Top news of the week: 20.07.2021.
Robotics
Robot Art, in the Eye of the Beholder?: Personalized Metaphors Facilitate Communication of Emotions and Creativity
Socially assistive robots are being designed to support people’s well-being in contexts such as art therapy where human therapists are scarce, by making art together with people in an ...
The Next Covid-19 Battle Will Be About Vaccinating Kids
Pfizer and Moderna are midway through clinical trials, and the public health system is well versed in delivering childhood shots. The challenge? Politics.
Research
OpenAI disbands its robotics research team
OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team in what might be a reflection of economic and commercial realities.
Blender Bot 2.0: An open source chatbot that builds long-term memory and searches the internet
We’ve built and open-sourced BlenderBot 2.0, the first chatbot that can store and continually access long-term memory, search the internet for timely information, and have sophisticated ...
Applied Use Cases
10 Best Courses for Machine Learning on Coursera You Must Know- 2021
Machine Learning is very powerful and popular. Many people are shifting their careers into the Machine learning field. The reason behind the popularity of Machine Learning is its power to ...
Why AutoML Is Emerging as a Key Digital Workplace Technology
He explained that training neural network models is an automated process where data is continuously fed as input to the …
Ethics
Announcing nominees for the 2021 Women in AI Awards
As part of Transform 2021, we’re excited to announce the full list of nominees for the third annual Women in AI Awards.
Anthony Bourdain Doc Recreates His Voice Using Artificial Intelligence and 10-Plus Hours of Audio
“I wasn’t putting words into his mouth,” Morgan Neville said. “I was just trying to make them come alive.”
Marketing
Opening Up the Email Marketing Engine to Artificial Intelligence
The artificial intelligence use case for email marketing is gaining steam. How are marketers putting it to use?
Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa
Daloopa will continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally.
Healthcare
Artificial intelligence in healthcare: transforming the practice of medicine
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful and disruptive area of computer science, with the potential to fundamentally transform the practice of medicine and the delivery of healthcare. ...
Should we trust big tech with our health data?
Our medical records are in demand by tech firms who want to use the data to help tackle illnesses.
Cybersecurity
Machine learning is demonstrating its mettle across industries
The use cases and applications for machine learning offer benefits for most organizations, according to experts.