2022 will be the year of the pizza-making robot
Early iterations have faltered, but it looks like automated pizza is here to stay.
Meta releases PyTorch Live for creating mobile ML demos ‘in minutes’
Meta has announced PyTorch Live, a library of tools designed to make it easy to create on-device mobile ML demos “in minutes”.
Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
The researcher, who says Google fired her a year ago, wants to ask questions about responsible use of artificial intelligence.
The Movement to Hold AI Accountable Gains More Steam
A New York City law requires algorithms used in hiring to be “audited” for bias. It’s the first in the US—and part of a larger push toward regulation.
Light-powered soft robots could suck up oil spills
A floating, robotic film could be trained to hoover oil spills at sea or remove contaminants from drinking water.
How statistics can aid in the fight against misinformation
Mathematicians created a statistical model that can be used to detect misinformation in social posts.
“Xenobot” Living Robots Can Reproduce
Biological robots made from frog cells can replicate by smooshing loose cells into new robots -- a reproduction method not seen in any other organism.
Qualcomm debuts Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 platform for Windows PCs
The latest platform is focused on bolstering the productivity value of Arm-based PCs.
C3 AI reports $58.3 million revenue for Q2
C3 AI reported a second quarter revenue that was up 41% from a year ago and a customer base that grew 63% year over year.
AWS updates SageMaker for faster machine learning deployments
The new tools and capabilities will make it faster and cheaper to label data, train machine learning models and deploy models for inference.
Study shows how machine learning could improve COVID-19 predictive models
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, case rates have ebbed and flowed in ways that have been hard for epidemiological models to predict. A new study by mathematicians from Brown University uses an advanced machine learning technique to explore the strengths and weaknesses of commonly used models, and suggests ways of making them more predictive.
Google uses MLPerf competition to showcase performance on gigantic version of BERT language model
Google said training large models is a "huge focus" for the company, and ought to get more attention in the benchmark results.
AWS rolls out SageMaker Studio Lab, a free ML service for beginners
At re:Invent, the cloud giant also announced a new $10 million AI & ML scholarship program for underrepresented and underserved students.
Meta, AWS expand partnership, aim to enhance PyTorch adoption
The two companies will collaborate to help enterprises use PyTorch on AWS and scale deep learning models.
Work Without the Worker, book review: Microtasking, automation and the future of work
Poorly-rewarded 'microworkers' underpin much of the digital world. Phil Jones examines this shadowy economy and explores how its denizens might organise in pursuit of a fairer deal.
Engineers create perching bird-like robot
With feet and legs like a peregrine falcon, engineers have created a robot that can perch and carry objects like a bird.
'My robot is a softie': Physical texture influences judgments of robot personality
Researchers have found that the physical texture of robots influenced perceptions of robot personality. Furthermore, first impressions of robots, based on physical appearance alone, could influence the relationship between physical texture and robot personality formation.
COVID-19 mobile robot could detect and tackle social distancing breaches
A new strategy to reduce the spread of COVID-19 employs a mobile robot that detects people in crowds who are not observing social-distancing rules, navigates to them, and encourages them to move apart.