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| #2436 Validation standards / Habsburg AI / Fake reviews | 02 Sep 2024 | 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 | |||
| #2435 AutMedAI / WeRide / WeRide / Harmonyze | 26 Aug 2024 | 00:03:17 | |
A new machine learning model predicts autism in young children. Chinese startup WeRide got approval to test autonomous vehicles in California. AI missed critical findings in some chest X-rays. Harmonyze is a Brooklyn-based startup. | |||
| #2426 RECTIFIER / SPARROW / Abridge / 1839 Color Photography Awards | 24 Jun 2024 | 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. | |||
| #2240 Parkinson’s / virtual candidate / Radiocarbon dating / NeRF / accent | 03 Oct 2022 | 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 | |||
| #2239 Stability.ai / Russia / TikTok / PaLM-SayCan / NeuRRAM | 26 Sep 2022 | 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/ | |||
| #2238 Vara / Shanghai / Craiyon / Premiership / ProtGPT2 | 19 Sep 2022 | 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 | |||
| #2237 StockBot / GFP-GAN / NHS / Estonia / CDFG | 12 Sep 2022 | 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 | |||
| #2236 Sepsis / ShotSpotter / Cleerly / UpCity / Israel | 05 Sep 2022 | 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/ | |||
| #2235 Make-A-Scene / Argo AI / Vara / Mozilla / AirSim | 29 Aug 2022 | 00:04:46 | |
Imagine creating a digital painting without ever picking up a paintbrush or instantly creating picture-book illustrations to go with the words. https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/metas-new-ai-research-tool-turns-ideas-into-art/ Argo AI announced late last week that it would lay off 150 employees and end its autonomous vehicle operations in Washington, DC. https://www.therobotreport.com/argo-ai-lays-off-150-closes-washington-d-c-operation/ 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/ AI is great for rich and powerful people and for tech giants trying to increase their profits. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/ai-helps-the-powerful-but-harms-the-vulnerable-mozilla-warns/ Project AirSim uses the power of Azure to generate massive amounts of data to train AI models on exactly what actions to take at each phase of flight, from takeoff to cruise to landing. | |||
| #2234 CLIP / DeepMind / Kamakura / FLORES-200 / gut microbes | 22 Aug 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2233 Databricks / N2N / Chickens / Crime / Cardiff University | 15 Aug 2022 | 00:05:04 | |
#2233 Databricks / N2N / Chickens / Crime / Cardiff University Databricks, which has been criticized for running a closed lakehouse, is making most of the technology behind Delta Lake, including its APIs, available as open source with the launch of Delta Lake 2.0. https://www.datanami.com/2022/06/28/databricks-opens-up-its-delta-lakehouse-at-data-ai-summit/ As he walked past the countless photographs of Holocaust survivors and victims at Warsaw's POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2016, New York-born Daniel Patt was haunted by the possibility that he was walking past the faces of his own relatives, without knowing it. Chickens make more noise than most of us realize. https://www.science.org/content/article/artificial-intelligence-could-spot-baby-chickens-distress An artificial intelligence sifting through crime data can predict the location of crimes in the coming week with up to 90 percent accuracy, but there are concerns about how systems like this can perpetuate prejudice Cardiff University scientists have developed a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) system that can accurately predict the areas of an image a person is most likely to be looking at. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-ai-mimics-human-cancer.html | |||
| #2232 Optimus / Flamingo / Minecraft / CodeWhisperer / McDonald’s | 08 Aug 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2231 FTC / Canada / Miso Robotics / Microsoft / Alzheimer | 01 Aug 2022 | 00:05:01 | |
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommended Congress exercise caution in promoting artificial intelligence (AI) tools to combat online harm, in a report commissioners voted to release Thursday. The federal Liberals on Thursday introduced privacy laws that give Canadians more control over how their personal information is used by commercial companies, impose fines on non-compliant organizations and introduce new rules for the use of artificial intelligence. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/privacy-bill-artificial-intelligence-1.6490665 · Robots are finding their way into canteen kitchens worldwide. For years, activists and academics have raised concerns that facial analysis software that claims to be able to identify a person's age, gender, and emotional state may be biased, unreliable, or invasive — and shouldn't be sold. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/technology/microsoft-facial-recognition.html Using machine learning, researchers have developed an algorithm that can accurately diagnose Alzheimer's disease from a single MRI brain scan. https://newatlas.com/medical/mri-scan-machine-learning-diagnose-alzheimers-dementia/ | |||
