As virtual and augmented reality steadily advance in both visual fidelity and headset comfort, researchers continue to work on input solutions that will feel more natural than holding controllers. Today, a group of researchers announced FingerTrak, a wristband-based solution that uses thermal cameras to track hand movements in 3D, abstracting 20 finger joint positions from contours on the wearer's wrist. Developed by Cornell University's SciFi Lab with assistance from University of Wisconsin, Madison researchers, FingerTrak uses a deep neural network to stitch together input from three or four miniature thermal cameras mounted around the wrist, collectively capturing an entire hand pose. Using silhouettes generated by the cameras, backbone and regression networks estimate fingertip and joint positions, and though the results aren't perfect, they could be used for some forms of VR and AR input. Other potential applications for FingerTrak include human-robot interaction and control, sign language translation, and mobile health, including early detection of degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Lung cancer is the leading case of cancer death in the western world. Pathologists examine tissue slides under the microscope and classify them to determine grade and treatment for a tumor. But every cancer is different, so reading these slides can be hard. Can artificial intelligence help out? Recently, deep learning has produced a set of image analysis techniques that automatically extract relevant features called Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), transforming the field of computer vision.

In a study published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, DeepMind researchers describe a reinforcement learning algorithm-generating technique that discovers what to predict and how to learn it by interacting with environments. They claim the generated algorithms perform well on a range of challenging Atari video games, achieving "non-trivial" performance indicative of the technique's generalizability. Reinforcement learning algorithms -- algorithms that enable software agents to learn in environments by trial and error using feedback -- update an agent's parameters according to one of several rules. These rules are usually discovered through years of research, and automating their discovery from data could lead to more efficient algorithms, or algorithms better adapted to specific environments. DeepMind's solution is a meta-learning framework that jointly discovers what a particular agent should predict and how to use the predictions for policy improvement.

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are a class of Artificial Neural Networks that can process a sequence of inputs in deep learning and retain its state while processing the next sequence of inputs. Traditional neural networks will process an input and move onto the next one disregarding its sequence. Data such as time series have a sequential order that needs to be followed in order to understand. Traditional feed-forward networks cannot comprehend this as each input is assumed to be independent of each other whereas in a time series setting each input is dependent on the previous input. In Illustration 1 we see that the neural network (hidden state) A takes an xt and outputs a value ht.

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And a tool like this has many new uses, both good (from powering better chatbots to helping people code) and bad (from powering better misinformation bots to helping kids cheat on their homework). But when a new AI milestone comes along it too often gets buried in hype. Even Sam Altman, who co-founded OpenAI with Elon Musk, tried to tone things down: "The GPT-3 hype is way too much. It's impressive (thanks for the nice compliments!) but it still has serious weaknesses and sometimes makes very silly mistakes. AI is going to change the world, but GPT-3 is just a very early glimpse. We have a lot still to figure out."

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The artificial intelligence tool GPT-3 has been causing a stir online, due to its impressive ability to design websites, prescribe medication, and answer questions. GPT-3 is short for Generative Pre-training Transformer and is the third generation of the machine learning model. Machine learning is when computers can automatically learn from their experiences without having to be programmed. Its predecessor, GPT-2, made headlines for being deemed "too dangerous to release" because of its ability to create text that is seemingly indistinguishable from those written by humans. While GPT-2 had 1.5 billion parameters which could be set, GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters.