Top news of the week: 14.01.2021.
Robotics
Women in Robotics Update: Melonee Wise, Maren Bennewitz, Alicia Casals
Women in Robotics Update: Melonee Wise, Maren Bennewitz, Alicia Casals
Saudia Arabia is planning a 100-mile line of car-free smart communities
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is promising to build a network of smart cities that won’t have any cars or roads. It’s called The Line, due to its arrangement of ”hyper-connected ...
Research
2011: DanNet triggers deep CNN revolution
Its temporary monopoly on winning computer vision competitions made it the first deep CNN to win: a Chinese handwriting …
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Residency Program
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Residency Program is a one-year research training position designed to give you hands-on experience with artificial intelligence research while working in ...
Applied Use Cases
Civil society calls for AI red lines in the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence proposal
European Digital Rights together with 61 civil society organisations have sent an open letter to the European Commission demanding redlines for the applications of AI that threaten ...
Top 25 Machine Learning Startups To Watch In 2021 Based On Crunchbase
Throughout 2020, venture capital firms continued expanding into new global markets, with London, New York, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Boston, Seattle and Singapore startups receiving increased ...
Ethics
Five ways to make AI a greater force for good in 2021
There's more attention on AI’s influence than ever before. Let's make it count.
Listen to the Engineers – the algorithm does
To read the full report click on the image Listen to the Engineers – the algorithm does Published 14-01-2021 “Ditch the algorithm!” became one of the battle cries of 2020, encapsulating the ...
Marketing
The Beginner’s Guide to Using Natural Language Generation to Scale Content Marketing
Natural language generation (NLG) is a powerful AI technology that can help you create content at scale. Here’s how marketers can start using it.
Artificial Intelligence Buyer’s Guide: Cutting Through Marketing Hype to Drive ROI
Cut through the marketing hype around artificial intelligence (AI). Read this essential guide to learn what AI truly means—and requires—in supply chain.
Healthcare
Doctors & Artificial Intelligence: how to reconcile them?
Can better education, transparent collaboration, and regulatory measures become a remedy for physician's mistrust towards AI?
HIMSSCast: What to expect from 2021 health tech news
Leaders of all three HIMSS Media brands discuss what's coming in the new year
Cybersecurity
Deepfake laws emerge as harassment, security threats come into focus
A flurry of new state and federal laws targeting deepfakes couldn't come soon enough, analysts say.
A Look Ahead at 2021: SolarWinds Fallout and Shifting CISO Budgets
Threatpost editors discuss the SolarWinds hack, healthcare ransomware attacks and other threats that will plague enterprises in 2021.