Droids to Help You Go Shopping? Oh, I want one!

Hi, Tech Fanatics, welcome to the latest edition of our robot-induced treats. Come for the news, stay for the memes and hot takes!

Kicking off the Week with…

• AI to help make animal interaction easier

• Gitamini - Your personal home assistance

• British Researchers test AI to help detect UTI

• A new robotic ship is set to test out in Vietnam

• Robot guides needles in a more accurate way than humans

• An AI tool to spot deep fakes

• Researchers test atomic shapes with AI to make nanodevices

• Soft robot that can detect damage and heal itself

• Google open sources an important AI to help detect human attention

This AI Could Help You Communicate With Your Pets

Ever wondered what your dog thinks of you or what your cat is muttering about you? You might find out!

A non-profit called Earth Species Project is looking for ways to use AI developments to make animal-to-human communication easier.

According to their president, Aza Raskin:

• A new AI method could detect whatever animals say in symbols.

• These symbols can then be translated into language to help people understand what the species are saying.

• If successful, this can change how animals interact with humans.

So the next time your kid says the dog ate his homework, you may actually get a proper answer from the dog.

Gitamini - A Droid to Help Run Errands

Gitamini, a small droid, debuted last year to help people run small errands without using their cars.

Now, it’s an essential part of American households. Here’s all you need to know:

• The bot can carry a weight of up to 20 pounds and can be easily taken up and down a flight of stairs.

• Its alert sensors and camera can detect motion ahead of it to help it move.

• In apartments around America, these droids are acting as bartenders, house helpers, and other forms of assistance providers.

In a world where robots replacing humans is an ever-ready threat, these bots are a form of help that isn’t replacing but rather assisting people.

Though Gitamini still needs help not walking into walls, it’s still good to know you can have your own self-help bot to take on walks in the evening.

Other News:

• Researchers in England are looking to use AI to help detect Urinary Tract Infections.

• A new robotic ship, set to become the future of offshore support vessels, is currently being tested in Vietnam.

• A robot has been tested on needle guiding and the results show it’s done a better job than humans. After apple, doctors should beware of their latest nemesis.

• Scared of deep fakes? No worries, this AI tool can help you detect deep fakes of famous celebrities.

• Researchers are making atoms into lattice shapes with the help of AI in order to make nanodevices.

• This soft robot can detect damage on itself and heal itself. An important invention for solo droid trips to space or underwater. Cool, right?

• Google open sources AI that helps detect which parts of an image a user pays attention to first. This could change the face of marketing projects.

Tweet of the Day

Opinion of the Day

Parmy Olson of the Business Times believes that the faster AI tools grow and become accessible, the more they’ll need the use of watermarks.

Summing up her thoughts,

• As ChatGPT already being popular and GPT 4 about to debut soon, generative AI has transcended boundaries this year.

• But the more this type of AI gets common, the harder it will become to detect human vs AI works.

• This will also make it harder to detect phishing, fraud, and AI-written essays.

• A watermark, known and generated only by OpenChat and other parent companies of these tools, could help detect between the works of humans vs AI easily.

As someone who just saw an “artist” makes a comic book “over the weekend” through generative AI, I definitely agree that AI watermarks could change the way these tools are exploited.

Just like plagiarism, this regulation would take out the “intelligent” minds to use their own intelligence rather than artificial.

Meme of the Day