Sway AI Announces Its No-Code Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform – MarTech Series
Sway AI today announced its no-code AI platform for enterprise users and data scientists alike. The company believes that “there’s a better way to do AI” by helping enterprises build without expensive upfront investments in AI tools or skillsets. Gartner estimates that 85% of AI projects are never deployed, and 85% fail from lack of stakeholder engagement and collaboration.
Taking some of the guesswork out of drug discovery
MIT researchers have created a deep learning model that predicts the 3D shapes of a molecule solely based on a graph in 2D of its molecular structure. Their system, GeoMol, processes molecules in only seconds and performs better than other machine learning models, including some commercial methods. It could help pharmaceutical companies accelerate the drug discovery process by narrowing down the number of molecules they need to test in lab experiments.
‘Human-Centered AI,’ An In-Depth Study Of The Current State Of The Artificial Intelligence Concept – Forbes
“Human-Centered AI,” by Ben Schneiderman, is an excellent introduction to the concepts of HCAI. Be aware, though, that this isn’t a breezy, short, book aimed at quick review. It is for upper- and middle-management in the CIO, CTO, R&D and other more technical realms of an organization.
Meet the Omnivore: Developer Sleighs Complex Manufacturing Workflows With Digital Twin of Santa’s Workshop
NVIDIA Omniverse is a 3D simulation and collaboration platform. It’s a tool to use in conjunction with Omniverse apps to boost artistic or engineering processes. Digital twins can be used “to map optimal employee paths around a facility, simulate processes like material flow, as well as detect bottlenecks before they occur,” says CTO of ipolog.
Peak Performance: Production Studio Sets the Stage for Virtual Opening Ceremony at European Football Championship
Madrid-based MR Factory creates virtual sets for the UEFA Champions League Finals opening ceremony in a digital twin of Portugal’s third-largest football stadium. The company has been at the forefront of using virtual productions for film and television since the 1990s. With the help of NVIDIA Studio and real-time rendering, MR Factory can create stunning visuals and 3D models faster than before.
Creating better virtual backdrops for video calling, remote presence, and AR
Meta AI has deployed enhanced AI models for image segmentation to improve background blurring, augmented reality (AR) effects in its products and services. New segmentation models are now in production for real-time video calling in Spark AR on multiple surfaces across Portal, Messenger, and Instagram. And beyond video calling, improved segmentation can also bring new dimensions to augmented and virtual reality by merging virtual environments with people and objects in the real world.
Generating a realistic 3D world
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Harvard University, and Stanford University have created a new virtual world. Their platform, called ThreeDWorld, simulates high-fidelity audio and visual environments, both indoor and outdoor. It allows users, objects, and mobile agents to interact like they would in real life and according to the laws of physics. Using virtual reality (VR), human attention and play behavior within the space can provide real-world data.
Predicting gene expression with AI
Based on Transformers, our new Enformer architecture advances genetic research by improving the ability to predict how DNA sequence influences gene expression. DNA carries the genetic information that determines everything from eye colour to susceptibility to certain diseases and disorders. At DeepMind, we believe that AI can unlock a deeper understanding of such complex domains, accelerating scientific progress and offering potential benefits to human health.
Burgers, Fries and a Side of AI: Startup Offers Taste of Drive-Thru Convenience
Toronto startup HuEx is in pilot tests with a conversational AI assistant for drive-thrus to help support service at several Canadian chains. Food services jobs have among the highest rate of employee departures, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The company is a member of NVIDIA Inception, a program that offers go-to-market support for AI, data science and HPC startups.
Machine learning speeds up vehicle routing
Machine-learning strategy accelerates some of the strongest algorithmic solvers by 10 to 100 times. The approach applies to vehicle routing problems such as last-mile delivery, where the goal is to deliver goods from a central depot to multiple cities while keeping travel costs down. Researchers say their approach can be used across a variety of solvers and similar problems, including scheduling and pathfinding for warehouse robots.
