In the News
Artificial Intelligence (AI): the coming tsunami
While we see design software marginally improve year on year, there has been growing unrest at the pace/scale of improvements. Questions have been raised about how well BIM workflows map to how the industry actually works. Martyn Day looks at the potential impact of artificial intelligence on architecture
Sponsor
The future of AI 2022: Progressing AI maturity in the contact center
CX leaders recognize that AI can improve customer experience but the ambition of these investments has scaled back recently. This report explores strategies to overcome implementation challenges and evolve the maturity of AI investments.
In The News
The New Artificial Intelligence Hype
In the last few years, the hype around artificial intelligence has been increasing (again). Most of it is due to truly groundbreaking research and innovative showcases in the field. ...
The US unofficial position on upcoming EU Artificial Intelligence rules
The United States is pushing for a narrower Artificial Intelligence definition, a broader exemption for general purpose AI and an individualised risk assessment in the AI Act, according to a document obtained by EURACTIV. AI definition While the Americans showed support for the changes the Czech...
History Of AI In 33 Breakthroughs: The First AI-Driven Robot
This robot record was reached half a century after the development of SHAKEY, the world’s first “mobile intelligent robot.” According to the 2017 IEEE Milestone citation, it “could perceive its surroundings, infer implicit facts from explicit ones, create plans, recover from errors in plan...
Applied use cases
AI tool colorizes black-and-white photos automatically
Enlarge / Palette.fm does AI photo colorization using text prompts for refinement. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica A Swedish machine learning researcher named Emil Wallner has released a free web tool called Palette.fm that automatically colorizes black-and-white photos using AI.
Roko's Basilisk (w/Nathan Benaich)
Nathan Benaich, the lone general partner at Air Street Capital, has long been on my radar as an artificial intelligence obsessive. And so now that the artificial intelligence is suddenly the fixation of the venture capital world, I invited Benaich on the Dead Cat podcast to talk about generative...
Bumble open-sources its lewd-spotting AI tool
The tool helps to protect users from certain unsolicited photos – and we’re not just talking about genitalia, but also shirtless selfies and photos of firearms. By open-sourcing its AI tool, Bumble can help to protect more online users. “It’s our hope that the feature will be adopted by the wider...
Ethics
AI Ethics Brief #111: Responsible data sourcing, data documentation desiderata, toxicity triggers on Reddit, virtue ethics, and more ...
This week’s overview: Responsible sourcing and the professionalization of data work 🔬 Research summaries: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI Scoping AI Governance: A Smarter Tool Kit for Beneficial Applications Predatory Medicine: Exploring and Measuring the Vulnerability of Medical...
Voices in the Code: A Story about People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made
The Ada Lovelace Institute is delighted to be hosting a virtual event with David G. Robinson, visiting scholar at the Social Science Matrix at UC Berkeley and a member of the faculty at Apple University, where he will be discussing his new book, Voices in the Code, with Shannon Vallor, the Baillie...
The AIconics Awards
Edward 'Ed' Bowen, Deloitte Advisory AI Leader and Managing Director of the Deloitte AI Center of Excellence Ed Bowen is the Deloitte Advisory AI Leader and founded the Deloitte AI Center of Excellence. With a focus on Advanced Analytics, Data Science, and AI combined with Human Centered...
Robotics
In Japan, humanoid robots could soon become part of the family
In addition to robots that nurse and befriend the elderly and sick, the Japanese have invented robots that can fight fires, carry heavy loads, and perform physical therapy on patients. Paro is a therapeutic robot designed to elicit warm emotional responses and have a calming effect on patients in...
Robots Aiding Digital Transformation in Textiles
Manufacturers are eyeing 7-axis cobots, which are collaborative robots designed to interact directly with humans in a shared space, to help automate the textile industry. Kassow Robots will deploy its KR1018 7-axis cobot—a collaborative robot designed to interact directly with humans in a shared...
A reinforcement learning-based four-legged robotic goalkeeper
By letting quadrupeds play soccer, we can push the limits of the artificial intelligence of athletic legged robots
Research
Announcing The Farama Foundation
Introduction Today we’re announcing the Farama Foundation – a new nonprofit organization designed in part to house major existing open source reinforcement learning (“RL”) libraries in a neutral nonprofit body. Our mission is to develop and maintain open source reinforcement learning tools, making...
In-context Reinforcement Learning with Algorithm Distillation
We propose Algorithm Distillation (AD), a method for distilling reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms into neural networks by modeling their training histories with a causal sequence model. Algorithm Distillation treats learning to reinforcement learn as an across-episode sequential prediction...
Why the Future of Open Source AI is So Much Bigger Than Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Why It Matters to You
But this isn't something that matters just to outside folks, it matters deeply to many people inside Stability and inside our community of open source collaborators. Some folks in the community worry that Stability AI has gone closed source and that we'll never release a model again. This framework...
Sponsor
Designing customer conversations: Best practices
A well designed virtual agent can increase customer self-service rates, improve customer satisfaction and reduce interaction handle times. With this handbook, learn how to put tried and tested conversation design principles into practice.