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New AI Tool Accelerates Discovery of Truly New Materials
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have created a collaborative artificial intelligence tool that reduces the time and effort required to discover truly new materials.
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AI: Should You Teach It To Your Employees?
AI is becoming strategic for many companies across the world. The technology can be transformative for just about any part of a business. But AI is not easy to implement. Even top-notch companies have challenges and failures.
Artificial intelligence success is tied to ability to augment, not just automate
Improved translation tools will facilitate human interactions across cultures. Language processing: Language processing technology advances have been supported by neural network language models, including ELMo, GPT, mT5, and BERT, that "learn about how words are used in context -- including elements...
Applied use cases
New ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower
National AI Strategy to boost business use of AI, attract international investment and develop next generation of tech talent Aims to position country as global leader in the governance of AI technologies and includes plans for a white paper on AI regulation. New National AI Research and Innovation...
New Salesforce and Slack Innovations Empower Companies to Create Their Digital HQ
Innovations enable collaboration with colleagues, customers, and partners – no matter where, when, or how they work SAN FRANCISCO — September 21, 2021 — Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the global leader in CRM, today announced new capabilities that integrate Slack across Salesforce’s products and industry...
What’s a kangaroo?! AI ethics lessons for and from the younger generation
Between September 2021 and March 2022, we’re partnering with The Alan Turing Institute to host speakers from the UK, Finland, Germany, and the USA presenting a series of free research seminars about AI and data science education for young people. The kangaroo metaphor To mitigate negative impacts...
Ethics
AI development must be guided by ethics, human wellbeing and responsible innovation
These are important concerns, but Havens contends that as AI systems are created, they must directly address human-centric, values-driven issues as key performance indicators of success to build trust with end users. While an organization's code of ethics governing its behavior is a critical tool to...
Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report
An expanded Standing Committee, with more expertise in ethics and the social sciences, formulated a call and actively encouraged proposals from the international community of AI researchers and practitioners with a broad representation of fields relevant to AI’s impact in the world. The 17-member...
POLITICO AI: Decoded: Existential AI risks — Transatlantic standards — Would you lie to me GPT-3?
TRANSATLANTIC STANDARDS: In upcoming talks for the EU-U.S. Trade and Tech Council, an initiative meant to boost transatlantic cooperation on, erm, trade and tech, common standards for artificial intelligence and facial recognition are both on the agenda in a high-level meeting that might or might...
Robotics
NVIDIA Announces New AI Perception Coming to ROS Developers
In addition, Open Robotics and NVIDIA are working to enable seamless simulation interoperability between Open Robotics’s Ignition Gazebo and NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse. Isaac GEMs Released for ROS (Significant Speedup vs CPU only packages) Isaac GEMs for ROS are hardware accelerated packages that...
Augmented Reality Meets Artificial Intelligence in Robotics: A Systematic Review
The remainder of the paper is organized according to the following sections: Methods, which specifies the survey methodology adopted as well as inclusion and exclusion criteria, Results, which presents descriptive statistics and analysis on the total number of selected papers in this review (29...
How to Use Collaborative Robotics for Pharmaceutical Automation
7 profitable uses of robotic automation in the pharmaceutical industry What sort of pharmaceutical automation tasks are good candidates for robotics? Assembly of pharmaceutical devices Medical devices often have detailed assembly steps, which can be perfect for a robot.
Research
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awesome-data-labeling A curated list of awesome data labeling tools Images labelImg - LabelImg is a graphical image annotation tool and label object bounding boxes in images CVAT - Powerful and efficient Computer Vision Annotion Tool labelme - Image Polygonal Annotation with Python VoTT - An open...
CompilerGym: Robust, Performant Compiler Optimization Environments for AI Research
What is needed is an easy, reusable experimental infrastructure for real world compiler optimization tasks that can serve as a common benchmark for comparing techniques, and as a platform to accelerate progress in the field. We introduce CompilerGym, a set of environments for real world compiler...
Computer vision dev platform Roboflow raises $20M
Roboflow, a Des Moines, Iowa-based startup developing tools for building computer vision models, today announced it has raised $20 million in a series A round led by Craft Ventures. But while the technology has obvious enterprise applications — computer vision algorithms can be trained to perform...
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