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Artificial Intelligence: Mossad Used AI-Powered Gun To Kill Iranian Nuke Scientist Fakhrizadeh (NYT)
A New York Times article on Saturday said the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, used an AI-powered, Belgian-made FN MAG machine gun attached to an advanced robotic apparatus to remotely kill Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the scientist leading Iran’s nuke program, on November 27, 2020.
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Artificial Intelligence: AI To Predict Growth Of Harmful Algal Blooms in Oceans
Harmful algal blooms (HAB) occur when colonies of algae — simple plants that live in the sea and freshwater — grow out of control and produce toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and birds. Humans are rarely affected, but illnesses triggered by HAB could be fatal. A project in the UK seeks to develop technology to predict the advent of deadly HAB.
Artificial Intelligence: Ford, Argo AI, Walmart To Launch Deliveries Via Autonomous Vehicles
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has tied up with Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) and Argo AI for its first multi-city, last mile, autonomous delivery collaboration in the U.S. Ford’s self-driving test vehicles equipped with the Argo AI Self-Driving System will deliver Walmart orders to customers’ homes in Miami, Austin, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
Artificial Intelligence: A New AI App Could ‘Deepfake’ Your Profile Pic Into A Porn Video
It’s here. The long-feared day when AI technology could advance to the point when anyone’s photo could be swapped, highly realistically, into a porn video for nefarious purposes including revenge and blackmail. MIT Technology Review first reported on a dangerous new website which uses just a picture of the person and a click to turn them into a porn star.
Alternative Investments/AI: WisdomTree To Boost Thematic Lineup With AI ETF
WisdomTree has filed to launch the WisdomTree Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Fund as a part of its thematic ETFs offering. The fund will track the performance of the WisdomTree Artificial Intelligence Index.
Artificial Intelligence: Now AI Can Estimate A Company’s Emissions
Evaluation of companies’ carbon footprint is essential for countries to be able to meet their 2050 decarbonization targets for 2050 as per the Paris Agreement. For investors, the quantum of greenhouse gases emitted by a company could be an important factor to evaluate its suitability in a portfolio geared towards positive climate actions in the context of ESG. While most companies do not yet formally disclose their emission data, AI can now reasonably estimate this crucial metric.
Artificial Intelligence: AI May Improve Brain Stimulation Devices, E.g. For Parkinson’s
Patients suffering a movement disorder like Parkinson’s disease, in many cases, opt for deep brain stimulation (DBS) to improve their motor reflexes and reduce medicines intake. DBS involves implanting electrodes within certain areas of the brain to regulate abnormal impulses. An AI algorithm developed by the Mayo Clinic and the Google Research Brain Team can help to potentially better direct DBS.
Artificial Intelligence: The New Roomba Uses AI To Detect Pet Poop
Pet-owners who also own iRobot’s (NASDAQ: IRBT) robot vacuum cleaners have often faced a nightmarish scenario: the robot smeared the house after failing to recognize and circumvent the pet’s poop. Well, the company has now addressed the problem by equipping the gadget with AI.
Artificial Intelligence: World’s Largest Miner To Deploy KoBold’s AI Technology For Exploration
KoBold Metals, a startup specializing in exploration for the minerals essential for EVs and green energy transition, has inked an agreement with BHP (ASX: BHP), the world’s largest mining company, to explore for metals such as cobalt, nickel and copper, starting in Western Australia.
Artificial Intelligence: The ARCAS AI System Packs Info Into Assault Rifle Sights
Israeli defense company Elbit Systems has developed ARCAS, an AI system that displays layers of data inside the sight of an assault rifle such as the M4 (pictured above). ARCAS is an acronym for Assault Rifle Combat Application, which runs on a computer residing on the weapon and presents the information in the rifle’s electro-optical (EO) sight and through an optional helmet-mounted eyepiece.
Artificial Intelligence: US Judge Rules DABUS, An AI Machine, Cannot Be An Inventor On A Patent
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled last week that an AI machine cannot be listed as an inventor on a patent. The landmark decision, the first in the US, was issued in a suit filed by Stephen Thaler against the United States Patent and Trademark Office for failing to recognize DABUS, an AI machine as the inventor of two devices in their patents.
Venture Capital: Volvo’s Venture Arm Invests In Autonomous Driving Verifier Foretellix
Volvo Group Venture Capital AB has announced its investment in Foretellix Ltd, a platform provider automating the testing, verification and validation for automated driving systems. Israel-based Foretellix simultaneously announced the close of its $32 million Series B funding round led by MoreTech Ventures, with participation from several strategic investors, including Volvo Group Venture Capital, Nationwide, NI and Japan-Israel High Tech Ventures.
