In the News
10 Great Colleges For Studying Artificial Intelligence
Interest in AI is on the rise—here are 10 schools that offer undergraduate majors or minors in machine learning and AI.
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You’re Invited to Applied Intelligence Live! Austin
Demonstrating the real-world use cases for AI now, the two-day event lands at Palmer Event Center, 20-21 Sept, with an impressive lineup of 150 speakers from renowned organizations such as Tesla, Department of Defense, NXP, Target, + Shell.
In The News
Why DeepMind's AI visualization is utterly useless
Pretty pictures of tic-tacs or jelly don't help people understand what AI is. What in the world are these images supposed to represent?
Nvidia’s stock closes at record after Google AI partnership
Nvidia shares rose 4.2% Tuesday to close at a record, after the chipmaker announced a partnership with Google that could expand distribution of its artificial intelligence technology.
Silicon Valley’s Favorite New Toy Has a Risky Tradeoff
There’s a big reason why every company hoping to deal in some way with artificial intelligence is either spending or raising billions upon billions of dollars right now, and it’s not just investor hype.
Applied use cases
Inside Google's Plans To Fix Healthcare With Generative AI
The tech giant is aiming to get on a strong competitive footing against Amazon and Microsoft, but experts say there’s plenty of challenges for the technology in the world of medicine.
The AI Financial Crisis Theory Demystified
Rather than focusing on whether the U.S. will most likely end up with only two or three foundation models or even hundreds, the emphasis should instead be placed on “de-risking” AI model deployments to create more resilient global ecosystems.
A subcomponent-guided deep learning method for interpretable cancer drug response prediction
SubCDR is based on multiple deep neural networks capable of extracting functional subcomponents from the drug SMILES and cell line transcriptome, and decomposing the response prediction.
Ethics
Tech chiefs will meet in Washington next month to discuss AI regulations
The chief executives of some of the largest tech companies in the U.S. will meet at the Capitol next month to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how it should be regulated in the future.
Britain must become a leader in AI regulation, say MPs
The UK should introduce new legislation to control artificial intelligence or risk falling behind the EU and the US in setting the pace for regulating the technology, MPs have said.
AI Faces Charges of Left-Wing Political Bias
The AI platform ChatGPT, whose negative consequences include misinformation, is facing new charges of political bias.
Robotics
A deep learning technique to improve how robots grasp objects
The University of Bonn's Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) research group recently developed a new learning pipeline to improve a robotic arm's ability to manipulate objects in ways that better support their practical use.
Introducing PIBOT, the world's first humanoid robot pilot
As well as being able to slide easily into the pilot’s seat and use its hands to flip switches in the cockpit, the robot – called PIBOT – uses AI technology to memorize flight charts and emergency protocols.
Chinese tech firm Xiaomi unveils a robotic dog that can perform ballet steps and even MOONWALK
Chinese tech firm Xiaomi first developed its CyberDog two years ago to compete with rival company Boston Dynamics' Spot.
Research
Overcome Data Parsing Obstacles with the Power of Machine Learning
Web scraping is a far better alternative to gathering data manually, enabling large-scale automated data collection.
The most in-demand AI skills — and how companies want to use them
The top 10 Generative AI-related skills listed in Upwork job seeker profiles with the largest quarter-over-quarter growth (Q2 2023 vs Q1 2023) were: Large Language Model (LLM); Generative AI; You Only Look Once (YOLO); Object Detection; Stable Diffusion; Prompt Engineering; ChatGPT; Azure OpenAI; AI...
ChatGPT versus human in generating medical graduate exam multiple choice questions
Given the substantial workload of university medical staff, this study aims to assess the quality of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) produced by ChatGPT for use in graduate medical examinations, compared to questions written by university professoriate staffs based on standard medical textbooks.