Top news of the week: 18.07.2022.
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A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture
When a chemist raised concerns about the blood testing machines' high error rates, she was ignored. So she resigned.
Foundation models and Deep RL come together to solve decision making at scale.
Foundation models and Deep RL come together to solve decision making at scale.
i-Sim2Real: Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Policies in Tight Human-Robot Interaction Loops
Sim-to-real transfer is a powerful paradigm for robotic reinforcement learning. The ability to train policies in simulation enables safe exploration and large-scale data collection quickly ...
Tractable hires new Chief Science Officer to lead AI development and research
Tractable announces the hire of a new Chief Science Officer, Mohan Mahadevan, to lead the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) development and research.
AI Audit Challenge
This challenge is about designing and creating applied tools that can assess whether deployed AI systems exhibit bias …
Inside a radical new project to democratize AI
A group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they’re giving it out for free.
The Real Reason Robot Rights Is So Contentious
Unlike artificial intelligence, which is the product of an academic conference in the mid-1950s, the word robot actually is the product of science fiction. It comes to us from Karel Čapek ...
Marketers Uneducated, Untrained for Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence has its use cases in marketing, but many marketers remain uneducated or are just beginning to understand its impact.
OpenAI rival AI21 Labs raises $64M to ramp up its AI-powered language services
AI21 Labs, a startup developing a language model to rival those from OpenAI, Cohere, and others, has raised $64M in fresh funding to expand its customer base.
AI Startup Speeds Healthcare Innovations To Save Lives
Faster synthesis and analysis of healthcare data get medical innovations to market faster. By harnessing AI, big data, machine learning, and predictive analytics, this startup is doing just ...
Northwell Health Selects Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
Northwell Health will leverage Google Cloud as its preferred cloud platform to support its digital transformation journey.
The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth
Open-source code runs on every computer on the planet—and keeps America’s critical infrastructure going. DARPA is worried about how well it can be trusted
What To Look For In Machine Learning For Cybersecurity Solutions
In the cyberworld, the “game” pits your computing environment—protected by your skilled but overworked security team—against a range of miscreants and nation-state-sponsored actors seeking ...