Deepfake technology - where one person's likeness is digitally placed on top of another - has some very creepy implications. https://gizmodo.com/intel-deep-fake-ai-1849795542 The Transportation Authority's board on Thursday approved a new artificial intelligence pilot program aimed at detecting weapons on buses, trains and subways. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/septa-zeroeyes-artificial-intelligence-program-gun-violence/ Stellantis acquired aiMotive, a developer of advanced artificia...
Jan 30, 2023•4 min•Season 23Ep. 5
Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, invest in early-stage AI companies that are tackling big problems. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/ai-powered-note-taking-app-mem-raises-23-5m-openai/ The United States and the European Union plan to release a new artificial intelligence roadmap that prioritizes security and risk management at the next meeting of their joint Trade and Technology Council, a senior US official s...
Jan 23, 2023•5 min•Season 23Ep. 4
Founded in 2017, Fathom is the nation's leading medical coding automation platform, an AI solution that brings together the best of deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to automate medical coding with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency. https://hitconsultant.net/2022/11/09/fathom-ai-medical-coding-automation-funding/ An Amazon Sparrow package handling robot during the Delivering the Future event at the Amazon Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, U.S., on Thurs...
Jan 16, 2023•4 min•Season 23Ep. 3
OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI technology and resources. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/02/openai-will-give-roughly-ten-ai-startups-1m-each-and-early-access-to-its-systems/ Online lending software company Zest has raised more than $50 million in its latest growth round co-led by Insight Partners and CMFG Ventures, the company announced Tuesday. https:/...
Jan 09, 2023•4 min•Season 23Ep. 2
A new art exhibition in San Francisco showcases some of the unique ways artists have begun to integrate Dall-E 2, GPT-3 and other AI systems into their work - efforts that go far beyond typing and seeing . https://www.axios.com/2022/10/31/exhibit-ai-images-art-dall-e-2-gpt-3 Creative Fabrica, a marketplace for digital files such as print-on-demand assets, fonts and graphics, today announced that it will launch its own generative AI tool. https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/31/digital-assets-marketpla...
Jan 02, 2023•4 min•Season 23Ep. 1
While we're seeing design software improve slightly each year, there's growing concern about the pace and scope of improvements. https://aecmag.com/ai/ai-the-coming-tsunami-architecture/ Dating app Bumble is open-sourcing its 2019-launched AI tool for detecting lewdness. https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2022/10/25/bumble-open-sources-its-lewd-spotting-ai-tool/ Google has acquired Alter, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar startup that helps developers and brands express their virtu...
Dec 26, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 52
This neural network has a really bad attitude. https://futurism.com/the-byte/clip-interrogator-mean-ai Elon Musk announced back in August that his brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, would host a "Show & Tell" progress update event on October 31. https://www.teslarati.com/neuralink-show-and-tell-2022-new-date/ Until now, AI portraits of people who didn't exist were just headshots. https://petapixel.com/2022/10/24/an-ai-created-100000-full-body-photos-of-people-who-dont-exist/ Xpeng s...
Dec 19, 2022•3 min•Season 22Ep. 51
#2250 Motion Mix / Generative A.I. / DABUS / Automation / LaMDA You might think that technological advances will make robots and other forms of workplace automation more important—that innovation will naturally find its way into the economy. https://news.mit.edu/2021/aging-workers-automation-0915 In Silicon Valley, crypto and the metaverse are out. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/technology/generative-ai.html Today at Adobe Max 2022, Adobe will showcase a prototype AI project that can convert...
Dec 12, 2022•4 min•Season 22Ep. 50
No matter how many cameras or sensors they use, autonomous cars will never be perfect, but research from Japan suggests a simple upgrade could help reduce the risk of self-driving cars hitting undetected pedestrians: a pair of animated googly eyes that make it obvious what the vehicle has spotted or not. https://gizmodo.com/self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-googly-eyes-study-1849643126 "This research introduces and demonstrates an artificial intelligent material that can learn to exhibit des...
Dec 05, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 49
An AI document forensics solution improved fraud detection at an online mortgage broker by 30 percent while reducing the workload for investigators. https://www.rtinsights.com/mortgage-fraud-ai-improves-detection-by-30/ A patent application from Activision Blizzard is exploring the idea of using machine learning technology to create custom soundtracks for gamers that could potentially be used to enhance gameplay experiences. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/potential-activision-patent-could-add...
