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Okay, I will admit it - DALL-E 2 both impresses and scares me. AI doing text and voice thingies is something I'm long used to and expect. It doing art thingies is mind blowing and wow.

(Yes, thingies, I'm not a technical wordy type person, please don't judge)
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Yuli Ban wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 5:22 am
This is insane levels of performance gain for such little compute. I actually did not believe it.

To put this in perspective this is akin to a video game on your PS4 running on the original XBOX from 2001 at the SAME level of performance bear minimum. The fact we can make models three orders of magnitude more efficient in less than two years is astounding even if it is limited in application.

Seriously this is insane. Utterly insane.
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Look at what systems like DALL-E2, PaLM, Chinchilla, Flamingo, and Gato can already do. Hard to imagine what 10 more years of progress like that will look like. 10 years ago Alexnet wasn't even on the radar -- it didn't compete in the Imagenet competition until late September 2012, and before then there were just some isolated successes from deep neural nets -- nothing spectacular. The transformation over the next 10 years will probably be even greater.

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Given that Apple and Google are now entering the AR / VR race with Facebook, there'll be a need for applying DALL-E2-like synthetic media to generate VR content. It would be something to behold to walk around in a 3D painting. I suppose getting enough training data to pull this off will be the main issue.

There should also be big advances in video synthesis. Current lack of progress might just be due to insufficient scale; or it could be that people are making some false assumptions about what's holding it back. I'm sure they'll find the right mix of things to make it work really well soon enough.

Of course there will also be conversational AI systems that can do talk deeply about basically anything, and do things on your behalf. They won't be immediately released to the public, but you'll read about them.

We might see some big advances in robotics, due to large companies like Google training armies of robots, collecting the training data, and rolling it all into a Gato-like model. They could hire hundreds of people, also, to drive bots to complete tasks using a controller.
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Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avoiding hundreds of collisions

https://electrek.co/2022/05/13/autonomo ... ollisions/

"The “world’s first” autonomous commercial cargo ship has successfully completed a near-500 mile voyage in the congested waters of Tokyo Bay, traveling without human intervention for 99% of the trip. The 750 gross-ton vessel was powered by Orca AI, whose software helped the ship avoid hundreds of collisions autonomously.

Orca AI is a developer of safety software platforms designed specifically for maritime vessels. Founded in 2018 by two naval technology experts, the company combines sensors with existing safety systems onboard to help improve the safety and navigation of ships on crowded waterways.

Headquartered in Israel, Orca AI looks to bridge sea-bound ships to the shore with 24/7 insights to ensure shipping companies keep their cargo safe and efficient at all times, all while providing the technology to bring autonomous cargo ships to reality."

By 2040, a significant % of cargo ships will be autonomous, sailing on autopilot. Not all of them though. Gradually, less and less crew will be needed.
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Twisted Soft Robots Navigate Mazes Without Human or Computer Guidance
May 23, 2022

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(EurekAlert) Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Pennsylvania have developed soft robots that are capable of navigating complex environments, such as mazes, without input from humans or computer software.

“These soft robots demonstrate a concept called ‘physical intelligence,’ meaning that structural design and smart materials are what allow the soft robot to navigate various situations, as opposed to computational intelligence,” says Jie Yin, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State.

The soft robots are made of liquid crystal elastomers in the shape of a twisted ribbon, resembling translucent rotini. When you place the ribbon on a surface that is at least 55 degrees Celsius (131 degrees Fahrenheit), which is hotter than the ambient air, the portion of the ribbon touching the surface contracts, while the portion of the ribbon exposed to the air does not. This induces a rolling motion in the ribbon. And the warmer the surface, the faster it rolls. Video of the ribbon-like soft robots can be found at

“This has been done before with smooth-sided rods, but that shape has a drawback – when it encounters an object, it simply spins in place,” says Yin. “The soft robot we’ve made in a twisted ribbon shape is capable of negotiating these obstacles with no human or computer intervention whatsoever.”

The ribbon robot does this in two ways. First, if one end of the ribbon encounters an object, the ribbon rotates slightly to get around the obstacle. Second, if the central part of the robot encounters an object, it “snaps.” The snap is a rapid release of stored deformation energy that causes the ribbon to jump slightly and reorient itself before landing. The ribbon may need to snap more than once before finding an orientation that allows is to negotiate the obstacle, but ultimately it always finds a clear path forward.
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Computer scientists suggest research integrity could be at risk due to AI generated imagery
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-sci ... agery.html
by Bob Yirka , Tech Xplore

A small team of researchers at Xiamen University has expressed alarm at the ease with which bad actors can now generate fake AI imagery for use in research projects. They have published an opinion piece outlining their concerns in the journal Patterns.

When researchers publish their work in established journals, they often include photographs to show the results of their work. But now the integrity of such photographs is under assault by certain entities who wish to circumvent standard research protocols. Instead of generating photographs of their actual work, they can instead generate them using artificial-intelligence applications. Generating fake photographs in this way, the researchers suggest, could allow miscreants to publish research papers without doing any real research.

To demonstrate the ease with which fake research imagery could be generated, the researchers generated some of their own using a generative adversarial network (GAN), in which two systems, one a generator, the other a discriminator, attempt to outcompete one another in creating a desired image. Prior research has shown that the approach can be used to create images of strikingly realistic human faces. In their work, the researchers generated two types of images. The first kind were of a western blot—an imaging approach used for detecting proteins in a blood sample. The second was of esophageal cancer images. The researchers then presented the images they had created to biomedical specialists—two out of three were unable to distinguish them from the real thing.
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This New AI Can Detect the Calls of Animals Swimming in an Ocean of Noise
by Carly Cassella
My 24, 2022

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(Science Alert) The ocean is swimming in sound, and a new artificial intelligence tool could help scientists sift through all that noise to track and study marine mammals.

The tool is called DeepSqueak, not because it measures dolphin calls in the ocean underworld, but because it is based on a deep learning algorithm that was first used to categorize the different ultrasonic squeals of mice.

Now, researchers are applying the technology to vast datasets of marine bioacoustics.

Given that much of the ocean is out of our physical reach, underwater sound could help us understand where marine mammals swim, their density and abundance, and how they interact with one another.

Already, recordings of whale songs have helped identify an unknown population of blue whales in the Indian Ocean and a never-before-heard species of beaked whale
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The World's Smallest Remote-Controlled Walking Robot
by Eleanor Higgs
May 26, 2022

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(IFL Science) This remote-controlled walking robot is the smallest ever created, and it could one day be scuttling around inside you.

Say hello to the peekytoe crab robot which is able to move without complex hardware, hydraulics, or electricity. Instead, the locomotion is created by the robot’s shape-memory alloy, which deforms into its remembered shape when heated.

A laser is used to rapidly heat the robot at different targeted locations, and a thin coating of glass elastically returns that part of the robot to its deformed shape when cooling. As the robot changes shape from deformed to remembered and back, this action creates the locomotion. The laser can control the direction of travel, and the robot can crawl, twist, walk, turn, and even jump. The research is published in the journal Science Robotics.

Researchers at Northwestern University were inspired by the mechanism used in children’s “pop-up” books to create the tiny robot crab. The weeny bot is 0.5 millimeters (0.02 inches) wide, making it even smaller than a flea, and it is hoped that similar robots could one day be used to perform tasks in tight spaces, including within the human body.
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To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
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