Aelia Vita, Author at Liwaiwai

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BOOK: AI IS COOL, BUT NOWHERE NEAR HUMAN CAPACITY

In 2020, Elon Musk said artificial intelligence would surpass human intelligence within five years, on its way to becoming “an immortal dictator.” A new book says no way, not ever. The book, Why Machines Will Never Rule the World: Artificial Intelligence without Fear (Routledge, 2022), argues against the possibility of engineering machines that can surpass human intelligence. Coauthors are Barry Smith, professor in the philosophy department at the University at Buffalo and Jobst Landgrebe, senior research associate in the philosophy department and founder of Cognotekt, a German AI company. Machine learning and all other working software applications—the proud accomplishments of those involved in…

Defining An Open Source AI For The Greater Good

Join the conversation by joining the four Deep Dive: AI panel discussions starting on October 11. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become more prevalent in our daily lives. While AI systems may intend to offer users convenience, there have been numerous examples of automated tools getting it wrong, resulting in serious consequences. What’s happening in the AI system that leads to erroneous and harmful conclusions? Probably a dramatic combo of bad AI combined with a lack of human oversight. How do we as a society prevent AI ethics fails? The open source community has had, for well over 20 years, clear…

AI-Generated Art Is Booming – But Who Really Owns It?

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing trend in the art world, with some works made this way fetching huge sums at auctions. However, advances in AI have fuelled concerns over the ethical and legal implications of co-creating art with machines. It also raises questions surrounding copyright and digital theft, as some AI tools mimic the work of artists. At first glance, the series of warped clown faces in a collision of primary colours appears to be the work of a painter – with oily brushstrokes and smudged backgrounds the typical hallmarks. Yet the images displayed by Scotland-based…

An AI that Can Resurrect Memories

Do you also have old pictures of yourself or close ones that didn’t age well or that you, or your parents, took before we could produce high-quality images? I do, and I felt like those memories were damaged forever. Boy, was I wrong! This new and completely free AI model can fix most of your old pictures in a split second. It works well even with very low or high-quality inputs, which is typically quite the challenge. This week’s paper called Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration with Generative Facial Prior tackles the photo restoration task with outstanding results. What’s even…

5 Charts Showing The Jobs Of A Post Pandemic Future – And The Skills You Need To Get Them

By 2025, 97 million new roles may emerge that are more adapted to the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms. Roles already growing in demand include data analysts and scientists, AI and machine learning specialists and robotics engineers. The ‘jobs of tomorrow’ also show the continuing importance of human interaction through roles in marketing, sales and content production. The engineers, researchers and marketers of today could be the data scientists of tomorrow as increasing automation disrupts the jobs landscape over the next five years. That’s according to data gathered by LinkedIn, Coursera and the World Economic Forum…

6 Positive AI Visions For The Future Of Work

Many AI experts predict that machines may outperform humans at every task within 45 years. There is currently no consensus on how to shape these technologies to support a changing workforce and economy. We asked over 150 experts to discuss these challenges and share their positive AI futures. Current trends in AI are nothing if not remarkable. Day after day, we hear stories about systems and machines taking on tasks that, until very recently, we saw as the exclusive and permanent preserve of humankind: making medical diagnoses, drafting legal documents, designing buildings, and even composing music. Our concern here, though, is with something even…

Data Labeling for AI Products: How to Process Thousands of Data Labels

Today, the AI industry is on the rise – the global AI market is valued at over $40 billion and continues to grow at a rapid pace. The industry relies on three vital components for its development: (1) the hardware that provides computational power and virtual living space for Machine Learning (ML) algorithms; (2) the actual ML algorithms, which is code written by data scientists to instruct the machine on how to teach itself; and finally (3) the data that needs to be labelled and fed into the machine along with any accompanying training instructions, so that it has some…

AI Is Making Our Concrete Buildings And Bridges Safer

Concrete is one of the most widely used materials in the construction industry. It is present in nearly every modern structure from roads, to bridges, to buildings. Concrete comes in different types. Each type has its own specific application. These different types come from the differing compositions and ratios of elements. Each type is designed to support different weights, compress more or less, and move in various ways. The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) to the concrete industry is relatively new. Yet its impacts are already being felt. Civil engineers have been exploring methods of applying machine learning. The goals are…

Synthetic Data May Not Be AI’s Privacy Silver Bullet

Synthetic datasets are increasingly being used to train AI models. These promise greater privacy and less bias, but are not without their drawbacks. Synthetic datasets are becoming increasingly popular for training artificial intelligence models. Proponents of this computer-generated data say it protects personal information and reduces the chances of bias emerging in AI systems. But for many, concerns over privacy and accuracy remain. New use cases for synthetic data are emerging daily. On Thursday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) charity announced the launch of a synthetic dataset for human trafficking, which has been developed in partnership with Microsoft Research. Taking…

This Is How AI Will Accelerate The Energy Transition

Digital technologies – AI in particular – can become an essential enabler for the energy transition. A new report, Harnessing AI to Accelerate the Energy Transition, defines the actions needed to unlock AI’s potential in this domain. The new IPCC report is unequivocal: more action is urgently needed to avert catastrophic long-term climate impacts. With fossil fuels still supplying more than 80% of global energy, the energy sector needs to be at the heart of this action. Fortunately, the energy system is already in transition: renewable energy generation is growing rapidly, driven by falling costs and growing investor interest. But the scale and cost of…

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