Putting the power of AlphaFold into the world’s hands
DeepMind is making a significant contribution to humanity’s understanding of biology. The structure of a protein helps us understand its function, says DeepMind’s CEO. As researchers seek cures for diseases and pursue solutions to other big problems facing humankind, they will benefit from fresh insights into the structure of proteins. DeepMind has published high-quality predictions for the shape of every single protein in the human body, as well as for the proteins of 20 additional organisms.
Yale Cyber Leadership Forum Examines Artificial Intelligence and National Security – Yale News
The 2022 Yale Cyber Leadership Forum will convene leading attorneys, technologists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and academics to address urgent and evolving challenges in the domains of artificial intelligence (AI) and national security. The Forum comprises six 75-minute panel discussions, which will take place on Feb. 18, March 4, and April 4, respectively. Oona A. Hathaway ’97, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, directs the Forum.
Q&A: Cathy Wu on developing algorithms to safely integrate robots into our world
Cathy Wu is the Gilbert W. Winslow Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. She’s working to improve the flow of robots in Amazon warehouses under the Science Hub, a new collaboration between the tech giant and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Outside of the lab and classroom, Wu can be found running, drawing, pouring lattes at home and watching YouTube videos on math and infrastructure via 3Blue1Brown and Practical Engineering.
Nearly 80 Percent of Financial Firms Use AI to Improve Services, Reduce Fraud
NVIDIA’s “State of AI in Financial Services” report is based on responses from over 500 C-suite executives, developers, data scientists, engineers and IT teams working in financial services. Fraud detection involving payments and transactions was the top AI use case across all respondents at 31 percent. Conversational AI jumped from 8 to 28 percent year-over-year, a 3.5x rise.
Design’s new frontier
In the 1960s, the advent of computer-aided design (CAD) sparked a revolution in design. In recent years, mechanical engineers have expanded the computing tools they use to ideate, design, and prototype. More sophisticated algorithms and the explosion of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies have sparked a second revolution. These researchers are at the forefront of the new frontier in design.
How Smart Hospital Technology Can Help Cut Down on Medical Errors
As many as 250,000 Americans die from medical errors each year — more than 6 times the number killed in car accidents. Fei-Fei Li: Smart hospital AI can help avoid some of these fatalities in healthcare, just as computer vision-based driver assistance systems can improve road safety. By endowing healthcare spaces with smart sensors and machine learning algorithms, clinicians can help cut down medical errors and provide better patient care.
Sony Reveals Gran Turismo Sophy Artificial Intelligence – GameRant
Sony’s Gran Turismo Sophy is a dedicated AI agent that’s been purpose-built to be able to go toe-to-toe with professional sim players. Sophy has been trained from the ground up to take three major considerations into account: physical realism, real-time race tactics, and sports etiquette. Sony and Polyphony Digital claim that Sophy can do so without using rubberbanding and the usual array of catch-up systems.
Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers
One in seven children in the U.S. experienced abuse or neglect in the past year. Child protective services agencies around the nation receive a high number of reports each year (about 4.4 million in 2019) of alleged neglect or abuse. With so many cases, some agencies are implementing machine learning models to help child welfare specialists screen cases and determine which to recommend for further investigation. But these models don’t do any good if the humans they are intended to help don’t understand or trust their outputs.
Is artificial intelligence really as intelligent as we think? – swissinfo.ch
Alan Turing’s famous paper laid the foundation for the conception and definition of artificial intelligence (AI) In 1950, Turing invented the ‘imitation game’, still used today to judge the intelligence of a machine. At the moment, there is not a single artificial intelligence system that has passed the first Turing Test, says Hervé Bourlard, who directs Idiap Research Institute.
Nowcasting
Medieval meteorologists began by using the stars to make predictions. Lewis Fry imagined a ‘Forecast Factory’ that used computation and the physical equations of the atmosphere to predict global weather. Nowcasting fills the performance gap in this crucial time interval. Nowcasting is essential for sectors like water management, agriculture, aviation, emergency planning, and outdoor events. We now add a story on the role of machine learning for forecasting.