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Former Google program manager Yiğit Ihlamur has launched Vela Partners, an AI-powered venture capital firm. https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/ai-powered-vc-firm-vela-emerges-from-stealth-with-25m-under-management/?guccounter=1 Researchers at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine have used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse the speech patterns of patients with Parkinson's disease (...

A new report by NewsGuard has identified 49 websites that produced content that appeared to be mostly or entirely AI-generated in April alone. https://futurism.com/news-sites-ai-chatbots-content Researchers at MIT and Takeda have developed a physics-enhanced autocorrelation-based estimator (PEACE) that uses physics and machine learning to categorize the rough surfaces that characterize particles i...

MIT researchers have developed machine learning algorithms to create artificial proteins with specific structural features, using attention-based diffusion models to predict amino acid sequences that meet design targets. https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-system-can-generate-novel-proteins-structural-design-0420 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have...

German artist Boris Eldagsen, who recently won a prestigious photography competition with a stunning black-and-white portrait, has now turned down the award after admitting the image was created using an AI image generator, reports The Guardian. https://futurism.com/the-byte/guy-admits-prize-winning-photo-generated-ai A congressional hearing on Tuesday discussed the work of the Federal Trade Commi...

The AI chatbot can draft cover letters, tinker with codes, and even breathe life into a Furby. https://futurism.com/the-byte/finance-professor-claims-chatgpt-can-predict-stock-performance Following Italy's lead, the Spanish data protection authority AEPD has announced a preliminary investigation into ChatGPT maker OpenAI over alleged violations of the European Union's General Data Protecti...

Stability AI, a startup that made a name for itself by helping create the incredibly popular open-source image generator called Stable Diffusion, is in serious trouble. https://futurism.com/the-byte/stable-diffusion-stability-ai-risk-going-under In recent months, OpenAI and in particular ChatGPT have shown what is possible with a user interface built on top of a large language model that can answe...

Microsoft has laid off a team dedicated to the responsible development and delivery of AI. https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/03/14/microsoft-lays-off-ai-ethics-team/ Big tech companies race to ship generative AI tools. https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/meta-wants-to-use-generative-ai-to-create-ads/ A Swansea University study has shown how machine learning can aid in the early detect...

Brain-computer interface company Synchron announced it has received an oversubscribed $75 million in Series C funding, bringing total funding to $145 million. https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/brain-computer-interface-company-synchron-raises-75m-and-more-digital-health-fundings Engineers at CU Boulder are using advances in artificial intelligence to create a new type of walking stick for people...

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration announced Thursday that it is launching an investigation into the self-driving technology behind General Motors' robotaxi fleet. https://www.engadget.com/nhtsa-opens-probe-into-gm-autonomous-driving-technology-195519720.html Protect AI, a Seattle startup that sells cybersecurity technology tailored for code that powers artificial intelligen...

Fake accounts on social media are increasingly wearing fake faces. https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1143114122/ai-generated-fake-faces-have-become-a-hallmark-of-online-influence-operations Intrinsic, a software company that spun out of Alphabet's X Moonshot division in mid-2021 to simplify the use of industrial robots, has acquired Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC), the for-profit arm of the O...

DoNotPay, the company that bills itself as "the world's first robot lawyer," is launching a new AI-powered chatbot that can help you negotiate bills and cancel subscriptions without having to deal with customer service. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/13/23505873/donotpay-negotiate-bills-ai-chatbot Authorities in China have made a series of policy announcements related to artificial intelligence...

DeepMind has developed an AI tool that can help create rough film and stage scripts. https://www.engadget.com/deepmind-ai-tool-film-theater-scripts-dramatron-212328597.html Uber's network in Las Vegas will be the first to offer Motional's autonomous vehicles. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/uber-and-motional-bring-robotaxi-service-to-las-vegas/440732 Toastmasters members can get real-ti...

