In the News
16 people you should know about the possibilities and dangers of AI
Since ChatGPT launched last November, AI has catapulted into the mainstream. Investment in AI is rapidly growing — on track to hit $200 billion by 2025 — as companies race to ramp up their AI divisions.
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In The News
A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job
Meant as a sly swipe at the inflated hype around artificial intelligence, a billboard at a construction site in Antwerp, Belgium, in June read “Hey ChatGPT, finish this building.”
2023 AI glossary
AI has the advertising industry bewitched, with agencies and clients alike clamoring to understand what AI can do for their strategies and marketing stunts.
Barriers To AI Adoption
Thus, looking back at how much artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed over 77 years since AI began is remarkable.
Applied use cases
Generative AI Will Reduce 30% of Customer Service and Support Agents
However, the analyst firm added, generative AI at the same time will create new customer service jobs to enable generative AI in customer service and support.
Why humans can't use NLP to speak with the animals
We’ve already got machine-learning systems and natural language processors that can translate human speech into any number of existing languages, and adapting that process to convert animal calls into human-interpretable signals doesn’t seem that big of a stretch.
Locarno Film Festival: where dreams collide with AI
Turkish film critic Öykü Sofuoğlu relates her experience of “A Long Night of Dreaming about The Future of Intelligence”, a special event of talks, workshops and performances on emerging forms of intelligence at the 76th Locarno Film Festival.
Ethics
Automaker AI Use Policies
The company uses AI throughout the value chain to enhance the customer experience, product quality, employee satisfaction, and process efficiency.
We Need Smart Intellectual Property Laws for AI
The act requires “generative” AI systems like ChatGPT to implement a number of safeguards and disclosures, such as on the use of a system that “deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness.”
How to bridge the artificial intelligence divide
Unlike earlier advances in technology, which primarily affected “routine” tasks, AI harbours the potential to automate knowledge workers’ “nonroutine” tasks like policymaking, reviewing, reflecting, coding and doing legal activities.
Robotics
Scouting out the next wave of robot workers
A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made from aerospace-grade aluminum.
Boston Dynamics wants to change the world with its state-of-the-art robots
CEO Robert Playter dispels worries about the potential harm robots could inflict and thinks they will empower people instead of displacing them.
20 Universities Providing Best Robotics Courses in 2023
In this article, we’ll discuss the 20 universities providing best robotics courses in 2023.
Research
Novel physics-encoded AI model helps to learn spatiotemporal dynamics
Prof. Liu Yang from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), in collaboration with her colleagues from Renmin University of China and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has proposed a novel network, namely, the physics-encoded recurrent convolutional neural network (PeRCNN).
SliDL: A toolbox for processing whole-slide images in deep learning
Furthermore, successful implementation of deep learning to WSI analysis requires careful consideration of model hyperparameters, slide and image artefacts and data augmentation beyond those encountered in standard image analysis.
IBM says all the building blocks for analogue AI are in place
Analogue electronics promises a more efficient way to train AI systems than computers that rely on zeros and ones
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