🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps doctors make better diagnoses, scientists create new materials, farmers grow crops more effectively and all of us driving cars - and millions of other applications. This topic also covers subsets of AI such as machine learning (ML), deep learning and neural networks.
📽️ Filmmakers should become centaurs
Peter Dalle, a Swedish film legend, is right about human intelligence but wrong about artificial intelligence.
👂 New AI system translates speech and text in real time across 100 languages
Meta's new AI model can translate between 101 spoken languages and 96 written languages directly. Using streaming-based processing, the model starts translating speech while it is still being received, minimizing delays. This enables real-time translation delivery.
🎮 Create your own game worlds directly from text with new AI model
Google Deepmind has developed Genie 2, an AI that transforms text descriptions into fully playable 3D worlds. The technology opens new possibilities for game developers to quickly test and create game concepts.
⚰️ The end is near for today's internet search
RIP internet search based on a list of links.
⛅ New AI model improves weather forecasts up to 15 days ahead
GenCast delivers better forecasts than the world's leading weather prediction model. The model delivers results in 8 minutes compared to several hours for traditional systems.
⛰️ AI help discover 303 new geoglyphs in Peru
Scientists have found 303 previously unknown geoglyphs in the Nazca desert using artificial intelligence and drones. The AI technology could filter out 98 percent of the image material and identify potential geoglyphs with high precision.
🦾 Robots learn through self-training and human interaction
DeepMind develops robots that become more skilled by training against both humans and other robots. Researchers are now working towards a future where a single artificial intelligence can control different types of robots.
🕺 He created a low-cost AI music video for Eurovision, with 94% lower energy consumption
Filmmaker Matthew Blakemore created the video for just $800, using AI tools for music, sound effects, and visual content. The video includes over 35 references to Eurovision Song Contest and showcases how AI can enable content creation with limited resources.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: A moral responsibility to accelerate
When we see a digital solution that works, we have a moral obligation to ensure that as many people as possible benefit from it, as quickly as possible.