Artificial Intelligence: BETSY, An AI Platform, Monitors Livestock Herds
Ranchers have long struggled with the problem of monitoring their herds of livestock across vast expanses of the ranch. Problems such as ill-health, calving, injuries and more could happen anytime and anywhere. Without lots of manpower, avoidable losses of precious bovines are inevitable. An AI platform dubbed BETSY, created by OneCup AI, is an effective solution.
Artificial Intelligence: Emma, a Robotic Masseuse To Take Away Aches And Pains
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been used for thousands of years for various afflictions, including the treatment of body pain and acupuncture. Singaporean start-up AITreat has brought robotics to the field of TCM. EMMA is able to perform the Tui Na, a kind of TCM deep tissue massage.
Artificial Intelligence: Quadroin, A Next-Gen Bionic AUV For Monitoring Ocean Eddies
Scientists have long tussled with the problem of unlocking information from ocean eddies, small ocean currents that have an immense influence on the Earth’s climate and on animals and plants in the seas. They are also responsible for approximately half of all phytoplankton production. But its extremely difficult to study or measure them due to their short life and small, erratic sizes. Until now.
Artificial Intelligence: SenseTime’s Proposed IPO Could Be The World’s Largest In AI
Chinese AI company SenseTime on Friday submitted an application to the Hong Kong Exchange for an IPO that could value it at a massive $12 billion. The company, whose product lineup includes facial recognition and autonomous driving, clocked revenue of 1.6 billion yuan ($247.2 million) in the first half of 2021 but incurred a net loss of 3.7 billion yuan. However, it did not disappoint on growth because turnover surged 91.8% year on year.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Detects Newly-Formed Craters On Mars In Seconds
Scientists can estimate the age of old craters on the surface of Mars by looking at the characteristics of new ones that have been captured as images by the Context Camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). But its tricky to pinpoint which image(s) depict new craters – especially if you have to manually scan the 112K lower-resolution images taken by the MRO over the past 15 years. But an AI algorithm can do the job incredibly faster.
Alternative Investments/ESG: The Future Fund ETF For Exposure To World-Beating Innovation
SEC-registered investment advisor, The Future Fund LLC, launched this week The Future Fund Active ETF (FFND) under the stewardship of Gary Black, managing partner, and David Kalis, CFA, partner.
Artificial Intelligence: Automated Kitchens Pioneer Spyce Acquired By Salad Chain Sweetgreen
Three college students launched sweetgreen to offer a solution to a very unpalatable dilemma – eat food that was slow, expensive, and fresh—or fast, cheap, and unhealthy. The result was a fast casual salad chain that used fresh, organic produce and has grown to over 130 restaurants. Sweetgreen announced Tuesday its acquisition of Spyce, a startup with a similar vision for serving healthy and fresh food – only more automated.
Artificial Intelligence: Margaret Mitchell, Former Head Of Google’s Ethical AI, To Join Hugging Face
Margaret Mitchell, the former head of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Ethical AI research group, will join AI startup Hugging Face where she will develop tools to help companies eliminate bias from their AI algorithms. Initially suspended in January, Mitchell was fired by Google February ostensibly because of a paper she co-wrote that was critical of the company.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Will Predict If Clouds Are Likely To Loom Over Solar Panels
For all its benefits, solar energy has the major drawback of intermittency, or the sudden suspension of energy generation due to reasons such as clouds blocking out the sun, or when it is night. The UK’s National Grid ESO and non-profit Open Climate Fix have joined hands to develop an AI-powered tracking system that will track clouds and match them with solar installations in their path.
Artificial Intelligence: At Its First AI Day, Tesla Unveils A Humanoid Robot
At Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) first AI Day held on Thursday, showman Elon Musk gave the world a glimpse of the Tesla Bot, a humanoid bot that could ultimately perform those tasks that human least like to do. You’re forgiven to imagine that an actual humanoid came on stage – no, it was just an actor in a body suit resembling the robot.
Artificial Intelligence: Chinese Internet Giant Baidu Launches Robocar and AI Chip
Baidu Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU), the Chinese tech company known for its internet search service and AI focus, presented a concept two-seater “Robocar” at its annual Baidu World 2021 conference on Wednesday. The futuristic, AI-packed car does not have a steering wheel, nor gas or brake pedals, but is big enough for a passenger to stretch out for a nap.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Platform For Predictive Maintenance Of Static Mining Assets
Engineering firm Norda Stelo and clean energy startup BEAP are collaborating on a $1.2 million project to improve the life and dependability of static mining assets using artificial intelligence (AI). The project is being supported by Investissement Québec as mandatary of the Government of Québec.
Artificial Intelligence: SAP Acquires SwoopTalent For Its AI-Powered HR Platform
SwoopTalent, an AI-powered platform that combines, analyzes and trains data from disparate human resource (HR) systems and workflows, has been acquired by SAP (NYSE: SAP), the German multinational software maker known for its ERP system. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.