Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence News: AI will add $15 trillion to the global economy (according to Gartner) by 2030. This fast-moving, technological breakthrough is powering the next industrial revolution and will disrupt the global economy in unforeseen ways. The DailyAlts AI channel tracks the latest developments, capital flows, technological advancements, and other influences that will transform the 2020s.
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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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Alternative Investments: Simplify Asset Management Launches Four New Disruptive Technology ETFs
Four new ‘bleeding edge’ ETFs are on the anvil from Simplify Asset Management. Founded by Paul Kim and David M. Berns, Ph.D., the firm’s new thematic ETFs focus on firms that have important technological or cultural edges and provide meaningful concentration to their stock price.
Artificial Intelligence: Repurposing Old Drugs For New Uses
Ping Zhang, Senior Author, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, led a team of medical researchers on a project that used AI to suggest new uses for old drugs. The team found that machine learning could process huge amounts of data to determine whether existing, FDA-approved medications could be repurposed for use in other diseases.
Artificial Intelligence: An AI Bot Can Judge Your Taste In Music (It’s Free)
The Pudding, a digital publication, has created a free service to evaluate your Spotify playlists. Dubbed “How Bad Is Your Spotify,” it explains: “Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.”
Artificial Intelligence: Yahoo Japan To Deploy AI Against Cyberbullying
Yahoo Japan will use AI to detect and delete hate messages and defamatory remarks from its online posting sites. The action follows the tragic and suspected suicide due to cyberbullying of reality television show star Hana Kimura.
Artificial Intelligence: Stripchat Applies AI To Automatically Categorize LiveCam Sex Acts
Stripchat is using AI as a high-level marketing tool to make its live adult webcam streams more customer-focused. The webcam platform successfully developed AI to categorize live streams by the kind of sex act and present them accordingly on the main page of its website. It’s a win-win both for users and the cam models. Site traffic nearly doubled in 2020.
Artificial Intelligence: Researchers Use AI To Detect Deadly Malaria Mosquito
AI can differentiate and detect the Anopheles mosquito, which is responsible for malaria, from other species of mosquitoes with near-total accuracy, according to researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Artificial Intelligence: Pepsi Deploys AI To Monitor Cheetos Quality
Pepsi (NASDAQ: PEP) goes to great lengths to ensure that its highly popular Cheetos Snacks always have the optimal crunch, lightness, and shape. Consistency of flavor, texture, and color is achieved through careful monitoring of the extruders that produce the delicious snack. Engineers need to constantly monitor variables such as the speed of the snack cutting tool, the ratio of cornmeal to water in the mix, snack lengths, bulk density, and other attributes. For the company, Cheetos is a billion-dollar brand that is produced in 22 countries in more than 50 flavours. No surprises then, that Pepsi decided to deploy AI for quality control of Cheetos’ production.
Artificial Intelligence: In Historic Spy Plane Flight, AI Plays Co-Pilot
On Tuesday, the U.S. Air Force conducted a path-breaking flight test. An AI algorithm (colorfully named ARTUµ in true Star Wars style) rode alongside U.S. Air Force Maj. “Vudu” on a U-2 Dragon Lady assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force Base.
The aircraft flew on a reconnaissance mission during a simulated missile strike, with core tasks divvied up between human and algo.
Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning To Identify Whale Sounds, Warn Ships
Southern resident Orca whales, also known as killer whales, are an endangered species. Researchers at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada, propose to use AI to identify them by their sounds, and then warn approaching ships of their presence.
Artificial Intelligence: Seductive Chatbot Xiaoice Sets 500M Chinese Men’s Hearts Aflutter
Created by Microsoft, Xiaoice is an AI-powered female chatbot that has nearly 500 million lonely Chinese men hooked on her charms. Available 24/7, on a wide variety of devices, and for free, she even talked one suicidal man off the parapet. Her fans know she has relationships with millions of other men, but they’re OK with that.
