Artificial intelligence is not the only technology advancing at a rapid pace. Robot surgeons are now the real deal, which will revolutionize surgical procedures and transform patients’ lives.
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June 14 — Bill Maris, Google Ventures chief executive officer, comments on artificial intelligence’s impact on biotech, the prospects for Theranos and the venture capital environment. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang from the Bloomberg Technology Conference in San Francisco on “Bloomberg West.”
The accuracy of chatbot-delivered medical information may be an improvement over Dr. Google, but questions remain about how to integrate it into healthcare systems.
Our lives were already infused with artificial intelligence (AI) when ChatGPT reverberated around the online world late last year. Since then, the generative AI system developed by tech company OpenAI has gathered speed and experts have escalated their warnings about the risks.
Meanwhile, chatbots started going off-script and talking back, duping other bots, and acting strangely, sparking fresh concerns about how close some AI tools are getting to human-like intelligence.
For this, the Turing Test has long been the fallible standard set to determine whether machines exhibit intelligent behavior that passes as human. But in this latest wave of AI creations, it feels like we need something more to gauge their iterative capabilities.
How will AI models that can generate text, images, audio, video and code change what students need to learn and the instructional processes that guide their learning? Do we need generative models designed specifically for educational purposes?
Speakers.
Dora Demszky: Assistant Professor of Education Data Science, Stanford University.
Noah Goodman: Associate Professor of Psychology, of Computer Science and by courtesy of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Percy Liang: Director, Center for Research on Foundation Models; Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University.
Rob Reich: Professor of Political Science; Faculty Director, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society; Marc and Laura Andreessen Faculty Co-Director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society; Associate Director, Stanford HAI
The AI+Education Summit: AI in the Service of Teaching and Learning took place on Feb. 15, 2023. Learn about upcoming events here: https://hai.stanford.edu/events
Researchers Antoni Gondia and Andrew Adamatzky recently gave a robot living skin made of fungus (via Futurism). Any science enthusiast understands that the power of science can be quite astounding at times, but recreating the Terminator in real life might be a little terrifying for some.
Inspired by the skin of the Terminator, researchers are using fungus to create a bio-organic skin over non-killer robots.
In fact, the scientists openly admit that their goal was to recreate a pivotal scene in The Terminator (1984) where one of the robots is seen receiving an implantation of living skin. Though the robot’s skin is an external addition, it is able to collect data from the addition and heal any wounds incurred.
Apple reportedly has several teams working and spending millions on generative AI.
Apple is spending millions of dollars a day to build artificial intelligence tools, according to The Information.
Although Apple considers itself to be its closest competitor, given how it chose to launch Vision Pro when the clamor around AR/VR tech had died down, the scale of investments by Apple is telling of how the tech industry’s pivot to generative AI has affected the company’s outlook, especially with OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT taking center stage.
Apple is apparently going hard on developing AI, according to a new report that says it’s investing millions of dollars every day in multiple AI projects to rival the likes of ChatGPT.
Recent data shows that both Korea and China are ahead of the US in terms of ratios of robots to manufacturing workers.
Robot use is an indication of economic prosperity and growth throughout the world. The ratio of industrial robots to manufacturing workers is one of the most frequently used approaches to benchmarking robot adoption rates.
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) publishes statistics on robot utilization worldwide in manufacturing. Its most recent data is from 2021 and shows Korea leading the way in terms of robot use in manufacturing.
This soft robot uses “physical intelligence” to navigate complicated surfaces without the need for human or computer intervention.
Engineers have developed a “brainless” soft robot that can effortlessly traverse difficult terrain.
This breakthrough comes from North Carolina State University researchers, who previously created a soft robot capable of navigating basic mazes without the need for human or computer intervention.