AI News Weekly – Issue #406: Sam Altman : ‘Superintelligent’ AI Is Only a Few Thousand Days Away – Oct 3rd 2024
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Sam Altman : ‘Superintelligent’ AI Is Only a Few Thousand Days Away
Altman predicts that with AI in the future, “We will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.”
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How AI is changing the reports US police write
Some California police departments are already using AI tools to help draft reports – and experts are concerned
OpenAI poses new investors an intelligence test
Grappling with the science of artificial intelligence is not for the weak of heart. The same is true of investing in OpenAI, the purveyor of productivity-enhancing chatbots.
Amazon’s $4 billion partnership with AI startup Anthropic gets UK competition clearance
Britain’s competition watchdog said Friday that it’s clearing Amazon’s partnership with artificial intelligence company Anthropic because the $4 billion deal didn’t qualify for further scrutiny.
Applied use cases
Google introduces new way to search by filming video
Google has released a new feature which will allow people to search the internet by taking a video. Video search will let people point their camera at something, ask a question about it, and get search results.
AI technology uncovers ancient secrets hidden in the Arabian Desert
AI is helping archaeologists uncover ancient secrets in the vast Rub al-Khali desert. By leveraging advanced radar and machine learning, researchers can now detect hidden structures and broaden the reach of archaeological discovery.
How AI Could Transform The AIDS Fight
Africa is working to grow its health capacity, but a complicated patchwork of conflicting and confusing data-sharing laws stands in the way.
Ethics
Happy, sad or angry? AI can detect emotions in text according to new research
AI is not just a tool for analysing data – it’s transforming the way we communicate, work and live. From ChatGP through to AI video generators, the lines between technology and parts of our lives have become increasingly blurred.
Dangers of AI: Exploring the risks and threats
Living in this fast-forwarding, digital world, artificial intelligence is bringing a revolution to industries and lifestyles. From virtual assistants that keep track of your schedule to algorithms that recommend your next favorite show, AI is everywhere.
California Forces a Rethink of A.I. Regulation
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to veto wide-ranging set of rules for artificial intelligence companies underscores the political difficulty of policing the technology.
Robotics
Detachable Robotic Hand Crawls Around on Finger-Legs
When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort.
Robot controlled by a king oyster mushroom blends living organisms and machines
Powered by conventional electricity via plug or battery, these simple robotic creations would be unremarkable, but what sets these two robots apart is that they are controlled by a living entity: a king oyster mushroom.
Startup aiming to bring robotics into interventional radiology raises $73M
Mendaera, a startup aiming to bring robotics into interventional radiology, has raised $73 million in financing, the company announced Thursday.
Research
How cold hard data science harnesses AI with Wolfram Research
It’s sometimes difficult to distinguish the reality of technology from the hype and marketing messages that bombard our inboxes daily. In just the last five years, we’ve probably heard too much about the metaverse, blockchain and virtual reality, for example. At present, we’re in the midst of a furore about the much-abused term ‘AI’, and time will tell whether this particular storm will be seen as a teacup resident.
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The application of explainable AI methods to models for automatic creativity assessment
The study is devoted to comparing various models based on Artificial
Intelligence to determine the level of creativity based on drawings performed
using the Urban test, as well as analyzing the results of applying explainable
artificial intelligence methods to a trained model to identify the most relevant
features in drawings that influence the model’s prediction
Explainable AI and optimized solar power generation forecasting model based on environmental conditions
This paper proposes a model called X-LSTM-EO, which integrates explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), long short-term memory (LSTM), and equilibrium optimizer (EO) to reliably forecast solar power generation.
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