| #2425 DenseAV / DEMIST / OpenAI, Microsoft and Oracle / LinkedIn | 17 Jun 2024 | 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. | |||
| #2230 NVIDIA & NASA / Cerner / AlphaFold2 / Sonantic / Peltarion | 25 Jul 2022 | 00:05:13 | |
NVIDIA GPUs will play a key role in interpreting data coming in from the James Webb Space Telescope, with NASA preparing to release the $10 billion scientific instrument's first full-color images next month. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/06/08/deep-learning-james-webb-space-telescope/ Days after Oracle completed its $28 billion purchase of Cerner, Larry Ellison laid out a comprehensive vision for the cloud giant's healthcare business. https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/09/oracle-cerner-health-records-cloud-2/ Of the three rotavirus groups that cause gastroenteritis in humans, known as groups A, B, and C, groups A and C primarily affect children and are the best characterized. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220609131855.htm Spotify has constantly brought new features to its platform to differentiate itself from competitors like Apple Music. https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/13/spotify-invests-in-ai/ King, a leading interactive entertainment company serving the mobile gaming world, announced the acquisition of artificial intelligence software company Peltarion. | |||
| #2229 Axon / Nate / e-skin / Gartner / Picsart | 18 Jul 2022 | 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/ | |||
| #2228 Refraction / McDonald's / NAIRR / Colab / Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. | 11 Jul 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2227 HR / School shootings / Imagen / Dyson | 04 Jul 2022 | 00:04:36 | |
As the Great Retirement or Restructuring continues to make headlines, Human Resources' attention has been on job seekers, job hoppers, and vacancies. https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/25/report-92-of-hr-leaders-plan-on-using-ai-to-acquire-talent/ Six months after the fatal shooting at Oxford High School that killed four students and injured eight, the school district is experimenting with new artificial intelligence weapon detection technology. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District acquired a technology service to monitor social media for threats of school shootings and suicides years before a gunman killed 19 children and two adults on Tuesday. In recent weeks, the AI image generator DALL-E 2 has caused a sensation on Twitter. https://9to5google.com/2022/05/23/google-ai-imagen-generator/ Dyson has unveiled a number of prototype robots it is currently developing and announced its plans to hire hundreds of engineers over the next five years to make robots that can do household chores. | |||
| #2226 SoundHound / MIT / Beewise / Stargate / BeyondMinds | 27 Jun 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2225 Mayflower / Argo AI / Buildots / long COVID / NATO | 20 Jun 2022 | 00:04:32 | |
In its second attempt to become the largest unmanned vessel to cross the Atlantic, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS400) was forced to swerve almost halfway due to an onboard mechanical problem. Robotaxi startup Argo AI said Tuesday it had begun operating its autonomous test vehicles without human safety drivers in two U.S. cities -- Miami and Austin, Texas -- a major milestone for the Ford and Volkswagen-backed company. Buildots, a company that has developed a system to streamline the construction industry, has announced the closing of a $60 million Series C financing round. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1kqfmzvq A research team supported by the National Institutes of Health has identified characteristics of people with long-term COVID and those who are likely to have it. More than 80 AI experts, researchers and academics from the US and other member countries are involved in the project known as strategic "horizon scanning" put together by the NATO Science and Technology Organization and the NATO Communications and Information Agency. | |||
| #2224 Kendrick Lamar / SkyBAAM / LaMDA 2 / skin tone scale / DeepMind | 13 Jun 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2223 Mayo Clinic / Deepfakes / Meta / Guardforce AI / Toyota | 06 Jun 2022 | 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 | |||
| #2222 Concrete / Meta / Maven / Pittsburgh / Department of Energy | 30 May 2022 | 00:04:27 | |
