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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Artificial Intelligence: Fully Autonomous Greenhouses In the Realm of Reality
Ever-increasing populations, less and less arable land, and climatic changes make it increasingly difficult for the planet’s food producers to keep up with demand. Fresh, sustainable food needs to be put on millions of tables and there is a great need to develop new methods for cultivation. Greenhouses and indoor cultivation will become commonplace. AI and machine learning can be deployed with great results in these spaces.
Artificial Intelligence: The Menace of Sea Ice, and Faster Warnings by AI
Seagoing vessels in the polar area need to keep tabs on sea ice and the usual source is ice warning data issued by The Norwegian Meteorological Institute and similar centers. Unfortunately, this is a very expensive process that needs supercomputers and satellites. AI could change that, according to Sindre Markus Fritzner, a doctoral research fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Artificial Intelligence: Broadridge Launches LTX, an AI-Powered Bond Trading Platform
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., (NYSE: BR), a global fintech company with over $4 billion in revenues, unveiled its LTX platform for trading in corporate bonds. The AI-driven platform has already traded successfully in recent weeks.
Artificial Intelligence: The U.K. Arms Itself With AI to Combat Invasive Plant Species
Invasive plant species cost the U.K. economy an estimated £1.7 billion annually. Though about 3,000 alien plant species are found in the country, only 234 of them are currently considered a threat to its ecosystem. These harmful species have properties such as the ability to reproduce rampantly, or to spread themselves across a range of habitats. In so doing, they develop an edge over native flora. The U.K. is now taking recourse to AI to counter these disruptive aliens called Invasive Non-Native Species (INNS).
Artificial Intelligence: Daphne Koller, Founder, Insitro: “In Biopharma, It’s Difficult to Fail Fast”
Insitro has brought together a high-throughput lab (“beyond the frontier on multiple levels,” according to Koller), top-flight biologists, and machine learning and data science people who are at the cutting edge of their profession. The objective is to accelerate decision-making during drug discovery and to assess faster whether the drug could succeed. Fast Company’s Ruth Reader interviewed Daphne Koller on how Insitro was making a difference in drug discovery and development.
Artificial Intelligence: Outgoing JAIC Director Shanahan Says the Pentagon Will Transform Itself Through AI
AI and machine learning are going to be inextricably woven into the functioning of every area in the Department of Defense (DoD). That’s according to Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). In the interview, Shanahan said: “There is no part of the department that will not be impacted by this. From the back office to the battlefield, and as I like to say, from under the sea to cyberspace and outer space, and all points in between – everything could be made better through the application of AI.”
Artificial Intelligence: The Department of Energy Aims For “AI-Focused Grand Challenges”
The Department of Energy’s Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office (AITO) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to experts from national laboratories, academia, industry, and others. The RFI asks these organizations for information and insights on how to achieve path-breaking breakthroughs in AI.
Artificial Intelligence: Gaffe by Microsoft’s Robotic Editor at MSN
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has egg on its face after an AI software deployed in replacement of human editors at MSN mixed up images of mixed-race members of the band Little Mix. The AI software illustrated a story about Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall (on the left) with an image of her band-mate Leigh-Anne Pinnock (right).
Artificial Intelligence: Los Alamos Researchers Find Neural Networks Need “Sleep” Too
Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory observed that artificial neurons in neural networks became unstable after extended periods spent working on certain kinds of tasks. It appears that these neurons need sleep just like their human counterparts.
Artificial Intelligence: CARES Act Funds Flow to the Pentagon for COVID-19 Vaccines; Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan Retires at JAIC
In April the Department of Defense (DoD) announced plans to use AI and machine learning against COVID-19 and other future virus attacks. The DoD has now unveiled a spending plan to revamp its AI capabilities to “rapidly screen, prioritize, and test Food and Drug Administration approved therapeutics for new COVID-19 drug candidates and human test trials for vaccines and antibody-based treatments.”
Artificial Intelligence: This Indian Startup Helps Enterprises Connect With Customers
Yellow Messenger addresses a new trend – the shift of user engagement for enterprises to new age channels such as WhatsApp, Google Assistant and Alexa. Founders Raghu Ravinutala and Jaya Kishore Reddy Gollareddy were far-sighted enough in 2014 to see the potential of conversational AI as a conduit between enterprises and mobile customers.
