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Artificial Intelligence in the Pharmaceutical market worth US$27,156.1 Million in 2031. Visiongain Research Inc.

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Visiongain has published a new report on "AI in Pharmaceuticals Market 2021-2031". Embracing Technology to Revolutionize Pharmaceutical Industry There are other fields where the R&D process can be influenced by AI and machine learning. Better approaches to predict chemicals' properties in order to reduce the number of substances that need to be synthesized is obviously an opportunity. This would allow for the consideration of a larger chemical universe and enrich the'chemical palette' open to medicinal chemists. Another field where researchers are starting to use AI and machine learning is mining genomic, proteomic, and metabolic data for improved disease biomarkers and medication efficacy surrogate markers.


The promise and perils of Artificial Intelligence partnerships

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"A period that had been broadly described as engagement has come to an end," Kurt Campbell, the Indo-Pacific Coordinator at the United States (US) National Security Council, told a virtual audience in May on the subject of US-China relations. "The dominant paradigm is going to be competition." On several occasions, Campbell has highlighted that one of the major arenas of this competition will concern technology. This is increasingly reflected in US national security structures. Today, there is both a senior director and coordinator for technology and national security at the White House; the National Economic Council has briefed the Cabinet on supply chain resilience; and the focus of Department of Defense policy reviews have been on emerging military technologies.


Experts Doubt Ethical AI Design Will Be Broadly Adopted as the Norm Within the Next Decade

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This is the 12th "Future of the Internet" canvassing Pew Research Center and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center have conducted together to get expert views about important digital issues. In this case, the questions focused on the prospects for ethical artificial intelligence (AI) by the year 2030. This is a nonscientific canvassing based on a nonrandom sample; this broad array of opinions about where current trends may lead in the next decade represents only the points of view of the individuals who responded to the queries. Pew Research and Elon's Imagining the Internet Center built a database of experts to canvass from a wide range of fields, choosing to invite people from several sectors, including professionals and policy people based in government bodies, nonprofits and foundations, technology businesses, think tanks and in networks of interested academics and technology innovators. The predictions reported here came in response to a set of questions in an online canvassing conducted between June 30 and July 27, 2020. In all, 602 technology innovators and developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists responded to at least one of the questions covered in this report. More on the methodology underlying this canvassing and the participants can be found in the final section. Artificial intelligence systems "understand" and shape a lot of what happens in people's lives. AI applications "speak" to people and answer questions when the name of a digital voice assistant is called out. They run the chatbots that handle customer-service issues people have with companies. They help diagnose cancer and other medical conditions. They scour the use of credit cards for signs of fraud, and they determine who could be a credit risk. They help people drive from point A to point B and update traffic information to shorten travel times. They are the operating system of driverless vehicles. They sift applications to make recommendations about job candidates. They determine the material that is offered up in people's newsfeeds and video choices. They recognize people's faces, translate languages and suggest how to complete people's sentences or search queries. They can "read" people's emotions. They beat them at sophisticated games.


This Robot Spies on Creatures in the Ocean's 'Twilight Zone'

WIRED

All kinds of animals, from fish to crustaceans, hang out in the depths during the day, where the darkness provides protection from predators. At night, they migrate up to the shallows to forage. Then they swim back down again when the sun rises--a great big conveyor belt of biomass. Today in the journal Science Robotics, a team of engineers and oceanographers describes how they got a new autonomous underwater vehicle to lock onto movements of organisms and follow them around the ocean's "twilight zone," a chronically understudied band between 650 feet and 3,200 feet deep, which scientists also refer to as mid-water. Thanks to some clever engineering, the researchers did so without flustering these highly sensitive animals, making Mesobot a groundbreaking new tool for oceanographers.


This Autonomous, Electric Lawn Mower Just Hit The Market With $18.6 Million In Funding

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Jack Morrison and Isaac Roberts (far left and right) previously cofounded and sold 3D scanning company Replica Labs to Occipital. There they met electrical engineer Davis Foster (center), with whom they went on to cofound Scythe Robotics. Self-driving cars get all the hype. But while the category continues to face a long and uncertain path to commercialization, a burgeoning crop of autonomous vehicles is already hitting the market. The latest is Scythe Robotics, a Boulder, Colorado-based company that announced today it is launching a zero-emission, autonomous lawn mower backed by $18.6 million from Inspired Capital, True Ventures and more.


Deepfakes in 2021 -- How Worried Should We Be?

