In the News
Companies Are Making Serious Money With AI
With the start of each year come predictions, plans, and surveys from consulting firms. When it comes to artificial intelligence, multiple recent surveys indicate that companies aren’t just planning on spending serious money on AI in 2022 — they are already making good money from the technology.
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In The News
China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching
Sweeping rules will cover algorithms that set prices, control search results, recommend videos, and filter content. The regulations will extend an extraordinary crackdown on China’s most popular and most valuable tech companies, which has included big fines and sidetracked stock offerings.
DeepMind scientists say they trained an A.I. to control a nuclear fusion reactor
DeepMind announced Wednesday that it has trained an AI system to control and sculpt a superheated plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor. Nuclear fusion, a process that powers the stars of the universe, involves smashing and fusing hydrogen, which is a common element of seawater.
The Metaverse Is Coming; We May Already Be in It
In 2019, I wrote a book called The Simulation Hypothesis, in which I laid out the 10 stages of technology development that would take us to the Simulation Point, where we won’t be able to distinguish our virtual worlds from the physical world; or AI characters that live in those virtual worlds, from...
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
Why a serendipity mindset is crucial to make AI a success
The potential opportunities that AI could enable will remain mostly untapped if we don’t hone our ability to connect the dots and “cultivate serendipity”. This article sheds light on how to develop a “serendipity mindset” that helps us maximise potential.
Dispelling the mysteries around neural networks in healthcare
In his HIMSS22 education session, "Demystifying Deep Learning and Neural Networks," computing expert Michael Meighu will help health IT leaders better understand the applications and value of these leading-edge technologies. Next month in his HIMSS22 educational session entitled "Demystifying Deep...
Using the Picamera2 library with TensorFlow Lite
Installing the Picamera2 library Right now Picamera2 is in preview release, which means installing it is significantly more complicated than it will eventually be, because you first need to build and install a fork of the libcamera library along with some DRM/KMS bindings directly from GitHub: $...
Ethics
What the history of AI tells us about its future
Newsweek called the match “The Brain’s Last Stand”; another headline dubbed Kasparov “the defender of humanity.” If AI could beat the world’s sharpest chess mind, it seemed that computers would soon trounce humans at everything—with IBM leading the way. The Carnegie Mellon team had figured out...
NCCID case study: Setting standards for testing Artificial Intelligence
Evaluating the performance of AI models using data from the National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database has produced a valuable proof-of-concept validation process for testing the quality of AI in health and care. In 2021, the NHS AI Lab Imaging team, together with a research group formed by the...
Pulitzer Center Launches AI Accountability Network
The Pulitzer Center, a nonprofit organization that supports independent, global journalism, is now accepting applications for its new Artificial Intelligence Accountability Network. The Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network seeks to expand the field of algorithmic accountability reporting by...
Robotics
Artificial emotional intelligence could change senior users' perceptions of social robots
Socially assistive robots (SARS) are a class of robotic systems specifically designed to help vulnerable or older users to complete everyday activities. In addition to increasing their independence, these robots could stimulate users mentally and offer basic emotional support.
Robots help kids tell stories—with a little help from stuffed animals
In 2016, the artist and aspiring neuroscientist paid an impromptu visit to a children’s thrift store. On one of the shelves, she spotted a stuffed zebra with pink feet and a pocket with a zipper on its back. Hubbard thought it was perfect. At the time, she was a doctoral student at CU Boulder pursuing a triple PhD in computer science, cognitive science and neuroscience.
The power and flexibility of giraffe necks have inspired a new robot in Japan
When we think about flexibility in bioinspired robots, the best examples can usually be found in soft robots that mimic octopus arms or elephant trunks, which have some unique capabilities. But most animals are soft and flexible to some extent, just typically coupled with a rigid interior structure. It’s a complex arrangement, albeit one with some significant advantages in power and control.
Research
A soft thumb-sized vision-based sensor with accurate all-round force perception
The lighting direction is adjusted through a collimator to introduce a suitable structured light pattern that favours locally parallel lighting for photometric stereo, as depicted in Extended Data Fig. a, The pipeline of estimating the force distribution; the ResNet network transforms three images...
COMPASS: COntrastive Multimodal Pretraining for AutonomouS Systems
Existing multimodal learning approaches focus primarily on mapping multimodal data into joint latent spaces. Factorized spatiotemporal latent spaces for learning representations COMPASS is a multimodal pretraining framework for perception and action in autonomous systems. We demonstrate the...
One Voice Detector to Rule Them All
So we decided to fix this and publish (under a permissible license) our internal VAD satisfying the following criteria: High quality; Highly portable; No strings attached; Supports 8 kHz and 16 kHz; Supports 30, 60 and 100 ms chunks; Trained on 100+ languages, generalizes well; One chunk takes ~ 1ms...
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