Facebook's parent company Meta has used AI to develop a new method of making concrete that it claims produces 40 percent less carbon emissions than standard mixes, and is already using it in its latest data center. What's happening Facebook's parent company Meta says it's working on a long-term research effort studying how the human brain learns language to improve artificial intelligence. https://www.cnet.com/science/facebook-parent-meta-is-studying-the-human-brain-to-improve-ai/ Project Maven, once the Pentagon's priority program to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in the military, is now being transferred to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, according to senior officials in the intelligence community. https://breakingdefense.com/2022/04/pentagons-flagship-ai-effort-project-maven-moves-to-nga/ An algorithm looking for child neglect is a cause for concern https://apnews.com/article/child-welfare-algorithm-investigation-9497ee937e0053ad4144a86c68241ef1 The Department of Energy earlier this month created the Artificial Intelligence Advancement Council to coordinate funding and development of algorithms and hold regulators accountable for their use. https://www.fedscoop.com/doe-ai-advancement-council-launched/ | |||
| #2221 FDA / 23 million international travelers / GM / MMNLU-22 / Calipsa | 23 May 2022 | 00:04:46 | |
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notes that some radiologists are unaware of the intended use of computerized triage and notification (CADt) devices and has issued a recommendation on the use of the imaging software for patients with suspected large vessel occlusion ( LVO) in the brain. The US government says it has doubled the number of international travelers processed with facial recognition tools in the past year. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202204/2021-a-good-year-facial-recognition-at-us-ports GM has filed a patent for autonomous driver training technology, as first reported by Motor1. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39753485/general-motors-patent-autonomous-teach-student-drivers/ Amazon released an open-source speech dataset supporting 51 languages on Wednesday, encouraging developers to create more third-party apps and services for its AI speaker device, Alexa. https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/20/amazon_ai_speech/ Motorola Solutions (MSI.N) has acquired London-based start-up Calipsa to improve its ability to apply AI-powered analytics across all video security solutions and help its customers verify alarms and detect tampering in real-time. | |||
| #2424 MedAlpaca / PoCo / Growth chart / Stable Audio Open | 10 Jun 2024 | 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 | |||
| #2220 Bulgaria / AFib / Cyberspace Administration of China / ID.me / earthquake | 16 May 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2219 Oxipit / IBM / DALL-E 2 / Depression / Optimus | 09 May 2022 | 00:04:40 | |
Developer of AI medical imaging applications, Oxipit, received Class IIb CE certification for its ChestLink autonomous AI imaging suite. https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=12850 IBM is updating its mainframe range, building an AI accelerator onto the processor and surrounding it with new cryptographic capabilities that the company says will help protect today's data from tomorrow's quantum computing attacks. https://www.cio.com/article/307884/ibms-z16-mainframe-boasts-on-chip-ai-acceleration.html OpenAI, the AI research startup, has announced DALL E 2, an update to its text-to-image generator that looks like a serious advance. https://www.techradar.com/news/openais-new-dalle-model-turns-your-words-into-realistic-images A newly developed algorithm can detect depression in Twitter users with an accuracy of 88.39 percent. Tesla could begin production of a humanoid robot called Optimus as early as next year, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday. | |||
| #2218 Strech / Autism / Mayflower / ISS / NeRF | 02 May 2022 | 00:04:23 | |
Expo-goers will also have the opportunity to walk the Boston Dynamics spot. https://www.therobotreport.com/boston-dynamics-stretch-now-commercially-available/ Stanford researchers have developed an algorithm that can help identify if someone has autism based on brain scans. https://hai.stanford.edu/news/new-ai-driven-algorithm-can-detect-autism-brain-fingerprints About a year after a mechanical problem forced it to turn, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship is ready to cross the Atlantic and travel autonomously from Plymouth, UK to Plymouth, Massachusetts. The HAL 9000 computer that starred in 2001: A Space Odyssey - and caused such a mess of maintenance problems on the Discovery One spacecraft - is not in use on the International Space Station. Neural radiation fields (NeRF) were used to synthesize views of complex scenes by taking some input images and using an AI to generate the gaps. https://petapixel.com/2022/04/04/ai-creates-amazing-virtual-san-francisco-with-millions-of-photos/ | |||
| #2217 Inflection AI / Linkedin / Beewise / Intel / Grammy | 25 Apr 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2216 CTRL-Labs / Nvidia / Clearview 2.0 / Google / Antibody therapies | 18 Apr 2022 | 00:05:04 | |
