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DeepMind chief : AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis
Demis Hassabis calls for greater regulation to quell existential fears over tech with above-human levels of intelligence
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In The News
How Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI
Hollywood actors are on strike over concerns about the use of AI, but for as little as $300, Meta and a company called Realeyes hired them to make avatars appear more human.
Inside Apple’s Big Plan to Bring Generative AI to All Its Devices
Apple was caught flat-footed when ChatGPT and other AI tools took the technology industry by storm. But the company is now preparing its response and plans to develop features for its full range of devices.
AI Startup Mind Foundry Secures $22 Million for Revolutionary Insurance Support
In a strategic move to revolutionize insurance practices, Mind Foundry’s pioneering AI tools have been instrumental in detecting cognitive decline among elderly drivers in Japan, in collaboration with the renowned Asian insurance giant, Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co.
Applied use cases
Alluxio rolls out new filesystem built for deep learning
Alluxio Enterprise AI is aimed at data-intensive deep learning applications such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing, large language models and high-performance data analytics.
A Primer on Generative AI’s Alphabet Soup of Acronyms
Deep learning (DL) is a subfield of machine learning that focuses on training artificial neural networks (ANNs) with multiple layers (deep neural networks) to learn and make predictions from data.
The Role of AI in Employee Tracking Apps: A Revolution in Workforce Management
Here’s how AI is revolutionizing workforce management: Real-Time Monitoring AI-powered employee tracking apps offer real-time monitoring capabilities that allow businesses to keep an eye on their workforce regardless of its physical location.
Ethics
Should we be afraid of AI?
For their part, some sixty human-rights organisations have published an open letter on the Liberties platform addressed to European lawmakers calling for the AI Act to "require the EU to adopt robust safeguards to protect the very foundation our Union stands on.
Top Ethical Issues with AI and Machine Learning
Data Privacy: Safeguarding Personal Information The collection and utilization of personal information by AI systems pose significant privacy risks that need to be addressed.
Microsoft to spend $3.2b in Australia as AI regulation looms
Microsoft (MSFT.O) said it will spend A$5 billion ($3.2 billion) expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing abilities in Australia over two years as part of a wide-ranging effort that includes skills training and cyber security.
Robotics
MIT and Amazon team up to study robots in the workplace
The goal is to expand on the three-year “Work of the Future” initiative that resulted in a 2020 report on how automation technologies could create better jobs for people, by MIT professor Julie Shah, who leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science and AI.
Figure Unveils Its Humanoid Robot Prototype
Figure had initially shown renderings of a robot with the form factor of a slim human, but there’s usually a pretty big difference between an initial fancy render and real hardware that shows up months later. Obviously, there’s a lot more going on here than Figure could squeeze into is press...
10 Cutting-Edge Robots That Are Truly Terrifying
Its lifelike appearance and ability to mimic human facial expressions make it a valuable tool for understanding how children perceive and interact with the world around them.
Research
A new method for safety helmet detection based on convolutional neural network
Using the designed channel attention module and location attention module, adjacent shallow feature maps and upsampled feature maps are adaptively fused to generate new feature maps with strong semantics and precise location information.
Classification of mathematical test questions using machine learning on datasets of learning management system questions
SVM: support vector machine, SGD: stochastic gradient descent, XGBoost: extreme gradient boosting, AUC-ROC: Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, LMS: Learning management system.
To create living AI, replace neural networks with neural matrices
The main feature of modern neural networks A modern neural network is a mathematical model that copies the structure of a biological neural network. TechTalks In-depth discussions about machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, neural networks, artificial general intelligence, AI...
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