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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: Boeing’s AI-Powered Loyal Wingman Drone Completes Maiden Flight In Australia
The Loyal Wingman is an unmanned military aircraft that is designed to fly as a partner with crewed Air Force formations. It is meant to complement and extend manned air combat systems. Tuesday’s successful flight confirmed the possibilities of combining AI and an autonomous system thereby creating smart human-machine teams.
Artificial Intelligence: Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken Using Conversational AI
Drive-thru, fast food restaurants such as Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken at Englewood, Ohio, face both staff shortages and a surge in customer demand due to the pandemic. Employees are getting harder to find because they are reluctant to work in a customer-facing position for hours on end while wearing a mask. On the other hand, pandemic -wary customers find drive-thru’s a good solution to pick up food quickly and at minimal contagion risk.
Artificial Intelligence: TytoCare Uses AI For Remote Medical Checks
TytoCare, has developed a platform and devices that use AI to perform remote medical examinations for doctors and clinicians. Healthcare organizations, hospitals, and insurers around the world recommend TytoCare’s telehealth kits (pictured below) for monitoring the health of patients remotely and virtual caregiving. The Israeli telehealth startup just raised $50 million in a Series D round, doubling its valuation.
Artificial Intelligence: Tiny Aerial Robots From MIT That Are Collision Proof
MIT Assistant Professor Kevin Yufeng Chen has developed small drones that are powered by soft “actuators” instead of conventional motors. These actuators are capable of absorbing and recovering from collisions, high winds, and drops, much like those pesky mosquitos that keep returning after you’ve swatted them away. Because of this resilience, and their small size, these mini drones are capable of many tasks that larger drones cannot accomplish.
Artificial Intelligence: Beam Provides AI-Powered Dental Insurance Cover
Beam Dental, a dental insurer, uses AI in its operations (and toothbrushes) to assess people’s dental health and issue quotes in just 30 seconds. Beam’s app-connected brushes incentivize users to brush regularly and improve dental hygiene. In turn, they qualify for rebates on their dental insurance.
Venture Capital: Drone Maker Skydio Raises $170M; Earns Its Horn
Drone maker Skydio announced Monday its raise of $170 million in Series D funding led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Growth Fund, valuing the company at over $1 billion. Existing investors Linse Capital, Next47, and IVP, along with new investor UP. Partners also participated.
Artificial Intelligence: allora.ai, The Hotel Booking Engine That Guides Travellers To The Perfect Stay
Steve Jobs famously said that people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. Avvio’s AI-powered hotel booking engine, allora.ai, can do much the same thing after analyzing 400 million guest experiences. So much so, hotels can almost predict what the next guest is going to do with their holiday.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Can Animate A Dead Relative’s Photo So It Will Smile At You
My Heritage, which uses at-home DNA tests and a huge historical database to construct your family tree, has launched a new feature titled Deep Nostalgia. It allows a user to animate old still photos of long-dead and loved relatives so it appears they are on a video.
Artificial Intelligence: Self-Driving Bus Does Five Mile Route Daily In Málaga, Spain
Irizar Group, an international business group headquartered in Spain, has built a bus capable of running autonomously for Avanza, the first private operator of urban, public road transportation in Spain. The electric bus started operations in the Spanish city of Málaga from Saturday.
Artificial Intelligence: GCHQ, The U.K.’s Spy Agency, To Use AI Against Threats
The GCHQ unveiled a paper on how it will use AI to help protect the U.K. GCHQ, the U.K.’s intelligence agency, published today a paper titled Ethics of AI: Pioneering a New National Security to explain how it intends to use AI responsibly to keep the country safe from various kinds of threats.
Artificial Intelligence: Former Google CEO Schmidt Sounds The Alarm On China’s Prowess In AI
Eric Schmidt, who was CEO of Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) from 2001 through 2011, warned Tuesday that the United States is “one or two years ahead of China, not five or 10” and “the Chinese are well ahead in areas like face recognition.” He was speaking at a hearing held by the Senate Armed Services Committee on emerging technologies and their impact on national security.
Artificial Intelligence: Fugaku, The World’s Fastest SuperComputer Predicts Tsunami Flooding
A tsunami warning system using dart buoys was badly off the mark when a tsunami struck Japan’s eastern coast a decade ago. A deadly 9.0 magnitude earthquake triggered the tsunami wave, which was as high as 50 meters in some places. Tragically, the buoy system estimated the wave size at only 3 meters. When it struck, the monster wave caused over 20,000 lives. However, Fujitsu (TYO: 6702) Labs used AI and a supercomputer to develop a more reliable system.
