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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Meaning of Life
An AI meditation on the Meaning of Life.
All the imagery is generated by the AI using a text prompt.
I inputed “The Meaning of Life” — and these are the results.
It produced a lot of content, with a lot of themes, symbology and mysterious objects. I edited the video together as if the AI was talking to me, guiding me. I tried to listen to its voice, and communicate what it was trying to say.
Resources / Code used.
https://github.com/lots-of-things/Story2Hallucination.
Creative Commons Music.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Stellardrone.
My YouTube channel.