An artificial intelligence algorithm by Heron Systems defeated an F-16 pilot in a simulated dogfight competition Thursday. Photo by SSgt. Christine Groening/U.S. Air force.
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Ahead of a likely ban on the US federal government’s use of Chinese-made quadcopters, including popular DJI drones, the Department of Defense has approved the products of five US-based unmanned air vehicle (UAV) makers for government use.
Those companies are Altavian, Parrot, Skydio, Teal and Vantage Robotics.
Small UAVs from these manufacturers have been deemed cyber-secure by the Pentagon – not vulnerable to backdoor spying that some suspect might be possible from the video cameras and other sensors attached to Chinese-made DJI drones. The US Congress is considering banning the US federal government from using foreign-made drones as part of its 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.
Robots That Can Deliver Parcels
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Digit is a semi-autonomous delivery robot that can also double up as a workout buddy! 💪🤖
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Designer Daniel Voshart has created photorealistic portraits of ancient Roman emperors by transforming old statues using AI. With the help of Photoshop and a tool named ArtBreeder, Voshart’s work brings these long-dead figures back to life. Uncanny and realistic all at the same time.
An AI Breaks the Writing Barrier
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A new system called GPT-3 is shocking experts with its ability to use and understand language as well as human beings do.
In June 2019, Facebook’s AI lab, FAIR, released AI Habitat, a new simulation platform for training AI agents. It allowed agents to explore various realistic virtual environments, like a furnished apartment or cubicle-filled office. The AI could then be ported into a robot, which would gain the smarts to navigate through the real world without crashing.
In the year since, FAIR has rapidly pushed the boundaries of its work on “embodied AI.” In a blog post today, the lab has announced three additional milestones reached: two new algorithms that allow an agent to quickly create and remember a map of the spaces it navigates, and the addition of sound on the platform to train the agents to hear.
Deep learning on MCUs, also known as TinyML, is perfectly possible today but TOPS ratings don’t always tell the full story.
These researchers paired biology with AI to create the world’s first “living” robots 🤯.
If artificial intelligence can replace some highly specialized medical doctors, is any job safe? It appears the biomedical profession is ripe for an overhaul.
“We have for the first time used deep learning to find disease-related genes. This is a very powerful method in the analysis of huge amounts of biological information, or ‘big data’,” said Sanjiv Dwivedi, first author of the newly published research.