Top news of the week: 21.12.2021.
Robotics
Children as Social Robot Designers
What happens when you let kids design their own social robot from scratch
This Robotic Inchworm Just Made It to Higher Ground
The pneumatic actuators and suckers work together synchronously propel to the robotic inchworm forward. Just like a real inchworm, the robot extends its body, attaches its front foot (aka ...
Research
Improving the factual accuracy of
We've fine-tuned GPT-3 to more accurately answer open-ended questions using a text-based web browser. Our prototype copies how humans research answers to questions online – it submits ...
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Applied Use Cases
Oxford Union invites an AI to debate the ethics of its own existence
Oxford Union debates rarely make you fear for the end of human civilisation, fortunately an AI guest of honour has managed such an effect.
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Ethics
Characters for good, created by artificial intelligence
MIT Media Lab researchers offer positive use cases of AI-generated synthetic characters for education and well-being. A new paper provides an open-source, easy-to-use pipeline that combines ...
Oxford Invited an AI to Debate Its Own Ethics—What It Said Was Startling
Nvidia's Megatron AI recently took the floor at the celebrated Oxford Union to debate whether AI can ever be ethical.
Marketing
Kalendar AI wants its sales bots to win your next customers
Kalendar AI, a San Francisco-based startup that’s been building on top of GPT-3‘s language model — developing a SaaS for automating lead generation and sales outreach to make it easier for ...
Why Computers Don’t Need to Match Human Intelligence
With continuing advances in machine learning, it makes less and less sense to compare AI to the human mind.
Healthcare
Oracle in Talks to Buy Cerner
A deal could be worth around $30 billion and push the enterprise-software giant further into healthcare.
Human-centered AI can improve the patient experience
But panelists at the HIMSS Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare Forum said clinicians also have an important role to play in building trust with technology.
Cybersecurity
Welcome To 2032: A Merged Physical/Digital World
By 2032, it will be logical to assume that the world will be amid a digital and physical transformation beyond our expectations. It is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of ...
Relentless Log4j Attacks Include State Actors, Possible Worm
More than 1.8 million attacks, against half of all corporate networks, have already launched to exploit Log4Shell.