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Why Billions Keep Pouring Into Robotics and AI
In 2021, funding globally for robotics and drone companies rose to $14.9 billion, according to PitchBook. Venture capital firms are eager to allocate money into robotics firms in a wide range of industries from shipping to healthcare as more automation became a focus during the global pandemic.
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Meet Sipremo: A winning start-up using AI to make cities more resilient to climate change
Sipremo, a Brazilian-based start-up applying artificial intelligence (AI) for smart decision making, was awarded the top prize for start-ups making our cities safe, clean and sustainable
How We Can Use AI To Help Achieve Sustainability Goals
As with many of us, after three years of staying home, I realized a few months ago that I'd had it with the pandemic. Having traveled up to 70% for years before Covid-19, my initial reaction to being in the same time zone and same building and bed was pure gratitude, even bliss. Not anymore. I wanted to go out and experience the world again.
The Future of AI in HR: Preparing for Compliance
Artificial intelligence is becoming a household name in the hiring process for many businesses. The technology has already made its way through every facet of it, from simply scheduling interviews, to screening candidates and making hiring decisions.
Applied use cases
Adept aims to build AI that can automate any software process
“[W]e’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created.” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email. “[W]ith Adept, you’ll be able to focus on the work you most enjoy and ask our [system]...
Darwin Was Wrong: Your Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Your Emotions
The emotion AI industry, courts and child educators are unknowingly relying on a misunderstanding of Darwin’s ideas
A new state of the art for unsupervised computer vision
MIT CSAIL scientists created an algorithm to solve one of the hardest tasks in computer vision: assigning a label to every pixel in the world, without human supervision.
Ethics
A new AI draws delightful and not-so-delightful images
But there is also the risk that DALL-E 2 — like so many other cutting-edge AI systems — will reinforce harmful stereotypes and biases, and in doing so, accentuate some of our social problems. OpenAI’s Brundage told me that letting a limited group of users play around with an AI model allows...
Responsibility assignment won’t solve the moral issues of artificial intelligence
To avoid a repugnant moral responsibility gap, the direction of accountability must shift to another agent to morally justify the action, seemingly a human involved in the AI system’s development or usage. For this reason, a single human cannot reasonably be held morally accountable for the actions...
Sonic Collaborations between Humans, Non-human Animals and Artificial Intelligences
Post-humanist concepts that question the categorical divide between nature and culture, following Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, converge with contemporary, non-adaptationist evolutionary aesthetics. We offer some theoretical propositions for the extension of socially engaged sound practices to...
Robotics
Record-Breaking Jumping Robot Can Leap a 10-Story Building
To propel itself higher than any known engineered jumper or animal can, it had to ignore the limits of biology
Agility Robotics Raises $150M Series B Led By DCVC and Playground Global
"Since Agility’s earliest days, we’ve believed their unique technical approach stands alone in being able to deliver on the promise of practical everyday robots.” Agility’s approach is unique, marrying expertise across design, software, and hardware to power robots that can manage practically...
Recording Robocar Data with MCAP
I was able to leverage Foxglove’s already-defined protobuf message schemas for standard ROS messages, but also define my own custom messages. Creating an MCAP writer is relatively straightforward: mcap::McapWriter writer; mcap::McapWriterOptions opts("protobuf"); auto s = writer.open("output.mcap");...
Research
Creating Confidence Intervals for Machine Learning Classifiers
plt.tight_layout() plt.grid(axis="x") plt.show() Out: Lastly, let’s store our confidence interval in a Python dictionary so that we can retrieve it later when we compare it to other confidence intervals: In: results = { "Method 1: Normal approximation": { "Test accuracy": acc_test, "Lower 95% CI":...
Event : Aligning Language Models with Human Preferences
Aligning Language Models with Human Preferences Ethan Perez, NYU Venue: Zoom (link hidden) Abstract Self-supervised learning objectives are highly effective at pretraining language models (LMs) for various tasks. In this talk, we first show that self-supervised objectives are misaligned with human...
MoLeR: Creating a path to more efficient drug design
The Microsoft Generative Chemistry team is working with Novartis to improve these modelling techniques with a new model called MoLeR. “MoLeR illustrates how generative models based on deep learning can help transform the drug discovery process and enable our colleagues at Novartis to increase the...
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