AI is set to surpass Human Level Intelligence!

Artificial Intelligence will soon surpass human-level intelligence! 

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This week we focus on…

• Professor Jim to rescue students from boring textbooks

• Penumbra’s Real-System is Making Rehab Easier 

• Google and Meta in the race for text-to-video AI generation

• AI set to make the FIFA World Cup more efficient 

• Robots to become inpatient care companions

• Meet Mini-Pupper 2

• Paying with your palm - a solution or problem? 

• How an AI is being developed to make post-death contact possible 

• Amazon is the latest to join big tech companies in lay-offs

Professor Jim is rescuing students from boring textbooks

Remember when you skimmed through 366 pages of Huckleberry Finn as prep for your English exam? For me it was Finn, for you it could be something else. But all that’s going to be history. 

Prof Jim, a text-to-video company, is set to make textbook reading obsolete through its AI animation software that will have the Gen-Z get lessons from historical figures. 

Here’s how it works: 

• Publishing companies send PDFs to Prof Jim

• Their AI team scans the PDF and creates slides 

• The AI will also create an avatar based on the book’s material

• Someone from Prof Jim’s team verifies photo usage suggested by the AI

• The entire process takes up to 30 minutes 

While it costs $25,000-$150,000 to create one video content, Prof Jim’s team claims it’ll cost less than 10th of how much it would originally cost to make such a video otherwise. 

So the next time you want your class to get lessons right from Jane Austen or Aristotle, you know where to get them from. 

Penumbra’s Real-System is Making Rehab Easier 

Playing tennis, walking down a beach, and catching fish - all of these seem weird for rehabilitation, but VR is making it all possible for patients. 

Penumbra’s REAL system with VR features advanced sensor tech that’s making rehab easier for patients undergoing physical, occupational, and speech therapy. 

Here’s how it works: 

• Patients are given VR headsets and motion sensors are attached to their bodies

• A therapist sees what the patient is seeing on the VR through a tablet 

• With the help of this tablet, therapists can increase or decrease the intensity of challenges 

• All of the activities are exercised through careful planning, customized according to each patient’s rehab plan

Penumbra CEO, Elsesser, explains this isn’t a game and everything in the VR is being done to help people get back to their real lives. 

Other News 

> Meta’s Make-A-Video and Google’s Imagen Video are in the race to make text-to-video generation possible. If it’s anything like DALL E 1, we look forward to the memes it will bring us.

> Qatar is set to use AI for predicting crowd and climate trends in the FIFA World Cup. We wish they’d come up with another Paul the Octopus to tell us who is winning the World Cup. 

> Experts suggest that, with the global robots market set to be worth $14 bn by 2030, robots are set to become our primary healthcare companions in the near future, this reminds us of: 

> Speaking of robot companions, meet Mini Pupper 2, an upgrade to the commercial robot of the same name that helps families to get practical robotics experience with ease. 

> Tencent, the team behind WeChat in China, has come up with “palm” payment solutions. But experts believe that this can pose to be a security threat since palms are so easy to duplicate. 

> Experts are coming up with AI solutions that would allow grieving families to talk to their loved ones post-death, and no, it still won’t allow us to communicate with ghosts. 

> Amazon is the latest in big tech to lay off its entire robotics department, right after introducing Sparrow. We knew robots would one day replace humans, but this fast? *gulps nervously*.

> And to conclude this section, let’s take a moment to honor this one auto driver from India. My cousin who keeps forgetting her bags in every Uber would definitely want a driver like this.

Fundings of the Week 

• Yahaha gets $40M in funding to democratize 3D content creation. 

• Pickle raises $26M for its truck unloading robots. 

• AI Insurtech Omni:us gets €12M funding - plans to expand to UK and US. 

• theGist gets $7M in funding - aiming to fix workplace information overload through AI.

• Descript gets $50M in funding through OpenAI

Meme of The Day 

For our meme of the day, we’ll refer to things happening in huge tech companies for the last few weeks.