In the News
The Metaverse Has Already Arrived
When Cathy Hackl’s son wanted to throw a party for his 9th birthday, he didn’t ask for favors for his friends or themed decorations. Instead, he asked if they could hold the celebration on Roblox. On the digital platform, which allows users to play and create a multitude of games, Hackl’s son and his friends would attend the party as their virtual avatars.
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In The News
Yes, DeepMind crunches the numbers – but is it really a magic bullet?
The machine learning outfit’s foray into pharmaceuticals could be very useful, but its grand claims should be taken with a pinch of salt The most interesting development of the week had nothing to do with Facebook or even Google losing its appeal against a €2.4bn fine from the European commission...
Nvidia CEO On Competition, Software, And The Omniverse
Nvidia has been in such a virtuous cycle of creation and expansion for the past decade and a half, and we got the chance to sit down with Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer at the company, to talk about the state of the datacenter and how the emergence of what Nvidia calls the...
A Tutorial on Sequential Machine Learning
For speech recognition, voice recognition, time series prediction, and natural language processing, sequence models are particularly popular. Below I have listed some popular machine learning applications that are based on sequential data, Time Series: a challenge of predicting time series, such as...
Applied use cases
Inside Reality Labs Research: Meet the team that’s working to bring touch to the digital world
In March, we began a three-part series exploring the future of human-computer interaction (HCI). First, we laid out our 10-year vision of a contextually-aware, AI-powered interface for augmented reality (AR) glasses that can use the information you choose to share to offer proactive assistance, allowing us to look up and stay present with those around us.
New research reveals patient perspective on the benefits of AI in healthcare
New research from Pfizer has revealed that while artificial intelligence (AI) might feel new and unfamiliar to patients in a healthcare setting, for the patients we interviewed crucially, they can see the benefits of it being used alongside doctors to augment traditional delivery methods of care.
Haier gets a hand from Huawei and China Mobile to build smart factories
China’s largest consumer electronics producer, Haier, is getting a helping hand from Huawei and China Mobile to build smart factories. The trio of industry titans announced the successful combination of 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC) to deliver innovative manufacturing solutions. 5G offers...
Ethics
The Department of Defense is issuing AI ethics guidelines for tech contractors
The controversy over Project Maven shows the department has a serious trust problem. This is an attempt to fix that.
The EU and the US: two different approaches to AI governance
In this new blog, Oxford Internet Institute alumnus Huw Roberts and Professor Luciano Floridi, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford compare the EU and US approaches to AI governance and consider the implications for future collaboration. Systems deemed to be of unacceptable risk, such as...
The steep cost of capture
This is a perilous moment. Private computational systems marketed as artificial intelligence (AI) are threading through our public life and institutions, concentrating industrial power, compounding marginalization, and quietly shaping access to resources and information.
Robotics
What If Alexa Could Read Your Mind?
What if you could talk to Amazon Alexa using your mind? A new headset device using artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, and brain-computer interface technology could enable users to do that, and more.
Autonomous Mobile Robotics Week Focuses on AMR Adoption Opportunities & Challenges
Autonomous Mobile Robotics Week was designed to alleviate the burden of AMR selection, adoption and management. There is no charge to attend Autonomous Mobile Robotics Week sessions. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots November 16, 2021 – 11:00 AM EST Speakers – Callie Moriarty, Solutions...
Improve Your Efficiency in Logistics Operations With Robots
Is it possible to improve the efficiency in logistics with robotics?
Unlike in other areas, it's not always obvious how robots fit within logistic processes. However, the number of robots in logistics is growing a lot right now. Like your competitors, you can benefit from the efficiency gains provided by approaching robotic automation in the right way.
Research
Radical Reads: From AI researcher to founder – an exclusive conversation with Pieter Abbeel
Image Source: Covariant This week Radical Ventures finished our inaugural AI Founders Master Class, a program aiming to help AI founders create AI companies. Pieter is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, Director of Berkley’s Robot...
OpenAI rival Cohere launches language model API
As for Frosst, he, like Gomez, worked at Google Brain, publishing research on machine learning alongside Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton. By contrast, the representational models are about understanding language, driving apps like semantic search, chatbots, and sentiment analysis. Companies can...
Artificial intelligence helps scientists spy on chimp behavior in the wild
“[This will] really help speed up data processing and reduce costs.” To conduct the research, scientists focused on two behaviors: nut cracking and drumming. So they also trained the model to recognize nut cracking and buttress drumming from the sound alone. When they showed the network nut cracking...
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