Robotics/AI – Lifeboat News: The Blog

Mar 4
2021

US Unprepared for AI Competition with China, Commission Finds

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence’s recent report is a “wake-up call” in part because of one country: China.

Retaining the current dwindling edge will take White House leadership and a substantial investment, according to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

Mar 4
2021

Deepak Chopra made a digital clone of himself to live forever. And he’s not alone

I spoke with Digital Deepak and then talked to the real one: Here’s a preview of how celebrities could AI themselves.

Mar 3
2021

Money is pouring in to A.I.-assisted drug discovery, while fewer AI startups are getting VC backing

The money committed to companies and projects in this area increased to $13.8 billion, more than 4.5 times that invested in 2019, according to the Artificial Intelligence Index, an annual report produced under the auspices of Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).

Those are a few of the insights from this year’s AI Index report, which shows adoption of the pandemic did nothing to dent adoption of the technology.

Mar 3
2021

We first need to understand how the brain works if we want true AI

“We’ll never have true AI without first understanding the brain”

Neuroscientist and tech entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins claims he knows how intelligence works and he wants every AI lab in the world to read his book.

Mar 3
2021

Are We Facing the Next, Very Rapid Stage of Evolution, via AI?

No, the Singularity won’t happen. The Second Law of Thermodynamics eviscerates any technology we might invent.

Mar 3
2021

Cambridge Quantum Announces Largest Ever Natural Language Processing Implementation on a Quantum Computer

Separate experiments, each of over 100 sentences, provide a strong proof of concept that Quantum Natural Language Processing is within reach.

Mar 3
2021

CrownBio and JSR Life Sciences Partner with Cambridge Quantum Computing to Leverage Quantum Machine Learning for Novel Cancer Treatment Biomarker Discovery

Crown Bioscience (CrownBio), JSR Life Sciences and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced a partnership agreement to explore the application of quantum technology to drive the identification of multi-gene biomarker discovery for oncology drug discovery.

Mar 3
2021

Azure Percept helps Microsoft users make the most of edge AI

Edge computing allows an increasing number of standalone mobile devices to perform tasks such as image recognition, response to voice commands and textual translation, without access to the cloud. During its 2021 Ignite digital conference, Microsoft revealed its new edge technology platform, Azure Percept.

Mar 3
2021

L3Harris picked for DARPA autonomous surface ship concept design

L3Harris Technologies has been selected to design an autonomous surface ship concept for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to demonstrate the reliability and feasibility of an unmanned ship performing lengthy missions.

Mar 3
2021

Insect-Inspired Flying Robots: Researchers Introduce a New Generation of Tiny, Agile Drones

The technology could boost aerial robots’ repertoire, allowing them to operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions.

If you’ve ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects can be remarkably acrobatic and resilient in flight. Those traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard to build into flying robots, but MIT Assistant Professor Kevin Yufeng Chen has built a system that approaches insects’ agility.

Chen, a member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Research Laboratory of Electronics, has developed insect-sized drones with unprecedented dexterity and resilience. The aerial robots are powered by a new class of soft actuator, which allows them to withstand the physical travails of real-world flight. Chen hopes the robots could one day aid humans by pollinating crops or performing machinery inspections in cramped spaces.