Artificial Intelligence News
Michael Spencer
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Artificial Intelligence Survey?takes a variety of the best stories from around the web on A.I. and organizes them in a tl;dr easy reading fashion for a bite sized Newsletter for today’s busy professional. The publication time for this Newsletter will be 10 AM EST.
Issue March 1st, 2022.
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WHAT IS TORCHREC?
Pytorch Introduces ‘TorchRec’: A Python-based PyTorch Domain Library For Recommendation Systems (RecSys)
Recommendation Systems (RecSys) are a big part of today’s production-ready AI, although you wouldn’t know it from glancing at Github. In contrast to domains like Vision and NLP, most of RecSys’ continuous discovery and development takes place behind closed doors. The field is far from democratized for academic researchers exploring these approaches or creating individualized user experiences.?
RecSys as a field is also defined by learning models over sparse and/or sequential events, which has a lot of overlap with other AI fields. Many of the approaches, particularly those for scalability and distributed execution, are portable. RecSys approaches account for a significant amount of worldwide AI investment; therefore, enclosing them prevents this money from moving into the larger AI field.
TorchRec?is a new PyTorch domain library for Recommendation Systems. This library includes standard sparsity and parallelism primitives, allowing researchers to create and implement cutting-edge customization models.
WHAT IS THE MARKET SIZE OF THE AI OF HEALTHCARE MARKET?
Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Market?refers to the applicability of artificial intelligence technology in various domains related to the healthcare industry. Healthcare is a concern of every individual irrespective of age. Artificial intelligence solutions are mainly used by pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical companies.
AI’S MASSIVE SECURITY RISK
Techniques to fool AI with hidden triggers are outpacing defenses – study. Such a fast-expanding market is prone to attract the attention of threat actors, who can interfere in the training process of an AI model to embed hidden features or triggers in the DNNs – a trojan horse for machine learning, if you will.
EXPERTS WARN OF AI-GENERATED CONTENT RISKS
Experts?at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS) are?raising questions about AI-generated content, and how it could come to dominate the metaverse and other digital locations. CIFS expert Timothy Shoup estimates that 99 percent to 99.9 percent of the internet’s content will be AI-generated by 2025 to 2030,?especially if models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 achieve wider adoption.
WHAT WOULD AGI ‘AWAKENING’ ACTUALLY BE LIKE?
According to surveys, approximately half of artificial intelligence experts believe that general AI will emerge by 2060. Mind of its own: Will “general AI” be like an alien invasion?
HOW CAN AI HELP FARMERS?
Artificial intelligence to help farmers see cloud-covered fields. A Cornish start-up has developed a technique using artificial intelligence to predict what the surface of the UK looks like under gloomy skies. The satellite technology is being targeted at the agricultural sector to help farmers better manage their crops. Cloud too often prevents them from seeing the ground to know where and when to sow seed or apply fertiliser.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SURVEY - What to Expect?
I will try to cover 10 to 20 links in a given issue, which will likely be around every four or five days.
To get an idea of what this might look like, see the first?issue here.?This Newsletter was born on February 22nd, 2022.
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BUILDERBOT HERALDS POTENTIAL FOR META’S VISION OF THE METAVERSE
While voice search has been slow to catch on, it is growing among young mobile users. So how about building in VR worlds? Meta introduces BuilderBot, a new tool to fuel creativity in the metaverse using voice commands. The AI labs of Meta are already making advancements in research and development as part of a long-term effort to enable the next era of computing. Meta introduces a new tool fueling creativity in the metaverse: BuilderBot that enables people to generate or import things into a virtual world just by using voice commands.
AI ETHICS AND THE AI ARMS RACE
Many hail it as a chance for a fundamental upgrade to human civilization. Some believe it can take us down a dangerous path, potentially arming governments with dangerous Orwellian surveillance and mass control capabilities.
We have to remember that any technology is only as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ as the people who use it.
HOW WILL WE TOLERATE SEXISM IN AI LEADERSHIP?
When the board of directors at artificial intelligence software startup DataRobot pushed out its CEO last March, they did so partly because the executive, Jeremy Achin, feuded with his sales teams and resisted the idea of taking the company public. But board members also hoped a change would foster a more welcoming environment for women, according to Chris Lynch, the first investor in DataRobot and chair of its board
DataRobot, a $6 Billion AI Startup, Fired Executives After Complaints About Sexist Culture. Is this a new precedent regarding toxic sexist cultures in technology?
CAN AI LEAD TO A CLEAN ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH
An AI system owned by Google has just "learned" how to?control a magnetic field in a fusion reactor?– and it could pave the way to generating limitless clean energy. DeepMind’s headline seems grandiose. A fusion reactor works in the opposite way, harvesting the energy released when two smaller atoms join together, releasing tiny, fast-moving particles smaller than atoms. The reactors use a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma at extremely high temperatures – hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, even hotter than the sun’s core – so that nuclear fusion can occur between hydrogen atoms.
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