Elon Musk said Tesla's humanoid robot is the "most important" product it's developing this year. During a Q4 earnings call yesterday, Musk said the "Tesla Bot" could become more significant than the company's car business over time. More: - On Wednesday, Musk said the bot's first application would likely be at Tesla facilities moving around parts at a factory.
- The 125-pound bot would rely on the same AI technology that powers Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopilot tech for vehicles.
- Musk has said he hopes to have a working prototype of the robot by the end of this year.
Zoom-out: - The CEO noted that the Tesla Cybertruck pickup, Roadster supercar, and Semi tractor-trailer are behind schedule but will "hopefully" go into production in 2023.
- Tesla won't introduce any new models in 2022 and will instead focus on scaling output of its current vehicles.
- In its results for the fourth quarter, Tesla generated $17.7B, a 65% growth YoY.
- The number of vehicles with Full Self-Driving Beta, a semi-autonomous driving system powered by AI, rose from ~2,000 in Q3 to approximately 60,000.
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Business collab software company Atlassian revealed that it acquired Percept.ai, a startup that provides AI virtual agent technology. The Jira maker plans to integrate the chatbot tech into its tool for IT customer-employee service. More: - The deal will bolster Atlassian's prior investments in machine learning and automation, it said.
- Percept.AI was part of Y Combinator's summer 2017 batch of startups. Its technology automates basic support interactions through chat, email, portal, and the web, according to the company.
- Percept's conversational AI engine learns over time and attempts to discern the contest, sentiment, and more of interactions to make them more personalized.
- On Thursday, Atlassian reported fiscal Q2 earnings that beat analyst estimates.
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An Intel-funded initiative will award $40,000 grants to 10 U.S. community colleges to build labs for AI education. The AI Incubator Network, as it's called, is a joint effort between Intel, Dell, and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) More: - Colleges will be able to design and build their own physical, virtual, or hybrid AI incubators, which will give students access to AI tools, resources, equipment, and skills.
- Intel will provide four customizable AI courses covering natural language processing, computer vision skills, and statistical data.
- Educators at community colleges will be able to join the project. The AACC will help schools implement the grant funding from Intel. Dell will provide technical support to schools.
- Colleges have until Feb. 25 to apply.
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 An AI system was able to predict where frozen meteorites may be hiding in Antarctica. The extraterrestrial rocks, which come from planetary bodies, frequently hit the Earth but are more likely to be preserved and discovered in the continent's icy landscape. More: - Uncovering the space rocks could provide researchers with more information about the origins and evolutions of the solar system.
- To better locate them, researchers trained an AI system with satellite data as well as data about blue ice fields in Antarctica.
- The system pinpointed 600+ potentially meteorite-rich "zones," including undiscovered ones, on the continent.
- It indicates that an estimated 300,000 meteorites currently exist at ice sheets' surfaces.
- The research, published in the journal Science Advances, comes from scientists at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Delft University of Technology, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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ID.me, a facial recognition tool used by the IRS and some states, clarified that it does use a verification technique that's more susceptible to bias and error than it had disclosed previously. Last year, the IRS began requiring taxpayers to verify their identifies through ID.me by uploading a photo of a driver's license or other ID documents. More: - Previously, ID.me claimed it used a more simplistic facial recognition technology known as 1:1 face matching.
- This is when a face is compared only with images of the same face, such as when unlocking a smartphone.
- However, the company's CEO, Blake Hall, clarified this week that the company sometimes uses a more "complex and problematic" technique called 1:many more.
- This is when new users' selfies are compared not to a single document but an entire database of faces to locate a match, similar to Clearview AI's process.
- This more powerful technique has drawn criticism from privacy experts, who argue that it's more error-prone.
- ID.me has not been transparent about how its services work, they said.
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- Hall clarified that ID.me uses Amazon's biometric Rekognition tech to compare selfies to its database of people who previously applied.
- These types of checks are linked to government programs targeted by organized crime, he said.
- ID.me wants to prevent criminals from "stealing the identities of innocent victims," he wrote on LinkedIn.
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Albertsons announced that it will integrate Afresh's AI-driven solutions to better predict inventory and demand of its fresh foods. The grocery chain says Afresh's predictive capabilities will help it reduce food waste and deliver fresher products. More: - Afresh's tech will be applied to Albertsons' inventory, ordering, forecasting, merchandising, and operations.
- All Albertsons banner stores, which also include Safeway, Vons, and others, will deploy Afresh's operating system.
- According to Crunchbase, Afresh's platform uses AI/ML and "millions of data points" to forecast demand for individual items, taking into account supply chain constraints and more.
- Albertsons has a goal to cut down on its food waste in its Pacific Coast Divisions by 50% by 2030.
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 |  | Beth is an Inside Analyst and a former public policy/investigative reporter. She has covered AI, VR, technology, and e-commerce for Inside. When she's not busy writing, she's hiking in Arizona's desert, playing pickleball, or trying out new Mexican food recipes. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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