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What Is A Woman? Here’s What Snapchat’s New AI Chatbot Thinks
My AI, a chatbot created by social media platform Snapchat, is one of several AI tools that noticeably lean leftward with respect to political and social views, especially those related to the LGBTQ movement.
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In The News
Google I/O 2023: Search king adds AI to respond to Microsoft challenge
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google is rolling out more artificial intelligence for its core search product, hoping to create some of the same consumer excitement generated by Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) update to rival search engine Bing in recent months.
Palantir jumps on forecast for profit every quarter in 2023, AI demand
Palantir Technologies (PLTR.N) said on Monday it expects to turn a profit every quarter in 2023, betting on interest "unlike anything we have seen" in its new artificial intelligence platform, sending its shares up about 20% in extended trading.
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are
Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”.
Applied use cases
TruthGPT: A Maximum Truth-Seeking AI Chatbot
TruthGPT, Elon Musk's truth-seeking chatbot, aims to revolutionize AI by surpassing competitors and addressing limitations. Challenges include accuracy, legal risks, and AI bias, but its potential impact is intriguing.
Good bot, bad bot: Using AI and ML to solve data quality problems
This might sound alarming, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing; bots are core to functioning the internet. They make our lives easier in ways that aren’t always obvious, like getting push notifications on promotions and discounts.
Spotify Removes Many AI-Generated Songs After Universal Music Noted Suspicious Bot Activities
The songs, generated by AI startup Boomy, were removed after being flagged for suspicious streaming activity.
Ethics
The Global Race to Regulate AI
Somewhere between hype and fear about artificial intelligence, there is—or there will be—AI governance.
European Union Set to Be Trailblazer in Global Rush to Regulate AI
The breathtaking development of artificial intelligence has dazzled users by composing music, creating images and writing essays, while also raising fears about its implications.
MIT: Machine Learning Models Too Judgmental on Rule Violations
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have found that these models often do not replicate human decisions about rule violations
Robotics
Siemens Healthineers is cutting back on surgical robotics program
Siemens Healthineers said today that it plans to discontinue the use of its Corindus surgical robotics for cardiology procedures.
Matician Brings a Service Model to Home-Cleaning Robots
In industry, it’s pretty common for robots to be sold as a service. That is, rather than buying the robot and managing it yourself, you instead rent the service that the robot provides.
Deployment of an electrocorticography system with a soft robotic actuator
Electrocorticography (ECoG) is a minimally invasive approach frequently used clinically to map epileptogenic regions of the brain and facilitate lesion resection surgery and increasingly explored in brain-machine interface applications.
Research
NSF Announces $140 Million Investment In Seven Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), along with several other federal agencies and higher education institutions, has announced a $140 million investment to establish seven new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes (AI Institutes).
Google launches ML Hub to help AI developers train and deploy their models
At its I/O developers conference, Google today announced its new ML Hub, a one-stop destination for developers who want to get more guidance on how to train and deploy their ML models, no matter whether they are in the early stages of their AI career or seasoned professionals.
Validation of Statistical and Machine Learning Models for Breast Cancer Prognosis
To develop a clinically useful model that estimates the 10 year risk of breast cancer related mortality in women (self-reported female sex) with breast cancer of any stage, comparing results from regression and machine learning approaches.