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San Diego-based Kneron, a provider of artificial intelligence technologies for smart cameras and other devices at the network edge, has raised $48 million in a second round of venture capital funding, despite the increasingly volatile environment for early-stage companies raising money want. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2022-10-10/despite-volatile-financial-markets-san-diego...

The veteran actor has agreed to sell the rights to his likeness so that a digital twin can be created using deepfake technology. https://gizmodo.com/bruce-willis-sells-likeness-ai-deepfake-1849601061 Generative modeling has made tremendous strides, especially with recent text-to-image models. https://imagen.research.google/video/ Miso Robotics Inc. of Pasadena has begun introducing its Flippy 2 ro...

You walk into a kiosk at a fast food restaurant and a tiny camera scans your facial features, registering your height, age, gender and mood. https://qz.com/restaurants-are-using-ai-to-guess-what-you-want-to-eat-1849343409 Anonymous writing can no longer hide your identity if the US government's latest artificial intelligence project proves successful. https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-government-is-de...

Elon Musk said Tesla is loaning the Autopilot team for its humanoid robot project Optimus, which has a deadline at the end of the month. https://electrek.co/2022/09/20/tesla-borrowing-autopilot-team-optimus-humanoid-robot-project/ We have trained and open source a neural network called Whisper that approximates the robustness and accuracy of human-level English speech recognition. https://openai.c...

British robotics company Engineered Arts has just given its ultra-realistic looking humanoid robot Ameca a voice - and it has a lot to say. https://futurism.com/the-byte/gpt-3-ameca-robot-facial-expressions Intel yesterday announced a three-year strategic research and co-innovation collaboration with Mila, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) research institute. https://www.itworldcanada....

Tuberculosis, which kills 1.4 million people each year, can be detected on chest X-rays. https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/06/google-tuberculosis-artificial-intelligence/ Temperatures above or below a comfort window of 12–21 degrees Celsius (54–70 °F) are linked to a significant increase in aggressive online behavior in the US, a new study finds. https://neurosciencenews.com/extreme-weather-hate-sp...

Instacart announced Thursday that it has acquired Eversight, a pricing and advertising platform powered by artificial intelligence. https://www.grocerydive.com/news/instacart-buys-eversight-artificial-intelligence/631057/ Each year, more than 69 million people around the world suffer traumatic brain injuries, leaving many unable to communicate through speech, typing, or gestures. https://ai.facebo...

Parkinson's disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose because it mainly relies on the onset of motor symptoms such as tremors, stiffness and slowness, but these symptoms often don't appear until several years after the onset of the disease. https://news.mit.edu/2022/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-parkinsons-from-breathing-patterns-0822 With all the political grudges that have become a part...

An announcement from Stability.ai brings some great news for everyone who gets into the AI imaging hype. https://www.pcgamer.com/ai-image-generator-stability-ai-stable-diffusion/ The announcement was made by Alexander Osadchu, the head of the Russian military's innovative development department, at the Army 2022 summit on Aug. 17, according to the state news agency TASS. https://www.c4isrnet.com/a...

The tested software comes from Vara, a startup from Germany, which also led the study. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/11/1055677/ai-diagnose-breast-cancer-mammograms/ Leading public hospitals in Shanghai use artificial intelligence on their WeChat to streamline patient registration and offer better treatment. https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/2208048809/ An artificial intelligence was aske...

Predicting stock market behavior is a crucial endeavor that requires careful attention as successfully predicting stock prices with the right decisions can lead to attractive profits. https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/07/26/researchers-at-stanford-have-developed-an-artificial-intelligence-ai-model-stockbot-which-uses-lstms-to-predict-stock-prices-with-gains-higher-than-the-most-aggressive-etfs/ A...

Infections can trigger all kinds of reactions in the human body, and one of the most extreme is sepsis. https://newatlas.com/medical/bedside-ai-warning-system-sepsis-mortality-20/ Officials are accused of "putting blind faith" on a notoriously unreliable platform. https://futurism.com/the-byte/man-sues-chicago-ai-wrongly-imprisoned Cleerly announced today that it has closed an oversubscribed Serie...