Stack Overflow, a coding site that has long served as the web's go-to place for coding advice, has temporarily banned OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnaem/stack-overflow-bans-chatgpt-for-constantly-giving-wrong-answers Today, Canva announces Magic Write, a text generation tool that can generate anything from blog post ideas to a cover letter. https://www.pcworld.co...

An AI developed by researchers at Meta negotiated persuasively with humans while playing an online version of the board game Diplomacy. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2348152-metas-board-game-playing-ai-can-pass-as-a-human-in-game-negotiations/ Google is shutting down Duplex on the Web, its AI-powered suite of services that have been used to navigate websites to simplify the process of order...

In the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), 2022 was arguably the year of foundational models, or AI models, trained at scale. https://venturebeat.com/ai/stanford-debuts-first-ai-benchmark-to-help-understand-llms/ Harvey, a startup building a so-called "Copilot for Lawyers," emerged today with $5 million from the cloak being led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, the tranche t...

Deepfake technology - where one person's likeness is digitally placed on top of another - has some very creepy implications. https://gizmodo.com/intel-deep-fake-ai-1849795542 The Transportation Authority's board on Thursday approved a new artificial intelligence pilot program aimed at detecting weapons on buses, trains and subways. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/septa-zeroeyes-artificia...

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, invest in early-stage AI companies that are tackling big problems. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/ai-powered-note-taking-app-mem-raises-23-5m-openai/ The United States and the European Union plan to release a new artificial intelligence roadmap that prioritizes security and ris...

Founded in 2017, Fathom is the nation's leading medical coding automation platform, an AI solution that brings together the best of deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to automate medical coding with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency. https://hitconsultant.net/2022/11/09/fathom-ai-medical-coding-automation-funding/ An Amazon Sparrow package handling robot during the Delivering...

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI technology and resources. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/02/openai-will-give-roughly-ten-ai-startups-1m-each-and-early-access-to-its-systems/ Online lending software company Zest has raised more than $50 million in its late...

A new art exhibition in San Francisco showcases some of the unique ways artists have begun to integrate Dall-E 2, GPT-3 and other AI systems into their work - efforts that go far beyond typing and seeing . https://www.axios.com/2022/10/31/exhibit-ai-images-art-dall-e-2-gpt-3 Creative Fabrica, a marketplace for digital files such as print-on-demand assets, fonts and graphics, today announced that i...

While we're seeing design software improve slightly each year, there's growing concern about the pace and scope of improvements. https://aecmag.com/ai/ai-the-coming-tsunami-architecture/ Dating app Bumble is open-sourcing its 2019-launched AI tool for detecting lewdness. https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2022/10/25/bumble-open-sources-its-lewd-spotting-ai-tool/ Google has acquired Alter,...

This neural network has a really bad attitude. https://futurism.com/the-byte/clip-interrogator-mean-ai Elon Musk announced back in August that his brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, would host a "Show & Tell" progress update event on October 31. https://www.teslarati.com/neuralink-show-and-tell-2022-new-date/ Until now, AI portraits of people who didn't exist were just headshots. http...

#2250 Motion Mix / Generative A.I. / DABUS / Automation / LaMDA You might think that technological advances will make robots and other forms of workplace automation more important—that innovation will naturally find its way into the economy. https://news.mit.edu/2021/aging-workers-automation-0915 In Silicon Valley, crypto and the metaverse are out. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/technology/gen...

No matter how many cameras or sensors they use, autonomous cars will never be perfect, but research from Japan suggests a simple upgrade could help reduce the risk of self-driving cars hitting undetected pedestrians: a pair of animated googly eyes that make it obvious what the vehicle has spotted or not. https://gizmodo.com/self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-googly-eyes-study-1849643126 "This r...

An AI document forensics solution improved fraud detection at an online mortgage broker by 30 percent while reducing the workload for investigators. https://www.rtinsights.com/mortgage-fraud-ai-improves-detection-by-30/ A patent application from Activision Blizzard is exploring the idea of using machine learning technology to create custom soundtracks for gamers that could potentially be used to e...