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Chinese AI lab challenges Google, OpenAI with a model of 1.75 trillion parameters
In the race to build the underlying technologies that can power the next wave of AI revolution, a Chinese lab just toppled OpenAI, the venerated US-based research lab, in terms of who can train a gigantic deep learning model with the most training parameters--as for whether or not there is a race,...
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In The News
What Artificial Intelligence Still Can’t Do
The reason that humans automatically grasp this fact anyway is that we possess a broad body of basic background knowledge about how the world works: for instance, that people eat at restaurants, that before they eat a meal at a restaurant they order it, that after they eat they leave a tip.
How Will Artificial Intelligence Change the Future for Better?
AI and its Impact Artificial intelligence has had huge impacts in the healthcare sector, especially since the pandemic last year. One of the widely claimed consequences is AI taking over the human workforce and causing massive job losses.
Applied use cases
Deepfake maps could really mess with your sense of the world
In a paper published online last month, University of Washington professor Bo Zhao employed AI techniques similar to those used to create so-called deepfakes to alter satellite images of several cities. As with deepfake video clips that purport to show people in compromising situations, such imagery...
How AI technologies are being used to better understand retinal diseases
PixelPlex, a development and consulting company focused on blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies among others, realised that, through its contacts with medical facilities, it may be able to help. AIRA, an artificial intelligence retina analyser, is the...
Should You Choose Decentralized Palletizing?
Why cobot palletizing solutions are different There is a new development in robotic palletizing that makes people's common concerns less important than they were previously. This opens up decentralized palletizing to many more situations than were possible in the past, when the only real option for...
Ethics
AI & Health Care: A Fusion of Law & Science; Regulation of Medical Devices with AI
Herder noted that evidence for Class III and IV devices needs to be submitted prior to market authorization, but Class III evidence can rely on summaries of studies used to validate the device while only Class IV licence applications required detailed information about the studies; moreover, only...
SAIER-Apr2021-Final
Ethical AI 18 Opening Remarks by Dr. Alexa Hagerty (Anthropologist, University of Cambridge) 18 Go Deep: Research Summaries 21 “Cool Projects” or “Expanding the Efficiency of the Murderous American War Machine?” (Original paper by Catherine Aiken, Rebecca Kagan, Michael Page) (Research summary by...
Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
- Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA and James B. Duke Professor of Literature Emerita at Duke University, on feminism, embodiment, cognition, and human-AI relationships. In this episode, we chat with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, President and CEO of the Dalai Lama...
Robotics
Incorporating Robots Into the Automation Continuum
IoT focuses on supporting services for pervasive sensing, monitoring, and tracking, while the robotics community focuses on production, action, interaction, and autonomous behavior. To date, the robotics and IoT communities have been driven by varying, yet highly related objectives. IoT focuses on...
robotics | A New Era of Social Robots
Moxie, a small, Pixar-like robot with large-eyes on a cute and dynamic virtual face converses with children in a natural, lifelike manner, becoming a personalized companion to them. Let’s dive in… NOTE: Understanding how to use Exponential Tech like Robotics to transform education and personal...
Expectations and Perceptions of Healthcare Professionals for Robot Deployment in Hospital Environments During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this case, 41 healthcare professionals (e.g., nurses, doctors, biomedical engineers, among others) participated in the study, assessing three categories: (DIS) Disinfection and cleaning robots, (ASL) Assistance, Service, and Logistics robots, and (TEL) Telemedicine and Telepresence robots 1.
Research
AndroidEnv: The Android Learning Environment
Abstract We introduce AndroidEnv, an open-source platform for Reinforcement Learning (RL) research built on top of the Android ecosystem. Authors' Notes In recent years, the reinforcement learning (RL) research community has made significant progress in the pursuit of general-purpose learning...
Can Artificial Intelligence Enable Machines with Fluid Intelligence?
MIT and Austrian researchers have created “liquid” machine learning for a flexible artificial intelligence. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Austrian researchers have created a new neural network endowed with increased fluid artificial intelligence called “liquid” machine...
PyTorch builds the future of AI and machine learning at Facebook
PyTorch engineers at Facebook introduced a family of tools, libraries, pretrained models, and data sets for each stage of development, enabling the developer community to quickly create and deploy new AI innovations at scale. One company, one framework With PyTorch as the underlying platform...