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#91 - DeepMind Mafia, DishBrain, PRIME, ZooKeeper AI, Instant NeRF

50 min • 31 mars 2022

Our 91st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Outline:

Applications & Business

Meet the DeepMind mafia: These 18 alumni from Google's AI research lab are raising millions for their own startups, from climate to crypto

Nvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer

Kroger and Nvidia partner to ‘reinvent the shopping experience’ with AI and digital twin simulations

Top AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures

Research & Advancements

Researchers From Cortical Labs Develop DishBrain: A Neural Network With Biological Neurons

Google AI and UC Berkely Researchers Introduce A Deep Learning Approach Called 'PRIME' That Generates AI Chip Architectures By Drawing From Existing Blueprints And Performance Figures

Seeing an elusive magnetic effect through the lens of machine learning

AI confirms the obvious: The pandemic bummed people out

Society & Ethics

US-China collaboration in AI papers drops amid ongoing tech war, Stanford report shows

Banks Using AI Are Ripe for Russian Sabotage

Automation will erase 'knowledge jobs' before most blue collar jobs: Future Today Institute CEO

Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says

Software vendors are pushing "explainable A.I." that often isn't

Fun & Neat

Ubisoft shows off machine learning tool for modelling animals

Nvidia shows off AI model that turns a few dozen snapshots into a 3D-rendered scene

Senaste avsnitt

#91 - DeepMind Mafia, DishBrain, PRIME, ZooKeeper AI, Instant NeRF

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