In the News
Top AI Trends: Transforming Businesses Across Industries
AI adoption is expected to witness significant growth in 2024. According to a McKinsey Report, 40% of respondents have confirmed that their organizations will make a big investment in AI overall due to the ever-increasing advances in generative AI.
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In The News
The ‘godmother of AI’ has a new startup already worth $1 billion
Fei-Fei Li, the renowned computer scientist known as the “godmother of AI,” has created a startup dubbed World Labs. In just four months, its already valued at more than $1 billion, the Financial Times reported.
Threat of AI earthquake creates growing political rift in Silicon Valley
An election season is always a good time to take the political temperature in the tech world, and this year it definitely feels like Silicon Valley — a traditional bastion of Democratic support — is swinging right.
China tests AI companies' language models to create socialist AI
Chinese government officials are testing artificial intelligence companies' large language models to ensure their systems "embody core socialist values", the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Applied use cases
AI is increasing job anxiety within the gaming industry
With the rise of AI, those working in the gaming industry share a growing concern that, despite management at some companies maintaining that human creativity goes hand in hand with AI, their jobs will be made redundant by what AI tools can do.
AI outperforms clinical tests at predicting progress of Alzheimer’s disease
Cambridge scientists have developed an artificially-intelligent tool capable of predicting in four cases out of five whether people with early signs of dementia will remain stable or develop Alzheimer’s disease.
Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
In an era when the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) images is at the fingertips of the masses, the ability to detect fake pictures – particularly deepfakes of people – is becoming increasingly important.
Ethics
OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company’s allegedly restrictive nondisclosure agreements.
Want to know how AI will affect government and politics? The bots have the answers
What will AI do to employment? It is, after “will it kill us all?”, the most important question about the technology, and it’s remarkably hard to pin down – even as the frontier moves from science fiction to reality.
What to take away from the European law on AI
On top of all these initiatives and legislations, the European Commission has proposed two directives to the regulation on AI (“Artificial Intelligence Act”, hereafter AI Act) is a landmark piece of EU legislation in the field of AI.
Robotics
Richtech Robotics launches elevator-enabled mobile robot for medical facilities
Richtech Robotics, a Nevada company and a provider of AI-driven service robots, has launched its latest robot: Medbot, an elevator delivery robot designed to streamline pharmacy operations with uninterrupted, 24/7 medications delivery.
3D Robot Face With Living Skin Is the Next Level in Robotics
The first robot was developed in 1956 and today it is hard to imagine our lives without them. Whether industrial robots on the factory floor or service robots in the living room, such as roombas, they make many things easier for us. However, so far, robots have shown little resemblance to humans.
Deus Robotics Enables Robots To “Speak” The Same Language
The International Federation of Robots reports there were 3.9 million robots in operation in 2022 or about 151 robots per 10,000 workers. In 2023, that number increased by 593,000, and will rise yet again by another 718,000 by 2028, according to Statista.
Research
A guide to AI for cancer researchers
AI has been commoditized. It has evolved from a specialty resource to a readily accessible tool for cancer researchers. AI-based tools can boost research productivity in daily workflows, but can also extract hidden information from existing data, thereby enabling new scientific discoveries.
A multi-domain adversarial transfer network for cross domain fault diagnosis under imbalanced data
The results demonstrated that MDAT achieved cross-domain diagnosis accuracies of 89.2% and 99.0% under imbalanced data conditions, confirming the effectiveness and superiority of the MDAT framework.
Human-AI interaction research agenda: a user-centered perspective
This study not only furnishes indispensable theoretical and practical insights for forthcoming research endeavors but also catalyzes the realization of a future distinguished by seamless interaction between humans and AI.
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