Artificial Intelligence: Satellites and AI Could Together Predict Wildfires Accurately
Traditional methods of predicting wildfires relied upon how much dry vegetation was present in an area, or in other words, the “fuel” that could trigger and sustain a wildfire. Scientists also looked at how dry the landscape was. These methods were chancy at best, and difficult to assess quickly enough across large areas. However, the analysis of satellite images with the help of artificial intelligence offers hope for a more reliable and faster prediction of wildfires.
Artificial Intelligence: South Korea’s SK Telecom Deploys Robotic COVID-Watcher
South Korea’s SK Telecom deploys robotic COVID-Watcher. It’s a 5G, self-driving robot that checks visitors’ temperature, dispenses sanitizers, and disinfects the floor.
It also scolds people if they do not maintain social distancing norms. It does not have a name, but the robot uses artificial intelligence (AI) to sense gatherings and to tell them to move on.
Artificial Intelligence: Microsoft Sends Contracted Journos Packing; Deploys AI Software Instead
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) last week told approximately 50 journalists that their contracts, which will expire June 30, will not be renewed. According to The Seattle Times, human news production contractors will be replaced by artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence: Global Agency to Use AI to Nab Doping Athletes
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has initiated four projects across Canada and Germany to identify doping athletes through the use of artificial intelligence. The agency understands the ethical questions surrounding the use of AI, and will, therefore, use it only as a flag to identify the need for testing.
Artificial Intelligence: Apple Acquires Inductiv Inc., a Machine Learning Startup
According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has acquired machine learning startup Inductiv, Inc., to improve its Siri database. Inductiv identifies and corrects errors in data using a process automated by artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence: Daphne Koller Raises $143M For Insitro, Her AI-Bio Startup
Daphne Koller raises $143M for Insitro, her AI-Bio startup. Insitro combines cutting-edge biopharma with machine learning.
Artificial Intelligence: Marty the Robot Hunts for Spills in Supermarket Aisles
Marty the supermarket robot is rather smart. Armed with three high-resolution cameras, computer vision, navigation systems, numerous sensors, and smart AI software, Marty is able to sidestep shoppers and pinpoint spills. Marty is a social robot and the first of its kind to be deployed in a live customer environment in supermarkets.
Artificial Intelligence: AI-Simulated, 3D TV News Anchor, Now Live
Here’s the world’s first 3D news anchor powered by AI. Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, has launched a 3D AI news anchor named Xin Xiaowei, a lookalike of Zhao Wanwei, a real-life, human news presenter at the agency.
Artificial Intelligence: Microsoft’s Massive New Supercomputer for AI
In 2019, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) entered a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to build a platform that OpenAI will use to create new AI technologies and deliver on the promise of artificial general intelligence. As part of the agreement, Microsoft agreed to invest $1 billion in the project. At its ‘Build 2020’ developers’ conference, the tech giant unveiled “one of the top five publicly disclosed supercomputers in the world, making new infrastructure available in Azure to train extremely large artificial intelligence models.”
Artificial Intelligence: AI May Provide Early Warning of Heart Damage Due to COVID
The National Science Foundation has issued a grant of $195,000 to researchers at John Hopkins University to study the use of AI algorithms for detecting heart disease amongst COVID-19 patients. There is increasing evidence that COVID-19 damages a patient’s cardiovascular system, causing “cardiac events” such as heart attacks, abnormal heartbeats, and death
Artificial Intelligence: AI is Making Oil Rigs Safer
Oil rigs are one of the most dangerous places to work for human beings with a constant risk of injury or harm. Huge mechanical systems mesh together to keep these huge rigs afloat above the ocean surface and continue drilling deep beneath the ocean floor. The risks of fire, explosion, accidents from hazardous machinery, and falls are always round the corner on oil rigs. Artificial intelligence (AI) can make these danger-prone work areas much safer.
Artificial Intelligence: Goldspot’s AI Boost’s Success in Mineral Exploration
Goldspot Discoveries Corp (CVE: SPOT) uses artificial intelligence and big data to extract more information from historical mining data. It hopes to increase the success rates in resource exploration and optimize resource property potential. In the Quebec Abitibi, Goldspot found 86% of existing gold deposits but only needed 4% of the total surface area to do so (and found additional targets as well).
Artificial Intelligence: Intel’s Venture Capital Arm invests $132 million in AI Start-ups
Intel Capital is the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC). It frequently invests in start-ups to grow technology that it can use while competing with other companies in the fields of chip manufacturing, AI hardware and software. Intel Capital revealed new investments in 11 AI start-ups aggregating $132 million.