Nov 28, 2022•6 min•Season 22Ep. 48
San Diego-based Kneron, a provider of artificial intelligence technologies for smart cameras and other devices at the network edge, has raised $48 million in a second round of venture capital funding, despite the increasingly volatile environment for early-stage companies raising money want. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2022-10-10/despite-volatile-financial-markets-san-diegos-kneron-nets-48m-for-artificial-intelligence-tech The episode starts with a big disclaimer that the...
Nov 21, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 47
The veteran actor has agreed to sell the rights to his likeness so that a digital twin can be created using deepfake technology. https://gizmodo.com/bruce-willis-sells-likeness-ai-deepfake-1849601061 Generative modeling has made tremendous strides, especially with recent text-to-image models. https://imagen.research.google/video/ Miso Robotics Inc. of Pasadena has begun introducing its Flippy 2 robot, which automates the frying of potatoes, onions and other foods. " https://www.reuters.com/techn...
Nov 14, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 46
You walk into a kiosk at a fast food restaurant and a tiny camera scans your facial features, registering your height, age, gender and mood. https://qz.com/restaurants-are-using-ai-to-guess-what-you-want-to-eat-1849343409 Anonymous writing can no longer hide your identity if the US government's latest artificial intelligence project proves successful. https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-government-is-developing-ai-to-identify-authors-by-their-writing-style Today we're announcing Make-A-Video, a new AI...
Nov 07, 2022•4 min•Season 22Ep. 45
Elon Musk said Tesla is loaning the Autopilot team for its humanoid robot project Optimus, which has a deadline at the end of the month. https://electrek.co/2022/09/20/tesla-borrowing-autopilot-team-optimus-humanoid-robot-project/ We have trained and open source a neural network called Whisper that approximates the robustness and accuracy of human-level English speech recognition. https://openai.com/blog/whisper/ Getty Images has banned the uploading and sale of illustrations created with AI art...
Oct 31, 2022•4 min•Season 22Ep. 44
British robotics company Engineered Arts has just given its ultra-realistic looking humanoid robot Ameca a voice - and it has a lot to say. https://futurism.com/the-byte/gpt-3-ameca-robot-facial-expressions Intel yesterday announced a three-year strategic research and co-innovation collaboration with Mila, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) research institute. https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/intel-and-mila-join-forces-for-responsible-artificial-intelligence/503139 The Institute ...
Oct 24, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 43
Tuberculosis, which kills 1.4 million people each year, can be detected on chest X-rays. https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/06/google-tuberculosis-artificial-intelligence/ Temperatures above or below a comfort window of 12–21 degrees Celsius (54–70 °F) are linked to a significant increase in aggressive online behavior in the US, a new study finds. https://neurosciencenews.com/extreme-weather-hate-speech-21374/ The company's goal is to create simulation models that walk through various options for ...
Oct 17, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 42
Instacart announced Thursday that it has acquired Eversight, a pricing and advertising platform powered by artificial intelligence. https://www.grocerydive.com/news/instacart-buys-eversight-artificial-intelligence/631057/ Each year, more than 69 million people around the world suffer traumatic brain injuries, leaving many unable to communicate through speech, typing, or gestures. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-speech-brain-activity/ In recent years, art created by programs like OpenAI's Midjour...
Oct 10, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 41
Parkinson's disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose because it mainly relies on the onset of motor symptoms such as tremors, stiffness and slowness, but these symptoms often don't appear until several years after the onset of the disease. https://news.mit.edu/2022/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-parkinsons-from-breathing-patterns-0822 With all the political grudges that have become a part of our everyday reality, maybe it's time to admit that people might not be the best at making agreem...
Oct 03, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 40
An announcement from Stability.ai brings some great news for everyone who gets into the AI imaging hype. https://www.pcgamer.com/ai-image-generator-stability-ai-stable-diffusion/ The announcement was made by Alexander Osadchu, the head of the Russian military's innovative development department, at the Army 2022 summit on Aug. 17, according to the state news agency TASS. https://www.c4isrnet.com/artificial-intelligence/2022/08/17/russia-military-to-develop-weapons-using-artificial-intelligence/ ...
Sep 26, 2022•4 min•Season 22Ep. 39
The tested software comes from Vara, a startup from Germany, which also led the study. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/11/1055677/ai-diagnose-breast-cancer-mammograms/ Leading public hospitals in Shanghai use artificial intelligence on their WeChat to streamline patient registration and offer better treatment. https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/2208048809/ An artificial intelligence was asked to create a picture of what it believed to be the greatest threat facing humanity. https://www.twe...
