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Chipmaker AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) has unveiled a range of innovative AI solutions spanning from data centers to personal computers. The AMD Instinct MI300 Series features data center AI accelerators, while the ROCm 6 open software stack introduces new features supporting Large Language Models (LLMs). Additionally, the Ryzen 8040 Series processors come equipped with Ryzen AI capabilities.
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Artificial Intelligence: Automated Platform Uses AI And Robotics To Enhance Drug Discovery For Parkinson’s
Researchers at the NYSCF Research Institute collaborated with Google Research to create a new platform for uncovering the hidden cellular signposts of Parkinson’s Disease. The automated cell culture platform utilizes AI along with robotic systems to conduct image analysis of a patient’s cells. This method is expected to enhance drug discovery for the disease, especially as current methods are plagued by high rates of failure.
Artificial Intelligence: Venture Funding News In AI
Three different funding rounds that made recent AI news. Venture capitalists continue to pour money into AI startups, from enterprise-grade machine learning from Black Crow to dental diagnostics at VideaHealth.
Artificial Intelligence: South Korean Company KT Launches AI Quarantine Robot
South Korean company KT (NYSE: KT) announced at a media event on March 30 the launch of its new AI-powered, innovative disinfection robot designed for hotels, restaurants, hospitals, welfare facilities and government buildings. The AI Quarantine robot, as it is named, is supported by AI software that operates on a 4G or above network.
Artificial Intelligence: Mitsubishi Develops AI Technology That Re-Identifies A Subject On The Move
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TYO: 6503) has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that identifies individuals captured with multiple surveillance cameras in one-tenth the time taken by conventional AI by applying a special compression technology that eliminates superfluous data. It therefore is able to deliver very efficient and accurate re-identification, tracking and searching of the subject.
Artificial Intelligence: World Champions In Bridge Are No Match For AI
Bridge is a game that has most similarities with real-life; the information is incomplete, there are partners and opponents and the rules impose some explainability. In short, it is a game most likely to really challenge the abilities of an AI in a match against humans. It’s therefore significant that NooK, an AI model developed by French startup NukkAI, managed to beat eight human world champions in a two-day bridge tournament in Paris.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Automates Strawberries Cultivation On Canadian Vertical Farm
A team from the University of Montreal’s Department of Computer Science and Operations Research is devising an AI-based system to automate control decisions in Winter Farm’s controlled-environment vertical strawberry farm in Vaudreuil.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Could Simulate 40,000 Hypothetical Bioweapons In A Mere Six Hours
A team of researchers from Collaborations Pharmaceuticals Inc received an invitation to an international security conference that reviews developments in chemistry, biology and enabling technologies that may have implications for chemical and bioweapons. Their brief: To play devil’s advocate to the impression that AI technology for drug discovery could only be used benevolently. Their finding: AI designed 40,000 molecules that had toxic and chemical warfare implications in just six hours.
Artificial Intelligence: Nvidia Unveils H100 GPU For AI Applications
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced the H100 GPU, an AI chip described as the “new engine of the world’s infrastructure.” This massive 80 billion transistor chip uses TSMC’s 4N process and is three times faster than its previous-generation A100 at FP16, FP32, and FP64 compute, and six times faster at 8-bit floating point math.
Artificial Intelligence: Yokogawa And JSR Use AI To Autonomously Run A Chemical Plant For 35 Days
Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TYO: 6841) and JSR Corporation (TYO: 4185) have successfully run a chemical plant autonomously for 35 days using AI. In fact, the production output of the plant, since shipped, met rigorous quality parameters. As a result, because off-spec products were not produced, losses of fuel, labor, and time were also avoided.
Artificial Intelligence: An Australian Made Boeing Drone Is Named “Ghost Bat”
Boeing’s military combat drone that was being developed under the Loyal Wingman program name, has now been assigned ‘MQ-28A Ghost Bat’ as the military designator and name by the Australian Government and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The first military combat aircraft to be produced in Australia in over 50 years, it was developed in a timetable of just three years from ideation to first flight.
Artificial Intelligence: US Spending On AI To Double by 2025 (IDC Report)
International Data Corporation (IDC), a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets, released their new Worldwide IDC Spending Guide for Artificial Intelligence. The Guide estimates that US spending on AI could double to $120 billion by 2025.
