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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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Liquid Alternatives: The HDIV ETF – Artificial Intelligence Picks High Dividend Stocks With Upside
Qraft Technologies, a South Korean artificial intelligence firm, just launched its third ETF in the US. The Qraft AI Enhanced US High Dividend ETF (HDIV) targets high dividend US stocks selected through a proprietary AI system. Qraft Technologies has brought the ETF to market in collaboration with Exchange Traded Concepts, a white label ETF provider.
Artificial Intelligence: Banjo, the Startup That is Utah’s All-Seeing Eye-in-the-Sky
This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon
Artificial Intelligence: How Machine Learning Algorithms are Helping Amputees
Researchers at the University of Michigan created an RPNI by cutting an amputee’s peripheral nerve and stitching it to a muscle. The subsequent healing in the area helps develop new nerves and blood vessels over three months. Nerve signals landing here from the brain are amplified and become strong enough (in millivolts) to transmit to the artificial limb.
Artificial Intelligence: Customer Service and AI – Together, a Win-Win
The report “Jobs of Tomorrow: Mapping Opportunity in the New Economy” by the World Economic Forum finds that, as a fallout from the adoption of new technologies, demand for both “digital” and “human” factors is driving growth in the professions of the future. These high-growth professions include artificial intelligence specialists, medical transcriptionists, data scientists, customer success specialists, and full-stack engineers. An article by Brad Birnbaum in Forbes looks at the intersection between two such professions: AI and customer success.
Artificial Intelligence: How Facebook Uses AI to Detect Fake Accounts
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has finally achieved traction in its drive to stamp out fake accounts guilty of spreading spam, phishing links and malware. Its Deep Entity Classification, an AI-powered tool, will take down this menace.
Artificial Intelligence: Alibaba’s AI System Detects Coronavirus With 96% Accuracy
Alibaba’s AI System detects Coronavirus with 96% Accuracy. It uses a patient’s CT scans to complete its disease recognition process in a mere 20 seconds.
Venture Capital: AI-Chipmaker Graphcore Soars To Nearly $2B Valuation
The bristol-based startup, Graphcore, which makes chips for AI, raised $150 million in a D2 round at a valuation of $1.95 billion.
Graphcore’s current valuation improves on the $1.7 billion value the chipmaker garnered in December 2018 when it raised $200 million in a D round.
Artificial Intelligence: How AI Could Help Find Underground Silos To Store CO2
Mankind’s emission-generating activities have loaded the atmosphere with carbon dioxide (CO2), thus triggering climate changes. However, promising technology that recovers the CO2 from the atmosphere is under development. This CO2 may either be resold or converted into blocks that can be used for construction. These blocks may also be stored permanently underground. The problem is to locate the ‘silos’ or natural structures below the surface where the carbon blocks can be parked. AI may help locate these structures from earthquake data.
Artificial Intelligence: The Boston Globe To Automate Content and Data With New Startup
AppliedXLabs, the joint venture between The Boston Globe and Newlab, will create AI tools that will drive data-driven journalism. These tools will automatically pull data from sources that are currently “data deserts” and generate journalistic insights.
Liquid Alternatives: Now, An AI-Enabled ETF That Delivers Investors’ Five Favorite Things
Merlyn.AI Corporation (MAI), the Palo Alto-based ETF provider that previously introduced the WIZ ETF, has now launched the Merlyn.AI Tactical Growth and Income ETF (Nasdaq: SNUG) on the Nasdaq exchange. The ETF is a conservative investment that seeks to improve returns in both bull and bear markets. The ETF tracks the MAI Tactical Growth and Income Index.
Artificial Intelligence: Hackers Raid Notorious Facial Recognition Startup Clearview AI
Clearview AI, the facial recognition startup that allegedly scraped billions of photographs from websites such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Venmo, has been hacked. The controversial company works with 600 law enforcement agencies in North America. It said the hackers “gained unauthorized access” to its entire list of customers, and other data such as the number of accounts and searches.
Venture Capital: SambaNova Systems Raises $250M for Its AI Systems Platform
SambaNova Systems, whose founders are the crème-de-la-crème of Silicon Valley, raised $250 million in a Series C funding. The startup is at the cutting edge of AI and large-scale computing. It is dedicated to developing “the industry’s most advanced systems platform to run artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive applications.”
Artificial Intelligence: The Pentagon Adopts Five AI Principles
The Defense Innovation Board recommended the five AI principles.
DoD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy announced the AI principles at a press conference on February 24.
The principles “lay the foundation for the ethical design, development, deployment, and the use of AI by the Department of Defense,” Deasy said. They apply to both combat and non-combat use of AI technologies.
