Artificial intelligence
Most of today's AI will never lead to true human intelligence: Meta AI chief
Speaking to ZDNet, LeCun noted that fundamental problems elude many strains of deep learning, including the mystery of how to measure information. "I think they're necessary but not sufficient. We tokenize everything, and train gigantic models to make discrete predictions, and somehow AI will emerge out of this," he was quoted as saying.
Even smartest AI models don't match human visual processing: Study
Researcher James Elder from York University in Toronto, said, "Our results explain why deep AI models fail under certain conditions and point to the need to consider tasks beyond object recognition in order to understand visual processing in the brain." For the study, published in the journal iScience, the team employed novel visual stimuli called "Frankensteins" to explore how the human brain and DCNNs process holistic, configural object properties.
Tech can help solve some of India's biggest challenges: Microsoft President
Smith, who is in India this week, said the country can take a giant leap via world-class innovations that can help solve global issues. "I'm in India as the country celebrates 75 years of Independence. It's an exciting time to learn more about how technology can help solve some of India's biggest challenges -- and how India's innovation is shaping the future," tweeted Smith.
Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool
According to The Verge, the company is open-sourcing the project in the hopes that others will build on its work. The AI model is part of an ambitious R&D project by Meta to create a so-called "universal speech translator," which the company sees as important for growth across its many platforms -- from Facebook and Instagram to developing domains like VR and AR.
Half of finance AI projects to be delayed or cancelled by 2024
At the same time, the use of business process outsourcing (BPO) for AI will rise from 6 per cent to 40 per cent within two years, according to Gartner. CFOs face major barriers to scaling up the use of AI in-house and will increasingly turn to business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions to meet their digital transformation objectives, the report noted.
After Meta's COO, another top executive to depart soon
The company said that Jerome Pesenti, Meta's VP of AI, will depart in mid-June after helping it through the early stages of the AI transition. "We are grateful for the incredible work Jerome has done over the past over four years in building, leading, and scaling a world-class AI function for Meta," the company said in a blogpost.
"In the new model we will distribute the ownership of these AI systems back to Meta's product groups," it added.
UK watchdog fines Clearview AI $9.5 mn, tells firm to delete data
The ICO has also issued an enforcement notice, ordering the company to stop obtaining and using the personal data of UK residents and delete data from its systems. Clearview AI has collected more than 20 billion images of people's faces and data from publicly available information on the internet and social media platforms all over the world to create an online database.
Indian coder with AI-based fitness solution for mobiles wins 'HackerCamp'22'
Healthcare technology company Innovaccer, along with Microsoft and conversational messaging platform GupShup, organised 'HackerCamp'22' -- one of the largest coding events that brought together ideas ranging from Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, big data analytics and more from over 50,000 coders.
Instagram shuts down Boomerang, Hyperlapse standalone apps
Shortly after dropping support for the IGTV application, Instagram has removed its standalone Boomerang as well as Hyperlapse apps from Apple's App Store and Google Play. Boomerang from Instagram launched back in 2014 and allowed users to create mini videos from a burst of 10 shots. Instagram expects the quality to "continue to improve" as the AI learns, however.
Microsoft working on 'Singularity' AI Cloud infrastructure service
Microsoft is working on a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure service codenamed 'Singularity' that will provide data scientists and AI researchers a way to build, scale, experiment and iterate on their models on a Microsoft Azure Cloud service built specifically for AI. A group of researchers, mostly of Indian origin, have published a paper which provides technical details about the ‘Singularity' project.
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