Top news of the week: 03.08.2021.
Robotics
This robot made a 100,000-domino 'Super Mario Bros.' mural in 24 hours
A new robot known as the Dominator has set a Guinness World Record for placing 100,000 dominos in just over 24 hours..
Research
Big Ideas in Artificial Intelligence
NYU has long been at the vanguard of the AI revolution, and it is seeing its prominence in the field surge as of late. With a hyper-collaborative approach, award-winning institutes and ...
Introducing droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents
We are open-sourcing droidlet, a “one-stop shop” platform for AI robotics research. Droidlet makes it easy to mix and match different computer vision and language models to build versatile, ...
Applied Use Cases
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.
Some have been used in hospitals, despite not being properly tested. But the pandemic could help make medical AI better.
Introducing Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks
We're releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language which enables researchers with no CUDA experience to write highly efficient GPU code—most of the time on par with ...
Ethics
Deepening the foresight conversation
Dear Futurists, Regular readers of this newsletter will know that I’m keen to find ways to extend and deepen the ground-breaking discussions that often take place in London Futurists ...
Here Come the Robot Nurses
The pandemic increased the demand and possibility of automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.
Marketing
Banking Needs To Prepare For Marketing’s Data Arms Race
In a marketplace that is becoming accustomed to hyper-personalized communication, the need for banks to use data to drive engagement is no longer optional.
Will Nvidia’s huge bet on artificial-intelligence chips pay off?
The unassuming chipmaking giant was early to the AI revolution—and remains ahead of rivals | Business
Healthcare
As the world grays, it’s time to ensure seniors’ tech literacy
Is tech inventing for the inventors? Gil Bashe, Health Tech World special correspondent, examines the issue of the digital divide To be digitally left behind is the new loneliness. Most ...
Google's Masterplan for Healthcare - The Medical Futurist
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Cybersecurity
This Is What You Should Know About AI's Impending Power
AI enormously benefits a range of industries, but responsible development of the technology is also important.
Meet Paragon: An American-Funded, Super-Secretive Israeli Surveillance Startup That ‘Hacks WhatsApp And Signal’
NSO has a new competitor, one cofounded by the former commander of Israel’s NSA equivalent, Unit 8200. It’s promising to only sell to democratic regimes.