its customizable document processing platform. | |||
| 10 May 2021 | #2119 Lyft sold! / Airbus and LIDAR / Robots of Tesla / Intelligent ship / Gartners foresights | 00:05:06 | |
Luminar Technologies Inc (LAZR.O) announced on Monday that it would partner with Airbus SE (AIR.PA) to test technologies that could increase flight safety and ultimately enable autonomous flight with obstacle detection. " Ride-hail company Lyft sold its autonomous vehicle unit to Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet Holdings for $ 550 million. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/26/lyft-sells-self-driving-unit-to-toyotas-woven-planet-for-550m Elon Musk argued that Tesla will be better known as an artificial intelligence and robots company. The "Mayflower 400", the world's first intelligent ship, sways slightly in a light swell as she turns off her engines in Plymouth Sound off the south-west coast of England before activating a hydrophone to listen for whales. Learn how open clouds reduce client device latency, improve customer and device interactions (IoT), and accelerate innovation from the edge to the data center. | |||
| 19 Dec 2022 | #2251 Neuralink / Xpeng / 100,000 fake humans / Mobileye / CLIP Interrogator | 00:03:18 | |
This neural network has a really bad attitude. https://futurism.com/the-byte/clip-interrogator-mean-ai Elon Musk announced back in August that his brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, would host a "Show & Tell" progress update event on October 31. https://www.teslarati.com/neuralink-show-and-tell-2022-new-date/ Until now, AI portraits of people who didn't exist were just headshots. https://petapixel.com/2022/10/24/an-ai-created-100000-full-body-photos-of-people-who-dont-exist/ Xpeng said deliveries of its newly launched G9 SUV rose in October from September, despite a decline in the brand's total monthly deliveries. Shares of Mobileye closed down more than 37% in its IPO Wednesday after the self-driving car technology maker spun off from Intel. | |||
| 13 Mar 2023 | #2311 Fakes / Intrinsic / Google Lens / Helm.ai | 00:02:47 | |
Fake accounts on social media are increasingly wearing fake faces. Intrinsic, a software company that spun out of Alphabet's X Moonshot division in mid-2021 to simplify the use of industrial robots, has acquired Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC), the for-profit arm of the Open Source Robotics Foundation, which is the developer of the Robot Operating System (ROS). Google wants more and more people to embrace digital technology. A few bright spots remain in the autonomous vehicle industry, even amid the macroeconomic headwinds that have nearly shut off the venture capital tap and prompted further consolidation. | |||
| 17 Jun 2024 | #2425 DenseAV / DEMIST / OpenAI, Microsoft and Oracle / LinkedIn | 00:03:07 | |
MIT researchers have developed DenseAV, an AI model that learns language from scratch. Biomedical engineer Abhinav Jha has developed a tool to improve medical image processing. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Oracle are partnering to increase compute capacity for ChatGPT. LinkedIn is introducing new AI-powered services to enhance user experience. | |||
| 14 Jun 2021 | #2124 AI detects bankruptcy / Biggest model ever / AI market growth / AI transparency risk / Cruise | 00:03:49 | |
The French government will use algorithms and artificial intelligence to identify small businesses at risk of collapse in the wake of the Covid pandemic and allocate up to € 3 billion ($ 3.7 billion) to protect them. A state-funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) institute in Beijing unveiled the world's most advanced natural language processing (NLP) model on Monday, surpassing that of Google and OpenAI as China seeks to increase its technological competitiveness on the world stage. The financial outlook for the global Artificial Intelligence market looks pretty good in 2021. https://thenextweb.com/news/global-ai-market-predicted-1-trillion-2028 Eric Schmidt, who heads a US government initiative to integrate AI into national security, warned on Monday that the EU's AI transparency requirements were "very harmful to Europe". https://www.politico.eu/article/ex-google-boss-eu-risks-setback-by-demanding-transparent-ai/ Cruise LLC, the autonomous vehicle company majority-owned by General Motors, has called on President Joe Biden to support efforts to accelerate thousands of self-driving cars on U.S. roads, saying the country is risking behind China lagging behind, as evidenced by a previously unreported letter from Reuters. https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/cruise-urges-biden-back-autonomous-vehicle-deployment-boost | |||
