The U.S. Air Force is accepting white papers for a project that will combine AI with interactive gaming to help shorten air attack planning. The "Fight Tonight" program seeks to utilize AI in an interactive game engine to simulate scenarios and build and evaluate air combat plans. More: - The project would augment, rather than replace, humans in the extremely complex planning cycle of master air attacks.
- It seeks to lower the time to develop a plan from 36+ hours to only four hours.
- Fight Tonight could quickly recalculate known quantities, like fuel requirements, in the plans as they change, freeing up human planners to assess less quantifiable factors like politics.
- The research funding for the project is nearly $100M, with individual awards ranging from $3M to $40M, to be awarded across two phases.
- Jan. 10 is the deadline to submit proposals. The Air Force Research Laboratory could ask vendors to turn in detailed proposals by Feb. 25.
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Researchers in China developed an AI tool that they say can assess legal cases and charge people with common crimes such as credit card fraud and reckless driving. In a paper, researchers said the system is 97% accurate at filing charges and can replace prosecutors in some cases. More: - The tool is based on System 206, another AI that can purportedly assess evidence in cases and determine if suspected criminals are dangerous.
- The new system goes further by assessing cases based on a human's text description of the case, then filing charges and suggesting potential sentences.
- The machine was trained on 17,000 cases and recently underwent testing at China's district prosecution office, the Shanghai Pudong People's Procuratorate.
- It could free up prosectors to work on more complex tasks, according to project lead scientist Professor Shi Yong, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' big data and knowledge management laboratory,
- The paper was published in the peer-reviewed Management Review journal.
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AI software provider SenseTime priced its delayed Hong Kong IPO at 49 cents a share to raise up to $767M. Last week, the AI company — China's largest in the space — received about $256M worth of orders from retail investors. Shares are set to begin trading this Thursday, Dec. 30, giving SenseTime a market value of $16B+. More: - The 2.3x oversubscription comes after the U.S. added SenseTime to an investment blacklist, barring American investors from participating in the Hong Kong stock sale. They can still own shares of the facial recognition firm.
- This was still lower than the 4x oversubscription that SenseTime received in early December before it was added to the blacklist, causing it to delay its IPO.
- SenseTime has sold $511.6M of shares to nine "cornerstone" investors to anchor the sale. It will be Hong Kong's largest IPO since September.
- SenseTime has denied accusations that it provided facial-recognition software to Beijing that was used to oppress Uyghur Muslims in Western China, its reason for inclusion on the U.S. blacklist.
- According to its prospectus, SenseTime has an 11% share of the AI software market in Asia.
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 India-based Captain Fresh, a B2B platform that uses AI to fulfill seafood orders for retail businesses, raised a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global and Prosus Ventures. The startup said the funding will go toward developing and integrating new tech interventions across the supply- and demand-side networks, including a real-time trading marketplace. More: - The startup's predictive models source seafood supplies before Indian retail businesses order them.
- The funding will help it develop pricing and quality standardization using AI, as well as robotic automation to move large volumes of fish.
- The company wants to expand its footprint from about 20 countries now to 100 cities, starting in the U.S. and Europe. It claims 6x growth over the last year.
- The startup last raised a $12M Series A this past summer. Nearly three-quarters of its Series B investors are new, the company noted.
- The latest round values Captain at $200M.
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- 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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- Marktechpost launched the first issue of its new AI magazine series.
- CES 2022 organizers said they will not cancel the January trade show after more companies withdrew their in-person plans.
- Momenta partnered with BYD to deploy "Level 2 plus" autonomous driving capabilities across some BYD vehicle model lines.
- Enway released the second generation of its autonomous industrial sweeper, the B2.
- The addition of more open-source natural language processing models is democratizing the tech as it improves and demand for NLP use in the enterprises grows, writes VentureBeat's Kyle Wiggers.
- The Next Web concludes that China's recent paper outlining its position on military AI is "gibberish" and doesn't cite plans to actually restrict lethal autonomous weapons systems. Rather, it could be China's attempt to "be seen as a responsible state" and is not as confident as other superpowers in its AI military capabilities, according to research analyst Megha Pardhi.
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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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