Meta, Apple, and a host of other tech companies are building augmented reality glasses with displays that computerize the world around you. Graphics chips are good at taking 3D scenes, such as video game battlefields or airplane designs, and rendering them as 2D images on a screen. Clearview AI, the facial recognition technology (FRT) company that provides powerful and reliable photo identification technology to law enforcement agencies across the country, announced the release of Clearview 2.0, the latest version of its industry-leading facial recognition platform. of Homeland Security and hundreds of local authorities. Google over the past year has uncovered a massive attempt by scammers to make abusive changes targeting legitimate Google business profiles. Israel-based AION Labs and German independent research institute BioMed X announced their third global tender to create a new start-up company focused on using AI to develop and optimize antibodies for targeted therapies. https://pharmaphorum.com/digital/big-pharma-companies-partner-form-ai-start-up-targeted-therapies/ | |||
| #2215 Chemical weapons / Mini Cheetah / Hyperion / Datagen / Nvidia and Kroger | 11 Apr 2022 | 00:03:59 | |
It took the drug-developing AI less than six hours to invent 40,000 potentially deadly molecules. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx The fleet-footed, four-legged robot called Mini Cheetah... well, doesn't move like anything in the animal kingdom. https://www.popsci.com/technology/machine-learning-robot-runs-its-fastest/ Nvidia this week unveils its plan to power the next era of computing. Headquartered in New York, Datagen has raised $50 million in its Series B funding to strengthen its platform and meet the growing demand for synthetic data in the broader AI space. Nvidia and Kroger today announced a "strategic collaboration" aimed at bringing more AI-powered applications and services to the food space. https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/22/kroger-and-nvidia-to-create-ai-lab-and-digital-twin-simulations/ | |||
| #2214 Microsoft x2 / ElliQ / DeepFake / $120 billion by 2025 | 04 Apr 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2213 DeepMind / Clearview in Italy / Volvo / Meteorite / Clearview in Ukraine | 28 Mar 2022 | 00:05:13 | |
An AI tool developed by DeepMind can help historians recover ancient Greek texts with an accuracy of 72 percent and date inscriptions to 30 years of their true age Another European privacy commissioner has sanctioned controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI, which scrapes selfies from the internet to amass a database of around 10 billion faces to run an identity-matching service, which it sells to law enforcement. https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/09/clearview-italy-gdpr/ If you've ever left a dealer's service department only to find a different problem or an unresolved initial problem, it can be a frustrating proposition. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/volvo-dealerships-uveye-ai-vehicle-inspection-tech/ Finding meteorites on Earth's surface is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but using AI to analyze images taken by drones has located a tiny space rock in just four days Ukraine's defense ministry began using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology on Saturday, the company's chief executive told Reuters, after the US startup offered to help uncover Russian attackers, fight misinformation and identify the dead. | |||
| #2212 Traffic lights / Proteins / Pony AI / Pigs / Inflection AI | 21 Mar 2022 | 00:04:40 | |
CEO Elon Musk said Sunday that his company should develop a device that uses artificial intelligence to reduce wait times at traffic lights. By using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to formulate therapeutic proteins, a team led by Rutgers researchers has successfully stabilized an enzyme capable of breaking down scar tissue from spinal cord injuries and promoting tissue regeneration. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220307113045.htm Pony.ai, a developer of autonomous driving technology, has completed its first close of its Series D funding. It doesn't matter to beat up people over video games and the old pastimes of chess and go. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/07/scientists-use-ai-to-decode-pig-calls 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. | |||
| #2211 Nuance / Avatar / Groq & Maxeler / PolyCoder / Mobileye | 14 Mar 2022 | 00:04:23 | |
Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance is complete. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-completes-197-billion-acquisition-ai-giant-nuance It's hard to be a college student in the US these days. https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-college-president-is-another-reason-to-drop-out-unlv-keith-whitfield When it comes to application acceleration, a deep understanding of the complex algorithms underlying most HPC and AI applications is perhaps the most important thing to bring to fruition. https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/01/groq-buys-maxeler-for-its-hpc-and-ai-dataflow-expertise/ AI for code generation - AI systems that can write in different programming languages on demand - promise to reduce development costs while programmers can focus on creative, less repetitive tasks. The move to take Mobileye public is part of Intel's broader strategy under Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger to transform its core business. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/intels-mobileye-confidentially-files-us-ipo-2022-03-07/ | |||
