Computer science expert Kristian Hammond discusses Northwestern’s Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence and its efforts in making AI more responsible.
Computer scientist Kristian Hammond says the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence is working to develop the kinds of guardrails that will help us use AI for a bigger and better impact on the world without compromising our well-being. Photo by Jonah Elkowitz.
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Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have developed a solar cell-based optoelectronic device that mimics human synapses for efficient edge AI processing.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly useful for the prediction of emergency events such as heart attacks, natural disasters, and pipeline failures. This requires state-of-the-art technologies that can rapidly process data. In this regard, reservoir computing, specially designed for time-series data processing with low power consumption, is a promising option.
It can be implemented in various frameworks, among which physical reservoir computing (PRC) is the most popular. PRC with optoelectronic artificial synapses (junction structures that permit a nerve cell to transmit an electrical or chemical signal to another cell) that mimic human synaptic elements are expected to have unparalleled recognition and real-time processing capabilities akin to the human visual system.
However, PRC based on existing self-powered optoelectronic synaptic devices cannot handle time-series data across multiple timescales, present in signals for monitoring infrastructure, natural environment, and health conditions.
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Proxie is a more direct and practical solution in an industry where many companies gravitate toward super-advanced humanoid robots. Brad Porter explains that while humanoid robots represent an exciting frontier, their high costs and variable reliability pose significant barriers to widespread deployment.
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Recorded at the Superintelligence Summit held by Ocean Protocol in Bangkok on November 11, 2024.
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Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology.
Philip Feldman at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County told New Scientist that the resulting communication speed-ups could help multi-agent systems tackle bigger, more complex problems than possible using natural language.
But the researchers say there’s still plenty of room for improvement. For a start, it would be helpful if models of different sizes and configurations could communicate. And they could squeeze out even bigger computational savings by compressing the intermediate representations before transferring them between models.
However, it seems likely this is just the first step towards a future in which the diversity of machine languages rivals that of human ones.
Pyramid Analytics, an AI business analytics company, said on Monday it has raised $50 million in new financing from BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager.
A lot of the hype today centers on the idea of developers using AI “to write their code.” This is not practical, at least not for complex tasks. However, AI does have some strengths:
• Producing first drafts of code.
• Minor code updates.
• Automating repetitive tasks.
• Producing code summaries.
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Now that AI is transforming nearly every industry, healthcare stands out as a field with immense potential — and unique risks.
A single AI-generated error here could lead to serious consequences for patient health.
Designed to one day search for evidence of life in the briny ocean beneath the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa, these robots could play a key role in detecting chemical and temperature signals that might indicate alien life, according to scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who designed and tested the robots.
“People might ask, why is NASA developing an underwater robot for space exploration?” said Ethan Schaler, the project’s principal investigator at JPL. “It’s because there are places we want to go in the solar system to look for life, and we think life needs water.”
