In the News
How Generative AI Is Changing Creative Work
GAI for businesses threaten to upend the world of content creation, with substantial impacts on marketing, software, design, entertainment, and interpersonal communications.
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In The News
Silicon Valley chip startup Cerebras unveils AI supercomputer
On 14 November, Cerebras Systems, unveiled its AI supercomputer called Andromeda, which is now available for commercial and academic research.
In latest benchmark test of AI, it's mostly Nvidia competing against Nvidia
For the first time since the benchmark MLPerf test of AI training started in 2018, Nvidia had virtually no competition to its dominant chips.
VR-controlled robots are being designed to treat injured soldiers
The system would provide advanced onsite diagnostics and potentially save lives.
Applied use cases
How DeviantArt is navigating the AI art minefield
AI is learning to make art, and nobody has quite figured out how to handle it — including DeviantArt, one of the best-known homes for artists on the internet.
Art project translates music from Teenage Engineering's OP-Z synth into AI-generated imagery
The digital extension turns composed music into text prompts for Stable Diffusion.
MIT solved a century-old differential equation to break 'liquid' AI's computational bottleneck
The discovery could usher in a new generation of weather forecasting and autonomous vehicle driving virtual agents.
Ethics
What is Generative AI (GAI) , and How Will It Disrupt Society?
Groundbreaking question raised by GAI : at what stage does the relationship between humans and machines evolve from its present-day form into one that is so fundamentally changed that we can no longer regard one as being superior to the other when it comes to creative terms?
Assured AI and Data Ecosystems
Programme of the annual Brussels event making AI governance a reality taking place on 29th November.
Ensuring AI works with the right dose of curiosity
MIT researcherscreated an algorithm that overcomes the problem of AI being too “curious” and getting distracted by a given task.
Robotics
Boston Dynamics sues rival Ghost Robotics for allegedly copying its robot dog
Competition in the robot dog market getting ugly: Boston Dynamics is suing Ghost Robotics for allegedly infringing seven patents linked to its Spot quadruped.
New robot moves Amazon towards increased warehouse automation
According to Amazon, the new Sparrow robot is meant to reduce workplace injuries.
Artificial Intelligence and Interventional Surgical Robots
The article focuses primarily on advances and challenges in AI applied to interventional surgical robots.
Research
The State of Multilingual AI
This post takes a closer look at the state of multilingual AI. How multilingual are current models in NLP, computer vision, and speech? What are the main recent contributions in this area? What challenges remain and how we can we address them?
General Intelligence Requires Rethinking Exploration
We propose the problem of generalized exploration to conceptually unify exploration-driven learning between supervised learning and reinforcement learning, allowing us to highlight key similarities across learning settings and open research challenges.
DiffEdit - Semantic Image Editing with Stable Diffusion
This paper describes an approach of generating a prompt-directed mask using the same diffusion model used to generate and inpaint the images, thereby leveraging the investment already made in training the diffusion model.