Imagine creating a digital painting without ever picking up a paintbrush or instantly creating picture-book illustrations to go with the words. https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/metas-new-ai-research-tool-turns-ideas-into-art/ Argo AI announced late last week that it would lay off 150 employees and end its autonomous vehicle operations in Washington, DC. https://www.therobotreport.com/argo-ai-lays...

Virtual robots controlled by artificial intelligence act in ways that conform to toxic stereotypes when asked to choose faces belonging to criminals or housewives https://www.newscientist.com/article/2326129-artificially-intelligent-robot-perpetuates-racist-and-sexist-prejudice/ DeepMind researchers trained an AI system to find a popular policy for allocating public funds in an online game - but t...

#2233 Databricks / N2N / Chickens / Crime / Cardiff University Databricks, which has been criticized for running a closed lakehouse, is making most of the technology behind Delta Lake, including its APIs, available as open source with the launch of Delta Lake 2.0. https://www.datanami.com/2022/06/28/databricks-opens-up-its-delta-lakehouse-at-data-ai-summit/ As he walked past the countless photogra...

It appears that Tesla's plan to unveil a working prototype of its humanoid robot is progressing well. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-humanoid-robot-prototype-unveiling-ai-day-2-date/ DeepMind recently trained Flamingo, an 80B-parameter Vision Language Model (VLM) AI. https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/06/deepmind-flamingo-vlm/ Using a mix of uncaptioned Minecraft videos and a small dataset of videos...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommended Congress exercise caution in promoting artificial intelligence (AI) tools to combat online harm, in a report commissioners voted to release Thursday. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3526738-ftc-recommends-congress-use-great-caution-in-promoting-ai-to-address-online-harm/ The federal Liberals on Thursday introduced privacy laws that give Canadian...

NVIDIA GPUs will play a key role in interpreting data coming in from the James Webb Space Telescope, with NASA preparing to release the $10 billion scientific instrument's first full-color images next month. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/06/08/deep-learning-james-webb-space-telescope/ Days after Oracle completed its $28 billion purchase of Cerner, Larry Ellison laid out a comprehensive vision...

Nine members of police technology company Axon's AI ethics committee have resigned after the company said it would develop Taser-equipped drones, despite earlier opposition from the committee. https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/axon-ai-ethics-board-resignation And some, like Nate, had more modest goals: automatically filling in shoppers' contact and payment information on retailers' websites. http...

Chick-fil-A is among a growing list of restaurants and restaurant-adjacent businesses, including El Pollo Loco, Chili's and C3, that have been trialling technology like drones and bots to reduce the cost of delivery. https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/chick-fil-a-tests-autonomous-delivery-in-austin-refraction-AI/624616/ IBM says it is rolling out its natural language processing software to a larg...

As the Great Retirement or Restructuring continues to make headlines, Human Resources' attention has been on job seekers, job hoppers, and vacancies. https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/25/report-92-of-hr-leaders-plan-on-using-ai-to-acquire-talent/ Six months after the fatal shooting at Oxford High School that killed four students and injured eight, the school district is experimenting with new artifi...

SoundHound for Restaurants' goal is to meet diner demand as operators juggle higher volumes of digital channels while maintaining high levels of customer service. https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/soundhound-launches-ai-voice-ordering-integration-with-square-to-automate-phone-calls/624032/ Algorithm misjudgment is a critical problem; When artificial intelligence reflects unconscious thoughts, ra...

In its second attempt to become the largest unmanned vessel to cross the Atlantic, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS400) was forced to swerve almost halfway due to an onboard mechanical problem. https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/mayflower-autonomous-ship-diverts-crossing-due-to-mechanical-failure Robotaxi startup Argo AI said Tuesday it had begun operating its autonomous test vehicles wi...

American rapper Kendrick Lamar took advantage of deepfakes for his latest music video. https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2022/05/09/kendrick-lamar-uses-deepfakes-in-latest-music-video/ A new project on the Tibetan plateau aims to build a dam in just two years using artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D printing. https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/china-to-build-ai-powered-3d-printed-hydro...

Single-lead ECG recordings from an Apple Watch, interpreted by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm developed at the Mayo Clinic, effectively identified patients with a weak heart pump. https://www.newswise.com/articles/mayo-researchers-use-ai-to-detect-weak-heart-pump-via-patients-apple-watch-ecgs A one-man team consisting of Singaporean research scientist Wang Wemin beat 469 other teams fro...