AI: "Last Selfie Ever Taken"; Faster computation for AI; Adding More Data Isn’t the Only Way to Improve AI; Facebook’s Metaverse Attempt Will Misfire

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[Futurism] Someone Asked An AI To Show The "Last Selfie Ever Taken" And Um. Is Heaven Filled With... Ghoulish Grim Reapers?

[Nature] AI predicts the shape of nearly all known proteins: Database of 200 million proteins will have a huge impact on life-sciences research. Plus: how humans evolved the ability to digest milk and why rising fossil-fuel emissions could derail carbon dating.

[MIT] New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy: Engineers working on “analog deep learning” have found a way to propel protons through solids at unprecedented speeds.

[Google AI] Enhancing Backpropagation via Local Loss Optimization: New framework, LocoProp, conceives neural networks as a modular composition of layers. Generally, each layer in a neural network applies a linear transformation on its inputs, followed by a non-linear activation function.

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[Gartner] CFOs: Here Are 4 Actions to Ensure You Implement AI — The Right Way: Investing in AI and other digital initiatives can blunt the negative effects of economic pressures in the short term and build competitive advantage in the long term. In finance, successful AI implementation requires the right leadership, talent, software investments and experimentation.

[Paper] YOLOv7: Trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object detectors?( Paper - Github )

[Nature] Could machine learning fuel a reproducibility crisis in science? ‘Data leakage’ threatens the reliability of machine-learning use across disciplines, researchers warn.

[HBR] Adding More Data Isn’t the Only Way to Improve AI

[Forbes] AI: From Drug Discovery to Robotics

[WEF] 6 ways AI is helping us learn more about our past - and future : AI from British firm DeepMind is helping to restore ancient Greek texts. Facial recognition technology is being used to identify Jewish people in photographs from WWII. With AI, researchers from the Netherlands have discovered that the Dead Sea Scrolls were written by two people, not one person, as previously thought.

[MIT] How to tell if artificial intelligence is working the way we want it to: “Interpretability methods” seek to shed light on how machine-learning models make predictions, but researchers say to proceed with caution.?

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