Artificial Intelligence: Spot Changes Hands Again; Hyundai Acquires Boston Dynamics
Hyundai Motor Group (KRX: 005380) announced Friday its deal to buy out a controlling interest of 80% of robotics specialist Boston Dynamics from SoftBank Group (TYO: 9984). Boston Dynamics makes Spot, that unnerving robotic dog (pictured above) with surprising capabilities. SoftBank will continue to hold a 20% interest in the company, which has been valued at $1.1 billion for this transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Artificial Intelligence: Goodyear And SafeAI Team Up On Tire Intelligence For Autonomous Vehicles
Goodyear Tire (NASDAQ: GT) has forged a strategic tie-up with SafeAI, the AI specialist for autonomous solutions for the mining industry. The two companies will integrate a mining site and AI platform and process tire intelligence collected from rim-mounted sensors in heavy-duty vehicles.
Artificial Intelligence: Casino And Resort Operator Melco To Combat Food Waste Using AI
Melco Resorts (NASDAQ: MLCO), the global casino and resort operator famous for its City of Dreams and Morpheus resorts in Macau, plans to use AI systems from Winnow Vision to reduce food waste and improve environmental sustainability.
Artificial Intelligence: China’s Huawei And Megvii Tested AI To Pinpoint Uighur Muslims
Chinese tech giant Huawei and Megvii, one of the country’s largest AI companies, have reportedly tested a facial recognition system to track Uighur Muslims, a repressed minority group. On detection, the system also alerts the authorities.
Artificial Intelligence: AI-Controlled Gun Used to Kill Iranian Nuclear Scientist, Claims IRGC
On Sunday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed that artificial intelligence and a satellite were used to control a machine gun that killed Fakhrizadeh on November 27.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Keeps Google’s Loon Balloons On Course In The Stratosphere
Helium-filled balloons launched into the stratosphere by Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary, Loon, relay internet signals from an earth station to thousands of subscribers’ devices on the ground. Positioned at a height of about 20 km, these balloons are being kept on course by AI created by Loon and Google AI.
Artificial Intelligence: A Capgemini Contest Winner Develops AI Tool To Track Sperm Whales
A team called “AI Sensing” won the Capgemini Group’s (EN: CAP) annual Global Data Science Challenge 2020 for developing a solution that analyzes thousands of photos of sperm whales and identifies matches of the individual whales.
The findings help scientists track the whales’ migration routes, protect their natural habitats, and analyze their social structures.
Artificial Intelligence: AI To Help Defend Murder Accused at the Old Bailey
It’s the first known case of artificial intelligence being used in a trial at the venerable Old Bailey, the U.K.’s top criminal court. Defense lawyers for James Watson, who is charged with murdering Rikki Neave, a six-year-old schoolboy in November 1994, are using artificial intelligence to analyze the over 10,000 documents connected with the trial.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Startups Scale And Olive Score Solid Funding Rounds
Scale AI, a startup that labels data for customers building machine learning algorithms, tipped the scales with a $3.5 billion post-money valuation when it raised $155 million in a Series D round led by Tiger Global. Olive AI Inc, which provides an AI workforce platform to the healthcare industry, closed a $225.5 million funding round, also led by Tiger Global, bringing its valuation to $1.5 billion.
Artificial Intelligence: Raytheon And C3.ai Team Up For Military AI Solutions
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a unit of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), will collaborate with C3.ai, a provider of enterprise AI software, to develop AI solutions for aerospace and defense missions by the US Air Force and intelligence agencies.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Solves 50-Year-Old Biology Mystery; Medical Breakthroughs Could Follow
Google-owned (NASDAQ: GOOGL) DeepMind, a London-based AI lab, announced that its AlphaFold program had solved the 50-year-old protein folding issue and is capable of predicting the shape of many proteins.
FinTech: Saudi Arabia Hosts Fintech Tour 20
A virtual event, the third Fintech Tour 20 is being held from 29th November – 10 December 2020. Fintech Saudi and the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) have launched the event to support the growth of the fintech industry in Saudi Arabia. Fintech Saudi is an initiative by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA).
Artificial Intelligence: The Norwegian AI Lab Helps Salmon Aquaculture
Fish is a major export for Norway, earning a revenue of $11.3 billion in 2019, as per the Norwegian Seafood Council. Norwegian farmers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) in aquaculture, the farming of fish and other marine organisms. The Norwegian AI Lab has developed AI models that can optimize various operations of this business.