In the News
Google Deepmind Researchers Say AI Will Eliminate Humanity
Superintelligent AI is "likely" to cause an existential catastrophe for humanity, according to a new paper, but we don't have to wait to rein in algorithms.
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In The News
Meta Built an AI That Can Guess the Words You’re Hearing by Decoding Your Brainwaves
Now Meta researchers have shown they can tell what words someone is hearing using recordings from non-invasive brain scans.
Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries
For humanity’s brightest future, the blue-sky, lofty thinkers in AI need the help of the muddy-boots pragmatists
DynamoFL aims to bring privacy-preserving AI to more industries
Data privacy regulations like GDPR, the CCPA and HIPAA present a challenge to training AI systems on sensitive data, like financial transactions, patient health records and user device logs.
Applied use cases
14 Real-World Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Healthcare Industry
The proliferation of new technologies in the Information Age has upended several sectors. The same applies to healthcare.
When AI asks dumb questions, it gets smart fast
To help AIs expand their understanding of the world, researchers are now trying to develop a way for computer programs to both locate gaps in their knowledge and figure out how to ask strangers to fill them—a bit like a child asks a parent why the sky is blue.
New AI assistant can browse, search, and use web apps like a human
Adept Yesterday, California-based AI firm Adept announced Action Transformer (ACT-1), an AI model that can perform actions in software like a human assistant when given high-level written or verbal commands.
Ethics
Reflective Equilibrium in a Turbulent Lake: AI Generated Art and The Future of Artists
Is there a future for humans in art? Over the last few weeks the question has been loudly debated online, as machine learning did a surprise charge into making pictures.
Of God and Machines
The future of artificial intelligence is neither utopian nor dystopian—it’s something much more interesting.
Is Centralised AI Unethical?
For AI to reach its potential and for society to benefit from it, AI needs to be decentralised, i.e., different stakeholders in the AI community should have equal access to all resources like datasets, compute power and the source codes for different AI models.
Robotics
Researchers made a robot that knows how to laugh with you
A robot that laughs might be seen as ominous, but would it appear less eerie if it laughed at the right time during a conversation? That’s a theory that scientists have recently been testing.
They Put GPT-3 Into That Robot With Creepily Realistic Facial Expressions and Yikes
UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts just gave its ultra realistic looking humanoid robot Ameca a voice — and she has a lot to say.
RoboCup humanoid league: Interview with Jasper Güldenstein
As a biweekly virtual competition taking place between the physical RoboCup events it provides teams with an opportunity to test their ideas and keep in touch throughout the year.
Research
Stable Diffusion based Image Compression
Before describing my method and sharing some code, here are a few results compared to JPG and WebP at high compression factors, all at a resolution of 512x512 pixels.
research | Introducing Whisper
Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.
Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return
A custom-built machine learning algorithm can predict when a complex system is about to switch to a wildly different mode of behavior.
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