In the News
AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
MIT researchers have found that people who are asymptomatic for Covid-19 may differ from healthy individuals in the way that they cough. These differences are not decipherable to the human ear. But it turns out that they can be picked up by artificial intelligence.
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In The News
AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world
They can be used to model everything from planetary orbits to plate tectonics to the air turbulence that disturbs a flight, which in turn allows us to do practical things like predict seismic activity and design safe planes.
A Navy SEAL, a Quadcopter, and a Quest to Save Lives in Combat
The customers Brandon refers to are members of US Special Operations Command who have been using Shield’s first product, the Nova quadcopter, and its onboard artificial intelligence, Hivemind, to help clear rooms on missions overseas for the past two years.
Applied use cases
Who am I to decide when algorithms should make important decisions?
In doing so, it reduced the scores of poor, Black, and brown students, while giving higher marks to students from elite schools and wealthy areas. In the United States, this means that a handful of firms in Silicon Valley are at the heart of AI development, including building algorithmic models they...
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake "intelligence" document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden's son and business in China.
NVIDIA chucks its MLPerf-leading A100 GPU into Amazon’s cloud
NVIDIA claims the instances reduce the time to train machine learning models by up to 3x with FP16 and up to 6x with TF32 compared to the default FP32 precision. Now, with EC2 UltraClusters of P4d instances powered by NVIDIA’s latest A100 GPUs and petabit-scale networking, we’re making...
Ethics
Trump faces executive order lawsuit as critical race theory fuels AI research
History, politics, and critical race theory Following these arguments requires a clear understanding of critical race theory, which invites scholars to consider the impacts of race, racism, and power, as an intellectual movement and a framework.
AI Ethics #29: Warning signs, fairness definitions, considerations for closed messaging research, AI & labour in the Global South, and chatbots
This week’s overview Research summaries: Warning Signs: The Future of Privacy and Security in an Age of Machine Learning Considerations for Closed Messaging Research in Democratic Contexts Fairness Definitions Explained Automating Informality: On AI and Labour in the Global South Article summaries:...
Health in the Digital Age - A New Era for Global Health?
MMS ONLINE Symposium, 4 November 2020 Medicus Mundi Switzerland Digitalisation affects us all. New technologies, including telemedicine, web-based diagnosis tools, digital data collection and artificial intelligence (AI), are having various impacts on health and health systems and will bring lasting...
Robotics
Disney robot with human-like gaze is equal parts uncanny and horrifying
Robots with human-like expressions are becoming ever more impressive, but Disney Research might just induce some nightmares with its latest project. Gizmodo reports that Disney has developed a system that gives humanoid robots more realistic gazes and head movements instead of the unnerving stares...
Pieter Abbeel: Making Robots Smart by Radical Talks • A podcast on Anchor
A feature interview with Pieter Abbeel, an innovator at the cutting edge of where AI meets robotics. In this episode of Radical Talks, Radical Ventures Managing Partner Jordan Jacobs chats with Pieter about the impact of COVID19 on automation, how AI has revolutionized the field of robotics and...
Using Collaborative Robots for Wire Harness Assembly: Wire Cobots’ Ilaria Palomba Discusses ESMERA Challenge
The European SMEs Robotic Applications (ESMERA) project is a four-year program funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 research initiative. To drive innovation, ESMERA developed competitive robotics challenges, implemented in a series of phases, that are designed to drive...
Research
Efficient and tight neural network verification in JAX
We have recently developed new verification algorithms that seek to improve this trade-off, enabling both tight and computationally efficient verification algorithms.
Deep Neural Networks Are Helping Decipher How Brains Work
Neuroscientists are finding that deep-learning networks, often criticized as “black boxes,” can be good models for the organization of living brains.
Introducing the COVID-19 Simulator and Machine Learning Toolkit for Predicting COVID-19 Spread
We are now open-sourcing a toolset for researchers and data scientists to better model and understand the progression of COVID-19 in a given community over time.
Teaching AI agents to communicate and act in fantasy worlds
NLP techniques are specifically designed to understand human language and produce suitable responses, thus enabling communication between humans and artificial agents.