 Elon Musk says Tesla's AI could play a role in the creation of Artificial General Intelligence, a hypothetical concept referring to a time when machines reach a broader intelligence that is roughly equal to humans. In a tweet, the Tesla CEO said the company's AI could contribute to smarter machines given that it "trains against the outside world," including with its upcoming Tesla Bot. More: - Tesla is now developing a humanoid robot, codenamed Optimus, that it says builds upon its work in AI and self-driving vehicles.
- The robot will reportedly be equipped with Tesla car autopilot cameras, a screen for displaying information, and a full self-driving computer.
- Musk has said he hopes to have a working prototype of the bot by the end of this year.
- In a tweet posted today, Musk noted that "decentralized control" of the robots is critical to ensuring that they don't go awry and turn on humans.
Zoom-out: - Last year, Musk said Tesla is arguably the world's largest robotics company because its vehicles are like "semi-sentient robots on wheels."
- It makes sense to convert this AI-driven knowledge into "a humanoid form," he added.
- The Tesla CEO has previously claimed that super AI is more dangerous than nuclear warheads, and machines will be as smart as humans in less than 10 years.
- In 2017, Musk said that "AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization."
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Chinese researchers studied chatbots from Facebook, Microsoft, WeChat, and others and found that they exhibited low empathy and mental health issues related to depression and addiction. The researchers are concerned that the bots could negatively impact users during conversations, particularly minors and people facing difficulties. More: - The researchers examined Facebook's Blenderbot, Microsoft's DiabloGPT, Tencent's DialoFlow, and Baidu's Plato chatbot, asking them questions typical to a cursory intake for depression in people.
- The bots, which are trained to converse with people, showed signs of depression and addiction and scored low on empathy.
- According to the study, the bots were all trained on comments posted to Reddit, potentially explaining their responses.
- The preprint study from the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Computing Technology was done in tandem with Tencent and its messaging app WeChat.
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Chinese AI chip startup Axera announced a financing round of 800 million yuan ($126M), with participation from food delivery giant Meituan, Qiming Venture Partners, and other investors. The news comes as the demand for AI chips is booming. AI research institute Tractica predicts the market will reach $72.6B by 2025, up from $17.5B in 2021. China, in particular, is investing heavily in the space as it seeks to become more self-reliant and less dependent on foreign firms for semiconductors. More: - Axera develops low-power and high-performance computer vision processors for autonomous driving, smart cities, wearables, and other advanced technologies.
- Its AI vision chips, the AX630A and AX620A, contain image processing technology for facial recognition, object detection, and other vision tasks.
- The fresh funding will help the semiconductor company recruit more employees and expand operations.
- It is Axera's second funding round in six months and its fourth round since it was founded in May 2019.
- Chinese tech giant Baidu recently announced its second-gen AI semiconductor, Kunlun 2, which entered mass production last year.
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AI-enabled revenue ops platform Clari raised $225M at a $2.6M valuation, 4x higher than it was two years ago. Clari's cloud platform gathers data about a company's sales operations across systems. It then uses AI to crunch that data and deliver insights that can potentially generate more revenue for the company. More: - Clari offers an AI-powered revenue forecasting engine that estimates a company's future revenue, including for specific segments of a business.
- Companies that use Clari's platform in their sales operations include UiPath, Databricks, HashiCorp, and Nutanix. 18 of its 450+ customers went public in 2021.
- The latest Series F round was led by Blackstone through Blackstone Growth-managed funds. It included existing investors Silver Lake, new investors Light Street Capital and Maverick Capital, and others.
- Clari plans to use the funding to hire an additional 300 employees, expand its presence internationally, introduce its software to more enterprises, and acquire other firms with technology that could further develop its products.
- In 2021, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Clari was chosen as one of Forbes' AI 50 Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies.
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 A message from LOHIKA Web3: Why It Matters and How to Think About It in 2022. You may have heard about “Web3,” along with related technologies like blockchain, NFTs and smart contracts. What exactly is Web3? Is it the evolution of Web 2.0? Is it the future of the Internet? We don’t know all the answers, so invited a panel of experts who do. We’re hosting an online event with Capgemini AIE “Web3: Why It Matters and How to Think About It in 2022.” The panel: We will also discuss: - How engineering leaders should approach recruiting for team building web3 applications
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ICYMI: A machine learning system can monitor politicians' smartphone usage during government meetings and highlight lawmakers who are distracted. Belgian artist Dries Depoorters created the software program, called "The Flemish Scrollers," which uses AI to locate phones in live video footage and facial recognition to identify the lawmaker. It then tweets out names and clips of the distracted politicians. More: - The program, created in 2021, also displays the percentage of how distracted the video subjects appear to be.
- It was created in response to Belgian Minister-President Jan Jambon playing Angry Birds on his phone during a 2019 parliament session.
- Depoorters used the open-source software library Keras for the program's object detection and facial recognition capabilities.
- Given the artist's interest in privacy and AI, it's also being viewed as a commentary on surveillance AI and the implications of being constantly monitored by facial recognition.
TECH TIMES
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📅 2022 AI Events and Conferences: - AAAI Conference on Artificial intelligence: Feb. 2-9, virtual.
- World Artificial Intelligence Cannes Festival: Feb. 10-12, Cannes, France and digital.
- Deep Learning Summit: Feb. 17-18, San Francisco and online.
- European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit: March 1-2, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces: March 22-25, Helsinki and online.
- MLconf 2022 New York City: March 31, NYC.
- World Summit AI Americas 2022: May 4-5, Montréal, Canada.
- ICLR 2022, the International Conference on Learning Representations: April 25-29, virtual.
- International Conference and Expo On Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: May 16-18, 2022, London.
- CVPR 2022, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: June 19-24, New Orleans.
- Deep Learning World: June 19-24, Las Vegas.
- International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining: July 16-21, New York City.
- ICML 2022, International Conference on Machine Learning: July 17-23, Baltimore, in-person conference with virtual elements.
- AI & Big Data Expo Global: Dec. 1-2, London.
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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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