Artificial Intelligence: Chemistry-combing AI Algo Discovers New Antibiotic
Halicin, the miracle antibiotic discovered by MIT’s AI algo, can kill the most antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Artificial Intelligence: Analysts Weigh In On US CTO Michael Kratsios’ Remarks on EU Regulation of AI
Analysts weigh in on Michael Kratsios’ remarks on EU regulation of AI. Kratsios said the EU had clumsily docketed AI technologies as “high-risk” or “not high-risk.” “I think this approach of bluntly bifurcating the entire AI ecosystem into two buckets is a little bit harsh,” Kratsios said.
PwC Report: Artificial Intelligence to Boost Global Economy By More Than $15.7 Trillion
A new PwC report notes that artificial intelligence will play a massive role in boosting the global economy. The report states that AI will bolster the world to the tune of $15.7 trillion. That figure represents greater economic output that the nations of China and India. This figure would also represent a roughly 15% increase over 15 years from the global GDP figure of $74 trillion in 2015. The greatest economic gains from AI will be in China (26% boost to GDP in 2030) and North America (14.5% boost), equivalent to a total of $10.7 trillion and accounting for almost 70% of the global economic impact.
Artificial Intelligence: Europe Envisages Strict Rules for High-Risk AI
In “A Europe Fit for the Digital Age,” the EU’s strategies for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data aim to encourage businesses to work with, and develop, these new technologies, while at the same time making sure that they earn citizens’ trust.
The strategy is an initiative by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who had ordered her team to present a coordinated European approach to artificial intelligence and data strategy 100 days after she took office in December.
Artificial Intelligence: Margrethe Vestager to Announce the EU’s New Regulations For AI Today
The EU’s rules set to be announced today will thrust on enhancing the region’s competitiveness but will do so with an emphasis on transparency, oversight, and protection of privacy.
Artificial Intelligence: Shell’s Initiative to Bring Employees Upto Speed on AI
About 2,000 employees at Royal Dutch Shell have shown interest in or been sounded out by the company, in online AI courses offered by Udacity.
The courses are free for employees, though they can cost as much as $400 per month for a normal individual customer at Udacity. However, it is not known what fees Udacity is charging Shell for the enterprise AI course. Shell describes the amount spent on AI training as “material and strategic.”
The employees, such as geophysicists, petroleum engineers, and chemists, can take the self-paced courses during working hours.
Artificial Intelligence: Now A Bot Mimics Rapper Travis Scott; Creates Song and Melodies
Creative digital agency space150 tried out an interesting experiment to find out if AI could be taught to recreate music and a whole new song. They picked rapper Travis Scott – known for his song “Sicko Mode,” the first song in United States history to spend over 30 weeks on the top 10 Billboard charts.
The result of the experiment: a bot-generated song and music video complete with lyrics and melodies. To give the music video an AI-feel and look, the agency engineered a computer distorted deepfake of Scott dubbed Travis Bott.
Artificial Intelligence: White House To Significantly Hike Spending on AI and Quantum Sciences
The White House is committed to double R&D spending in nondefense artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information science (QIS) by 2022.
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Tuesday issued a fact sheet on President Trump’s budget proposals for FY 2021 relating to Federal R&D.
“In a time of great power competition, President Trump’s FY 2021 Budget puts America in position to maintain its global leadership in science and technology for generations to come,” the OSTP said.
The OSTP also pointed out that President Trump is the first President in American history to include AI and QIS as Administration R&D priorities.
Artificial Intelligence: New Magnetic Memory Device Could Punch Through The Physical Barriers To Faster AI
Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Messina in Italy have developed a new magnetic memory device. Built of antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, it solves the limitations of existing hardware for data-centric applications, especially in artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence: Legal AI Draws Blood; Nabs Very Senior, Fraudulent Divorce Lawyers in Silicon Valley
Justine Falcon, a legal AI, is credited with busting a ring of divorce lawyers indulging in real-estate fraud in connivance with an inside contact in the District Attorney’s office in Silicon Valley. AI startup ORBAI has developed Justine Falcon AI.
Artificial Intelligence: A Deep Learning Computer System Teaches Itself to Predict Extreme Weather
Researchers at Rice University have developed a computer system that taught itself how to accurately predict extreme weather events such as heatwaves and cold spells up to 5 days in advance.
Interestingly, the so-called “capsule neural network” requires very little information about current weather conditions. Instead, it uses a somewhat antiquated (analog) method of weather forecasting that was rendered obsolete in the 1950’s cue to the advent of computers.