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Sep 4, 2023
Robots are pouring drinks in Vegas. As AI grows, the city’s workers brace for change
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: economics, robotics/AI
Workers in Las Vegas have been watching automation and technology inch into their workplace. Now with AI, the city is preparing to adapt its service-heavy tourism economy.
Sep 4, 2023
Four astronauts return to Earth in SpaceX capsule to wrap up six-month station mission
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Four astronauts are back on Earth after a six-month stay at the International Space Station. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Atlantic early Monday off the Florida coast.
Sep 4, 2023
India’s first Sun mission will investigate the origins of space weather
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
The Aditya-L1 million will join other spacecraft from Europe and the United States in an attempt to understand our stormy star.
Sep 4, 2023
Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Healthcare, Cybersecurity, and Communications
Posted by Chuck Brooks in categories: augmented reality, bioengineering, cybercrime/malcode, economics, genetics, information science, robotics/AI, sustainability
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More remarkably, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning-based computers in the next century may alter how we relate to ourselves.
Sep 4, 2023
Chinese APT Targets Hong Kong in Supply Chain Attack
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: cybercrime/malcode
An emerging China-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group targeted organizations in Hong Kong in a supply chain attack that leveraged a legitimate software to deploy the PlugX/Korplug backdoor, researchers have found.
During the attack, the group leveraged as its PlugX installer malware signed with another legitimate entity, a Microsoft certificate, in an abuse of Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Developer Program, a vulnerability already known to the software vendor.
Sep 4, 2023
The First ‘Apple Silicon’ : The Aquarius Processor Project
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, mobile phones
Apple’s own System on Chips (SoC) designs used in iPhones, iPads and now Macs (with ‘Apple Silicon’ branding) are a key source of competitive advantage for the Cupertino giant. The Arm instruction set compatible, but Apple designed, processors used in these SoCs, consistently outperform competitors’ designs.
Apple is the modern exemplar of the maxim from Herman Hauser, founder of Acorn, Apple’s partner in the original Arm joint venture, that ‘there will be two types of computer company in the future, those with silicon design capability and those that are dead ’.
But Apple’s first attempt to design its own processor came over twenty years before the appearance of the first iPhone. We’ve seen in the RISC Wars Part 1: the Cambrian Explosion how, as the 1980s progressed, almost every semiconductor manufacturer and computer maker felt the need to have their own processor design. Apple was no exception.
Sep 4, 2023
Checkmate! Quantum Computing Breakthrough Via Scalable Quantum Dot Chessboard
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: computing, quantum physics
Researchers have developed a way to address many quantum dots with only a few control lines using a chessboard-like method. This enabled the operation of the largest gate-defined quantum dot system ever. Their result is an important step in the development of scalable quantum systems for practical quantum technology.
Quantum dots can be used to hold qubits, the foundational building blocks of a quantum computer. Currently, each qubit requires its own addressing line and dedicated control electronics. This is highly impractical and in stark contrast with today’s computer technology, where billions of transistors are operated with only a few thousand lines.
Can we learn robot manipulation for everyday tasks, only by watching videos of humans doing arbitrary tasks in different unstructured settings? Unlike widely adopted strategies of learning task-specific behaviors or direct imitation of a human video, we develop a a framework for extracting agent-agnostic action representations from human videos, and then map it to the agent’s embodiment during deployment. Our framework is based on predicting plausible human hand trajectories given an initial image of a scene. After training this prediction model on a diverse set of human videos from the internet, we deploy the trained model zero-shot for physical robot manipulation tasks, after appropriate transformations to the robot’s embodiment. This simple strategy lets us solve coarse manipulation tasks like opening and closing drawers, pushing, and tool use, without access to any in-domain robot manipulation trajectories. Our real-world deployment results establish a strong baseline for action prediction information that can be acquired from diverse arbitrary videos of human activities, and be useful for zero-shot robotic manipulation in unseen scenes.
Sep 4, 2023
Giving healthcare a more personal touch
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: robotics/AI
With careful development and thoughtful approaches, Kazi believes the changes AI will bring to healthcare will be some of the most exciting technological advances of our lifetime.
Learn more about building a modern data foundation to deliver the next generation of personalized healthcare with AI, ML, and generative AI.