| 27 Feb 2023 | #2309 Dramatron / Motional / Yoodli / AIEQ | 00:03:06 | |
DeepMind has developed an AI tool that can help create rough film and stage scripts. Uber's network in Las Vegas will be the first to offer Motional's autonomous vehicles. Toastmasters members can get real-time feedback from AI voice coach Yoodli through a new partnership. Ever since the dawn of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the 1950s, practitioners have talked about using them to manage mutual funds. | |||
| 03 Jan 2022 | #2201 Killer robot ban / Global AI talent hubs / Public AI Research portal / Chip shortage in 2022 / FSL | 00:04:48 | |
Autonomous weapon systems - commonly known as killer robots - may have killed people for the first time last year, according to a recent UN Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. As AI penetrates more and more facets of our life, there is also increasing scrutiny of who is developing it. https://hbr.org/2021/12/50-global-hubs-for-top-ai-talent The White House AI Initiative office announced on Dec. 17 the creation of a public artificial intelligence (AI) research portal to connect AI researchers with federal funding and relevant funding programs. https://www.meritalk.com/articles/white-house-ai-initiative-office-launches-public-research-portal/ Expect semiconductor shortages to persist through early 2023, Deloitte said in a new report released on Wednesday. https://www.zdnet.com/article/deloitte-chip-shortage-will-extend-into-2022/ Malicious content can evolve quickly - be it from current events or from people looking for new ways to bypass our systems - and it is critical that AI systems evolve in parallel. | |||
| 25 Mar 2024 | #2413 FeatUp / Ubisoft / Stability AI / Tuberculosis | 00:03:10 | |
MIT researchers have developed FeatUp, an algorithm that enhances the resolution of deep networks. Ubisoft has showcased a demo of its experimental "Neo NPCs". AI image generation company Stability AI is facing difficulties as key developers resign. Tuberculosis (TB) is the deadliest bacterial infection, affecting over 10 million people in 2022. | |||
| 05 Jul 2021 | #2127 OpenAI / Insilico Medicine / XPRIZE / Nvidia Canvas / Virtual Student | 00:04:43 | |
David Silver, head of the Reinforcement Learning research group at DeepMind, is awarded the honorary ranking of "Ninth Dan" for AlphaGo. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/18/computer-scientists-ask-if-deepmind-can-ever-make-ai-human-like.html Insilico Medicine, an AI-based drug development and discovery platform, announced Tuesday Series C funding of $ 255 million. XPRIZE, the world's leading provider of incentive competitions to solve the world's great challenges, and IBM Watson, IBM's AI technology for business, today announced the grand prize winner of the $ 5 million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Challenge. " NVIDIA announced Canvas, an app available in free beta that provides real-time painting tools for anyone with an NVIDIA RTX GPU. China's first female virtual student, developed by Tsinghua University, met with fans Thursday when she opened an account on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo platform. | |||
| 05 Sep 2022 | #2236 Sepsis / ShotSpotter / Cleerly / UpCity / Israel | 00:05:00 | |
Infections can trigger all kinds of reactions in the human body, and one of the most extreme is sepsis. https://newatlas.com/medical/bedside-ai-warning-system-sepsis-mortality-20/ Officials are accused of "putting blind faith" on a notoriously unreliable platform. https://futurism.com/the-byte/man-sues-chicago-ai-wrongly-imprisoned Cleerly announced today that it has closed an oversubscribed Series C funding round for proceeds of $192 million. https://www.massdevice.com/cleerly-192m-ai-software-atherosclerosis/ The AI Tools and the Labor Shortage gathers insights from 600 small business owners and employees across the United States to find out how labor shortages have led to increased use of AI tools, and the pros and cons of using them. Training materials reviewed by The Intercept confirm that Google is offering advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to the Israeli government through its controversial "Project Nimbus" contract. https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial-intelligence-project-nimbus/ | |||