Verse 47: The Aliens Are Coming!

Jan 19

Hello! It’s starting to get weird! Did you know that you can now invent a social life? AI was given instructions to generate images showing people having fun at a party and while the photos look realistic, a closer look reveals mouths full of teeth, alien-like appendages and weird tattoos. Or have some of the residents of Area 52 escaped and are out partying amongst us?!?

Among items of note in this issue; tech highlights from 2022—in eight charts, AI in Mars: deep learning model maps red planet and medieval versus modern learning—How do students feel about OpenAI’s ChatGPT?

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INTERESTING READS

Medieval versus modern learning—How do students feel about OpenAI’s ChatGPT?The AI chatbot has surprised users with its ability to write colloquial responses.

Tech highlights from 2022—in eight charts. Here’s a look back at some of the important technology storylines from the year that was.

AI in Mars: deep learning model maps red planet. Toolset is ‘inexpensive, fast and simple’ to use, needs just 15 GB of disk space.

Singapore launches AI governance testing toolkit. AI Verify gives businesses the tools to check their models for bias.

THE FUTURE OF DATA

How ‘radioactive data’ could help reveal malicious Ais.

Bit by bit, text generated by artificial intelligence is creeping into the mainstream. This week tech site CNET, said they used “automation technology” to publish explainers on financial topics since November. While the Associated Press has been publishing automated stories since 2014. Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One solution: to nuke the web.

COMPANY NEWS

Eagle Genomics' scale-up funding from OMRON Ventures to drive sustainability innovation in microbiome R&D. The e[datascientist] uses multilayer hypergraphs to structure and interrogate data, applying AI to network science to derive data-driven insight journeys into complex problems at scale.

Got It AI Develops AI to Identify and Address ChatGPT Hallucinations for Enterprise Applications. The innovation makes it possible to deploy ChatGPT-like experiences without the risk of providing incorrect responses to users or employees.

Covid-19 vaccine maker BioNTech announced plans to acquire the machine learning firm InstaDeep. AI will play a powerful role in drug development and manufacturing.

DesignFuture Japan and Locus Robotics to deploy autonomous mobile robots in Japan.

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