In the News
The Fight to Define When AI Is ‘High Risk’
If enacted, it will classify AI systems according to risk, more strictly regulate AI that’s deemed high risk to humans, and ban some forms of AI entirely, including real-time facial recognition in some instances. Meanwhile, many human rights groups, AI ethics, and antidiscrimination groups argue the...
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In The News
The World’s Largest Computer Chip
In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big. A typical computer chip is the size of a fingernail. Cerebras’s is the size of a dinner plate.
The dos and don’ts of machine learning research — read it, nerds
The paper, which Lones describes as “lessons that were learnt whilst doing ML research in academia, and whilst supervising students doing ML research,” covers the challenges of different stages of the machine learning research lifecycle.
Discover The Essentials State of AI Report Q2
After thoroughly analysing industry trends and our engagement data, we’ve gathered valuable insights on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Stay tuned for the best articles from leading industry experts as we bring you our first-ever State of AI Report for Q2 from our sister newsletter, AI Essentials.
Applied use cases
'Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions
Melissa breaks up the isolation of urban life with a virtual chatbot created by XiaoIce, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence system designed to create emotional bonds with its 660 million users worldwide.
Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture Motional unveils its first Lyft robotaxi
The all-electric IONIQ 5 robotaxi is based on the same vehicle that launched worldwide earlier this year. Woongjun Jang, Head of the Autonomous Driving Center at Hyundai Motor Group, said: “Hyundai Motor has evolved its IONIQ 5, a battery electric vehicle built on its EV-dedicated platform, into a...
Meet the entrepreneur teaching computers to understand human emotions
Life-saving tech One area where Kaliouby believes Emotion AI could have life-saving applications is the automotive industry, where driver monitoring systems that use AI-powered cameras in cars could potentially detect driver distraction and drowsiness, preventing accidents.
Ethics
Stochastic Parrots 🦜 and Shaky Foundations
Most of the attendees at the August 23-24, 2021 Stanford HAI Workshop on Foundation Models, organized by Professor Percy Liang and Rishi Bommasani, understood Dr. Mitchell’s reasoning. However, with the announcement of the new Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), a 200-page white paper,...
A New AI Lexicon: Care
The first is digital therapeutics that take health data from patients, using machine learning to give responsive, predictive outputs for patient care such as risk scores or behavioral changes — for example, Somryst and reSET-O by Pear Therapeutics that treat insomnia and opioid addiction, Omada...
Robotics
Robot Dance Workshop
Arguably the world’s most famous robot - Spot from Boston Dynamics is a $75k agile mobile robot that navigates with unprecedented mobility. In this 1 day course you too will teach/train/program Spot to dance You will choreograph, program and record your very own robot dance!
Rent-a-robot: Silicon Valley’s new answer to the labor shortage in smaller U.S. factories
read more So venture capitalists are backing a new financial model: lease robots, install and maintain them, charge factories by the hour or month, cut the risk and initial costs. Saman Farid, a former venture capitalist who invested in robots for over a decade and saw the challenges of getting...
We’re Getting Closer to Flying Humanoid Robots
A couple of years ago, we wrote about a bipedal robot called Jet-HR1 under development at the Guangdong University of Technology. A word here on practical applications—there aren't a heck of a lot of good reasons to make a humanoid robot in the first place.
Research
Artificial Intelligence and the ‘Gods Behind the Masks’
Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images In AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, AI expert Kai-Fu Lee and coauthor Chen Qiufan answer the question "How will artificial intelligence change the world over the next 20 years?"
Ellipsis Secures $26 M in Series A Funding to Pioneer New Clinical Standard in Mental Health Care
Through voice technology, Ellipsis Health empowers people to take control of their mental health and supports clinicians managing surging patient volumes. “To effect meaningful and urgent change, providers need efficient, scalable clinical decision support technology like Ellipsis Health to help...
diffusion-based deep generative models
DDGM could be briefly explained as hierarchial VAEs with the bottom-up path (i.e., the variational posteriors) defined by a diffusion process (e.g., a Gaussian diffusion) and the top-down path parameterized by DNNs (a reversed diffusion).
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