A proposed California amendment would ban AI hiring tools that discriminate against applicants on certain grounds. The proposed change to California's employment discrimination laws would prohibit AI automated-decision systems that screen out applicants based on "protected characteristics," such as race, disability, and gender. More: - The proposal comes from California's Fair Employment & Housing Council, which wants to revise the state's non-discrimination laws on employment to address AI/ML screening tools.
- These include tools that screen, evaluate, recommend, or generally make decisions that impact employees and applicants, according to the draft.
- The tools could include technology like algorithmic resume screenings, face and voice analysis, personality traits tests, and algorithms that use puzzles to make predictive assessments about applicants and employees.
- The draft rules are currently in the "public workshop phase" and will later open up for public comments for a 45-day period.
- It has "broad language" that could also apply to automated systems only slightly related to employment decisions, according to attorneys studying the issue.
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 Tesla aims to start producing its Optimus humanoid robot "hopefully" in 2023, Elon Musk said. The CEO made the remarks Thursday during the opening day event of Tesla's new gigafactory in Austin, Texas. More: - Musk said Tesla has "a shot of being in production for version one of Optimus hopefully next year."
- The company has yet to introduce a working prototype of the robot, which Musk claimed will "transform the world," more so than even Tesla's EVs.
- Previously, the CEO said he hopes to have a working prototype of the bot by the end of 2022.
- Reports noted that Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy is currently on a four-month sabbatical, which could affect the timing of the robot's production.
- AI expert and author Gary Marcus, the founder of Robust AI, told CNBC that Tesla has not come close to solving autonomous driving. To claim that a robot, which has yet to be released publicly, can solve all human tasks within the next two years "is preposterous," he said.
Zoom-out: - Tesla first teased the robot at its AI Day in August:
- The 5'8", 125-pound robot can walk 5 miles per hour and deadlift 150 pounds.
- The robot will reportedly be equipped with Tesla car autopilot cameras, a screen for displaying information, and a Full Self-Driving computer.
- Musk said it's designed to handle tasks considered "unsafe, repetitive, or boring," like grocery shopping and household chores.
- The Tesla bot is intended "to be friendly" and navigate a world built for humans, he claimed.
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Google Search still considers AI-generated content on websites to be against its guidelines and thus treats it as spam, according to Google's John Mueller. The webmaster trends analyst was asked about GPT-3 AI writing tools during a Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout. More: - Mueller said that GPT-3 and other AI systems "still fall into the category of automatically-generated content."
- Such content has long been considered spam under Google's Webmaster Guidelines, he noted.
- Mueller still acknowledged that the quality of AI-generated content has improved a bit compared to much older tools.
- But it's still automatically generated, and Google "would consider that to be spam."
Zoom-out: - In his own analysis of the issue, The Next Web's Tristan Greene notes that there's no method to verify an AI-generated news report unless "you have capable journalists fact-checking everything the AI asserts."
- He argues that this wastes more time and money than simply allowing humans and machines to work together to produce content.
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Johns Hopkins University researchers developed a deep-learning model that can predict a person's likelihood of sudden cardiac death up to 10 years in advance. The AI technique relies on contrast-enhanced MRI scans of the heart and a person's medical history to make its predictions. More: - The imaging scans can show patterns of scar tissue on the heart, a harbinger of heart disease.
- The AI technique is based on two neural networks. The first was trained using heart scans of Johns Hopkins patients who had cardiac scarring, and the second was trained on clinical patient data.
- The algorithm was able to perform better than doctors using visual estimates of heart scar features. It showed a "promising level of performance" when applied to both internal and external datasets and can also estimate how uncertain it is in its predictions.
- The model, called Survival Study of Cardiac Arrhythmia Risk (SSCAR), is detailed in a study published this week in Nature Cardiovascular Research.
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Lilt, a provider of AI-powered translation for documents and webpages, announced a $55M Series C funding round led by Four Rivers. The funding included existing investors Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and XSeed Capital, as well as new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures, and Wipro Ventures. More: - Lilt uses a combination of human workers, tech tools, and an AI engine to translate items like documents and web pages, principally for the marketing, e-commerce, and support industries.
- The AI engine handles the more repetitive and tedious work while human workers are in charge of more creative elements, CEO Spence Green told TechCrunch.
- The AI engine is regularly updated based on feedback from human translators and new data. It makes recommendations, but the translators ultimately decide the final output.
- The company is experiencing "growth across the board" but particularly seeing unique applications in crypto, technology, education, defense, and intelligence, Green said.
- San Francisco-based Lilt has raised $92.5M to date.
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Google on Thursday launched a U.S. beta of Multisearch, a feature that lets users search using both images and text. For example, a user could take a photo of a dining set and add the words "coffee table" to search for a matching set, the company explained in a blog post. More: - Google first previewed Mutlisearch at its Search On event last September. The feature is now available within the Google Lens part of the Google app on iOS and Android.
- The tool is currently experimental and aimed at shopping experiences. For example, a user could take a photo of an orange dress and add "green" to the query to find the dress in that color.
- It's currently limited to English-speaking smartphone users in the U.S. To use the tool in Google's mobile app, users can tap a camera icon on the right side of the search bar to pull up Google Lens, then upload or take a picture and tap the plus-sign bar to add words to the image search.
- As a refresher, Google Lens is the company's image recognition technology. It uses AI to immediately identify objects in the camera's lens and read QR codes, barcodes, Wi-Fi labels, and more.
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M&A Roundup: - Micro-mobility company Tier Mobility has acquired Fantasmo, a U.S.-based computer vision-powered e-scooter parking startup, for an undisclosed sum.
- Health innovation company Real Chemistry acquired conversationHEALTH, a conversational AI platform for health care and life sciences.
- Quantum Machines, a startup specializing in control systems for quantum computers, bought QDevil, a company making control hardware for quantum systems, for an undisclosed amount.
- Gupshup acquired Active.Ai, a conversational AI platform for digital financial services. The acquisition is expected to help Gupshup strengthen its AI-enabled customer service for banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) customers.
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QUICK HITS: - Dozens of Chinese entities have purchased software that organizes and archives data of citizens collected by surveillance cameras and other technologies, according to a Reuters review.
- Nike announced a new Technology Center that's set to open in Atlanta early next year. The center will utilize AI and ML to "reimagine consumer experiences," the company said.
- Nearly 60% of banks are using AI to augment their anti-money laundering and "know your customer" processes, according to a new NTT report.
- BostonGene, an AI-driven molecular and immune profile testing platform, raised $150M in Series B funding led by NEC Corporation.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and analyst at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily tech news. Since starting work at Inside, she has covered various topics including virtual reality, drones, and e-commerce. Prior to that she was a public policy and investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic, where she won a Pulitzer Prize nomination and First Amendment Award for reporting on the rising costs of pensions. Reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | 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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