In the News
OpenAI is ready to sell DALL-E to its first million customers
OpenAI will now sell its image-making program DALL-E 2 to the million people on its waiting list, MIT Technology Review can reveal.
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In The News
Ian Goodfellow has joined DeepMind now – What to expect?
Ian Goodfellow, the Standford Graduate known for his work on deep learning and artificial neural networks has just joined Deep Mind.
You raises $25M to fuel its AI-powered search engine
You - a search engine that uses AI to understand search queries - has raised $25 million to fuel its AI-powered search engine.
State of AI in Africa
The new State of AI in Africa Report created by the AI Media Group from South Africa, offers an analytical insight into the growing Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector in Africa, a topic that has not been fully explored up until now.
Applied use cases
Synchron says it's the first to implant a human brain-computer interface in the US
Synchron says it has become the first in the country to implant a BCI in a human patient. The objective is to bring control to people with paralysis.
DeepMind Gave an AI ‘Intuition’ by Training It Like a Baby
A new DeepMind study builds upon our early months in life as a rich resource for developing AI with common sense.
Cambridge is the most ‘AI-ready’ city, study finds
A study from software analytics company SAS found that Cambridge scored the highest on its AI-readiness Index, which ranks cities based on the number of AI-related jobs, R&D spend, GDP, business growth, and the number of relevant academic courses available.
Ethics
Inside a radical new project to democratize AI
A group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they’re giving it out for free.
The Real Reason Robot Rights Is So Contentious
The selective application of universal tenets of humanity is a collective concern. What then is the relevance of debates about robot rights?
Politics by Automatic Means? A Critique of Artificial Intelligence Ethics at Work
The key contribution of the paper is how to bridge from abstract ethical principles to operationalizable processes in the vast field of AI and new technology at work.
Robotics
This robot dog just taught itself to walk
AI could help robots learn new skills and adapt to the real world quickly.
Automatica 2022 Learnings: Where Robotics is Post-Covid
Upcoming trends for the next Automatica event : bolder moves at the next event. Some booths felt a bit conservative this year, perhaps because companies booked them amid the global pandemic.
2022 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award Honorees
The RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards are also a critical measure of robotics sector growth.
Research
The virtuous cycle of AI research
Along with his co-authors, Petar is presenting his paper The CLRS Algorithmic Reasoning Benchmark at ICML 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Because of this, I spend a lot of time presenting our work at conferences like ICML, giving talks, and co-advising students. Many recent research efforts seek...
Building a Toxicity Detection SMS Bot with Cohere and Twilio
We built a simple SMS bot that detects toxic language in incoming text messages. Learn how we integrated Cohere's large language model and Twilio's communications platform in this step-by-step guide.
Tight Human-Robot Interaction Loops
We present results on an industrial robotic arm that is able to cooperatively play table tennis with human players, achieving rallies of 22 successive hits on average and 150 at best
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