Top news of the week: 15.02.2022.
Robotics
Shapeshifting Robots Adapt with Cleverly Designed Bodies, Grippers
This week, we saw a couple of papers highlighting different shapeshifting robotic systems that rely on clever origami-inspired designs to rapidly change between different configurations, ...
Israel could supplement its Iron Dome with a ‘laser wall’
The defensive system would be similar in concept to the Iron Dome, but would be focused on using plane-based lasers to target enemy drones.
Research
EvoJAX: Hardware-Accelerated Neuroevolution
Evolutionary computation has been shown to be a highly effective method for training neural networks, particularly when employed at scale on CPU clusters. Recent work have also showcased ...
Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
Google Brain co-founder and Landing AI founder Andrew Ng has become an evangelist for what he calls the data-centric AI movement. “Collecting more data often helps," he says. "But if you ...
Applied Use Cases
Locating and Editing
Cracking open the black box of huge autoregressive transformer neural network language models.
How To Build a Data Culture: What Leaders Need To Know
If institutional knowledge and gut feel guide your decisions, your company risks getting left behind. Here’s why you need a data culture.
Ethics
The rise of AI could be a great British story. But let’s do it the right way
This exciting industrial advance will bring new jobs – especially if we put ethics at its core
€3.8M awarded for research on Just and Sustainable AI
€3.8 Million Awarded to the Universities of Cambridge and Bonn to Research Ethical AI Artificial intelligence (AI) is …
Marketing
Deepdub raises $20M for AI-powered dubbing that uses actors’ original voices
Netflix’s Korean drama “Squid Game” was one of the most-watched dubbed series of all time, proving the massive potential for foreign-language programming to become a hit in overseas ...
How AI powers the way brands build ideal mobile audiences
Start.io’s new Maia platform uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to customize audience segments easily and accurately.
Healthcare
University of Miami Medical Researchers Accelerate Future of Personalized Wellness with the MILBox
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers today announced a research project designed to create an individual’s “digital twin” using healt
Cybersecurity
Putting AI to Practical Use in Cybersecurity
Almost every cybersecurity product has an AI component. Here is where it's working in the real world.
Stephen Gold, SparkCognition: cybersecurity jumped from being an important investment to an absolutely critical one
Today we talked with Stephen Gold, the Chief Marketing Officer at SparkCognition, who explains how innovative technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to ...