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How Meta is using AI to focus on more sustainable technology
Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook, which has been working to use machine learning technologies to combat climate change and increase the efficiency of industrial systems, today outlined a number of approaches it’s taking using artificial intelligence to tackle these issues and develop elegant engineering solutions.
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A deep-learning algorithm could detect earthquakes by filtering out city noise
Researchers from Stanford have developped a model able to uncover quakes that would previously have been dismissed as human-generated vibrations.
Accelerating Climate Change Mitigation with Machine Learning: The Case of Carbon Storage
Climate change mitigation is about reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The worldwide goal is to reach net zero, which means balancing the amount of GHG emissions produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere.
Can AI help resuscitate Mozambique's mangrove forests?
Blue Forest, a UAE-based company, is teaming up with the Mozambican government on a project that will harness Artificial Intelligence and other technological advancements to restore the nation's precious mangrove forests.
Applied use cases
Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order
An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism.
AI models to detect how you're feeling in sales calls
In brief AI software is being offered to sales teams to analyze whether potential customers appear interested during virtual meetings.
Deep-learning algorithm detects diabetic retinopathy on par with regional specialists
New research out of Thailand found that a deep learning algorithm was able to diabetic retinopathy in patients with diabetes on par with community specialists, according to a study published in The Lancet.
Ethics
Why it’s so damn hard to make AI fair and unbiased
There are competing notions of fairness — and sometimes they’re totally incompatible with each other.
How to solve AI’s inequality problem
New digital technologies are exacerbating inequality. Here’s how scientists creating AI can make better choices.
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.
Robotics
What robots can and can’t do for a restaurant
The food industry is investing more in robots, but these machines just sometimes lack the human touch.
Inside the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards
Notable market innovators include Cruise, the autonomous driving subsidiary of General Motors. MassRobotics, the non-profit organization serving as the innovation hub for robotics, won for the development and release of the MassRobotics Interoperability Standard.
Video Friday: DALL-E 2
With the help of special 3D glasses, rover drivers on Earth plan routes with specific stops, but increasingly allow the rover to “take the wheel” and choose how it gets to those stops.
Research
On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed
Emily M.Bender's answer to the NYT magazine on AI mastering langage. Johnson's piece is ~10k words long, though, and so I’ve decided to try to do the same in blog form, rather than as a tweet thread.
Building Scientifically Accurate Digital Twins Using Modulus with Omniverse and AI
Modulus 22.03, the cutting-edge framework for developing physics-based machine learning models, offers developers key capabilities such as novel physics informed and data driven AI architectures, and integration into the Omniverse (OV) platform.
The National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC)
The National AI Initiative Act of 2020 calls for the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Director of National Intelligence.
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