In the News
ChatGPT Can Now Generate Images, Too
OpenAI released a new version of its DALL-E image generator to a small group of testers and incorporated the technology into its popular ChatGPT chatbot.
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In The News
How Google taught AI to doubt itself
Today let’s talk about an advance in Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, and how it addresses one of the most pressing problems with today’s chatbots: their tendency to make things up.
MIT professor warns : AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’
Physicist Max Tegmark says competition too intense for tech executives to pause development to consider AI risks
Hollywood’s writers’ strike might come to an end soon
The WGA and AMPTP confirmed they’ll meet again tomorrow, as rumors said the sides are close to an agreement after a meeting attended by the CEOs of Warner, Disney, and Netflix.
Applied use cases
AI Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals
Underneath the thick forest canopy on a remote island in the South Pacific, a New Caledonian Crow peers from its perch, dark eyes glittering.
AI model speeds up high-resolution computer vision
Researchers from MIT, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and elsewhere have developed a more efficient computer vision model that vastly reduces the computational complexity of this task.
How Ecology Could Inspire Better AI, and Vice Versa
The new paper - published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - targues for a synergy between AI and ecology that could both strengthen AI and help to solve complex global ecosystem challenges, such as disease outbreaks, loss of biodiversity and the impacts of climate change.
Ethics
China’s Evolving AI Regulations: Impact on US Firms
In the wake of China’s recent implementation of new artificial intelligence regulations, the tech landscape is witnessing the emergence of a fresh wave of AI chatbots that have received official government approval.
G20 leaders bat for "responsible AI"
Amid the rise of generative artificial intelligence, leaders from G20 countries discussed how to harness the technology to benefit development, while ensuring that safeguards are built in to check misuse.
How To Regulate Artificial Intelligence
In my forthcoming book, Regulating Digital Industries, I argue that the U.S. should now establish a digital regulator empowered to set competition, privacy and content moderation rules for companies operating in core digital industries, which include search, ecommerce, social media, the mobile app...
Robotics
A Soft Robot to Probe Asteroids
Meet GE Aerospace’s Sensiworm (Soft ElectroNics Skin-Innervated Robotic Worm), a highly intelligent, acutely sensitive soft robot that could serve as extra sets of eyes and ears for Aerospace service operators inside the engine.
Ascento’s robots aid overstretched security guards
Distinguished by their wheel-leg design that can cover a variety of terrain, Ascent’s security patrolling robots are currently deployed on large industrial sites and perform repetitive tasks like perimeter checks, sending alerts to human security guards when needed.
Toyota is making AI-trained breakfast bots in a ‘kindergarten for robots’
Toyota’s robots probably can’t whip up a frittata yet, but they can whisk some eggs for you.
Research
Integrative soft computing approaches for optimizing thermal energy performance in residential buildings
The predictive models are artificial neural networks exposed to five optimizer algorithms, namely Archimedes optimization algorithm (AOA), Beluga whale optimization (BWO), forensic-based investigation (FBI), snake optimizer (SO), and transient search algorithm (TSO), for attaining optimal...
Machine learning models can produce reliable results even with limited training data
Researchers have determined how to build reliable machine learning models that can understand complex equations in real-world situations while using far less training data than is normally expected.
Machine learning analysis of research citations highlights importance of federal funding for basic scientific research
Biomedical research aimed at improving human health is particularly reliant on publicly funded basic science, according to a new analysis boosted by artificial intelligence.
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