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AI has many applications in health care.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-fda-ai-medical-devices-real.html

AI-generated content is flooding the web.
https://futurism.com/ai-slowly-killing-itself

The FTC announced a final rule against fake reviews.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/08/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-rule-banning-fake-reviews-testimonials

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A new machine learning model predicts autism in young children.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-ai-aids-early-autism.html

Chinese startup WeRide got approval to test autonomous vehicles in California.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chinese-company-robotaxis-california

AI missed critical findings in some chest X-rays.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-ai-abnormal-pathology-chest-rays.html

Harmonyze is a Brooklyn-based startup.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/22/harmonyze-built-ai-agents-that-sit-between-franchisors-and-their-franchisees/

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Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) can accurately screen patients for clinical trial eligibility.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-ai-accurately-screens-heart-failure.html

MIT researchers have developed an AI algorithm to streamline drug discovery.
https://news.mit.edu/2024/smarter-way-streamline-drug-discovery-0617

Abridge, a Pittsburgh-based AI startup, is revolutionizing healthcare with its AI-powered medical note-taking app.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/how-abridge-became-one-of-the-most-talked-about-healthcare-ai-startups/

Photographer Miles Astray was disqualified from the 1839 Color Photography Awards after his real photo won in the AI category.
https://futurism.com/real-photograph-disqualified-not-ai

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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

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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.

https://www.c4isrnet.com/artificial-intelligence/2022/08/17/russia-military-to-develop-weapons-using-artificial-intelligence/

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/

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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.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/87736/ai-asked-to-show-an-image-of-humanitys-greatest-threat/index.html

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.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/celtic-alert-shock-champions-league-27650918

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

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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.

https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/07/26/researchers-at-stanford-have-developed-an-artificial-intelligence-ai-model-stockbot-which-uses-lstms-to-predict-stock-prices-with-gains-higher-than-the-most-aggressive-etfs/

A newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model called Generative Facial Prior (GFP-GAN) can fix most old photos in seconds, and it's free.

https://petapixel.com/2022/07/28/gfpgan-is-a-new-free-ai-tool-that-can-fix-most-old-photos-instantly/

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/31/exclusive-nhs-to-use-ai-to-identify-people-at-higher-risk-of-hepatitis-c

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

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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.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/07/25/2485045/0/en/UpCity-Survey-Results-46-Of-SMBs-Are-Using-AI-While-Growing-Their-Team-In-2022.html

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/

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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.

https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/microsoft-launches-project-airsim-an-end-to-end-platform-to-accelerate-autonomous-flight/

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Virtual robots controlled by artificial intelligence act in ways that conform to toxic stereotypes when asked to choose faces belonging to criminals or housewives

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2326129-artificially-intelligent-robot-perpetuates-racist-and-sexist-prejudice/

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.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327107-deepminds-ai-develops-popular-policy-for-distributing-public-money/

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/japan-deploys-artificial-intelligence-to-detect-rip-currents-as-beach-season-hots-up

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.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/metas-latest-ai-model-will-make-content-available-in-hundreds-of-languages/

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.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220707/New-computer-model-can-accurately-predict-the-communities-formed-by-human-gut-microbes.aspx

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