Artificial Intelligence: After Gebru, Google Terminates Another AI Researcher
Margaret Mitchell, an AI researcher and a leader of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Ethical AI team, was terminated by the company after a suspension that commenced last month. Dr Mitchell said in a tweet on Friday afternoon: “I’m fired.”
Venture Capital: Locus Robotics Turns Unicorn With $150M Series E Round
Locus Robotics, which provides robotic solutions for automating warehouses, raised $150 million in a Series E round led by Tiger Global Management and BOND. Scale Venture Partners and Prologis Ventures, the venture capital arm of Prologis, the global logistics real estate company, also participated. The round valued Locus at $1 billion, granting the startup the coveted unicorn status.
Artificial Intelligence: AI To Log Fishing Effort In Oregon
How do you estimate and account for how much fishing – recreational or commercial – is actually going on in your friendly neighborhood ocean? That information is central to measuring catch and ultimately, the sustainability of the fish and marine life in the water body. The EDF launched today its SmartPass fishery monitoring system that combines the use of shore-based cameras, AI, and automated image analysis to monitor fishing effort.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Protects Endangered Sea Turtles From Feral Pigs
Sea turtles are an endangered species, not only from mankind’s activities. Their nests on Queensland’s western Cape York are a favorite prey for feral pigs. The pigs have wiped out sea turtles from great swathes of beaches south of Aurukun, in the Far North Queensland, Australia. Scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science research agency, and rangers have tried for the past six years to protect the nests from the marauding pigs using drones and helicopters. They are now harnessing AI for the purpose.
Artificial Intelligence: Monolith’s AI Found The Best Recipe For American Style Fluffy Pancakes
British engineering AI software company Monolith used artificial intelligence to create the ultimate pancake recipe. Monolith, which is an offshoot of the U.K.’s Imperial College, found a recipe that used seven ingredients and needed just one toss for a drool-worthy stack of pancakes.
Artificial Intelligence: AI May Provide An Objective Second Opinion On Parkinson’s
Researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia built a system that used computer-based, machine-learning algorithms to analyze video recordings of people, thought to have Parkinson’s Disease (PD), performing specific movement tasks. The system could identify between healthy and suspected PD patients.
Artificial Intelligence: Rolls Royce Germany To Use AI In Design And Testing Of Aircraft Engines
Rolls Royce Germany and Altair (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced in January a collaboration to use AI in the manufacture of aerospace engines. Rolls Royce Germany builds jet engines, components, parts and provides services to aviation customers, including Lufthansa, Airbus, Gulfstream, and Bombardier.
Artificial Intelligence: Mitsui OSK And Bearing Develop AI-Powered Smart Routing Of Ships To Cut Emissions
An AI-powered Smart Routing Engine predicts the most fuel-efficient route for the ship. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd (TYO: 9104), one of the largest shipping companies in the world, has an operational fleet of approximately 800 ships. Since 2019, Mitsui has been collaborating with Silicon Valley-based Bearing.ai, an Artificial Intelligence technology startup, on improving shipping efficiencies….
Artificial Intelligence: Saudi Arabia Ties With Philips To Advance National AI Agenda In Healthcare
On Monday, the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) announced a partnership with Dutch technology company Philips (NYSE: PHG) to advance the use of artificial intelligence in Saudi Arabia’s healthcare sector.
Artificial Intelligence: AI In The MARLIT APP To Keep Tabs On Plastic Marine Litter
Plastic and other refuse float on the surface of many of our precious seas and oceans, endangering the conservation of marine ecosystems. Conventional anti-pollution measures rely on observations of this floating junk from boats or planes. However, due to physical constraints, these efforts are inadequate in the face of mounting marine pollution. But hope is at hand from an artificial intelligence-based algorithm developed by researchers at the University of Barcelona (UB).
Venture Capital: Chinese Driverless Company Pony.ai Raises $100M In Extended Round
Pony.AI, a Chinese head-quartered autonomous driving startup, announced on February 8 its additional raise of $100 million in Series C. In November, the company had picked up $267 million in that Series, and in the process, earned itself a valuation tag of $5.3 billion.
Artificial Intelligence: USC Develops AI To Tackle New Virus Variants “In Seconds”
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have developed a method to accelerate vaccine development to counter potential new mutations of the coronavirus. Using AI, the researchers can vaccine analysis and identify the best medical therapy for treatment.