In the News
CB Insights : 100 most promising AI startups of 2022
CB Insights has unveiled the winners of the sixth annual AI 100 — a list of the 100 most promising private AI companies across the globe. This year’s winners are working on diverse solutions designed to recycle plastic waste, improve hearing aids, combat toxic online gaming behavior, and more.
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Andrew Ng : AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real
There’s a movement afoot to counter the dystopian and apocalyptic narratives of artificial intelligence. Some people in the field are concerned that the frequent talk of AI as an existential risk to humanity is poisoning the public against the technology and are deliberately setting out more hopeful narratives.
IBM’s CEO wants to chart quantum-fueled, AI-powered path to the future
Overview of Arvind Kirshna's virtual round table discussion ahead of the IBM Think Conference. He touched upon a range of subjects from the role he hopes AI will play for his company going forward, the organization’s quantum computing efforts and the growing market for ESG and sustainability.
Inflection AI raises $225M to transform computer-human interactions
Inflection AI, the machine learning startup headed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and founding DeepMind member Mustafa Suleyman, has secured $225 million in equity financing, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Applied use cases
How NLP can help with at-risk patients, SDOH and pop health
A physician expert in natural language processing technology explains how it can help clinicians sift through unstructured data to better manage chronic conditions and boost health equity.
You can practice for a job interview with Google AI
Never mind reading generic guides or practicing with friends — Google is betting that algorithms can get you ready for a job interview.
Formidable Human-AI Relations Can Accelerate Sustainability Efforts
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and similar digitalization solutions are modifying the way the world's most influential companies and industries — as well as entire cities — function every day.
Ethics
The Metaverse will ‘become embroiled in future geopolitical conflict’
As technology drives a new ‘vertical world’, the evolution of the Metaverse is likely to be driven by geopolitical competition.
Fairness, accountability, explainability. Creating guidelines to use AI in the newsroom
Uli Köppen, Head of the AI + Automation Lab of Bayerischer Rundfunk, and Claire Leibowicz, Head of AI and Media Integrity at Partnership on AI,shared their experiences.
Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation Event
About The collaboration between faculty from the US and EU is intended to better identify, define and understand the challenges, opportunities, and regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence in a global society.
Robotics
Robot supermarket delivery trial in Cambridgeshire
More supermarket delivery robots will be taking to the streets in a pilot in a new village in Cambridgeshire.
Forget rideshares, Uber will rent you a party bus
The company announced a host of travel-focused updates and an autonomous delivery pilot in LA.
Automotive Artistry
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Research
DeepMind’s astounding new ‘Gato’ AI makes me fear humans will never achieve AGI
DeepMind today unveiled a new multi-modal AI system capable of performing more than 600 different tasks.
The Time Is Now to Develop Community Norms for the Release of Foundation Models
In this blog post, we use the term release to mean research access: foundation model developers making assets such as data, code, and models accessible to external researchers.
Accelerating PyTorch with Intel® Extension for PyTorch*
Intel engineers have been continuously working in the PyTorch open-source community to get PyTorch run faster on Intel CPUs.
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