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Deloitte's 2022 Report : State of AI in the Enterprise
Deloitte released the fifth edition of its State of AI in the Enterprise research report today, which surveyed more than 2,600 global executives on how businesses and industries are deploying and scaling AI projects.
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In The News
4 Deep Thoughts on Deep Learning in 2022
Venture Beat identified the four overeaching trends that have marked deep learning in 2022.
New European Political Party Is Led by an Artificial Intelligence
A new political party in Denmark : the Synthetic Party is led by Lars - an AI specifically trained on policies formed by post-1970 Danish fringe parties.
Alex Hanna left Google to try to save AI’s future
After her departure, she joined Timnit Gebru’s Distributed AI Research Institute, and work is well underway.
Applied use cases
The multi-billion-dollar potential of synthetic data
Synthetic data will be a huge industry in five to 10 years : according to some estimates by 2024, 60% of data for AI applications will be synthetic.
New, transparent AI tool may help detect blood poisoning
The algorithm scans electronic records and may reduce sepsis deaths.
DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later
AlphaTensor discovers better algorithms for matrix math, inspiring another improvement from afar.
Ethics
6 Reactions to the White House’s AI Bill of Rights
6 reactions following White House's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.
Timnit Gebru : the Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence
Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”
Inside effective altruism, where the far future counts a lot more than the present
The giving philosophy, which has adopted a focus on the long term, is a conservative project, consolidating decision-making among a small set of technocrats.
Robotics
FedEx abandons its last-mile delivery robot program
A human in a FedEx uniform will deliver those packages for the foreseeable future.
Should We Have An Open-source Humanoid? Elon Musk says ‘No!’
Musk’s POV of the risks of robotic software getting into everyone’s hand probably comes from his perspective about the possible dangers of AI from The Terminator
With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again
A robotic pill could hold the key to easier treatment for people with diabetes and other health conditions
Research
Deep learning tricks all the way down, with a bit of mathematics for good measure
Notes and reflections based on the first lesson (aka 'lesson 9') of the FastAI Part II course.
Deep Learning is Human, Through and Through
That breakthrough has led to deep learning's adoption in domains like speech and image recognition, automatic translation and transcription, and robotics.
Tackling Diverse Tasks with Neural Architecture Search
In our upcoming NeurIPS 2022 paper, we developed a NAS method called DASH that generates and trains task-specific convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with high prediction accuracy.