AI News Weekly - Issue #340: Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution

Putting a friendly face on the new wave of automation about to sweep through Amazon's fulfillment centers.     View on the Web    Archives ISSUE #340: AMAZON'S NEW ROBOTS ARE ROLLING OUT AN AUTOMATION REVOLUTION  July 6th 2023   elevateai.com       In the News     AI glossary: 60+ terms to know Embodied agents, also referred to as embodied AI, are AI agents with a physical body that perform specific tasks in the physical environment. techtarget.com       Sponsor     AI-driven customer insights, accessible for all. ElevateAI makes enterprise-grade AI accessible for companies of all sizes. Tap into the world's most advanced CX AI models for customer experience, trained on billions of interactions, to gain data-driven insights and improve customer satisfaction. Start for free with full API access. Flexible and cost-effective pricing scales with your needs. [Learn more] elevateai.com       In The News     DeepMind Co-Founder's Startup 'Inflection AI' Secures $1.3B in Funding from Microsoft and Nvidia Inflection AI has raised $1.3 billion from Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA), among others. The new funding brings the total raised by the company to $1.525 billion. yahoo.com   Samsung's A.I. Moment Is Here, but Is It Ready? Foreign investors betting on artificial intelligence are pouring money into the company's shares. Analysts say it will have a hard time keeping up with rivals. nytimes.com   ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says it is doubling down on preventing AI from 'going rogue' ChatGPT's creator OpenAI plans to invest significant resources and create a new research team that will seek to ensure its artificial intelligence remains safe for humans - eventually using AI to supervise itself, it said on Wednesday. livemint.com       Applied use cases     Five ways AI could improve the world: 'We can cure all diseases, stabilise our climate, halt poverty' It is not yet clear how the power and possibilities of AI will play out. Here are the best-case scenarios for how it might help us develop new drugs, give up dull jobs and live long, healthy lives theguardian.com   Even the ChatGPT-fueled AI boom couldn't offset a slide in venture funding Despite an influx of venture capitalist spending on artificial intelligence companies—fueled by ChatGPT hype—global venture funding overall still fell by 18% in the second quarter of 2023, according to new data from Crunchbase. qz.com   How AI can make hiring bias worse The company pledges to only use technology that is "designed to exclude bias and limit scalability of existing biases in talent acquisition processes." Advertisement Beamery recently launched TalentGPT, "the world's first generative AI for HR technology," and claims its AI is "bias-free." marketwatch.com       Ethics     Draft EU AI rules could hurt Europe: open letter EU lawmakers agreed to a set of draft rules this month where systems like ChatGPT would have to disclose AI-generated content, help distinguish so-called deep-fake images from real ones and ensure safeguards against illegal content. indiatimes.com   The Dangerous Art of AI The difference between this and earlier bots is a generational shift, especially with generative AI, a version of the technology capable of impressive language fluency, broad comprehension and the creative chops to generate art, music and written works. wwd.com   The Transformative Impact Of AI In Medical Tech According to their website, Censis claims, "Customers using CensisAI2 see a 25% reduction in trays down at the start of first shift within the first six months." Predictive Analytics By leveraging machine learning algorithms, medical workflow software can analyze patient data to identify patterns. forbes.com       Robotics     DeepMind's New Self-Improving Robot Is Quick to Adapt and Learn Fresh Skills New research from DeepMind suggests the same technology behind large language models (LLMs) could help create more adaptable brains for robotic arms. singularityhub.com   Amazon's New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution Play/Pause Button Pause Amazon's Proteus robot.Courtesy of Amazon In a giant warehouse in Reading, Massachusetts, I meet a pair of robots that look like goofy green footstools from the future. Amazon's Sparrow robot can pick up products that previously required human hands. wired.com   Tesla's AI supercomputer to enter production in July 2023 In May, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) opened a new official Twitter account, @Tesla_AI, focused on reporting the company's artificial intelligence (AI) progress around its FSD software and forthcoming humanoid robot, Teslabot. finbold.com       Research     Researchers design tools to automatically detect natural disasters using images on social media An international research team has designed a deep learning system able to detect natural disasters using images posted on social media. techxplore.com   Machine Learning From A Digital Marketer's Perspective For instance, if your blog post about "Machine Learning in Digital Marketing" gained high traffic with keywords like "AI in marketing" and "SEO automation," a trained model should be able to predict the performance of a similar blog post using related keywords. forbes.com   Multi-modal adaptive gated mechanism for visual question answering [22] proposed to use Faster R-CNN [23] to extract the regional object features of the image, that is, to detect the salient objects in the picture, and then to learn the attention weight through the bottom-up-top-down attention mechanism. plos.org       Sponsor      Enterprise Devs love us. 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