| #2423 TDANN / Autobiographer / Alchemist | 03 Jun 2024 | 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. | |||
| #2210 Mercedes / Cerebras Systems / Whoole Foods / Autonomous Vehicles / Cedars-Sinai | 07 Mar 2022 | 00:04:48 | |
Even though there are currently no truly self-driving cars on the market, autonomous vehicles are on the way to the future. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mercedes-benz-drive-pilot-hands-free-driving-traffic-jam-assist/ Cerebras Systems, the San Jose, California-based startup that makes computers for processing deep learning algorithms and other large-scale scientific computing tasks, announced Wednesday morning that it has sold its first "CS-2" computer to TotalEnergies , the 98-year-old Paris-based energy exploration and production company. "Would you like to sign in with the palm of your hand? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/technology/whole-foods-amazon-automation.html When assessing their current level of comfort, only 29% of respondents said they would be comfortable driving automatically in their own fully autonomous vehicle in the future. In collaboration with AIM, Cedars-Sinai has developed several key programs in which artificial intelligence is increasingly used. | |||
| #2209 Tokamak / Soul Machines / Clearview / Valyant AI / Kraft-Heinz | 28 Feb 2022 | 00:04:40 | |
However, controlling nuclear fusion on Earth is difficult. Metaverse Virtual Beings developer Soul Machines has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. https://voicebot.ai/2022/02/15/virtual-beings-startup-soul-machines-raises-70m/ And the company wants to go beyond face scanning for police, saying in the presentation it could monitor workers in the "gig economy" and is exploring a range of new technologies that could identify someone by their gait and pinpoint their location from a photo or scan their fingerprints remotely. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/16/clearview-expansion-facial-recognition/ Checkers & Rally's will scale Valyant AI's conversational artificial intelligence system called "Holly" to drive at franchised restaurants across the United States, the companies announced on Tuesday. Kraft-Heinz and NotCo, the food tech company behind the NotCo brand of plant-based foods, today announced they are forming a joint venture to develop a line of plant-based foods. https://thespoon.tech/kraft-heinz-and-notco-form-joint-venture-for-ai-powered-food-products/ | |||
| #2208 Purdue / 4000000 miles / Passing Score / HeartFlow / uncanny valley | 21 Feb 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2207 AlphaCode / Talent in-demand / Smart traffic lights / Lightelligence / NOAA | 14 Feb 2022 | 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/ | |||
| #2206 Boston Dynamics / Tesla Bot / Meteorites / CAC / ID.me | 07 Feb 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2205 Gore / data2vec / Neuralink / RSC / SparkCognition | 31 Jan 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2204 FBI & Clearview AI / Bias influence / IBM & LG / Pentagon / AI3C | 24 Jan 2022 | 00:05:09 | |
The FBI signed a deal with Clearview AI on Dec. 30 for a $18,000 subscription license for the company's facial recognition technology. A new survey found that 80% of US firms had problems despite already conducting bias monitoring or algorithm testing. IBM announced on Monday that LG Electronics is joining the Quantum Network. Artificial intelligence, microelectronics and "Next-G" will be on a soon-to-be-released list of the Pentagon's top research and development priorities, a senior Defense Department official said Jan. 13. Microsoft founded the Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Coalition (AI3C) to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare by providing recommendations, tools, and best practices. https://www.technologyrecord.com/Article/microsoft-forms-new-coalition-for-ai-in-healthcare-128027 | |||
| #2203 DeepBrain / Nvidia Canvas / IBM sells Watson / Sanofi and Exscientia / Meta | 17 Jan 2022 | 00:04:47 | |
DeepBrain AI's industry-first approach to "humanizing" AI assistants provides users with a familiar, insightful, and accessible experience. https://gadget.co.za/ces-2022-deepbrain-humanises-ai-avatars/ It's amazing what we can do with AI these days. https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-upgraded-ai-art-tool-turned-my-obscure-squiggles-into-a-masterpiece/ IBM has revived its sale process for IBM Watson Health with hopes of raising more than $1 billion, people familiar with the situation tell Axios. French drugmaker Sanofi SA (SASY.PA) will partner with British AI company Exscientia Plc (EXAI.O) to develop up to 15 drug candidates in oncology and immunology, under an agreement worth up to $5 $.2 billion in milestone payments, the two companies said on Friday. People use AI for a variety of speech recognition and language understanding tasks, from activating smart speakers to building tools for people with hearing or speech disabilities. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-that-understands-speech-by-looking-as-well-as-hearing | |||
