Top news of the week: 13.04.2021.
Robotics
Warm feelings about human-looking robots can turn icy when bots blunder
If a robot worker makes a mistake on the job, or annoys customers, businesses may not give it a pink slip and a cardboard box for its office belongings, but companies may be forced to shut ...
3D System can Produce Objects with Spatially-Various Gloss
A new 3D printer from MIT researchers can be used to reproduce fine art or fabricate more realistic prosthetics.
Research
Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences
Learning biological properties from sequence data is a logical step toward generative and predictive artificial intelligence for biology. Here, we propose scaling a deep contextual language ...
Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues' firings: email
Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues ...
Applied Use Cases
Artificial intelligence and disruptive technology
Virtual Tour: Turn Back the Clock “] Since its founding, the Bulletin’s scientists have called attention to the uses of new technologies that possess the potential to “change life on Earth ...
🐣 Your guide to AI: March 2021
Hi all!Welcome to Your guide to AI. Here you’ll find an analytical (and opinionated) narrative covering key developments in AI over March 2021. If you’d like to chat about something you’re ...
Ethics
Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse
MIT researchers say what happened to Timnit Gebru at Google is part of a centuries-old pattern that people in AI must recognize.
What is the future of artificial intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence can be found in every aspect of our lives. From A-level grade predicting algorithms to Netflix recommendations, AI is set to cha...
Marketing
A new era of innovation: Moore’s Law is not dead and AI is ready to explode
A new era of innovation: Moore’s Law is not dead and AI is ready to explode - SiliconANGLE
How Businesses Can Leverage AI, IoT, AR, VR, Blockchain and Big Data to Retain Customers
Businesses are implementing modern technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), blockchain and big data to ...
Healthcare
Microsoft accelerates industry cloud strategy for healthcare with the acquisition of Nuance
Acquisition will combine solutions and expertise to deliver new cloud and AI capabilities across healthcare and other industries REDMOND, Wash., and BURLINGTON, Mass. – April 12, 2021 – ...
What a century-old painting taught me about being present as a physician today
For years, I wasn't moved when I saw images of the now-iconic painting, "The Doctor." This time, I couldn't espace the doctor's presence.
Cybersecurity
3 Key Cybersecurity Trends To Know For 2021 (and On ...)
Three trends to focus on include 1) the expanding cyber-attack surface (remote work, IoT supply chain), 2) Ransomware as a cyber weapon of choice, 3) threats to critical infrastructure via ...
Network Detection & Response: The Next Frontier in Fighting the Human Problem
Justin Jett, director of audit and compliance for Plixer, discusses the transformation of network-traffic analytics and what it means for cybersecurity now.