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Elon Musk : people might download their personalities onto a humanoid robot
According to E.Musk, people might download their personalities onto Optimus - a humanoid robot Tesla is making, which he says could be in 'moderate volume production' next year. He said it could help preserve memories and personalities if people "download" those things onto Optimus.
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A Wave Of Billion-Dollar Language AI Startups Is Coming
And a lot goes into building an enterprise-grade conversational AI interface: handling data privacy and security requirements, integrating with third-party applications, building the infrastructure to support deployment at scale, providing a graceful “fallback mechanism” when the bot is stumped and...
Top AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures
In a sign that the coffers of AI startups need little replenishing, Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce and the CEO of You.com, today announced the launch of a $50 million “AI-focused” venture fund called AIX Ventures. Speaking to VentureBeat via email, Shaun Johnson, a cofounder of...
Reid Hoffman’s new start-up poaches first staff from Google and Meta
Inflection AI, the start-up launched earlier this month by LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has poached artificial intelligence gurus from Google and Meta, according to CNBC analysis. Heinrich Kuttler left his research engineering...
Year-End Review & a glimpse into 2022 from Essentials
At the end of the first quarter, let's 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
Artificial intelligence beats eight world champions at bridge
Victory marks milestone for AI as bridge requires more human skills than other strategy games An artificial intelligence has beaten eight world champions at bridge, a game in which human supremacy has resisted the march of the machines until now. “What we’ve seen represents a fundamentally important...
Security tool guarantees privacy in surveillance footage
Called “Privid,” the system lets analysts submit video data queries, and adds a little bit of noise (extra data) to the end result to ensure that an individual can’t be identified. The system builds on a formal definition of privacy — “differential privacy” — which allows access to aggregate...
1,000-plus AI-generated LinkedIn faces uncovered
More than 70 businesses created fake profiles to close sales Two Stanford researchers have fallen down a LinkedIn rabbit hole, finding over 1,000 fake profiles using AI-generated faces at the bottom.
Ethics
Timnit Gebru, AI researcher fired by Google thinks a new law is needed
When she co-led Google’s Ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru was a prominent insider voice questioning the tech industry’s approach to artificial intelligence.
Without universal AI literacy, AI will fail us
These failings are due to bias in data and lack of diversity in the teams developing AI systems. In this crucial moment, when AI is poised to transform every aspect of our personal and professional lives, universal AI literacy is imperative. Foster universal AI literacy With AI already transforming...
The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Nearly $500K to Combat AI Bias and Discrimination
The Rockefeller Foundation announced that it is providing nearly half a million dollars to two organizations to combat bias in artificial intelligence (AI) globally. This includes $300,000 to Black in AI, a technology research organization incorporated in 2018 to increase the presence of Black people in the field of artificial intelligence, which will help develop a new network of Black scholars and engineers, who are too often systemically excluded in existing AI institutions.
Robotics
The Future of Robotics
Whereas robots up until now have been deployed mostly in controlled environments like factories and assembly lines, we’re now reaching a stage where advancements in artificial intelligence and computer vision are helping robots evolve past obedient drones. A brief history of industrial revolutions...
How eye imaging technology could help robots and cars see better
Even though robots don't have eyes with retinas, the key to helping them see and interact with the world more naturally and safely may rest in optical coherence tomography (OCT) machines commonly found in the offices of ophthalmologists.
Safety First – Ensuring Mobile Robots Will Not Pose a Risk to Workers
Companies must prioritize safety when deploring autonomous mobile robots. The ANSI/RIA R15.08 safety standard for mobile robots, recently released by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Robotic Industries Association (RIA), should be your guide.
Research
A Roadmap for Big Model
In this paper, we cover not only the BM technologies themselves but also the prerequisites for BM training and applications with BMs, dividing the BM review into four parts: Resource, Models, Key Technologies and Application.
GSM & SMS Enabled AI-driven (TinyML) Water Pollution Monitor
Via MKR GSM 1400, collate water quality data from resources over GPRS to train a Neuton model, run the model, and transmit results via SMS. In this project, I focused on developing an AI-driven budget-friendly device to collect water quality data from various water resources in the field and forecast water pollution levels based on oxidation-reduction potential (ORP), pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), and turbidity measurements.
Transformer models: an introduction and catalog — 2022 Edition
The goal of this post is to offer a short and simple catalog and classification of the most popular Transformer models. In other words, I needed a Transformers cheat-sheet and couldn’t find a good enough one online, so I thought I’d write my own. I hope it can be useful to you too.
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