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AI bias harms over a third of businesses, 81% want more regulation
AI bias is already harming businesses and there’s significant appetite for more regulation to help counter the problem. The findings come from the State of AI Bias report by DataRobot in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and global academic leaders. The report involved responses from over 350 organisations across industries.
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Meta Works with NVIDIA to Build Massive AI Research Supercomputer
Training AI’s Largest Models When RSC is fully built out, later this year, Meta aims to use it to train AI models with more than a trillion parameters. Under the Hood The new AI supercomputer currently uses 760 NVIDIA DGX A100 systems as its compute nodes. In 2017, Meta built the first generation of...
Google Hopes AI Can Turn Search Into a Conversation
The tech giant wants its core product to infer meaning from human language, answer multipart questions—and look more like Google Assistant sounds.
Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
The first enables computations on the original candidate graph, resulting in updates to information associated with each node, and the second takes the updated nodes as input and predicts the parameters for the corresponding computational units of the candidate neural network. Most significantly, to...
Year-End Review & a glimpse into 2022 from Essentials
As the end of the year approaches, it's time to look back at the fast-changing evolution of AI in 2021. To help you navigate this ocean of information the Faveeo team has prepared a Year-End Review that will help you catch the information that matters the most.
Applied use cases
Seeing into the future: Personalized cancer screening with artificial intelligence
Using the team’s previously developed risk-assessment algorithm Mirai, Tempo obtained better early detection than annual screening while requiring 25 percent fewer mammograms overall at Karolinska. At MGH, it recommended roughly a mammogram a year, and obtained a simulated early detection benefit of...
Chromebooks may borrow the Pixel’s battery-preservation trick
Enlarge Getty You can never have enough battery life, but keeping your device's battery at a constant 100 percent can degrade its life span. The change's description says the feature uses machine learning to "minimize the amount of time the device spends at full battery to preserve battery...
Everyday objects can run artificial intelligence programs
Nontraditional hardware could help neural networks operate faster and more efficiently than computer chips. Imagine using any object around you—a frying pan, a glass paperweight—as the central processor in a neural network, a type of artificial intelligence that loosely mimics the brain to perform complex tasks. That’s the promise of new research that, in theory, could be used to recognize images or speech faster and more efficiently than computer programs that rely on silicon microchips.
Ethics
Gaming Giant Unity Wants to Digitally Clone the World
The company is leveraging its technology to help clients make “digital twins”—virtual copies of real-life objects, environments, and even people.
What Buddhism can do for AI ethics
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence has fostered hope that it will help us solve many of the world’s most intractable problems. However, there’s also much concern about the power of AI, and growing agreement that its use should be guided to avoid infringing upon our rights.
Decolonizing AI : HAI Weekly Seminar with Sabelo Mhlambi
"Decolonizing AI" is a critique and an emerging movement both in the West and Non-Western world amongst AI researchers, activists, and practitioners. While its proponents have identified parallels between historical colonialism and the colonial-like scale and extractive nature of AI-related...
Robotics
An inside look at how one person can control a swarm of 130 robots
The swarm, including uncrewed planes, quadcopters, and ground vehicles, scouted the mock buildings of the Cassidy Range Complex, creating and sharing information visible not just to the human operator but to other people on the same network. How a human commanded the swarm For the person directing...
Robot science fiction books of 2021
Termination Shock Machinehood Stupid Machine Day Zero Fugitive Telemetry Fan Fiction A Psalm for the Wild-Built Let’s start with the scifi book I most frequently recommended to friends to read in 2021: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson. You can read my Science Robotics article on autonomous cars...
Electric Sheep Robotics Brings Automation to America’s Biggest Crop
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electric Sheep Robotics, the leader in autonomous lawn mowing, today announced the formal general availability of its Dexter robot. Dexter is designed to address critical labor shortages in the landscaping, facilities, and property management industries. Solutions...
Research
TinyML is bringing deep learning models to microcontrollers
The latest in these efforts, a joint work by IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), addresses the peak-memory bottleneck of convolutional neural networks (CNN), a deep learning architecture that is especially critical for computer vision applications. For example, in MobileNetV2, a...
Interaction data are identifiable even across long periods of time
Figure 5 shows (in blue) in how many weeks a person is correctly identified by our attack, each time using a single week of auxiliary data target weeks (weeks (T^{\prime} +1,\ldots ,T) of the mobile phone dataset). This could be by design in a centralized system (e.g., the UK’s NHSX app reportedly...
Introducing Text and Code Embeddings in the OpenAI API
text-similarity-{ada, babbage, curie, davinci}-001 Clustering, regression, anomaly detection, visualization Text search: Semantic information retrieval over documents. text-search-{ada, babbage, curie, davinci}-{query, doc}-001 Search, context relevance, information retrieval Code search: Find...
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