1X presents All Neural Networks.
Our environments are designed for humans, so we design our hardware to take after the human form for maximum generality. To make the best use of this general-purpose hardware, we also pursue the maximally general approach to autonomy: learning motor behaviors end-to-end from vision using neural networks.
Hyundai’s CRADLE and Sundberg-Ferar join forces to create Elevate—an electric car with robotic legs, the ‘walking car,’ designed to tackle challenging terrains.
A two-legged bot that’s shorter than a standard ballpoint pen just snatched the Guinness World Record for smallest humanoid robot.
The new Guinness World Record holder, engineered by the robotics team at Hong Kong’s Diocesan Boys’ School, stands just 5.5 inches tall and can dance and do kung-fu.
In the dynamic and fast-paced world of private equity, AI integration is not just a passing trend; it’s a transformative force reshaping the landscape of the industry. As firms navigate the complexities of investments, market analysis, and financial predictions, AI emerges as a beacon of efficiency, insight, and innovation.
Currently, AI’s integration in private equity is impressive but not expansive. Most firms primarily focused on data analysis, deal sourcing, and risk assessment. Firms like KKR & Co. and Blackstone pioneered this industry revolution, leveraging AI to analyze market trends, evaluate potential investments, and enhance decision-making processes. For instance, consider how AI algorithms process vast amounts of data to identify promising investment opportunities. By sifting through global financial reports, news, and company data, AI provides a deeper understanding of risks and rewards, at level of volume and understanding that most human analysts would find overwhelming.
Additionally, private equity firms find AI-driven risk assessment models indispensable. These models predict market fluctuations, assess potential investment hazards, and offer a more nuanced understanding of various sectors. This predictive power allows firms to make more informed decisions, balancing risks with potential returns more effectively.
Massachusetts startup Elemind has raised $12 million to read brainwaves and treat people for sleep disorders, long-term pain, tremors, and to speed up learning rates. Clinical trials show the company’s wearable device can accelerate sleep up to 70% faster, reduce tremors in patients with physiological shaking up to 50%, and boost learning rates.
“We use a wearable neurotech device to read the brain in real time and intercept it in real time with something called neurostimulation,” Elemind co-founder and CEO Meredith Perry told me on a recent TechFirst podcast. “That’s using sound or light or vibration or electricity to stimulate the brain. And when we do that, we can actually guide the brain precisely, and that leads to a behavior change. So like a drug, but much smarter and without the side effects.”
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has successfully developed a new program that enables robots to learn how to open doors independently.
A robot that can learn to open most types of doors, cabinets, drawers and refrigerators – without human direction – may pave the way for your future robot butler.
By Jeremy Hsu
EPFL finds an advanced image compression technique.
EPFL researchers have developed a machine-learning approach for compressing image data more accurately than learning-free computation methods.
Famous physicists have brought to us novel theories that explain the world around us. AI can also do the same if we guide it to do so.
Researchers at the German institute trained an AI model to look into simpler interactions in larger complex systems, much like how physicists do.
The newly understood text thought to be from Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, talks about music, food, and enjoying life.
A grand prize of $700,000 has been awarded to three scholars for producing the first readable text of the scrolls that were charred during the Mount Vesuvian eruption in 79 AD.
The development of a new theory is typically associated with the greats of physics. You might think of Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein, for example. Many Nobel Prizes have already been awarded for new theories.
Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich have now programmed an artificial intelligence that has also mastered this feat. Their AI is able to recognize patterns in complex data sets and to formulate them in a physical theory. The findings are published in the journal Physical Review X.
In the following interview, Prof. Moritz Helias from Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) explains what the “Physics of AI” is all about and to what extent it differs from conventional approaches.
