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McKinsey : State of AI 2022 Report
The results of this year’s McKinsey Global Survey on AI shows the expansion of the technology’s use since we began tracking it five years ago, but with a nuanced picture underneath.
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In The News
6 Key Trends Driving Machine Learning Innovation
Machine learning (ML) has undergone rapid transformation and adoption in recent years, driven by a number of factors.
AI innovation Powered by Underpaid Workers in Foreign Countries
Krystal Kauffman has been a Turker for the last seven years. She works on Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an Amazon-owned crowdsourcing website that allows businesses to hire workers to perform various tasks for compensation
AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem
Here’s why you’ve been hearing so much about ChatGPT.
Applied use cases
Biotech labs are using AI inspired by DALL-E to invent new drugs
Two groups have announced powerful new generative models that can design new proteins on demand not seen in nature.
Apple slices its AI image synthesis times in half with new Stable Diffusion fix
Creating AI-generated images on Macs, iPhones, and iPads just got a lot faster.
What is AI chatbot phenomenon ChatGPT and could it replace humans?
The tool has impressed experts with its writing ability, proficiency at complex tasks and ease of use
Ethics
China’s AI Ethics : Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice
The paper draws attention to CoP configurations during collective situated-learning and problem-solving among its members that inform the evolution of Chinese ethical concerns of AI.
I Interviewed An AI About The Ethics Of AI - And It Lied To Me
ChatGPT is remarkable. It’s a new AI model from OpenAI that’s designed to chat in a conversational manner. It’s also a liar.
Pro-innovation approach and Pro-Ethics? Threading the Needle in UK AI Policy
The framing of an AI policy as light touch should raise immediate concerns, as it potentially signals an underestimation of the severity and the scale of the risks posed by the technology.
Robotics
San Francisco makes U-turn on 'killer robots' plan
San Francisco has reversed its decision to authorise police to use robots equipped with lethal weapons.
Brain-computer interfaces could allow soldiers to control weapons with their thoughts and turn off their fear – but the ethics of neurotechnology lags behind the science
Imagine that a soldier has a tiny computer device injected into their bloodstream that can be guided with a magnet to specific regions of their brain
Brace yourself for smarter robots that don’t fall over (as easily)
Researchers tipped over their robot over 882,000 times to teach its neural network how to keep from tumbling.
Research
Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
A post on the capabilities of the new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Its apabilities range from solving IQ tests, tackling leetcode problems or to helping people write LateX. It is an amazing resource for people to retrieve all kinds of information and solve tedious tasks, like copy-writing!
Spaces using stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2 54
This stable-diffusion-2 model is resumed from stable-diffusion-2-base (512-base-ema.ckpt) and trained for 150k steps using a v-objective on the same dataset. Resumed for another 140k steps on 768x768 images.
CALL FOR PAPERS Large-Scale Multimodal Learning: Universality, Robustness, Efficiency, and Beyond
The goal of this special issue is to bring together perspectives from multiple disciplines (e.g., Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Healthcare AI, Medical Image ML, Bioinformatics, Cognitive Science, Sociology) to highlight major open questions and to identify research opportunities to address outstanding challenges in the domain of multimodal learning in the Deep Learning and Big Data Era.