| #2202 US legislation for AI / Zeekr / John Deere 8R / Radceon Super Resolution / FaceHeart | 10 Jan 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2201 Killer robot ban / Global AI talent hubs / Public AI Research portal / Chip shortage in 2022 / FSL | 03 Jan 2022 | 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. | |||
| #2422 Silana / Phase diagrams / EXPRESSO / Marketing automation | 27 May 2024 | 00:03:12 | |
Silana, a Vienna-based startup, has raised €1.5 million for its sewing robot. Researchers from MIT and the University of Basel have developed a machine-learning framework to map out phase diagrams for physical systems. A new AI algorithm could improve predictions and treatments for autoimmune diseases. Marketing automation and AI can revolutionize marketing efforts. Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com | |||
| #2152 Generated characters / killer robots / AI dungeon / Mirai / Veeve | 27 Dec 2021 | 00:04:18 | |
By making this pipeline easily accessible, the researchers hope to inspire teachers, students and health care workers to explore how such tools can help them in their respective fields. https://news.mit.edu/2021/ai-generated-characters-for-good-1216 This may be remembered as the year the world learned that lethal autonomous weapons had moved from a futuristic concern to a reality on the battlefield. https://www.wired.com/story/autonomous-weapons-here-world-isnt-ready/ Latitude, the startup behind the text game AI Dungeon, is expanding to a new artificial intelligence-based game platform called Voyage. "Right after I turned 40 - about three years before I was diagnosed - I got my first mammogram," she said. Veeve is a Seattle-based startup that makes smart shopping carts for cashless grocery shopping. | |||
| #2151 Pony.ai suspended / LAWS / AI security / MI6 / IPhone scan delayed | 20 Dec 2021 | 00:04:24 | |
Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous driving company supported by Toyota, can no longer test fully self-driving vehicles in California, at least for the time being. Negotiators at the UN talks have been discussing the limits of lethal autonomous weapons, or LAWS, which are completely machine-controlled and rely on new technologies such as artificial intelligence and facial recognition for eight years. https://www.reuters.com/world/un-chief-urges-action-killer-robots-geneva-talks-open-2021-12-13/ Artificial intelligence programs that examine medical images for signs of cancer can be fooled by hacks and cyberattacks, according to a new study. https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22831966/hackers-mammogram-ai-cancer-fake-images MI6 needs to become "more open to keep secret" and work with technology companies to counter threats from China and Russia as they seek to gain advantage through mastery of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Earlier this year, Apple announced a new system to collect potential CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) by scanning the photos of iPhone users. https://www.macworld.com/article/559731/apple-csam-icloud-photo-scanning-removed.html | |||
| #2150 UN pledge / AI Market Cap / Clearview AI / Kore.ai / Pegasus | 13 Dec 2021 | 00:04:40 | |
China on Tuesday signed a United Nations pledge to prevent artificial intelligence from wreaking havoc on societies, including banning the use of AI for "social scoring" systems - a practice Beijing itself has for the past Popularized for years and currently used to rate Chinese citizens based on their perceived trustworthiness. The analyst firm Gartner has announced that artificial intelligence software will generate sales of US $ 62.5 billion in 2022. https://www.neowin.net/news/gartner-says-ai-software-market-will-reach-62-billion-next-year/ After Clearview AI scraped billions of photos from the public web - from sites like Instagram, Venmo, and LinkedIn - to create a facial recognition tool for law enforcement, many concerns were raised about the company and its norm-breaking tool. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/technology/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-accuracy.html Kore.ai, a leader in conversational AI software, announced today that it has extended its Series C funding round with NVIDIA participation. Journalists, lawyers, politicians and human rights activists have all been attacked by NSO's Pegasus software, and Apple has now announced that it will be sending security alerts to customers whose devices may have been compromised. https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/24/targeted-by-nso-apple-alerts/ | |||