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50 Top AI / Marchine Learning Digital Influencers to Follow at the end of 2022 and in 2023
Here’s is our 2023 edition of 50 Top Global Digital Influencers to Follow on Twitter at the end of 2022 & in 2023 [ranked by our home made algorithm].
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In The News
Yann LeCun: Most of today's AI approaches will never lead to true intelligence
Fundamental problems elude many strains of deep learning, says LeCun, including the mystery of how to measure information.
DALL-E image generator is now open to everyone
Today, OpenAI announced that it removed the waitlist for its DALL-E AI image generator service. That means anyone can sign up and use it.
Elon Musk’s robot is going to have to work hard to impress at Tesla’s AI Day
This Friday, Elon Musk is expected to unveil a prototype of his Optimus robot — better known as the Tesla Bot.
Applied use cases
NVIDIA partners with Broad Institute, making AI tools available for life science research platform
Working with Harvard and MIT, the company will help academic medical and pharma researchers build machine learning models for troves of healthcare data on the Terra cloud platform.
AI model from OpenAI automatically recognizes speech and translates it to English
OpenAI released a new open source AI model called Whisper that recognizes and translates audio at a level that approaches human recognition ability.
The Development of Artificial Intelligence in China: Advantages and terms of development
Artificial intelligence in China is facing unprecedented development opportunities and has many advantages in terms of development.
Ethics
The Moral Case for the Development and Use of Autonomous Weapon Systems
Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS) are AI systems that can make and act on decisions concerning the termination of enemy soldiers and installations without direct intervention from a human being.
The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Extended Reality (XR) Report—Metaverse and Its Governance
The report focuses on the growing governance gaps between the potential of extended reality (XR), the popularity of the term metaverse,1 and the scale the adoption of metaverse.
Decoupling in Strategic Tech Sectors
What the satellite industry can teach us about future efforts to separate technological supply chains Join CSET's Tim Hwang and Emily S. Weinstein for a conversation with CNAS' Martijn Rasser on decoupling in strategic technologies.
Robotics
Amazon Wants Its Home Robot, Astro, to Anticipate Your Every Need
The cutesy robot doesn’t do much now, but the company says it’s a step toward machines that understand your habits.
How do we control robots on the moon?
In the future, we imagine that teams of robots will explore and develop the surface of nearby planets, moons and asteroids – taking samples, building structures, deploying instruments.
iRobot is announcing the US $1,100 Roomba Combo j7+
While very much not the first or only combo floor-cleaning robot on the market, the Combo j7+ uses a unique and very satisfying mechanical system to make sure that your carpets stay clean and dry while giving your hard floors the moist buffing that they so desperately need.
Research
High-performance image generation using Stable Diffusion in KerasCV
In this guide, we will show how to generate novel images based on a text prompt using the KerasCV implementation of stability.ai's text-to-image model, Stable Diffusion.
Building safer dialogue agents
Applying reinforcement learning based on input from research participants, we explore new methods for training dialogue agents that show promise for a safer system
Under the Hood: Training a Digit Classifier
Having seen what it looks like to actually train a variety of models in Chapter 2, let’s now look under the hood and see exactly what is going on. We’ll start by using computer vision to introduce fundamental tools and concepts for deep learning.