AI News Weekly - Issue #405: The Best AI Image Generators of 2024 - Sep 26th 2024

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In the News

The Best AI Image Generators of 2024

AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, have taken the world by storm because they can generate nearly any kind of text, including essays, reports, and code in seconds. AI image generators, however, are even more fun because they can take a simple prompt and generate a visual representation of whatever you’re imagining.

zdnet.com

In The News

Microsoft-BlackRock team to raise $100 bn for AI data centers

Microsoft and investment powerhouse BlackRock on Tuesday said they have teamed up to raise as much as $100 billion for data centers and infrastructure to power artificial intelligence.

techxplore.com

Alibaba Cloud unleashes over 100 open-source AI models

Alibaba Cloud has open-sourced more than 100 of its newly-launched AI models, collectively known as Qwen 2.5. The announcement was made during the company’s annual Apsara Conference.

artificialintelligence-news.com

Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $21.5M for robotics simulation tech

One of the most fundamental breakthroughs at Nvidia has been building processors that power and integrate with highly detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations, which can be used in a wide range of applications, from games and industrial developments through to AI training.

techcrunch.com

Applied use cases

AI research uncovers 300 ancient etchings in Peru's Nazca desert

Japanese scientists have used artificial intelligence to uncover 303 new etchings in Peru’s Nazca desert — doubling the amount of known geoglyphs made some 2,000 years ago by a pre-Inca civilization.

france24.com

AI model identifies existing drugs that can be repurposed for treatment of rare diseases

There are more than 7,000 rare and undiagnosed diseases globally. Although each condition occurs in a small number of individuals, collectively these diseases exert a staggering human and economic toll because they affect some 300 million people worldwide.

medicalxpress.com

AI Can Best Google’s Bot Detection System, Swiss Researchers Find

Researchers from ETH Zurich used advanced machine learning to solve 100% of Google’s reCAPTCHAv2, designed to distinguish humans from bots.

decrypt.co

Ethics

OECD and UN announce next steps in collaboration on Artificial Intelligence

Deputy SG of the OECD Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen and UN SG’S General’s Envoy on Technology, Amandeep Singh Gill, announced a new enhanced collaboration between the UN and the OECD on global AI governance.

oecd.org

Mark Zuckerberg says Europe needs more consistent AI regulation

Leading technology executives, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Spotify’s Daniel Ek, and Stripe’s Patrick Collison, have written an open letter slamming Europe for its “fragmented and inconsistent” regulation of data privacy and artificial intelligence.

fortune.com

‘New AI governance and ethics guidelines necessary to build cyber trust, resilient digital ecosystem’

Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo says the newly launched Artificial Intelligence Governance and Ethics (AIGE) guidelines will play an important role when the National AI Office starts operating soon.

yahoo.com

Robotics

‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet?

Tesla and others are trying to infuse robots with artificial intelligence, yet their development is dogged by technical and safety challenges. But the dream of a multipurpose domestic droid lives on

theguardian.com

Tencent Robotics X Lab reveals The Five, a hybrid home help robot

The Five, the latest offering from Tencent Robotics X Lab, was unveiled on Tuesday. The residential robot, created as a general-purpose robot that can coexist safely and harmoniously with people, integrates core capabilities from previous generations, features four-wheels, tactile skin, and hands.

technode.com

IFR World Robotics report says 4M robots are operating in factories globally

The International Federation of Robotics’ latest World Robotics report recorded 4,281,585 units operating in factories worldwide in 2023. This is a 10% increase from the year before.

therobotreport.com

Research

AI-empowered next-generation multiscale climate modelling for mitigation and adaptation

We propose a next-generation Earth system modelling approach with artificial intelligence that calls for accelerated models, machine-learning integration, systematic use of Earth observations and modernized infrastructures.

nature.com

A robust algorithm for authenticated health data access via blockchain and cloud computing

Our analyses show that this algorithm significantly improves the security and efficiency of health data exchanges. By combining blockchain’s decentralized structure with the cloud’s scalability, this approach significantly improves EHR security protocols in modern healthcare setting.

plos.org

How to Train a Speech Recognition Model with Wav2Vec 2.0 and Hugging Face Transformers

Speech Recognition is a machine learning model that translates spoken audio data into text format. Basically, the model can transcribe speech into a document. It’s a model that is increasingly popular in business, as there are many demands from them.

kdnuggets.com

A pruning approach for neural network design optimized for specific hardware configurations

Neural network pruning is a key technique for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models based on deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained platforms, such as mobile devices. However, hardware conditions and resource availability vary greatly across different platforms, making it essential to design pruned models optimally suited to specific hardware configurations.