Top news of the week: 01.02.2022.
Robotics
What’s New in Robotics? 28.01.2022
News briefs for the week take a look at the Snowbot S1 robot snowblower, Exotec’s combined Skypod AS/RS and Skypicker pick n’ pack systems, Effibot’s “follow me” AMR, an exosuit’s impact on ...
BattleBots: Behind the Scenes With Ghost Raptor
The inside take on making dangerous robots fight for fun and glory
Research
Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation
A hybrid algorithm that applies backpropagation is used to train layers of controllable physical systems to carry out calculations like deep neural networks, but accounting for real-world ...
OpenAI GPT-3 Text Embeddings - Really a new state-of-the-art in dense text embeddings?
This week, OpenAI announced an embeddings endpoint (paper) for GPT-3 that allows users to derive dense text embeddings for a given input…
Applied Use Cases
Aligning Language Models to Follow Instructions
We’ve trained language models that are much better at following user intentions than GPT-3 while also making them more truthful and less toxic, using techniques developed through our ...
Rethinking Data Science and Engineering: Data Sets and Time Series
Organisations are revamping their data science and engineering strategies to gain the necessary skills to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems.
Ethics
ADSN Data Ethics Workshop #1
This is the first of two workshops/discussions in our data ethics series for the Australian Data Science Network. We …
Conversational AI Systems for Social Good: Opportunities and Challenges
🔬 Research summary by Julia Anderson, a writer and conversational UX designer exploring how technology can make us better humans. [ Original paper by Peng Qi, Jing Huang, Youzheng Wu, ...
Marketing
Why AI is critical for marketing success
AI (artificial intelligence) is growing in importance in advertising, and marketers need to learn how best to use it. Julia Wold, director of operations at Coegi, provides some tips on how ...
What if Quantum Computing Is a Bust?
One of the greatest risks of a short-term failure scenario is whether we are willing to recognize it.
Healthcare
Robert Califf for the FDA
The Biden nominee is unfairly attacked from the left and right.
The Future Of Healthcare Technology
The Future Of Healthcare TechnologyThe future of healthcare is shaping up in front of our very eyes with advances in digital healthcare technologies, such as artificial intelligence, VR/AR, ...
Cybersecurity
3 ways artificial intelligence could boost your cybersecurity
Cybersecurity could be the greatest risk to company growth in the next three years. Artificial intelligence helps mitigate threats and keep data secure.
Nine Predictions For Artificial Intelligence And Automation In 2022
With search engine algorithms increasingly powered by AI, businesses that aren't optimized for the change will fall behind.