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AI glossary: 60+ terms to know
Embodied agents, also referred to as embodied AI, are AI agents with a physical body that perform specific tasks in the physical environment.
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DeepMind Co-Founder's Startup 'Inflection AI' Secures $1.3B in Funding from Microsoft and Nvidia
Inflection AI has raised $1.3 billion from Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA), among others. The new funding brings the total raised by the company to $1.525 billion.
Samsung’s A.I. Moment Is Here, but Is It Ready?
Foreign investors betting on artificial intelligence are pouring money into the company’s shares. Analysts say it will have a hard time keeping up with rivals.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says it is doubling down on preventing AI from 'going rogue'
ChatGPT's creator OpenAI plans to invest significant resources and create a new research team that will seek to ensure its artificial intelligence remains safe for humans - eventually using AI to supervise itself, it said on Wednesday.
Applied use cases
Five ways AI could improve the world: ‘We can cure all diseases, stabilise our climate, halt poverty’
It is not yet clear how the power and possibilities of AI will play out. Here are the best-case scenarios for how it might help us develop new drugs, give up dull jobs and live long, healthy lives
Even the ChatGPT-fueled AI boom couldn't offset a slide in venture funding
Despite an influx of venture capitalist spending on artificial intelligence companies—fueled by ChatGPT hype—global venture funding overall still fell by 18% in the second quarter of 2023, according to new data from Crunchbase.
How AI can make hiring bias worse
The company pledges to only use technology that is “designed to exclude bias and limit scalability of existing biases in talent acquisition processes.” Advertisement Beamery recently launched TalentGPT, “the world’s first generative AI for HR technology,” and claims its AI is “bias-free.”
Ethics
Draft EU AI rules could hurt Europe: open letter
EU lawmakers agreed to a set of draft rules this month where systems like ChatGPT would have to disclose AI-generated content, help distinguish so-called deep-fake images from real ones and ensure safeguards against illegal content.
The Dangerous Art of AI
The difference between this and earlier bots is a generational shift, especially with generative AI, a version of the technology capable of impressive language fluency, broad comprehension and the creative chops to generate art, music and written works.
The Transformative Impact Of AI In Medical Tech
According to their website, Censis claims, “Customers using CensisAI2 see a 25% reduction in trays down at the start of first shift within the first six months.” Predictive Analytics By leveraging machine learning algorithms, medical workflow software can analyze patient data to identify patterns.
Robotics
DeepMind’s New Self-Improving Robot Is Quick to Adapt and Learn Fresh Skills
New research from DeepMind suggests the same technology behind large language models (LLMs) could help create more adaptable brains for robotic arms.
Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution
Play/Pause Button Pause Amazon's Proteus robot.Courtesy of Amazon In a giant warehouse in Reading, Massachusetts, I meet a pair of robots that look like goofy green footstools from the future. Amazon's Sparrow robot can pick up products that previously required human hands.
Tesla’s AI supercomputer to enter production in July 2023
In May, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) opened a new official Twitter account, @Tesla_AI, focused on reporting the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) progress around its FSD software and forthcoming humanoid robot, Teslabot.
Research
Researchers design tools to automatically detect natural disasters using images on social media
An international research team has designed a deep learning system able to detect natural disasters using images posted on social media.
Machine Learning From A Digital Marketer's Perspective
For instance, if your blog post about "Machine Learning in Digital Marketing" gained high traffic with keywords like "AI in marketing" and "SEO automation," a trained model should be able to predict the performance of a similar blog post using related keywords.
Multi-modal adaptive gated mechanism for visual question answering
[22] proposed to use Faster R-CNN [23] to extract the regional object features of the image, that is, to detect the salient objects in the picture, and then to learn the attention weight through the bottom-up-top-down attention mechanism.