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Jul 13, 2018
This sun-chasing robot looks after the plant on its head
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Are your houseplants burning up in the heat? You should get a robot-plant hybrid, like this mod from Vincross, which can move itself into the shade when it needs to. It even dances angrily when itâs drying up.
Jul 13, 2018
New AI method increases the power of artificial neural networks
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: information science, robotics/AI, supercomputing
An international team of scientists from Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Derby, has developed a revolutionary method that quadratically accelerates artificial intelligence (AI) training algorithms. This gives full AI capability to inexpensive computers, and would make it possible in one to two years for supercomputers to utilize Artificial Neural Networks that quadratically exceed the possibilities of todayâs artificial neural networks. The scientists presented their method on June 19 in the journal Nature Communications.
Artificial Neural Networks (or ANN) are at the very heart of the AI revolution that is shaping every aspect of society and technology. But the ANNs that we have been able to handle so far are nowhere near solving very complex problems. The very latest supercomputers would struggle with a 16 million-neuron network (just about the size of a frog brain), while it would take over a dozen days for a powerful desktop computer to train a mere 100,000-neuron network.
Jul 12, 2018
âBlindâ robot can climb stairs, leap on desks
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Meet the Cheetah 3 â a âblindâ robot designed by MIT that can avoid obstacles and climb stairs using âfeelâ instead of sensors or cameras https://cnnmon.ie/2KQiJhD
Jul 12, 2018
Chinese cities will soon get thousands of self-driving buses
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
There wont be any left to do along side them, and that should be the goal.
AI is coming, and itâs changing work as we know it. Adaptation is the only way forward.
Jul 12, 2018
Caltechâs new machine learning algorithm predicts IQ from fMRI
Posted by Manuel Canovas Lechuga in categories: biotech/medical, health, information science, neuroscience, robotics/AI
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology can now assess a personâs intelligence in moments with nothing more than a brain scan and an AI algorithm, university officials announced this summer.
Caltech researchers led by Ralph Adolphs, PhD, a professor of psychology, neuroscience and biology and chair of the Caltech Brain Imaging Center, said in a recent study that they, alongside colleagues at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of Salerno, were successfully able to predict IQ in hundreds of patients from fMRI scans of resting-state brain activity. The work is pending publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Adolphs and his team collected data from nearly 900 men and women for their research, all of whom were part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-driven Human Connectome Project. The researchers trained their machine learning algorithm on the complexities of the human brain by feeding the brain scans and intelligence scores of these hundreds of patients into the algorithmâsomething that took very little effort on the patientsâ end.
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Jul 11, 2018
Scientists Invented AI Made From DNA
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Jul 11, 2018
Nvidia Taught an AI to Flawlessly Erase Watermarks From Photos
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Photographers already face an uphill battle in trying to preventing people from using their digital photos without permission. But Nvidia could make protecting photos online much harder with a new advancement in artificial intelligence that can automatically remove artifacts from a photograph, including text and watermarks, no matter how obtrusive they may be.
In previous advancements in automated image editing and manipulation, an AI powered by a deep learning neural network is trained on thousands of before and after example photos so that it knows what the desired output should look like. But this time, researchers at Nvidia, MIT, and Aalto University in Finland, managed to train an AI to remove noise, grain, and other visual artifacts by studying two different versions of a photo that both feature the visual defects. Fifty-thousand samples later, the AI can clean up photos better than a professional photo restorer.
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