"A job posted online today attracts tens to hundreds to thousands of applications, largely due to the power of the internet," said Laurie Cumbo, Democratic majority leader of the council and sponsor of the bill. https://www.crainsnewyork.com/technology/businesses-could-face-fines-new-york-city-crackdown-bias-ai-hiring-tools An AI tool can quickly suggest possible candidates for the chemical structures of psychoactive “designer drugs” from a simple analysis. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2...
Dec 06, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 49
The two hubs are expected to create more than 500 new, high-quality data and digital jobs over the next three years. https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2021/10/26/PepsiCo-s-new-Digital-Hubs-to-develop-AI-and-machine-learning The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will examine how artificial intelligence tools "fundamentally change" employment decisions. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/artificial-intelligence-tools-targeted-in-new-eeoc-initiative An interdisciplinary...
Nov 29, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 48
The venture capitalist, co-founder of big data company Palantir, said at an event in Miami on Wednesday that the way to AGI is going to get surveillance AI, which he called "communist totalitarian technology". https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/palantirs-peter-thiel-surveillance-ai-is-more-concerning-than-agi.html The cooperation between the Air Force Research Laboratory and the British Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is part of a four-year Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence Coll...
Nov 22, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 47
We introduce Ego4D, a massive egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite. https://ai.facebook.com/research/publications/ego4d-unscripted-first-person-video-from-around-the-world-and-a-benchmark-suite-for-egocentric-perception Singapore's Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) has partnered with Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics to identify use cases of legged robots for security, defense and humanitarian applications. https://www.zdnet.com/article/singapore-to-develop-mobile-defence-syst...
Nov 15, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 46
"We always found that using the right permissions on data was always the bottleneck," said Ali Golshan, the CEO who co-founded the company with Alex Watson (CPO) and John Myers (CTO). https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/07/gretel-ai-raises-50m-for-a-platform-that-lets-engineers-build-and-use-synthetic-datasets-to-ensure-the-privacy-of-their-actual-data/?guccounter=1 The German automotive supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG is investing in the British software startup Oxbotica for autonomous vehicles in or...
Nov 08, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 45
Faster, More General Optimization: Loihi 2's greater programmability enables it to support a broader class of difficult optimization problems, including real-time optimization, planning, and decision-making from edge to data center systems. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-unveils-neuromorphic-loihi-2-lava-software.html#gs.er6abv The London-based research firm posted a profit of £ 43.8 million ($ 59.6 million) in 2020 after posting hundreds of millions in losses in rec...
Nov 01, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 44
Artificial intelligence is changing the way companies work and promoting applications from enterprise asset management to construction site tracking and everything in between. http://blog.bostondynamics.com/spot-release-3.0-flexible-autonomy-and-repeatable-data-capture Covid-19-powered digital innovation has put AI and analytics at the heart of business operations. https://hbr.org/2021/09/ai-adoption-skyrocketed-over-the-last-18-months The research arm of Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) in Silicon Va...
Oct 25, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 43
Schools often use AI to identify students at risk of self-harm, violence against others, and bullying. https://www.businessinsider.com/school-students-communication-monitoring-ai-software-self-harm-suicide-risks-2021-9?IR=T Reduce the huge power consumption required to train deep learning models. https://thenextweb.com/news/deepmind-tells-google-no-idea-make-ai-less-toxic The UK government has announced a national AI strategy - its first dedicated package aimed at strengthening the country's cap...
Oct 18, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 42
Microsoft and Honor Sign Partnership to Develop "New AI and New Devices" Honor announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership with Microsoft in which the companies will work together to "create breakthrough AI and devices." https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-honor-strategic-partnership-new-ai-devices/ A team of international researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to predict how much additional oxygen a COVID-19 patient might need. https://weather.com/en-...
Oct 11, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 41
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have all hired and spent millions of dollars to develop their own computer chips from scratch with the aim of generating financial savings and better performance from servers that handle and train companies' machine learning models. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-develops-new-machine-learning-chip The center is led by Columbia Engineering, Columbia's Faculty of Arts of Sciences, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in collaboration with Teacher...
