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tag > ML
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"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity" - Carl Icahn
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Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers (scientificamerican)
For the first time, a quantum computer made from photons—particles of light—has outperformed even the fastest classical supercomputers.
Physicists led by Chao-Yang Lu and Jian-Wei Pan of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Shanghai performed a technique called Gaussian boson sampling with their quantum computer, named Jiŭzhāng. The result, reported in the journal Science, was 76 detected photons—far above and beyond the previous record of five detected photons and the capabilities of classical supercomputers.
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Organized Crime Has a New Tool in Its Belts - Artificial Intelligence
As new technologies offer a world of opportunities and benefits in many sectors, so too do they offer new avenues and for organized crime. It was true at the advent of the internet, and it’s true for the growing field of artificial intelligence and machine learning, according to a new joint report by Europol & the United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Center.
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AI in the Wild - Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - by Peter Dauvergne
Illustration by Christophe Vorlet This book analyzes the complex relationship between AI and sustainability. Using analytical tools from environmental politics, it describes the potential for AI to restore balance to earth systems — like its use in wildlife monitoring and improving efficiency of the electricity grid — but also emphasizes its capacity to reinforce economic and political structures, like resource extraction and suppression of activists, that have resulted in modern environmental crisis.
Machine learning for geographically differentiated climate change mitigation in urban areas - Nikola Milojevic Dupon & Felix Creutzig
Traditionally, mitigation policies have been guided by coarse-scale scenario analysis. However, more and more data are available that can be used to characterize the carbon emissions of cities, from building footprints to mobility patterns. More than simply guiding efficiency improvements, the authors advocate that these data inform decarbonization via urban planning and policy recommendations, through a meta-algorithm they call Machine Learning for low-carbon Urban Planning.
Advancing AI for Earth Science: A Data Systems Perspective - by Manil Maskey, Hamed Alemohammad, Kevin J. Murphy, and Rahul Ramachandran
Tackling data challenges and incorporating physics into machine learning models will help unlock the potential of artificial intelligence to answer Earth science questions.
Continuing the conversation - Climate Change, Machine Learning, and the Power Grid
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A Bot Made Frank Sinatra Cover Britney Spears. YouTube Removed It Over Copyright Claims
Months ago, we asked @dadabots to have an AI approximation of Frank Sinatra sing "Toxic." YouTube removed it over copyright claims, beginning an unprecedented legal case initiated by, fought over, and perhaps decided by algorithms. Here's how it went down.
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“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.” ― Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: Or Control & Communication in the Animal & Machine
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing The Fitness Industry During COVID-19
The fitness industry is undergoing a major transformation through a massive deployment of IoT applications and innovative artificial intelligence (AI) product offerings. The research firm Reports and Data predicts that the annual revenues for the fitness app market will reach $14.64 billion by 2027 with around 100.2 mln of fitness app users by 2024. AI-powered applications in the health, nutritional, and fitness sectors are finding exceptional consumer demand. Hiring an AI engineer, startup owners are creating smarter products, leveraging the latest innovations in machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision.
Challenges of Human Pose Estimation in AI-Powered Fitness Apps
Human pose estimation is a popular solution that AI has to offer; it is used to determine the position and orientation of the human body given an image containing a person. Some examples of applying pose estimation in fitness are Kaia, VAI Fitness Coach, Ally apps, or the Millie Fit device. Powered by computer vision and natural language processing algorithms, the technologies lead end-users through a number of workouts and give real-time feedback.
3D Human Pose Estimation in AI Fitness Coach Apps
“Is it possible for a technology solution to replace fitness coaches? Well, someone still has to motivate you saying “Come On, even my grandma can do better!” But from a technology point of view, this high-level requirement led us to 3D human pose estimation technology. In this article, I will describe our own experience of how 3D human pose estimation can be developed and implemented for the AI fitness coach solution.
Zenia: AI Guided Yoga & Fitness
"Zenia is the most advanced motion-tracking fitness app with real-time feedback and detailed analytics."
Apple is working on a new iPhone app with workout videos, code-named ‘Seymour’
Apple is working on an app with fitness videos, codenamed Project Seymour. Elite fitness instructor Jay Blahnik is running the project internally, according to a person familiar. The guided workouts range from cycling to yoga.
On-device, Real-time Body Pose Tracking with MediaPipe BlazePose (Google Research)
Today we are announcing the release of a new approach to human body pose perception, BlazePose, which we presented at the CV4ARVR workshop at CVPR 2020. If one leverages GPU inference, BlazePose achieves super-real-time performance, enabling it to run subsequent ML models, like face or hand tracking.
Kaia Health gets $26M to show it can do more with digital therapeutics
Kaia Health, a digital therapeutics startup which uses computer vision technology for real-time posture tracking via the smartphone camera to deliver human-hands-free physiotherapy, has closed a $26 million Series B funding round.
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KFC starts selling fried chicken in China with self-driving "5G" unmanned food trucks
#Comment: Clearly this is the perfect use-case for artificial intelligence, besides killer robots..
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"Evolution is cleverer than you are." - Orgel's Second Rule
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First ever observation of 'time crystals' interacting
The discovery, published in Nature Materials, may lead to applications in quantum information processing because time crystals automatically remain intact—coherent—in varying conditions. Protecting coherence is the main difficulty hindering the development of powerful quantum computers.
Time Crystals May Be the Next Major Leap in Quantum Network Research
Time crystals sound like something out of science fiction, but they may be the next major leap in quantum network research. A team based in Japan has proposed a method to use time crystals to simulate massive networks with very little computing power.
Melting Time Crystals Could Help Us Model Complex Networks Like The Human Brain
A team of researchers from institutions across Japan has shown the quantum underpinnings of particles arranged as a time crystal could in theory be used to represent some fairly complex networks, from the human brain to the internet, as it breaks down.
Time crystals interact for the first time! But what are they?!
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Language Models are Open Knowledge Graphs (Paper Explained)
Introducing on how Huawei Knowledge Graph improves your working efficiency
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"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
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How Eugenics Shaped Statistics (nautilus)
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Are the science and the scientist so easily separable?
" ... "Most scientists now understand that the data do not speak for themselves and never have." ... "We cannot escape the fact that statistics is a human enterprise subject to human desire, prejudice, consensus, and interpretation." ... "To get rid of the stain of eugenics, statistics needs to free itself from the ideal of being perfectly objective."
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Yann LeCun, the Chief AI Scientist at Facebook, on OpenAI's hyped GPT-3 Language Model
“It’s entertaining, and perhaps mildly useful as a creative help,”... “But trying to build intelligent machines by scaling up language models is like [using] high-altitude airplanes to go to the Moon. You might beat altitude records, but going to the Moon will require a completely different approach.”
#Comment: LeCun (a merchant of doom) is right. GPT3 is a reflection of the organisation that produced it: OpenAI - A poorly disguised US-Intel/Military "innovation" front, run by sleazy used car salesmen that primarily offer overhyped bullshit.
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Artificial Intelligence Reveals Hundreds of Millions of Trees in the Sahara
If you think that the Sahara is covered only by golden dunes and scorched rocks, you aren’t alone. Perhaps it’s time to shelve that notion.
Satellites could soon map every tree on Earth
An analysis of satellite images has pinpointed individual tree canopies over a large area of West Africa. The data suggest that it will soon be possible, with certain limitations, to map the location and size of every tree worldwide.
How Egypt is growing forests in middle of the desert
Amid the success of the Serapium Forest, a massive plantation in Egypt, the country is now looking to plant more desert lands with trees as part of plans to fight climate change.
