5 Problems, 1 Solution: Robots!

Hey AI fam! Consider this the equivalent of your daily dose of healthy eating that will leave you energized to conquer the day ahead!

You’re not eating healthy anyway, so we came up with this to make you feel better.

Today’s Menu:

• Robots to help discover fossils

• Hyundai Motors kicks off delivery bots’ pilot project

• Google AI announces AudioLM

• Robots to help make jeans?

• Moonwalkers set to be commercialized

• Nvidia’s RANA launch for neural avatars

• Robots assisting autistic students

• Spiderbots in Japan to help with tasks

• Robots and humans - best friends?

• AI tool to help detect colon cancer

Robots to Help Discover Fossils

Are you fascinated by robots? Good, then you won’t be scared if we told you 500 years from now, droids might be digging up your remains from beneath the ground and studying them.

• Forabot, a new tech, uses AI and robotics to manipulate and isolate organisms.

• This process will automatically make fossil discoveries a lot more efficient, cutting down time-consuming tasks.

• After isolating the organism, forabot will further categorize it to make it easier to study for scientists.

If successful, this will make fossil fuel discoveries a lot easier, giving us new insights into historical events.

Maybe droids will also finally find the “treasure” my family says our ancestors hid beneath our old land.

Hyundai Motors Set to Kick Off Delivery Bots’ Pilot Program

Bots to help with tasks humans can’t do? That’s what Hyundai Motors’ new robots program is aimed at:

• The robots will be used to deliver amenities and beverages directly to customers’ rooms at Rolling Hills Hotel

• The bots’ deep-learning tech enables them to recognize customers

• Their autonomous driving tech helps them navigate between elevators and different floors without human assistance.

• The plan is to expand the operation based on results derived from the pilot program.

The day is not far when the robot and human delivery riders will sit around telling stories of their most annoying customers.

Other News:

• Google AI has announced AudioLM, a tool that can generate music and speech after a few seconds of an audio prompt.

• Renowned clothing companies, e.g. Levi’s, are working on developing robots that can sew clothes. I doubt they’d have my aunt’s precision in sowing a wool sweater, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

• Moonwalkers, shoes to make you walk faster, are set to be commercialized by 2023. You can do two things with them: walk to work or take part in a marathon, either way, you’re winning.

• Nvidia launches RANA to develop neural avatars of humans. Read all about it in the link, and let us know what you think!

• Robots are helping students with autism at Youngstown State University, a discovery that will surely help people with psychological disabilities.

• Spider robots are set to help utility maintenance in Japan in areas where humans can’t easily reach. See, there’s more to spiders than the phobia we place around them.

• With robots becoming common in companies, experts believe they’ll become workers’ best friends instead of replacements. Won’t be the first time friends will backstab each other for a job, so why not?

• Dayton VA Medical Center now has access to AI that can help detect colon cancer in patients. Another revolutionizing discovery for medicine.

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Opinion of the Day

Devon Leos believes AI can never mimic human creativity, no matter how accurate and efficient it becomes. Here’s a summary of his thoughts:

• Human creativity is a perfect blend between logic and art, the so-called balance of the left and right brain.

• AI on the other hand is not as spontaneous but rather very predictable.

• Creativity is a very subjective process; it can’t be reduced to mathematical equations or accuracy.

• AI is made to achieve one thing alone: complete its algorithm’s goals, it can’t think outside the box the way human creativity allows one to.

• It’s not all bad, AI definitely helps streamline a lot of things that humans take a lot of time to do, but it also shouldn’t be the only solution.

• Human creativity will always be an important need to make the world colorful.

Speaking from a writer’s perspective, while AI will allow you to get rid of that “burnout” excuse, it still won’t provide the human touch your story needs from your subjective perspective alone.

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