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AI Hits Its Stride: Cionic’s AI-Powered Neural Sleeve Could Help Fix Impaired Walking
Neural Sleeve is intended to correct leg movements for people impacted by multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, and stroke.
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Self-Driving Safety Check: U.S. Government Data Details 2021 Autonomous Vehicle Crashes
The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed autonomous vehicle collisions over a 12-month period.
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Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims
From Numbers to Names matches individuals to faces in publicly available images related to the genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945.
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Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date
A worldwide collaboration produced the biggest open source language model to date. BLOOM is a family of language models built by the BigScience Research Workshop, a collective of over 1,000 researchers from 250 institutions around the globe.
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Keep Your AIs on the Road: New Law Requires European Vehicles to Come with Automated Features
The European Union passed a law that requires new vehicles to come equipped with automated safety features.
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On the Ball: An AI-Powered App Lets Amateur Footballers Try Out for the Pros
AiSCOUT uses computer vision to grade amateur footballers and recommends those who score highest to representatives of professional teams.
Jul 27, 2022
AI War Chest Grows: NATO Invests €1 Billion in Advanced Technologies
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced a €1 billion venture capital fund for technologies including AI.
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When Self-Driving Cars Won’t Drive: Cruise Self-Driving Cars Cause Traffic Jams in San Francisco
Dormant robotaxis are snarling traffic on the streets of San Francisco.What’s new: Cruise self-driving cabs lately have stalled en masse, Wired reported.
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Text-to-Image Goes Viral: Inside Craiyon, Formerly Known as DALL·E Mini
A homebrew re-creation of OpenAI’s DALL·E model is the latest internet sensation. Craiyon has been generating around 50,000 user-prompted images daily, thanks to its ability to produce visual mashups like Darth Vader ice fishing and photorealistic Pokemon characters.
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Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery
Computer vision systems are scanning satellite photos to track construction on the Earth’s surface — an exercise in behavior recognition on a global scale.
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AI AI, Captain! Mayflower AI Ship Crosses the Atlantic Ocean
An autonomous research ship crossed the Atlantic Ocean — with a few pit stops to address challenges along the way. Built by IBM and marine research nonprofit ProMare, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship 400 (MAS400) last week completed a voyage from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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U.S. Acts Against Algorithmic Bias: Meta Removes Bias from its Ad Algorithms
Regulators are forcing Meta (formerly Facebook) to display certain advertisements more evenly across its membership. The United States government compelled Meta to revise its ad-placement system to deliver ads for housing to members regardless of their age, gender, or ethnicity.