Artificial Intelligence has made tremendous progress these past few years, but what are the biggest AI Researchers expecting Artificial Intelligence to look like in the year 2030. They’ve made some amazing futurism predictions on all the amazing human abilities and efficiencies these AI’s will likely have. Human level AI will likely be a thing and other technology predictions like the metaverse will likely turn out to be true aswell.
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00:00 The Future of Artificial Intelligence.
00:53 Artificial Intelligence Predictions for 2030
02:15 The Metaverse in 2030
04:00 Other Technology Predictions for 2030
06:41 Last Words.
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A Soft Thumb-Sized Vision-Based Touch Sensor
A team from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have developed a novel thumb-shaped touch sensor capable of resolving the force of a contact, as well as its direction, over the whole surface of the structure. Intended for dexterous manipulation systems, the system is constructed from easily sourced components, so should scale up to a larger assemblies without breaking the bank. The first step is to place a soft and compliant outer skin over a rigid metallic skeleton, which is then illuminated internally using structured light techniques. From there, machine learning can be used to estimate the shear and normal force components of the contact with the skin, over the entire surface, by observing how the internal envelope distorts the structured illumination.
The novelty here is the way they combine both photometric stereo processing with other structured light techniques, using only a single camera. The camera image is fed straight into a pre-trained machine learning system (details on this part of the system are unfortunately a bit scarce) which directly outputs an estimate of the contact shape and force distribution, with spatial accuracy reported good to less than 1 mm and force resolution down to 30 millinewtons. By directly estimating normal and shear force components the direction of the contact could be resolved to 5 degrees. The system is so sensitive that it can reportedly detect its own posture by observing the deformation of the skin due its own weight alone!
We’ve not covered all that many optical sensing projects, but here’s one using a linear CIS sensor to turn any TV into a touch screen. And whilst we’re talking about using cameras as sensors, here’s a neat way to use optical fibers to read multiple light-gates with a single camera and OpenCV.
The next generation of robots will be shape-shifters
Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. The research, led by the UK’s University of Bath, is described today in Science Advances.
Authors of the study believe their breakthrough modeling on ‘active matter’ could mark a turning point in the design of robots. With further development of the concept, it may be possible to determine the shape, movement and behavior of a soft solid not by its natural elasticity but by human-controlled activity on its surface.
The surface of an ordinary soft material always shrinks into a sphere. Think of the way water beads into droplets: the beading occurs because the surface of liquids and other soft material naturally contracts into the smallest surface area possible—i.e. a sphere. But active matter can be designed to work against this tendency. An example of this in action would be a rubber ball that’s wrapped in a layer of nano-robots, where the robots are programmed to work in unison to distort the ball into a new, pre-determined shape (say, a star).
Training robots with realistic pain expressions can reduce doctors’ risk of causing pain during physical exams
A new approach to producing realistic expressions of pain on robotic patients could help to reduce error and bias during physical examination.
A team led by researchers at Imperial College London has developed a way to generate more accurate expressions of pain on the face of medical training robots during physical examination of painful areas.
Findings, published today in Scientific Reports, suggest this could help teach trainee doctors to use clues hidden in patient facial expressions to minimize the force necessary for physical examinations.
Stanford University uses AI computing to cut DNA sequencing down to five hours
A Stanford University-led research team has set a new Guinness World Record for the fastest DNA sequencing technique using AI computing to accelerate workflow speed.
The research, led by Dr Euan Ashley, professor of medicine, genetics and biomedical data science at Stanford School of Medicine, in collaboration with Nvidia, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Google, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of California, achieved sequencing in just five hours and two minutes.
The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, involved speeding up every step of genome sequencing workflow by relying on new technology. This included using nanopore sequencing on Oxford Nanopore’s PromethION Flow Cells to generate more than 100 gigabases of data per hour, and Nvidia GPUs on Google Cloud to speed up the base calling and variant calling processes.
Top 25 Most Promising AI Startups in 2021
Artificial intelligence is making its significance in most of the major sectors these days. The top AI startups are making a buzz in the market that has the potential to revolutionize the world. There are thousands of AI startups available today and this blog will share some of the most promising AI Startups that are making waves in the AI technology field.
Before jumping into sharing about these startups, let’s understand what area of field AI is contributing to. Mentioned below are some of the major fields where AI is contributing and bringing a change.