In the News
Google's Vision for the Future of AI
On 2 November, Google's research arm showed off a whiz-bang assortment of AI projects it's incubating, aimed at everything from mitigating climate change to helping novelists craft prose.
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
OpenAI will give roughly 10 AI startups $1M each and early access to its systems
OpenAI launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources.
One of the Biggest Problems in Biology Has Finally Been Solved
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how its AlphaFold AI program predicted the 3-D structure of every known protein.
Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain
Computing systems that appear to generate brain-like activity may be the result of researchers guiding them to a specific outcome.
Applied use cases
Listen to an AI sing an uncannily human rendition of 'Jolene'
AI-powered image generators have been getting most of the press recently. But musical machine learning models have quietly been making great strides in recent years.
AI-Generated Fashion Is Next Wave of DIY Design
CALA reimagines DALL-E as a clothing designer’s ultimate smart sketch pad.
Google plans giant AI language model supporting world’s 1,000 most spoken languages
Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world’s “1,000 most spoken languages.”
Ethics
Why don’t robots have rights?
Perhaps we are on a technological threshold between "AI" and "dignified AI." Maybe it's time to talk more about robot rights.
Responsible AI has a burnout problem
Companies say they want ethical AI. But those working in the field say that ambition comes at their expense.
AI experts question tech industry’s ethical commitments
Paper with experts questioning the tech industry’s commitment to making it a positive social force.
Robotics
AI Farming: Artificial Intelligence and Bots are Now Growing Our Food
We can look forward to a future where we grow potatoes in the Metaverse while bots grow the real deal in the field.
Tesla’s Optimus Bot: Are Humaniform Robots The Right Path Forward?
Is a human-shaped robot like Optimus, the Tesla Bot, the right path to travel if we want to achieve useful robots and automated help in all aspects of our working and personal lives?
How to Convince Employees to Accept Robot Workers
When a company like yours first wants to adopt robots into the workplace, there can be resistance from employees.
Research
Faithful, Interpretable Model Explanations via Causal Abstraction
In this post, we review the technical details of causal abstraction in intuitive terms - with a particular focus on the core operation of interchange interventions.
ESM Metagenomic Atlas: The first view of the ‘dark matter’ of the protein universe
Meta AI has created the first database that reveals the structures of the metagenomic world at the scale of hundreds of millions of proteins.
Spaces using CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4
Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input.
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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.