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Dec 21
2023

World’s first AI-powered restaurant set to open in Southern California

PASADENA, Calif. — The world’s first fully autonomous restaurant is set to open in Southern California.

At ‘CaliExpress by Flippy’ robots are the chefs in the kitchen… both on the grill and at the fry station. They’ll be cooking hamburgers, cheeseburgers and french fries.

Miso Robotics created Flippy which they say is the world’s first AI-powered robotic fry station. They say Flippy works alongside humans to “enhance quality and consistency, while creating substantial, measurable cost savings for restaurants.”

Dec 21
2023

Scientists Say Their New AI Can Predict When You’re Going to Die

Data scientists in Denmark claim they’ve devised an AI model that can predict when someone is going to die.

Dec 21
2023

How Mind-Controlled Bionic Arms Fuse To The Body

A game-changer in prosthetics has been introduced to the world, and for the first time, amputees are regaining sensation through an electrical signal from their prosthetic arm. Max Ortiz-Catalan, a professor of bionics, explains the process of implanting these mind-controlled bionic arms through direct skeletal attachment. The researcher takes us through every step of this groundbreaking advancement in bionic medicine, from surgically implanting electrodes to fitting the prosthesis and training for everyday use.\r\
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Dec 21
2023

America’s Shaky Semiconductor Supremacy Over China

Like China, the US sees AI as a key to both a military and economic power in the 21^st century. Both Republicans and Democrats in DC are concerned about the rate of Chinese advancement. In fact, the running joke on Capitol Hill is that the only thing they can agree on is The Chinese Threat.

Toward this end, Congress recently passed The CHIPS Act and the Executive Branch has been implementing trade controls to deny technology that they believe are critical for developing AI in China. While this desire is rational, it is unlikely to work in the mid-to long-term, and it will only increase geopolitical tension.

The US strategy of technology relies on seven realities that, while true today, are unlikely to all be true tomorrow.

Dec 21
2023

New brain-like transistor goes ‘beyond machine learning’

Scientists have designed a transistor that stores and processes information like the human brain and can perform cognitive tasks that most artificial intelligence (AI) systems today struggle with.

This technology, known as a “synaptic transistor,” mimics the architecture of the human brain — in which the processing power and memory are fully integrated and found in the same place. This differs from conventional computing architecture, in which the processor and memory are physically separate components.

Dec 21
2023

Australian wind farm switches to AI-powered tech to save eagles

The AI-guided system will stop turbines from spinning when birds are flying in the vicinity and create a safe zone.

Wind turbine collisions are responsible for over 679,000 bird deaths in the US alone every year. To protect vulnerable birds, wind farms can also be shut down.

Dec 21
2023

MIT AI cracks code to defeat bacteria that kills 10,000 in US yearly

Scientists have now leveraged deep learning to discover a new class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium.

Using deep learning models, scientists have identified a new class of antibiotic compounds that can work against resistant strains like MRSA.

Dec 21
2023

Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives

Abstract Here we represent human lives in a way that shares structural similarity to language, and we exploit this similarity to adapt natural language processing techniques to examine the evolution and predictability of human lives based on detailed event sequences.

Using registry data from Denmark, Lehmann et al. create individual-level trajectories of events related to health, education, occupation, income and address, and also apply transformer models to build rich embeddings of life-events and to predict outcomes ranging from time of death to personality.

Dec 21
2023

The Year That A.I. Came for Culture

The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage.

Dec 21
2023

New ultra-high speed processor to advance AI, driverless vehicles and more

A team of international scientists have developed an ultra-high speed signal processor that can analyze 400,000 real time video images concurrently, according to a paper published in Communications Engineering.

The team, led by Swinburne University of Technology’s Professor David Moss, have developed a processor that operates more than 10,000 times faster than typical electronic processors that operate in Gigabyte/s, at a record 17 Terabits/s (trillion bits per second).

The technology has profound implications for the safety and efficiency of driverless cars, medical imaging and could help find habitable planets beyond our solar system.