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Secondmind Licenses Active Learning Platform to Mazda to Increase Powertrain Design …

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Backed by more than six years of practical machine learning research and development, Secondmind Active Learning for Powertrain offers state-of-the- …


The Global Augmented Intelligence Market is expected to grow by $ 45.65 bn during 2022 …

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The augmented intelligence market is segmented as below: By Technology • Machine learning • NLP • Computer vision • Others


Language Models as Zero-Shot Planners: Extracting Actionable Knowledge for Embodied Agents

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Can world knowledge learned by large language models (LLMs) be used to act in interactive environments? In this paper, we investigate the possibility of grounding high-level tasks, expressed in natural language (e.g. "make breakfast"), to a chosen set of actionable steps (e.g. "open fridge"). While prior work focused on learning from explicit step-by-step examples of how to act, we surprisingly find that if pre-trained LMs are large enough and prompted appropriately, they can effectively decompose high-level tasks into low-level plans without any further training. However, the plans produced naively by LLMs often cannot map precisely to admissible actions. We propose a procedure that conditions on existing demonstrations and semantically translates the plans to admissible actions. Our evaluation in the recent VirtualHome environment shows that the resulting method substantially improves executability over the LLM baseline. The conducted human evaluation reveals a trade-off between executability and correctness but shows a promising sign towards extracting actionable knowledge from language models. Website at https://huangwl18.github.io/language-planner


A Non-Expert's Introduction to Data Ethics for Mathematicians

arXiv.org Machine Learning

I give a short introduction to data ethics. My focal audience is mathematicians, but I hope that my discussion will also be useful to others. I am not an expert about data ethics, and my article is only a starting point. I encourage readers to examine the resources that I discuss and to continue to reflect carefully on data ethics and on the societal implications of data and data analysis throughout their lives.


Send in the clones: Using artificial intelligence to digitally replicate human voices

NPR Technology

Reporter Chloe Veltman reacts to hearing her digital voice double, "Chloney," for the first time, with Speech Morphing chief linguist Mark Seligman. Reporter Chloe Veltman reacts to hearing her digital voice double, "Chloney," for the first time, with Speech Morphing chief linguist Mark Seligman. The science behind making machines talk just like humans is very complex, because our speech patterns are so nuanced. "The voice is not easy to grasp," says Klaus Scherer, emeritus professor of the psychology of emotion at the University of Geneva. "To analyze the voice really requires quite a lot of knowledge about acoustics, vocal mechanisms and physiological aspects. So it is necessarily interdisciplinary, and quite demanding in terms of what you need to master in order to do anything of consequence."


A Science Journalist's Journey to Understand AI

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As a teenager, I discovered a worn copy of the book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter on a bookshelf at home. It still had a computer punch card in it that my Mom had used as a bookmark, back when she briefly worked as a programmer in the early 1980s. Reading that book was like falling into another world. I found myself thinking about the mind and computers in brand new ways. I learned about Alan Turing's work for the first time.


How Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning Work Together

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Author Philip K. Dick posed this question as the title of his 1968 novel that was the basis for the film Blade Runner. The underlying themes of this story include the ethics and philosophy of sentient AI in androids. Two years after the story's "futuristic setting" of 2019, humans are exploring much more specific AI use cases that are nothing like those spun out in the science fiction story. Instead of having to distinguish android "replicants" from real humans, many people are struggling to disambiguate terms such as Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML). These terms have all become buzzwords commonly found in the business and tech world.


Artificial intelligence -- A Modern ERA

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a category of software that can do things that would normally need human intelligence, like vision, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation. Artificial intelligence does not have to be sentient; in fact, the term "artificial intelligence" was coined to differentiate it from natural intelligence. It can also apply to any technology that enables computers or machines to perform jobs that would otherwise necessitate human intelligence. An AI can study the data strings it needs to complete its work. The machine will analyze the data and use it to improve its overall performance. As a result, the machine can respond fast to a crisis.


Four times Shakespeare has inspired stories about robots and AI

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When their inventor the aptly named Dr Capek dies, the robot who plays Hamlet determines to find out the truth and just like Shakespeares original prince avenge the murder of his creator.This is just one example of a strange apparent association between Hamlet and robots.


When Does Creativity Translate Into Success For Artists? This AI Has The Answer

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An artificial intelligence tool recently mapped out processes that drive people to success in creative careers. Every being understands that creativity is not continuous - its flow is interrupted based on our external surroundings and mental well-being. While one may experience a creative burst for a week, the one following it may be filled with a creative lull. This isn't strange, it's just human nature (unless you're on hard drugs - which we do not endorse). Periods of immense creative energy are followed by success for people experiencing a "hot streak".