Artificial Intelligence: Personalized TLC For Your Hair From Revieve’s AI
The AI Haircare Advisor from Revieve, a personalized digital brand experience company, uses artificial intelligence and a patented mobile selfie diagnostics technology to generate personalized hair care recommendations. Customers with all hair types and textures can hope to receive ‘gamechanging’ results that point them to what exactly they need for their hair.
Artificial Intelligence: Clearview’s AI Surveillance Finds Application In The Ukraine War
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that calls itself the world’s largest facial network, is helping to uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead in war-torn Ukraine.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Pairs With Drones To Locate Fallen Meteorites
A team from Curtin’s Space Science and Technology Centre (SSTC) has succeeded in recovering a meteorite that fell onto the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia using AI to scan drone footage and pinpoint its location.
Artificial Intelligence: DeepMind’s Ithaca AI Model Unravels Ancient Greek Inscriptions
DeepMind’s new Ithaca AI model will help historians in restoring, placing, and dating ancient Greek texts, marking an era of productive collaboration between AI and researchers of the magnificent Greek civilization.
Venture Capital: Chinese AI Startup Parametrix Raises $100M, Turns Unicorn
Chinese AI company Parametrix.ai has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia China and joined by existing investors 5Y Capital and Gaorong Capital. Though the valuation was not disclosed, Parametrix has joined the hallowed unicorn club (>$1 billion) after the funding.
Artificial Intelligence: Danish Company Solum To Use Advanced AI And Robotics For Sorting Waste
Danish environmental services company Solum A/S will soon operate a highly advanced waste sorting plant that will use advanced robotics and AI to segregate up to 25,000 tons of mixed waste annually. The robots, which work 24/7, will receive and intelligently sort refuse sourced from municipalities, industry and business and comprising combustible waste, bulky waste, metal, wood, and plastic.
Artificial Intelligence: Alexa “Challenges” 10-Year-Old To Touch A Penny To Electrical Outlet
Kristin Livdahl’s 10-year-old daughter happened to ask Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Alexa on the family’s Echo for a challenge. Guess what Alexa suggested to the girl: Touch a penny to the exposed leads of an electrical outlet! A tragedy was averted because the mother was right there, and the challenge was never attempted. The shocked mother posted the AI-powered Alexa’s verbatim response on Twitter.
Artificial Intelligence: Japanese Corporates Play Cupid With An AI Dating App For WFH Employees
Faced with declining birth rates, and employees working from home with no time for searching out love, Japanese companies have hit on a new method to get romance back into their lives. About 800 Japanese organizations have signed up for Aill goen, an AI-powered app that promises to play matchmaker. Result: Happier, more productive employees.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Helps NotCo’s Vegan Chicken Taste Like Real
The Not Company, or NotCo, a Chilean startup, recently launched new pea protein-based vegan chicken dubbed NotChicken in the booming Latin American market for vegan chicken. What’s interesting is that NotCo is using Giuseppe, an AI platform that helps create plant-based meat substitutes that taste as good as the real thing.
Artificial Intelligence: Scientists At Chandigarh University Develop AI Mobile App To Detect Crop Disease
The Department of Research & Development of Chandigarh University, India, has developed an Artificial Intelligence based Mobile Application which detects crop diseases at an early stage of the farming cycle. This enables the farmers to take protective actions before the disease spreads to healthy crops.
Alternative Investments/Digital: New Year Message From Mexican Billionaire Salinas – “Buy Bitcoin”
Ricardo Salinas Pliego: Billionaire and Mexico’s third richest person. In a Christmas video, Mexican billionaire Salinas exhorted people to avoid fiat money and to invest in bitcoin. The long-time bitcoin aficionado ranks the crypto as one of his “best investments ever,” having first bought it at $500 in 2013 through Grayscale. Like El Salvador president…
Artificial Intelligence: Now, An AI-Powered Prosecutor Can File Charges In China
China has developed an “AI Prosecutor,” according to reports. Amidst growing use of AI in unconventional and human-centric fields, China has reportedly developed a prosecutor that can “throw the book” at an accused using artificial intelligence. Developed by Shanghai Pudong People’s Procuratorate, it is capable of pressing charges for offences such as dangerous driving, credit…
Artificial Intelligence: Israeli Researchers Devise AI Tool To Predict Blood Infection
A team of researchers from the laboratory of Prof. Noam Shomron from Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with other researchers, including Dr. Ahuva Weiss Meilik, head of the I-Medata AI Center at Ichilov Hospital, have developed an AI tool that identifies patients who could fall seriously ill due to blood infection. Blood infections are a significant cause of deaths across the globe.