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ForkLog AI has gathered the most important AI news of the past week.
- Doctors in Moscow issued more than 3 million preliminary diagnoses with the help of AI.
- In 2022, TSMC will spend $40–$44 billion to expand production capacity to produce a sufficient supply of microchips.
- Media reports that several American intelligence agencies are using AI tools to prevent a second “January 6”.
- The California authorities will consider banning the operation of Tesla’s Autopilot features outside an autonomous-vehicle testing program.
- NVIDIA has released a new AI tool to improve image quality in games.
- The most notable AI deals of the past week.
AI helped Moscow doctors make more than 3 million preliminary diagnoses
In 2021, Moscow doctors made more than 3 million preliminary diagnoses with the help of artificial intelligence.
The clinical decision support system (CDSS) analyzes patients’ complaints and then suggests the doctor choose one of the three most likely diagnoses or indicate another. It also helps generate referrals for additional diagnostics.
The Moscow authorities said that using CDSS cuts the time to issue prescriptions by tenfold and allows doctors to focus on important details in patients’ medical histories.
TSMC to expand production capacity for chips
In 2022, the Taiwanese semiconductor maker TSMC will spend $40–$44 billion to expand production capacity. By 2023 the company plans to raise capital expenditures to $100 billion.
The manufacturer intends to narrow the global chip shortage and satisfy growing demand for AI-ready chips manufactured with advanced lithography for AI tasks and 5G-enabled applications.
According to TSMC CEO CC Wei, “in the next few years” the company will increase annual revenue by 15–20%, higher than the previous forecast of 10%. The profit margin will rise to at least 53%, he added.
Study: AI will replace people in 30 popular professions
In the near future AI will replace human professionals in about 30 common occupations, according to a study by the Swedish Institute for Labour Market and Educational Policy Evaluation (IFAU).
According to the report, algorithms will be able to perform much of the work of mail carriers, welders, blacksmiths, bakers, machinists, retail clerks, cashiers, photomodels, and accountants. AI may also replace some doctors, including radiologists, gynecologists and orthopedic surgeons.
According to the study, 53% of jobs in Sweden are at risk due to digitisation, amounting to about 2.49 million people.
Media: American intelligence agencies use AI for early forecasting of mass protests
Several American intelligence agencies use AI systems to prevent a second “January 6”.
According to The Washington Post, several research groups have developed tools for forecasting mass strikes, political protests and potential coups. Among them:
- The CoupCast riot-prediction algorithm, which analyzes democratic history and state backsliding, economic fluctuations, transport disruptions, weather changes, leadership roles and other indicators;
- technology from the non-profit ACLED for tracking and forecasting crises worldwide;
- PeaceTech Lab’s Ground Truth system for predicting violence in the context of various political events, including elections.
Sources said that the Department of Defense, the CIA and the State Department are using AI to track unrest in other countries.
French scientists teach Raspberry Pi to detect computer viruses from electromagnetic radiation
Researchers from the French IRISA institute created a Raspberry Pi-based system to detect malware by scanning a PC’s electromagnetic waves.
The developers connected the single-board computer to a Picoscope 6407 oscilloscope and an H-field sensor. They then ran convolutional neural networks on the Raspberry Pi, trained on safe and malicious data to identify threat parameters.
As a result, the system was trained to detect anomalies in specific electromagnetic waves emitted by computers subjected to cyberattacks, with an accuracy of 99.82%.
According to the scientists, the project is exploratory and not intended for commercialization.
The California intends to ban Tesla from testing Autopilot in-state without a permit
The California Department of Motor Vehicles will study the need to regulate the use of Full Self-Driving due to “dangerous” videos.
The department intends to revisit its decision that beta FSD “does not fall under the autonomous vehicle testing program, as there is no specially trained test-driver in the vehicle.”
According to the regulator’s letter, this occurred in light of the latest software updates, videos showing “dangerous” use of the technology, open investigations into the autopilot and opinions from other experts in the field.
The department plans to study FSD’s functions and their operation in accordance with California’s autonomous-vehicle testing laws and rules.
Nuro equips robo-delivers with airbags
The company Nuro unveiled its third-generation autonomous delivery robot with an external pedestrian airbag.
The device is equipped with several 360-degree sensors, including regular and thermal cameras, radar and LiDAR. The robo-delivery vehicle has temperature-controlled compartments and modular inserts for transporting various goods. The manufacturer has also doubled the drone’s cargo space compared with the previous version.
The delivery robot can reach speeds of up to 40 km/h. A front airbag is integrated into its front to deploy upon collision with other road users, including pedestrians and cyclists.
Google adds automatic subtitle translation to Meet
Google added real-time subtitle translation in Meet. The rollout will take several months.
For now, the system can translate only from English to Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German.
The “live captions” feature is available in Google Workspace editions: Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching & Learning Upgrade, Education Plus.
NVIDIA released an AI-based tool to improve image quality in games
The GPU maker NVIDIA unveiled its DLDSR technology based on AI to boost image quality in games.
The tool renders the image at a higher quality and then scales it to the monitor’s resolution. It increases detail, smooths object edges and reduces frame flicker. According to the company, the algorithm roughly doubles the performance of existing dynamic super-resolution (DSR) technology.
DLDSR uses specialized tensor cores and can run only on GeForce RTX GPUs, but will be supported in most games.
L’Oréal developed an AI assistant for selecting the “perfect” hair shade
The cosmetics maker L’Oréal unveiled an AI-powered Coloright device to help stylists pick the “perfect” hair shade. It is already being tested in some salons in France.
The system analyzes the client’s hair and assesses its length, porosity, and density, as well as determines the percentage of gray hair. It then outputs individual recipes with more than 1500 shades and, based on user choice, mixes base dyes, developers and diluents.
The company plans a full-scale Coloright launch by the end of 2022 or early 2023.
The most notable AI deals of the past week
From January 9 to 15, 2022, AI startups raised over $859.3 million. Here are the most interesting deals.
- Shield raised $15 million to scale its regulatory-compliance analytics platform.
- Highspot raised $248 million to support tools for increasing sales.
- DeepScribe raised $30 million.
- SeekOut raised $115 million to expand its recruiting platform.
- Placer.ai raised $100 million to enhance its venue-traffic tracking and analysis service.
- Second Nature raised $12.5 million to support software that trains salespeople with avatars.
- AmazeVR raised $15 million.
- MOSTLY AI raised $25 million to bring synthetic data to every enterprise.
- PassiveLogic raised $34 million to launch tools for modeling digital twins of buildings.
- StageZero raised $1.8 million to escalate data-labeling tasks in mobile games.
Also on ForkLog:
- Media: Apple has ruled out the idea of a metaverse for a mixed-reality headset.
- Yandex will launch a driverless taxi in Moscow.
- Alphabet will create a new company for developing quantum computing.
- BioNTech and InstaDeep developed a system for early detection of dangerous coronavirus strains.
- Samsung developed a new type of computing for artificial intelligence.
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