In the News
13 Experts' views on Tesla's Optimus Humanoid Robot
After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, many roboticists tuned in to the event live stream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be.
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In The News
The White House just unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights
On 4th October, President Joe Biden unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights, which outlines five protections Americans should have in the AI age. It is the White House’s vision of how the US government, technology companies, and citizens should work together to hold AI accountable. However, critics say the plan lacks teeth and the US needs even tougher regulation around AI.
Meta's AI Chief Publishes Paper on Creating ‘Autonomous’ AI
Yann LeCun, machine learning pioneer and head of AI at Meta, lays out a vision for AIs that learn about the world more like humans in a new study.
Deepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that
Tech will allow Willis' doppelgänger to continue working despite language disorder diagnosis.
Applied use cases
Meta’s new AI can turn text prompts into videos
Meta’s announcement of Make-A-Video, which is not yet being made available to the public, will likely prompt other AI labs to release their own versions. It also raises some big ethical questions.
DeepMind unveils first AI to discover faster matrix multiplication algorithms
On 5th October, in a paper published in Nature, DeepMind unveiled AlphaTensor, the “first artificial intelligence system for discovering novel, efficient and provably correct algorithms.”
How John Deere plans to build a world of fully autonomous farming by 2030
Can John Deere become one of the leading AI and robotics companies in the world alongside Tesla and Silicon Valley technology giants over the next decade?
Ethics
The EU wants to put companies on the hook for harmful AI
A new bill will allow consumers to sue companies for damages—if they can prove that a company’s AI harmed them.
Principles for the Ethical Use of AI in the United Nations System
This set of ten principles, grounded in ethics and human rights, aims to guide the use of AI across all stages of an AI system lifecycle across United Nations system entities.
Bias and Biometrics: Regulating Corporate Responsibility and New Technologies to Protect Rights
This paper suggests that to reduce the adverse impact of new technologies on disfavored populations subjected to discrimination, interdisciplinary approaches to identifying and addressing injustice will be essential.
Robotics
The Bionic-Hand Arms Race
After 16 (!) experimental plastic versions, Nadia is now a real robot, and it already looks pretty impressive.
This biomechanical art installation gets stabby to the beat of a rhododendron’s electrical noise
His latest piece, Plant Machete, melds a woody shrub with an industrial robot arm and slaps a machete to the business end of it.
Biomechanical knee energy harvester: Design optimization and testing
This paper presents a design of a knee harvester with a direct drive that enables harvesting both in flexion and extension using optimization.
Research
Devang Sachdev, Snorkel AI: On easing the laborious process of labelling data
AI News caught up with Devang Sachdev, VP of Marketing at Snorkel AI, to find out how the company is easing the laborious process of labelling data in a safe and effective way.
The Chamber Ensemble Generator and CocoChorales Dataset
In this post, we’re excited to introduce the Chamber Ensemble Generator, a system for generating realistic chamber ensemble performances.
Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning: A Survey of Recent Developments
In this post, the author shows that deep learning research can benefit from looking at neural network systems: their construction, training, and deployment, as complex systems.
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