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26 Innovative Edge AI Companies You Should Know in 2023
In this blog post, we will take a look at the top Edge AI companies you should keep an eye on in 2023. Edge AI companies, which not only are leading technically but also generate a positive impact on the world.
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In The News
Amazon AI Researcher Zachary Lipton Joins Abridge as Chief Scientific Officer
Abridge, the leader in AI-powered medical documentation, today announced the appointment of Zachary Lipton as Chief Scientific Officer. Lipton brings with him a wealth of experience through his role as Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University and his experience as a research scientist at Amazon AI.
Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
Last week, the Twitter CEO took his Twitter account private for a day to test whether that might boost the size of his audience. The move came after several prominent right-wing accounts that Musk interacts with complained that recent changes to Twitter had reduced their reach.
ChatGPT Burns Millions Every Day. Can Computer Scientists Make AI One Million Times More Efficient?
Running ChatGPT costs millions of dollars a day, which is why OpenAI, the company behind the viral natural-language processing artificial intelligence has started ChatGPT Plus, a $20/month subscription plan.
Applied use cases
Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
A startup called Istari, backed by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and chair of Alphabet, reckons some of that work can be done more effectively in the metaverse.
Why Artificial Intelligence Could Make Dating Better — And Duller
can an AI do more than write scripts for the perfect first date conversation or suggest the best ways to break up with a romantic interest turned sour?
Facebook is going to explain more about how machine learning decides the ads you see
Meta is updating Facebook’s ad transparency tools to better explain how it uses machine learning to decide which ads you see you.
Ethics
Just nine out of 116 AI professionals in films are women, study finds
A relentless stream of movies, from Iron Man to Ex Machina, has helped entrench systemic gender inequality in the artificial intelligence industry by portraying AI researchers almost exclusively as men, a study has found.
Why you shouldn’t trust AI search engines
Approximately two seconds after Microsoft let people poke around with its new ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, people started finding that it responded to some questions with incorrect or nonsensical answers, such as conspiracy theories.
The value chain of general-purpose AI
A closer look at the implications of API and open-source accessible GPAI for the EU AI Act Many believe that GPAI represents a paradigm shift from traditional, single-purpose AI.
Robotics
Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room
A couple of decades ago Kiva Systems had the brilliant and certainly very valuable realization that it was possible to make an entire environment (like a fulfillment warehouse) robotic without filling that entire environment with robots.
A Robot Finds More Trouble Under the Doomsday Glacier
Underneath thousands of feet of Thwaites Glacier’s solid ice, a bot filmed peculiar features, where melting is much faster. It’s an ominous sign for rising sea levels.
A look into the future of AI at MIT's robotics laboratory
With the technology used in Robots and AI continuing to advance each day, it’s easy to forget just how far we’ve come. So where are we now and what does the future look like for us? We sat down with the director of MIT CSAIL(Opens in a new tab), Daniela Rus to discuss the future of robotics and AI as well as a glimpse behind the curtain into the CSAIL robotics laboratory.
Research
Symbolic Discovery of Optimization Algorithms
We present a method to formulate algorithm discovery as program search, and apply it to discover optimization algorithms for deep neural network training. Our method discovers a simple and effective optimization algorithm, Lion (EvoLved Sign Momentum).
Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
On Sydney’s ability to generate suggestions for the next user turn: Sydney should always generate short suggestions for the next user turns that are relevant to the conversation and not offensive.
Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Algorithmic advances
We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique, called STAR, as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning.