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Meta (formerly Facebook) (NASDAQ: META) announced on Wednesday the launch of CICERO, the first artificial intelligence (AI) agent to achieve human-level performance in the popular strategy game Diplomacy. So far, Diplomacy was a huge challenge to AI given that the game needs human like capabilities such as persuasive conversation, complex planning, strategies and their adjustment and an understanding of other players’ perspectives and motivations.
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Artificial Intelligence: Rekor Debuts New Non-Intrusive AI-Driven Traffic Data Collection System
Rekor, (NASDAQ: REKR) which uses AI, machine learning and data to support roadway safety and smart mobility, unveiled its new edge-based, non-intrusive, AI-driven traffic data collection system designed and developed to collect and transform high-speed roadway data.
Artificial Intelligence: Japanese Companies Retail AI And Toshiba Partner To Revamp The Shopping Experience
Japanese companies Retail AI and Toshiba Tec (TYO: 6588) have partnered on a project to integrate Retail AI’s Smart Shopping Cart with Toshiba’s ELERA, a unified cloud commerce platform and suite of solutions that enables retailers to remove boundaries between physical and digital stores.
Artificial Intelligence: LG Ties With Parsons School Of Design To Leverage EXAONE, LG’s Super-Giant AI
LG AI Research, the AI research hub of LG Group (KRX: 003550), the South Korean conglomerate, announced a collaboration with the New York-based Parsons School Of Design for research of advanced AI and creative technologies as applicable to fashion, design and media.
Artificial Intelligence: The 2nd Global AI Summit Is On In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
On Tuesday, September 13, the Global AI Summit opened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with more than 200 speakers from 90 countries and 10,000 participants in the three-day event. Hosted by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), the summit would be attended by private sector leaders, government officials, and renowned academic professionals from across the globe.
Artificial Intelligence: Pilot AI Project Assessing Distracted Driving in Edmonton, Canada
The University of Alberta is leading a three-week pilot project that will use artificial intelligence to detect automobile drivers at the wheel with a cell phone in their hand. The project will assess the extent of such distracted driving in the city of Edmonton and also whether AI deployed to nab offenders. Sensors will be installed at strategic Edmonton locations to capture images of these drivers, even through windshields. The technology has been provided by Australian-based company Acusensus which said it had been used in Australia and several locations in the United States.
Artificial Intelligence: US National Institutes Of Health Budgets $14M On “Voice as a Biomarker of Health” Project
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to spend $ 14 million over four years to create a training database of people’s voices that can be used to train AI and machine learning applications for the detection of various diseases and neurological disorders by speech analysis.
Artificial Intelligence: Researchers At Taiwan University Develop AI System To Detect Pancreatic Cancer
A team of researchers at the National Taiwan University has trained an AI system on hundreds of examples of tumours in the pancreas to teach it to recognise pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly types of the disease after lung and colorectal cancers. According to the American Cancer Society, pancreatic cancer could kill over 49,000 people in 2022. Significantly, annually, only about a fifth of patients live for a year after diagnosis.
Artificial Intelligence: Pentagon Using AI And Sea Drones (USVs) To Patrol Gulf Waters
The Pentagon has, for the past year, used unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) or sea drones and artificial intelligence (AI) in the seas around the Arabian peninsula, to collect data and images that are transmitted for analysis to data collection centres in the Gulf.
Artificial Intelligence: NetDragon Websoft, A Chinese Tech Company, Appoints A Virtual Humanoid Robot As CEO
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKG: 0777), a listed Chinese company with global internet operations, has appointed Ms Tang Yu, an AI powered virtual humanoid robot, as the rotating CEO of its subsidiary Fujian NetDragon Websoft Co., Ltd.
Artificial Intelligence: National Grid Uses AI And Satellite Imagery To Save Costs On Pruning Vegetation
National Grid has save as much as $2 million on its vegetation management costs after deployment of AiDash’s dashboard that uses AI and satellite imagery to home in on problems such as overgrowing trees, power lines and circuits.
Artificial Intelligence: Enterprise Voice Assistant Provider PolyAI Raises $40M
PolyAI, a provider of human sounding voice assistants for enterprises, announced its $40 million Series B round led by Georgian with participation from Twilio Ventures as well as existing investors (Khosla Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners).
Artificial Intelligence: Japanese Drivers Unionize Against Amazon Protesting Unrealistic, AI-Drawn Routes
A labor movement is spreading across Amazon Japan, with delivery drivers in Nagasaki organizing themselves into a union, months after drivers in Yokosuka took a similar step. The group of 15 drivers in Nagasaki are protesting Amazon’s long hours and excessive load of deliveries without overtime pay, as well as impossible-to-execute delivery schedules and routes set out by the company’s AI system.
Artificial Intelligence: Robotic, Solar-Powered Boat To Clean India’s Gomti River
The district administration of Lucknow, in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, has pressed into service an AI-enabled trash boat to clean the Gomti river. In a 30-day trial, the boat, built by the Centre For Innovation Policy And Social Change, will operate on the river and collect plastics, water hyacinth and other types of waste.