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Before I go any further it's probably worth establishing what a Deepfake is and isn't. A technique by which a digital image or video can be superimposed onto another, which maintains the appearance of an unedited image or video. The term is often misinterpreted, and that's potentially as a result of definitions like this. The concept of manipulating images and video in this way is certainly not a new concept. Visual effects artists working on Hollywood films back in the '90s would probably describe parts of their job as something very similar to this.


RoboCup 3d Simulation League: Interview with Marco Simões

AIHub

From 24-27 June, the 3d Soccer Simulation League will be taking place, as part of RoboCup 2021. The league first started in 2004 and teams compete in simulated soccer matches, with an emphasis on the low-level control of humanoid robots. Executive committee member Marco Simões told us about the league, how the competition will work, and how they strive to advance research every year. The 3d Soccer Simulation League is part of the RoboCup Soccer Simulation League, which is a larger league that includes two sub-leagues: the 2d Simulation League and the 3d Simulation League. The 2d Simulation League is about high-level research, AI and the strategies of soccer.


Multilinear Dirichlet Processes

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Dependent Dirichlet processes (DDP) have been widely applied to model data from distributions over collections of measures which are correlated in some way. On the other hand, in recent years, increasing research efforts in machine learning and data mining have been dedicated to dealing with data involving interactions from two or more factors. However, few researchers have addressed the heterogeneous relationship in data brought by modulation of multiple factors using techniques of DDP. In this paper, we propose a novel technique, MultiLinear Dirichlet Processes (MLDP), to constructing DDPs by combining DP with a state-of-the-art factor analysis technique, multilinear factor analyzers (MLFA). We have evaluated MLDP on real-word data sets for different applications and have achieved state-of-the-art performance. Dependent Dirichlet processes (DDP) have been widely applied to model data from distributions over collections of measures which are correlated in some way. To introduce dependency into DDP, various techniques have been developed via correlating through components of atomic measures, such as atom sizes [8], [11], [23] and atom locations [6], [10], [28], sampling from a DP with random distributions as atoms [24], operating on underlying compound Poisson processes [18], regulating by Lévy Copulas [16], or constructing those measures through a mixture of several independent measures drawn from DPs [12], [15], [19], [20].


A Fair and Ethical Healthcare Artificial Intelligence System for Monitoring Driver Behavior and Preventing Road Accidents

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper presents a new approach to prevent transportation accidents and monitor driver's behavior using a healthcare AI system that incorporates fairness and ethics. Dangerous medical cases and unusual behavior of the driver are detected. Fairness algorithm is approached in order to improve decision-making and address ethical issues such as privacy issues, and to consider challenges that appear in the wild within AI in healthcare and driving. A healthcare professional will be alerted about any unusual activity, and the driver's location when necessary, is provided in order to enable the healthcare professional to immediately help to the unstable driver. Therefore, using the healthcare AI system allows for accidents to be predicted and thus prevented and lives may be saved based on the built-in AI system inside the vehicle which interacts with the ER system.


Breaking The Dimension Dependence in Sparse Distribution Estimation under Communication Constraints

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We consider the problem of estimating a $d$-dimensional $s$-sparse discrete distribution from its samples observed under a $b$-bit communication constraint. The best-known previous result on $\ell_2$ estimation error for this problem is $O\left( \frac{s\log\left( {d}/{s}\right)}{n2^b}\right)$. Surprisingly, we show that when sample size $n$ exceeds a minimum threshold $n^*(s, d, b)$, we can achieve an $\ell_2$ estimation error of $O\left( \frac{s}{n2^b}\right)$. This implies that when $n>n^*(s, d, b)$ the convergence rate does not depend on the ambient dimension $d$ and is the same as knowing the support of the distribution beforehand. We next ask the question: ``what is the minimum $n^*(s, d, b)$ that allows dimension-free convergence?''. To upper bound $n^*(s, d, b)$, we develop novel localization schemes to accurately and efficiently localize the unknown support. For the non-interactive setting, we show that $n^*(s, d, b) = O\left( \min \left( {d^2\log^2 d}/{2^b}, {s^4\log^2 d}/{2^b}\right) \right)$. Moreover, we connect the problem with non-adaptive group testing and obtain a polynomial-time estimation scheme when $n = \tilde{\Omega}\left({s^4\log^4 d}/{2^b}\right)$. This group testing based scheme is adaptive to the sparsity parameter $s$, and hence can be applied without knowing it. For the interactive setting, we propose a novel tree-based estimation scheme and show that the minimum sample-size needed to achieve dimension-free convergence can be further reduced to $n^*(s, d, b) = \tilde{O}\left( {s^2\log^2 d}/{2^b} \right)$.