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Nikon Fights Back Against AI Images, Touts ‘Natural Intelligence’

As AI image generators continue to rock visual industries such as photography and illustration, Nikon is taking a stand against AI and on behalf of humans, cameras, and “natural intelligence.” Little Black Book reports that Nikon Peru recently partnered with the ad agency Circus Grey Peru on a new “Natural Intelligence” ad campaign.

Even though AI can now generate photorealistic images with just a simple text prompt, Nikon wants to remind everyone that the real world is full of incredible scenes that are best captured with a camera rather than imagined with AI.

Robot-assisted deep brain stimulation surgery could treat epilepsy

Three of these procedures have thus far been undertaken in Canada.

A neurosurgeon in Canada has become the first in the nation to perform robot-assisted deep brain stimulation surgery on a patient suffering from epilepsy with success.

This is according to a report by CTV News published on Wednesday.


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Georgia tech team unveils autonomous tennis robot to help you beat your foes

“It can also be my opponent. It can help me train.”

An assistant professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology has revealed a robotic tennis partner that may soon become your sparring partner and skilled opponent.

Dr. Matthew Gombolay envisions a future where human-scale robots play a crucial role in sports and athletic training. His latest creation, ESTHER (Experimental Sport Tennis Wheelchair Robot) is inspired by the limitations of traditional static ball machines used for tennis training.

Is OpenSource AI Threatening The Tech Titans?

Open-source AI can be defined as software engineers collaborating on various artificial intelligence projects that are open to the public to develop. The goal is to better integrate computing with humanity. In early March, the open source community got their hands on Meta’s LLaMA which was leaked to the public. In barely a month, there are very innovative OpenSource AI model variants with instruction tuning, quantization, quality improvements, human evals, multimodality, RLHF, etc.

Open-source models are faster, more customizable, more private, and capable. They are doing things with $100 and 13B params that even market leaders are struggling with. One open-source solution, Vicuna, is an… More.


This article explores AI in the context of open-sourced alternatives and highlights market dynamics in play.

Russia Claims ‘First Kill by Artificial Intelligence’ in Ukraine

Russia claims that its S-350 Vityaz air defence system shot down a Ukrainian aircraft while operating in “automatic mode”. The Russian Deputy PM said that its highly acclaimed S-350 Vityaz air defence system was operating in the NVO zone. It demonstrated capabilities of autonomously detecting, tracking, and destroying Ukrainian air targets without any operator’s intervention. Watch the video to find out how did the system work on AI?

#artificialintelligence #S350Vityaz #worldnews #defencenews.

00:00 — INTRODUCTION
01:13 — HOW DID THE SYSTEM WORK ON AI?
02:47 — RUSSIA’S S-350 AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM

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