Artificial Intelligence: Why An Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) Could Destroy Mankind
We’ve been pretty wrong about some historic events that eventually did come to pass. Example: The great physicist Ernest Rutherford had famously proclaimed in 1933 that anyone who propounded atomic power was “talking moonshine.” As recently as 1977, a computer industry pioneer supposedly said computers would not reach our homes. Yet those computers are here and in fact everywhere in various forms and power configurations. In fact, Torres is now worried about the “ever-growing computing power” that is touted as a boon for humanity. Could these rapidly evolving computers and advances in AI technology create an Artficial Superintelligence (ASI) that could then turn upon us – it’s creator?
Artificial Intelligence: AI-Generated Artwork Wins First Prize At State Fair; Ignites Controversy
Jason Allen has ignited afresh the chatter and debate surrounding AI art after his creation won the first prize in the Colorado State Fair’s art competition in the digital category. Allen’s work was made using Midjourney, the text-to-image AI art creation tool.
Artificial Intelligence: US Government Bans Export Of High-Performance AI Chips To China By AMD and Nvidia
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) have been told by the US government to suspend exports of certain high-performance chips, that have application in artificial intelligence, to China. Nvidia clarified in a regulatory filing that US officials had taken the step due to fears that the chips could potentially land up in the hands of a “military end user.”
Artificial Intelligence: Rockefeller Foundation Partners With Atlas AI And e-GUIDE To Boost Economic Development In Africa
The Rockefeller Foundation will leverage machine learning technology and satellite data in a new $ 5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI to boost economic development and build climate resilient infrastructure across sub- Saharan Africa. An innovative digital platform will make available valuable insight into agriculture, energy, and transportation sector development conditions, initially in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda. The information (“dynamic situational awareness of local conditions”) will enable policymakers to prioritise infrastructure development, promote economic opportunities, and mitigate community vulnerabilities in these sectors.
Artificial Intelligence: An AI Pilot Can Navigate An Autonomous Aircraft Through Congested Airspace
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an AI-powered system that pilots an autonomous aircraft through crowded airspace. This first-ever “AI pilot” guides the aircraft well enough to avoid collisions, anticipates the likely flight path of other planes in the vicinity and takes actions accordingly, and maintains radio communications with pilots and air traffic controllers (ATCs).
Artificial Intelligence: Restaurant Chain Panera Pilots Voice AI Ordering At Two Drive-Through Outlets
Panera, the chain store of bakery-café fast casual restaurants with over 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada, is trialling acceptance of customers’orders through an AI-driven voice ordering system in drive-thru lanes at restaurants around Rochester, NY.
Artificial Intelligence: AI-Enabled Gate Blocks Invasive Salmon Species From Entering Norwegian River
Norway’s coastline and rivers suffer from the influx of non-native Pacific salmon that has spread after their introduction in Russia’s White Sea the 1950s. These invasive salmon species introduce new diseases to the native Atlantic salmon and compete with them for food and spawning grounds. Because the Pacific Salmon reproduce faster, their numbers are rapidly increasing compared to the native species. In an effort to block their entry into Norway’s waterways, Huawei has partnered with Norway’s Berlevåg Jeger-og Fiskerforening (BJFF, or Berlevåg Hunter and Fisherman’s Association) to create an AI-enabled gate that distinguishes and allows the native Atlantic salmon into the river, while blocking other species.
Artificial Intelligence: AI To Help Assess Damage To The Great Barrier Reef
Artificial intelligence will help to determine the health of more than 300 reefs from more than 52,000 photographs taken by “citizen scientists” recruited by the conservation group Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef. Snorkellers and recreational divers joined in a movement to capture a snapshot of the health of the Great Barrier Reef. These citizen scientists were then requested to help identify in the pictures problem areas of the Reef such as bleaching that needed restoration effort.
Artificial Intelligence: The Lund AI Algorithm Can Analyze DNA From Human Remains To Establish Their Age
Researchers led by Lund University in Sweden have developed an AI algorithm that analyzes the DNA in human remains to date their age. The method is far superior to radiocarbon dating, which is widely used to estimate the age of carbon-based stuff up to 50,000 years old. The latter method is not always accurate, and also depends upon the quality and quantity of the material available for age testing.
Artificial Intelligence: Capitol Records Dumps AI Rapper FN Meka, Apologizes To Black Community
Famed record label Capitol Records, which signed AI-generated, virtual rapper artist FN Meka earlier this month, has walked away from the contract citing unintended and overlooked racial overtones and the AI character’s “gross stereotypes” of the Black community.
Artificial Intelligence: Developer AI Platform Inworld Raises $50M For AI Driven Virtual Characters
Inworld is a developer platform for creating AI-driven virtual characters for gaming, metaverse, and business applications. It was founded by conversational AI pioneers Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko, and Kylan Gibbs to enhance the social interactions in the immersive worlds of gaming, metaverses, entertainment, and brand experiences.