New Yorkers may have noticed an unwelcome guest hovering around their parties in early September. In the lead up to Labor Day weekend, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said it will use drones to look into complaints about celebrations, including backyard gatherings. Police drone spying is common in America. Nearly a quarter of police departments now use them, according to a recent survey by researchers at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Even more surprising is where the technology is coming from. Among the NYPD’s suppliers is Skydio, a Silicon Valley firm that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to make drones easier to fly, allowing officers to control them with little training. Skydio is backed by venture-capital (VC) giant Andreessen Horowitz and one of its partners, Accel. The NYPD is also buying from another startup, BRINC, which makes flying machines equipped with night-vision cameras that can break window glass. BRINC investors include Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT; and Index Ventures, another VC giant. — Read More
Daily Archives: November 6, 2023
Will we be replaced? The future of work in the age of Generative AI w/Jonny Gilmore, CEO of Ai8
“How can we affect education for the better?” In this thought-provoking AI Talk, Jonny Gilmore, CEO of Ai8, explains the transformative potential of human:machine teams in the education to career value chain. Ai8 aims to redefine the entire system of education, training, employment, and upskilling, making it more bespoke, affordable, and accessible. — Read More
SALMONN, the First Model that Hears like Humans do
People often underestimate the importance of hearing to function correctly in our world and, more importantly, as an essential tool for learning.
As the famed Helen Keller once said, “Blindness cuts us off from things, but deafness cuts us off from people” and let’s not forget that this woman was blind and deaf.
Therefore, it’s only natural to see hearing as an indispensable requirement for AI to become the sought-after superior ‘being’ that some people predict it will become.
Sadly, current AI systems suck at hearing.
… Now, a new model created by the company behind TikTok, ByteDance, challenges this vision.
SALMONN is the first-ever multimodal audio-language AI system for generic hearing, a model that can process random audio signals from the three main sound types: speech, audio events, and music. — Read More
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