These images were created by an artist known as Botto, which exhibited at Sotheby's in New York this October and has made more than 4 million from sales of its work. In truth though, Botto needs only GPUs to get creative juices flowing. Botto is a decentralized semi-autonomous artistic agent created in 2021 by the German artist Mario Klingemann; Simon Hudson, a media entrepreneur; and Ziv Epstein, a computer scientist and designer. Botto contains an AI image generator similar to Dall-E or Midjourney but its output is also shaped by a "taste model" that selects the most pleasing images generated by a prompt. The taste model is tuned to reflect the preferences of a community of Botto enthusiasts who vote on the images Botto produces and posts online here.

The robustness of the methodology of this particular study is of less interest than the phenomenon in general, only because of the recent ubiquity of the debate. That is, if people see AI-generated images as art, and are moved by them, then what? What do we need human artists for? For Swedish artist Jonas Lund, DALL·E, Midjourney and other existing forms of AI "cannot be art without an artist … Without an artist, it's not art, it's something else." In other words, just because the outputs of these sophisticated AI systems are images, doesn't mean they're art.

Companies that are willing to implement machine learning in their business operations are finding, with not much surprise, that acquiring the algorithms that make machines intelligent may just be the easy part. In fact, countless companies are developing and selling advanced algorithms capable to churn out highly valuable insights, and with the Bottos model marketplace it may become even easier to get your hands upon sophisticated AI models, to the extent that they're mostly becoming commoditized. What's not becoming commoditized, though, is data, and is indeed emerging as the key differentiator in the machine learning race, mainly because good data is uncommon. Data is becoming a key advantage because many companies don't have the data they need. They, as well as researchers, usually find that good quality data is out of reach, most of the time isolated in data silos or in the hands of a few data providers that have sent the prices to the moon.

Bottos will soon offer great opportunities to support the development of Artificial Intelligence, with the most important step being the data and model marketplace. Thanks to the underlying blockchain infrastructure and other tools like smart contracts, users will be able to monetize their efforts to produce, clean, and ultimately, sell their data safely and conveniently. Bottos will be a great companion to everyone involved in the development of AI models and programs. Karen is a computer scientist that cares greatly for her grandmother, who is increasingly fragile and in need of assistance. While driving, Karen comes up with an interesting idea about an image and speech recognition system that, with the right development, may help seniors live longer in their own houses, autonomously, without moving to a retirement house and limiting the employment of costly nursing services.

This article was translated from Planet Daily… https://www.odaily.com/post/5133290 Many people have heard about the story of Blockchain artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has three core components: data, algorithms, and computing power. An AI algorithm model requires sufficient computational power to support a large amount of data training in order to be upgraded to a practical and excellent model. Considered as an Internet of value, Blockchain provides the infrastructure for all the intelligence required for artificial intelligence, including data, algorithms, models, data packages, and more.

South American bats speak dialects different from those of their North American counterparts. In response, a group of scientists has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm for acoustic identification of bat species in Uruguay. It is available online, under a free license and in open-source code. Moreover, says team leader biologist Germán Botto of the Universidad de la República de Uruguay, new recordings collected by scientists using the algorithm in wind farm studies will enhance the system's proficiency in identifying species. "Windmill farms are a menace for birds…and bats," Botto told Mongabay.

Kingsoft Corp. cloud's computing brand is the world's leading cloud computing service provider and China's Top 3 cloud computing company. Founded in 2012, it has established data centers and operations in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and North America. At present, Kingsoft has reached a valuation of 2.373 billion US dollars, becoming the independent cloud service provider in China with the highest market capitalization. Kingsoft cloud products include cloud service solutions for side industries such as games, video, government, healthcare, and finance. Kingsoft has been conducting research and practical applications of artificial intelligence, launching the four layered IaaS, Paas, SaaS industry solutions, which are applicable to various combined AI solutions and services in various industries. In 2018, Kingsoft launched the blockchain ecosystem plan, "Project-X", making full use of the advantages of the cloud to promote the development and application of blockchain technology. Bottos is an infrastructure that focuses on artificial intelligence. It possesses both an underlying public chain designed specifically for data property and a data flow platform for the entire artificial intelligence and its derivatives. A consensus-based, scalable, easy-to-develop, and collaborative one-stop application platform for data, models, computing power and storage of multi layered shared services through data mining and smart contracts.

Artificial Intelligence is the fourth industrial revolution after the invention of steam power, electricity, electronics and software. And Bottos will be the key driving force for this revolution as the data becomes the core competitive power in AI development.

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