An AI system can recommend the best text prompts for creating new images that resemble pre-existing ones. Called the CLIP Interrogator, the system is making rounds on social media for giving "brutal" feedback to people based on their input photos. More: - To use the AI system, people upload an image or drop one and click submit.
- CLIP Interrogator generates text feedback to describe that image, sometimes in extreme detail.
- The idea is to use that text to feed into an AI text-to-image generator, like Dall-E, to ostensibly create a similar-looking image.
- However, the CLIP Interrogator appears to be more popular as a roasting tool. According to Futurism, it tends to churn out "descriptions of people that can be mundane, puzzling, staggeringly insensitive and, at times, admittedly a bit hilarious."
- In one example shared online, it told Mark Riedl, associate director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center, that he looked like "a muppet" with a "punchable face."
- The system, hosted on Hugging Face, is based on OpenAI's CLIP, or Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training neural network, which was trained on image and text pairs.
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Neuralink's "show & tell" event has been delayed by a month, to Nov. 30, according to a tweet by Elon Musk. The company is developing brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that could one day sync the human brain with advanced AI to control computers, prosthetic limbs, and more. More: - Musk didn't provide further details about why the event was postponed or what it might feature.
- During the last event in April 2021, Neuralink released a video of a Macaque monkey playing the game "Pong" with its mind.
- Musk, who has described the BCI device as "a Fitbit in your skull," said goals include curing neurological conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia and fusing humankind with artificial intelligence.
- In a podcast interview, Musk said it's ultimately intended to address the "existential risk associated with digital superintelligence," which he believes humans won't be able to surpass.
- Musk said that he hopes to begin human trials of the Neuralink brain implant this year, pending FDA approval. However, the studies will likely be delayed as the FDA has yet to sign off on the technology for trials.
Zoom-out: - In August, it was reported that Musk had approached Synchron CEO Thomas Oxley about a possible deal with the rival brain-computer interface (BCI) startup.
- The sources said Musk has voiced frustration about alleged slow progress at Neuralink. Synchron, conversely, recently became the first company to implant a computer interface device in a person's brain in the U.S.
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 AI-generated photo company Generated Media launched a library of 100,000 full-body images of fake humans. The company has expanded from only AI headshot photos to include the entire human body. Generated Media is opening them up for non-commercial use (with attribution) for companies to deploy in ads, games, videos, and more. More: - Generated Media has been known for its free Face Generator tool that lets users create face-only images of fake people based on pre-selected characteristics.
- Users can search through the company's sorted and tagged app to find the right AI image or integrate photos via its API.
- Currently, the full-body images can only be downloaded as a 1.3GB zip file. Generated says it plans to expand from young and slim bodies to include more ages, body types, poses, etc.
- It plans to eventually launch a searchable database of full-body images, similar to what it's done with the Face Generator.
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Biotech startup Tempus, a specialist in AI and precision medicine for various use cases, secured $100M in equity funding from investors and $175M in debt financing from Ares Management. The Chicago-based firm provides a platform for doctors to better understand the drivers and progression of a patient's disease. More: - The AI-enabled platform can analyze patient health via genomic sequencing, allowing doctors to better understand why the person has the disease and personalize their treatment plan.
- The company says its "disease agnostic" platform aggregates anonymized data and develops insights for intelligent diagnostics.
- It also helps identify the best-fitting patients for clinical trials.
- The company has raised more than $1.3B to date.
Zoom-out: - Last week, U.K drugmaker GSK announced a $70M partnership with Tempus to leverage the latter's de-identified patient data and AI-enabled data library. The goals are to accelerate the discovery of new drugs to fight cancer, identify drug targets, and improve trial enrollments and design.
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 A message from IMPACT How much do influencers charge per post? Influencer marketing costs In 2020, the global value of influencer marketing was estimated at a whopping $9.7 billion, according to Influencer Marketing Hub. In a 2019 survey by Mediakix, 48 percent of marketers found influencer marketing return on investment (ROI) better than other channels while another 41 percent said the ROI was comparable. In this blog, you'll learn: - Different pricing structures per influencer based on the type and social media channel.
- US and global pricing tiers.
- The ROI influencer marketing can drive your business.
- Identifying the right fit for your influencer campaigns.
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Chinese EV manufacturer XPeng Motors debuted its most advanced driver-assistance system back by a new neural network-based architecture. The XNGP system, which stands for "navigation-guided pilot," competes directly with Tesla's Autopilot. More: - XNGP replaces Xpeng's previous driver-assistance system, Xpilot. It combines all highway, city, and parking self-driving capabilities into a single system that eventually won't require high-precision maps to work.
- The driving system incorporates Xpeng's new XNet neural network-based architecture, which utilizes a "closed-loop self-evolving AI and data system."
- XNet takes data from multiple vehicle cameras to visually recognize its surroundings and help makes driving decisions.
- Combined with lidar, cameras, and other hardware, Xnet is a part of the ADAS that Xpeng claims is the final "before full autonomous driving is realized."
- XNGP's initial launch is in Xpeng's new G9 flagship SUV. The automaker says it wants to make semi-autonomous driving features available in all major Chinese cities by 2024.
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AI Events and Conferences: - IROS 2022: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems: Oct. 23-27, Kyoto, Japan.
- European Conference on Computer Vision: Oct. 23-27, Tel Aviv and online.
- The AI Summit Silicon Valley: Nov. 3-4, Santa Clara, Calif.
- MLOps Summit: Nov. 9-10, London.
- NeurIPS, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems: Nov. 24-Dec. 4, New Orleans and virtual.
- Scaling AI Summit: Nov. 30-Dec. 1, Silicon Valley.
- AI & Big Data Expo Global: Dec. 1-2, London and online.
- The AI Summit New York: Dec. 7-8, New York City.
- World Artificial Intelligence Cannes Festival: Feb. 9-11, 2023, Cannes, France, and online.
- Data Science Salon: AI & Machine Learning in the Enterprise: Feb. 21-22, 2023, Austin, Texas, and virtual.
- The European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit: March 15-16, 2023, Edinburgh, U.K., and online.
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- AI-powered digital publishing platform Spiny.ai emerged from stealth and announced a $2.5M fundraising round from Nashville Capital Network and others.
- Lyft co-founder John Zimmer predicts that autonomous vehicles will handle 1% to 10% of all Lyft rides in the future. "I can't imagine anytime in the next decade-plus where we would need any less drivers," he said.
- Keebo, provider of an AI-powered software solution for companies to automate manual tasks, raised a $15M Series A led by True Ventures, with participation from Neotribe, Pear, 406 Ventures, and Uncorrelated Ventures.
- LSU psychology professor Alex Cohen developed an AI-based app that can track the expressions and speech of patients with serious mental illness and send alerts to prevent emergencies. The app comes pre-loaded on phones provided to patients of CAHSD, a Louisiana behavioral health provider.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and editor at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily technology news. You can 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 and 1972 Fords. | |
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