Sep 19, 2022•4 min•Season 22Ep. 38
Predicting stock market behavior is a crucial endeavor that requires careful attention as successfully predicting stock prices with the right decisions can lead to attractive profits. https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/07/26/researchers-at-stanford-have-developed-an-artificial-intelligence-ai-model-stockbot-which-uses-lstms-to-predict-stock-prices-with-gains-higher-than-the-most-aggressive-etfs/ A newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model called Generative Facial Prior (GFP-GAN) can fix m...
Sep 12, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 37
Infections can trigger all kinds of reactions in the human body, and one of the most extreme is sepsis. https://newatlas.com/medical/bedside-ai-warning-system-sepsis-mortality-20/ Officials are accused of "putting blind faith" on a notoriously unreliable platform. https://futurism.com/the-byte/man-sues-chicago-ai-wrongly-imprisoned Cleerly announced today that it has closed an oversubscribed Series C funding round for proceeds of $192 million. https://www.massdevice.com/cleerly-192m-ai-software-...
Sep 05, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 36
Imagine creating a digital painting without ever picking up a paintbrush or instantly creating picture-book illustrations to go with the words. https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/metas-new-ai-research-tool-turns-ideas-into-art/ Argo AI announced late last week that it would lay off 150 employees and end its autonomous vehicle operations in Washington, DC. https://www.therobotreport.com/argo-ai-lays-off-150-closes-washington-d-c-operation/ The tested software comes from Vara, a startup from German...
Aug 29, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 35
Virtual robots controlled by artificial intelligence act in ways that conform to toxic stereotypes when asked to choose faces belonging to criminals or housewives https://www.newscientist.com/article/2326129-artificially-intelligent-robot-perpetuates-racist-and-sexist-prejudice/ DeepMind researchers trained an AI system to find a popular policy for allocating public funds in an online game - but they also warn of 'AI government' ocratic” AI system has learned how to develop the most popular publ...
Aug 22, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 34
#2233 Databricks / N2N / Chickens / Crime / Cardiff University Databricks, which has been criticized for running a closed lakehouse, is making most of the technology behind Delta Lake, including its APIs, available as open source with the launch of Delta Lake 2.0. https://www.datanami.com/2022/06/28/databricks-opens-up-its-delta-lakehouse-at-data-ai-summit/ As he walked past the countless photographs of Holocaust survivors and victims at Warsaw's POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 201...
Aug 15, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 33
It appears that Tesla's plan to unveil a working prototype of its humanoid robot is progressing well. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-humanoid-robot-prototype-unveiling-ai-day-2-date/ DeepMind recently trained Flamingo, an 80B-parameter Vision Language Model (VLM) AI. https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/06/deepmind-flamingo-vlm/ Using a mix of uncaptioned Minecraft videos and a small dataset of videos captioned by contractors, artificial intelligence company OpenAI was able to train a neural network...
Aug 08, 2022•4 min•Season 22Ep. 32
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommended Congress exercise caution in promoting artificial intelligence (AI) tools to combat online harm, in a report commissioners voted to release Thursday. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3526738-ftc-recommends-congress-use-great-caution-in-promoting-ai-to-address-online-harm/ The federal Liberals on Thursday introduced privacy laws that give Canadians more control over how their personal information is used by commercial companies, impose fines on ...
Aug 01, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 31
NVIDIA GPUs will play a key role in interpreting data coming in from the James Webb Space Telescope, with NASA preparing to release the $10 billion scientific instrument's first full-color images next month. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/06/08/deep-learning-james-webb-space-telescope/ Days after Oracle completed its $28 billion purchase of Cerner, Larry Ellison laid out a comprehensive vision for the cloud giant's healthcare business. https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/09/oracle-cerner-health...
Jul 25, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 30
Nine members of police technology company Axon's AI ethics committee have resigned after the company said it would develop Taser-equipped drones, despite earlier opposition from the committee. https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/axon-ai-ethics-board-resignation And some, like Nate, had more modest goals: automatically filling in shoppers' contact and payment information on retailers' websites. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/shaky-tech-and-cash-burning-giveaways-ai-shopping-startup-shows-...
Jul 18, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 29
Chick-fil-A is among a growing list of restaurants and restaurant-adjacent businesses, including El Pollo Loco, Chili's and C3, that have been trialling technology like drones and bots to reduce the cost of delivery. https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/chick-fil-a-tests-autonomous-delivery-in-austin-refraction-AI/624616/ IBM says it is rolling out its natural language processing software to a larger number of McDonald's drive-thrus months after buying the automated ordering technology unit from ...
Jul 11, 2022•5 min•Season 22Ep. 28
