In the News
The 5 Biggest AI Trends In 2023
Over the last decade, Artificial intelligence (AI) has become embedded in every aspect of our society and lives. According to IDC research, spending by governments and business on AI technology will top $500 billion in 2023 accross the globe. But how will it be used, and what impact will it have?
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Cybersecurity Will Account for Nearly One-Quarter of AI Software Market Through 2025
By 2025, the AIsoftware market will expand from 2021's $33 billion to $64 billion, according to a new report. And cybersecurity is the fastest-growing category of AI spend, experiencing a rise in spending of 22.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
Microsoft’s new AI graphic design app is built on DALL-E
On 12 October, Chief Product Officer Panos Panay announced Microsoft Designer, a new graphic design offering within the company’s 365 productivity suite. The app features DALL-E 2 integration.
DeepMind AI One-Ups Mathematicians at a Calculation Crucial to Computing
After solving a fundamental challenge in biology—predicting protein structure—and untangling the mathematics of knot theory, it’s taken aim at a fundamental computing process : the AI could theoretically speed up calculations across a range of fields, increasing efficiency while cutting energy use and costs.
Applied use cases
Fake Joe Rogan interviews fake Steve Jobs in an AI-powered podcast
A voice synthesis company based in Dubai published a fictional podcast interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs using realistic voices digitally cloned from both men.
Spotting Frankensteins: Why humans beat AI at detecting freakish fakes
Sara Goudarzi spoke with James H. Elder, professor and research chair in Human and Computer Vision at York University co-authored a piece to better understand why deep AI models fail at configural shape perception.
Is It My Turn Yet? Teaching a Voice Assistant When to Speak
Predicting initiation points based on voice intonation instead of silence detection could lead to the next generation of voice assistant technology.
Ethics
Top Nine Ethical Issues In Artificial Intelligence
Our lives are being transformed every day for the better by intelligent machine systems. The more capable these systems become, the more efficient our world becomes.
Human-AI Coordination via Human-Regularized Search and Learning
We consider the problem of making AI agents that collaborate well with humans in partially observable fully cooperative environments given datasets of human behavior. Inspired by piKL, a human-data-regularized search method that improves upon a behavioral cloning policy without diverging far away...
AI May Help Ensure the Medical Privacy of Adolescent Patients
Natural language processing assists pediatricians in drawing the fine line between a teen’s right to privacy and a parent’s right to know.
Robotics
50 women in robotics you need to know about 2022
Top 50 women in robotics come from robotics companies (small and large), self-driving car companies, governments, research organizations and the media. The top 50 list covers the globe, with the chosen ones having nationalities from the EU, UK, USA, Australia, China, Turkey, India and Kenya.
Foxglove raises $16M to build dev infrastructure for robots
On 11 October, Foxglove, a startup building an infrastructure stack for robotics, announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse with participation from Amplify Partners and angel investors including Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt.
Robot makers including Boston Dynamics pledge not to weaponize their creations
A group of robotics companies including Boston Dynamics — makers of the well-known quadrupedal robot Spot — have pledged not to weaponize their most advanced robots. However, the pledge will likely do little to stop the wider weaponization of this technology.
Research
Measuring perception in AI models
New benchmark for evaluating multimodal systems based on real-world video, audio, and text data
How Open Source is eating AI
The Open Source Initiative is not set up to consider all these dimensions in “open source” AI, and the one of the most foundational initiatives for an open source AI culture is to create a credible standard with expectations, norms, and legal precedent.
Deep Dive On Google’s Exascale TPUv4 AI Systems
On 11 October, Google will make its fourth generation – and most powerful and scalable – Tensor Processing Units available to all during the Google Cloud Next 2022 conference.
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