Robots Taking Over New Industries and More News

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You no longer need to worry about robots taking over…

I mean, they will. But their battery will run out and you’ll be the guy getting paid to recharge them, right?

Until that happens...

…Let’s Have a Look at the day’s Roundup

• Intel’s Loihi 2 chips are the key to uncovering human-level perception in robots

• Here’s Naver, the “Brainless” bot that helps corporations

• Tencent Music and its 1000 AI-mimicked songs

• Samsung’s Bixby AI gets new upgrades

• Microsoft and Nvidia combine forces to build powerful supercomputers

• China’s latest AI news anchor is “making headlines”

• Meet Galactica, the AI launched to assist science

• Globus Medical to Help UK’s NHS with Surgical Robotics

• Stanford University’s mobility boots

Intel’s Loihi 2 chips - The key to human-level perception in robots

Robots can beat you in a chess game but can they tell the difference between your child and your pet? Intel may have the solution to this.

Intel has just announced its Loihi 2 neuromorphic chips which can help robots efficiently perceive their surroundings and take action accordingly; they can be used in drones and mini-bots.

While most neural networks use deeper learning algorithms, Loihi 2 will use a spiking network, making robots focus on a particular subset to make a single task highly efficient.

Here’s how it works:

• Say you want the robot to recognize a specific chair

• A small set of neural networks is activated at a time

• The internal system acquires evidence of things that look like chairs

• A spike is given when the closest threshold of what might be a chair is reached

• This helps the robot perceive the object efficiently

Well, I don’t know about babysitting pets, but if Loihi 2 just helps water my plants when I’m not home, that’ll be my biggest win.

Have a Look at this Brainless Corporate Robot (No, not you)

Naver has launched robots for corporations in South Korea to make their workdays more productive by taking care of minor tasks.

The company has introduced its robot workforce:

• They bring coffee to employees, handoff mail, and wait politely when they see employees pass by

• They also help limit the day’s distractions and make work more fun

• The company has been built with QR codes to help robots get programmed with ease

The robots can sometimes seem slower, but overall Naver is doing a lot of research to make them more efficient and common across corporate workplaces in the country.

All of this sounds really cool, but I’m yet to see how these robots can replace those fun and interesting unionizing stories of my ex-workplace’s oldest staff members.

Other News

> Music composers’ jobs are the next to risk getting replaced by robots as Tencent launches 1000 AI-mimicked songs, one of which has more than 100M streams. This gentleman has a thing to say about it:

> Samsung upgrades Latin American Spanish in its Bixby AI, which previously only supported Brazilian Portuguese. Wake me up when it launches a mixed Balochi prompt.

> Microsoft and Nvidia collaborate to launch powerful supercomputers that will enable AI to become more efficient in doing multiple tasks. Interested to see what Google’s response will be.

> China introduces the world’s first AI news anchor, and it's (literally) making headlines. Sounds cool, as long as you’re not a news anchor of course.

> Meta launches a beta version of “Galactica”, designed to write academic papers, solve math problems, and more based on simple text prompts. College students will soon look for ways to steal it.

> In some good news for UK Hospitals, NHS and Global Medical have partnered to build efficient robotic navigation tech for spinal surgery to become more improved.

> Stanford University has launched a robotics boot to help people with mobility issues

AI Fundings Roundup

• Spot AI closes $40 M in Series B Funding to build smarter CCTV cameras

• Private AI gets $8 M in funding to make privacy layer for software

• Speak raises $27 M in funding from Open AI to expand its language platform

• FedDev Ontario provides BluWave-ai with $1.7 M and Tehama with $2.7 M in repayable contributions

• Namecoach drives $8 M in Series A funding

Meme of the Day

In today’s meme of the day, we discuss the possibility of robots being introverts. Believe me, they’ll be too shy to take over the world.

Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/87116574025567778/