This week in AI & Machine Learning: Zoox is driving in Seattle, saving seaweed, DeepMind robotics, drug discovery, GPT-3 in Azure, photonic computing for AI, and more!
My Top AI Highlight:
Zoox Self-driving Cars are Coming to Seattle
Zoox is starting to test its level 3 autonomous vehicles in Seattle. Public street testing already occurs in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Foster City.
Seattle provides new challenges for self-driving hardware and A.I. systems such as rainy weather, and new road layouts. Seattle is also home to Amazon, who acquired Zoox in 2020.
🤖 Artificial Intelligence News:
- AI solutions show promise in wildlife and site protection
- Avoiding shortcut solutions in artificial intelligence
- Saving seaweed with machine learning
- DeepMind takes next step in robotics research
- Google-parent Alphabet has set up a new lab that will use A.I. to try to discover new drugs
- Researchers create AI system that could make robots better at handling objects
🛠️ Developer Tools & Education:
- New Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models with Azure’s enterprise capabilities
- Teaching robots to perceive, understand, and interact through touch
- Self Driving Cars using Udacity Car Simulator — Made with TensorFlow.js
- Scikit-learn Version 1.0.2 Release
- Building a board game app with TensorFlow: a new TensorFlow Lite reference app
- Self-Supervised Reversibility-Aware Reinforcement Learning
🎤 Interesting Podcasts & Interviews:
- Metaspectral’s Migel Tissera on AI-Based Data Management
- Building Blocks of Machine Learning at LEGO with Francesc Joan Riera
- Exploring the FastAI Tooling Ecosystem with Hamel Husain
- A.I. for Good
- Photonic computing for AI acceleration