Oct 04, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 40
China passed an important data protection law on Friday that sets stricter rules for how companies collect and handle their users' information. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/20/china-passes-key-data-protection-law-as-regulatory-scrutiny-increases.html If you need financial advice, ask an expert. https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-identify-footprints-but-forensic-experts-wont-get-fired-syndication Automation has been part of chip design since the 1980s. https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/23/synopsys-ceo-...
Sep 27, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 39
The Chinese internet giant Baidu has unveiled its second generation artificial intelligence chip, its first “Robocar” and a renamed driverless taxi app, underscoring the importance of these new areas of technology for the company's future growth. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/baidu-launches-robocar-and-ai-chip-in-bid-to-diversify-business.html One of the many worrying developments in the tragedy in Afghanistan is that the Taliban seized US facial recognition and fingerprinting devices and data...
Sep 20, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 38
The State of Data Science 2021 report looks at the growth of data science as a field, general trends in its adoption by commercial environments and academic institutions, and what students can do to prepare for the future. https://www.anaconda.com/state-of-data-science-2021 Samsung uses artificial intelligence to automate the insanely complex and subtle process of developing state-of-the-art computer chips. https://www.wired.com/story/samsung-ai-designed-chip-soon-others-too/ Deepmind introduces...
Sep 13, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 37
FedEx subsidiary FedEx Ground has implemented a new AI-enabled robotic system that handles thousands of small packages every day as it searches for new innovations to meet demand in e-commerce shipping. https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/fedex-deploys-new-ai-robotics-e-commerce-fulfilment-system Abacus.ai, the two-year-old San Francisco-based startup that develops commercial AI systems, announced Friday that it has enabled an API listening service that feeds real-time data into machine lea...
Sep 06, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 36
A researcher from the Swiss Technical University EPFL won a $ 3,500 award for finding that a key Twitter algorithm favors faces that look thin, young and have lighter or warmer skin. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/twitter-ai-bias-contest-shows-beauty-filters-hoodwink-the-algorithm/ Google's Verily Life Sciences has announced that it is opening a research and development center in Israel that will focus on the application of artificial intelligence to biomedical problems. https://www.timesofisr...
Aug 30, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 35
Microsoft has acquired Suplari, a Seattle-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies understand and manage their spending. https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-acquires-seattle-startup-suplari-uses-ai-analyze-corporate-spending/ It also tarnishes the origins of certain records. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/30/1030329/machine-learning-ai-failed-covid-hospital-diagnosis-pandemic/ What can only be viewed as a triumph for all types of robots, a federal court rul...
Aug 23, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 34
Singapore plans to invest $ 50 million in a program to support research on AI and cybersecurity for future communications structures, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced on Tuesday. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/singapore-to-launch-50-million-program-in-ai-cybersecurity-research-for-5g.html Woven Planet Holdings - a company founded by Toyota to invest in, develop, and eventually bring to market the future of transportation technologies like automated driving - has acquired HD mappin...
Aug 16, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 33
Walmart is equipping more than half of its regional distribution centers in the USA with a new robotics and automation solution for the supply chain. https://supplychaindigital.com/technology/walmart-announces-game-changer-warehouse-robotics-solution The four-legged robot resembles a dog that walks over sand, rocks and other difficult surfaces. https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-teaches-ai-powered-robot-to-adapt-while-walking/ About 80 percent of the ocean floor is currently unmapped, although o...
Aug 09, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 32
Autonomous driving systems developer Ghost Locomotion has raised a $ 100 million Series D funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures. https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/01/ghost-raises-100m-series-d-for-autonomous-driving-and-crash-prevention-tech/ We first covered Traptic in 2019 when it took to the stage as a Battlefield finalist on Disrupt SF. https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/01/after-8-4m-raise-strawberry-picking-robotics-startup-traptic-begins-commercial-deployment/ Does the COVID-19 vaccine impla...
Aug 02, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 31
In 2019, Facebook made AI Habitat available as open source software, a simulator that can train AI systems that embody things like a home robot to work in environments designed to mimic real-world environments like homes and offices. https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/30/facebook-updates-habitat-environment-to-train-embodied-ai/ Stephen Normandin spent nearly four years speeding through Phoenix as a contract driver for Amazon.com Inc., delivering packages. https://www.bloomberg.com/n ews/features/2...
