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Necessity is the mother of invention, and Rwanda's government seems to understand this more than most with the launch of the Centre of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR).

"With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the rapid innovations witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic, there is an increased urgency to develop digital and technological capacities to build more resilient systems for a healthier society and more sustainable economy," said Rwandan Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation Paula Ingabire.

Ingabire made the comment in a media statement posted on the World Economic Forum's (WEF) website.

Rwanda has launched its C4IR, saying it will "work with stakeholders around the world to design and pilot new approaches to technology governance that foster innovation in an inclusive and responsible manner".
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It was said here that we just had a golden week (10 or so days in AI). To me it seemed like we got multiple of those once in a year to 6 months breakthroughs.

Last week in AI has posted there news paper on the last week.

https://lastweekin.ai/p/last-week-in-ai ... dall-e?s=w
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Zoom Launches AI-Powered Features Aimed at Sales Teams
by Kyle Wiggers
April 13, 2022

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/13/zoom- ... les-teams/

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(TechCrunch) Today during its second Work Transformation Summit this week, Zoom announced Zoom IQ for Sales, a product that uses AI to analyze sales meetings and deals to provide insights. It’s the company’s first explicit foray into sales automation software, a market that — according to Verified Market Research — could grow to $7.3 billion in size by 2028.

Sales changed dramatically during the pandemic, when lockdowns forced companies — and their sales teams — to adopt digital tools to get work done. According to a 2020 McKinsey report, almost 90% of sales moved to a videoconference/phone/web sales model in 2020, as business-to-business companies in particular began to see digital interactions as highly important. An unaffiliated study from Harvard Business Review found 82% of companies believe that, out of all technologies, AI has the potential to “significantly” improve alignment between sales and marketing by introducing accountability.

“Zoom is always searching for ways to help our customers elevate their end customers’ experience and Zoom IQ for Sales is the latest development in that journey,” Josh Dulberger, Zoom’s head of product, data and AI, told TechCrunch via email. “Zoom IQ for Sales … [can] identify opportunities, assess risks, and ultimately enable and improve sales team performance. It uses natural language processing models to process post-meeting transcripts and deal progress data, generating insights for sales reps and managers.”
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Chinese Researchers Report Integrated Robot System for Ultrasound-guided Prostate Percutaneous Intervention
April 13, 2022

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/949677

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(Higher Education Press via EurekAlert) A research team from Harbin Institute of Technology has proposed a novel and effective robot system for ultrasound-guided prostate percutaneous intervention. The 8-joint robot system can realize a full-automatic control for prostate insertion, which can be potentially applied to prostate diagnose and treatment such as biopsy and brachytherapy. This study can be found in the journal Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering on January 27, 2022.

As the patient group with prostate disease increases greatly in recent years, the novel and rigid robot system provides a hopeful alternative for automatic intervention process with less attempts and trauma, and also depending less on operators’ experience.

“The compact system makes use of the limited space for prostate insertion operation. The robot system contains 8 joints for independent control of ultrasound probe manipulation, needle positioning and needle insertion. The employed parallel structure, importantly, can avoid potential collision between the structure and patient,” said by assistant professor Bo Pan, the author of the study.

The research group of Profs. Yili Fu and Bo Pan is one of the pioneer research groups studying medical imaging-guided surgery robot systems in China. The robot systems are designed to meet the complex requirements in surgical process and increase the rate of success. “Applying intelligent systems to assist doctors to realize operations with reduced difficulties is an effective approach to improve our medical treatment process,” said by Pan. And this time, the study group is focused on the ultrasound-guided prostate insertion process.

Ultrasound-guided prostate insertion is a generally used process to diagnose and treat prostate diseases. During the insertion process, a doctor needs to scan the gland, insert the needle and check the accuracy at the same time. A tablet can help doctors reduce the operation difficulty; however, it restricts the insertion flexibility. Also, repetitive attempts are usually needed to increase the accuracy, which lead to bigger trauma and uncomfort to patients. The 8-joint robot system proposed in this work is aimed at achieving the whole process automatically.
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Researchers develop new AI form that can adapt to perform tasks in changeable environments

by Sandra Tavakoli and Karin Wik, Chalmers University of Technology
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-ai- ... ments.html
Can robots adapt their own working methods to solve complex tasks? Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new form of AI, which, by observing human behavior, can adapt to perform its tasks in a changeable environment. The hope is that robots that can be flexible in this way will be able to work alongside humans to a much greater degree.

"Robots that work in human environments need to be adaptable to the fact that humans are unique, and that we might all solve the same task in a different way. An important area in robot development, therefore, is to teach robots how to work alongside humans in dynamic environments," says Maximilian Diehl, Doctoral Student at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and main researcher behind the project.

When humans carry out a simple task, such as setting a table, we might approach the challenge in several different ways, depending on the conditions. If a chair unexpectedly stands in the way, we could choose to move it or walk around it. We alternate between using our right and left hands, we take pauses, and perform any number of unplanned actions.

But robots do not work in the same way. They need precise programming and instructions all the way to the goal. This approach makes them very efficient in environments where they constantly follow the same pattern, such as factory processing lines. But to successfully interact with people in areas such as healthcare or customer facing roles, robots need to develop much more flexible ways of working.
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Researchers take step toward developing 'electric eye'

by Georgia State University
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-electric-eye.html
Georgia State University researchers have successfully designed a new type of artificial vision device that incorporates a novel vertical stacking architecture and allows for greater depth of color recognition and scalability on a micro-level. The new research is published in the top journal ACS Nano.

"This work is the first step toward our final destination–to develop a micro-scale camera for microrobots," says assistant professor of Physics Sidong Lei, who led the research. "We illustrate the fundamental principle and feasibility to construct this new type of image sensor with emphasis on miniaturization."

Lei's team was able to lay the groundwork for the biomimetic artificial vision device, which uses synthetic methods to mimic biochemical processes, using nanotechnology.

"It is well-known that more than 80 percent of the information is captured by vision in research, industry, medication, and our daily life," he says. "The ultimate purpose of our research is to develop a micro-scale camera for microrobots that can enter narrow spaces that are intangible by current means, and open up new horizons in medical diagnosis, environmental study, manufacturing, archaeology, and many more."
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By modern standards, he's not wrong. But eventually I do hope we get AI presidents.
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Tech designed to aid visually impaired could benefit from human-AI collaboration
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-tec ... nefit.html
by Jessica Hallman, Pennsylvania State University
Remote sighted assistance (RSA) technology—which connects visually impaired individuals with human agents through a live video call on their smartphones—helps people with low or no vision navigate tasks that require sight. But what happens when existing computer vision technology doesn't fully support an agent in fulfilling certain requests, such as reading instructions on a medicine bottle or recognizing flight information on an airport's digital screen?

According to researchers at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, there are some challenges that cannot be solved with existing computer vision techniques. Instead, the researchers posit that they would be better addressed by humans and AI working together to improve the technology and enhance the experience for both visually impaired users and the agents who support them.
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This is the kind of "magic" I was talking about last decade


I said that the real magic in AI wasn't being done by computers, but rather by programmers. People like DeepMind, Google Brain, and Baidu researchers were magicians fooling us into thinking a bunch of matrix multiplication runs were intelligent.

This, though? Oh no, there's genuinely something magical happening in this model.
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