Jul 26, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 30
SoftBank Group Corp is cutting jobs in its global robotics business and has ceased production of its Pepper robot, according to sources and documents verified by Reuters, as the group downgrades its industry ambitions. https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-softbank-shrinks-robotics-business-stops-pepper-production-sources-2021-06-28/ Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving health care and medicine around the world, but only if ethics and human rights are at the cent...
Jul 19, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 29
In November 2020, Alphabet-owned AI company DeepMind announced that it had solved one of biology's toughest problems. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-alphafold-protein-diseases It's no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we shop, especially when it comes to groceries. https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/walmarts-ai-is-getting-smarter-about-grocery-delivery Boston Dynamics, the robotics company that went viral many times for its robo creations, is now owned by South ...
Jul 12, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 28
David Silver, head of the Reinforcement Learning research group at DeepMind, is awarded the honorary ranking of "Ninth Dan" for AlphaGo. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/18/computer-scientists-ask-if-deepmind-can-ever-make-ai-human-like.html Insilico Medicine, an AI-based drug development and discovery platform, announced Tuesday Series C funding of $ 255 million. https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/22/a-i-drug-discovery-platform-insilico-medicine-announces-255-million-in-series-c-funding/?guccounter=1 X...
Jul 05, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 27
Ever wished you could mimic a font or handwriting by just taking a snapshot? https://www.engadget.com/facebook-ai-copies-photo-text-style-152032158.html A few new colleagues could soon join the warehouse workers at Amazon: Ernie and Bert. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/13/amazon-details-new-warehouse-robots-ernie-and-bert.html In 1620, 102 passengers on the original Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, despite the great challenge ahead, on a dangerous journey to the New World inspired by hopes...
Jun 28, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 26
Task Force members will help develop a roadmap to democratize access to research tools that will fuel AI innovation and increase economic prosperity https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2021/06/10/the-biden-administration-launches-the-national-artificial-intelligence-research-resource-task-force/ The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute on Thursday announced $ 4.4 million in awards to researchers using everything from offline reinforcement learning and large-scale simulations to soil s...
Jun 21, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 25
The French government will use algorithms and artificial intelligence to identify small businesses at risk of collapse in the wake of the Covid pandemic and allocate up to € 3 billion ($ 3.7 billion) to protect them. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/france-deploys-ai-in-eu3-billion-plan-to-save-small-businesses A state-funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) institute in Beijing unveiled the world's most advanced natural language processing (NLP) model on Monday, surpassing that of...
Jun 14, 2021•4 min•Season 21Ep. 24
OpenAI is launching a $ 100 million startup fund, called the OpenAI Startup Fund, through which it and its partners will invest in early-stage AI companies dealing with big problems (and productivity). https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/26/openais-100m-startup-fund-will-make-big-early-bets-with-microsoft-as-partner/?guccounter=1 Is every federal agency now a monitoring unit? https://reason.com/2021/05/20/usps-uses-facial-recognition-and-other-high-tech-tools-to-monitor-social-media/ A new report fro...
Jun 07, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 23
Waymo and competitor Cruise of Alphabet Inc (togetL.O) have applied for permits required to bill for autonomous vehicle rides and deliveries in San Francisco's dense urban setting. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-waymo-cruise-seek-permits-charge-self-driving-car-rides-san-francisco-2021-05-11/ CEO Arvind Krishna said IBM is not building consumer-centric AI tools like facial recognition. https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-on-watson-ai-enterprise...
May 31, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 22
The US Senate Committee Chairs have worked out a $ 110 billion compromise over five years for basic and advanced technology research and science, and the creation of a White House production manager in the face of increasing competitive pressures from China. https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/08/u-s-senate-committee-revised-a-draft-bill-to-fund-ai-quantum-biotech/ The Department of Defense is in full swing on AI's potential to secure America's competitive advantage over potential adversaries. https...
May 24, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 21
Clearview AI Inc. is fighting an "unprecedented" attempt by Illinois consumers to convince a court to block its facial recognition technology. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/clearview-ai-fights-consumer-push-to-shut-down-face-recognition Volkswagen plans to design and develop its own high-performance chips for autonomous vehicles along with the necessary software, CEO Herbert Diess told a German newspaper. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-chips/volkswagen-to-desi...
May 17, 2021•5 min•Season 21Ep. 20
