Here’s a summary of interesting AI facts to kick-start us off:

• AI-powered voice assistants to reach 8 billion by 2023.
• By 2025, the global AI market is expected to be almost $60 billion.
• The highest number of Alexa’s inventory skills are accessible in the US – about 66.000 skills.
• Global GDP will grow by $15.7 trillion by 2030 thanks to AI.
• AI can increase business productivity by 40%.XXThe number of AI startups grew 14 times over the last two decades.
• Investment in AI startups grew 6 times since 2000.
• Already 77% of the devices we use feature one form of AI or another.

The Synthetic Party in Denmark is dedicated to following a platform churned out by an AI, and its public face is a chatbot named Leader
br>The Synthetic Party, a new Danish political party with an artificially intelligent representative and policies derived from AI, is eyeing a seat in parliament as it hopes to run in the country’s November general election.

The party was founded in May by the artist collective Computer Lars and the non-profit art and tech organization MindFuture Foundation. The Synthetic Party’s public face and figurehead is the AI chatbot Leader Lars, which is programmed on the policies of Danish fringe parties since 1970 and is meant to represent the values of the 20 percent of Danes who do not vote in the election. Leader Lars won’t be on the ballot anywhere, but the human members of The Synthetic Party are committed to carrying out their AI-derived platform Read More

“Wait, what? How?” Emily Jones wasn’t used to being left behind. A top sim-racing driver with multiple wins to her name, Jones jerked the steering wheel in the esports rig, eyes fixed on the screen in front of her: “I’m pushing way too hard to keep up— How does it do that?” Her staccato commentary intercut with squealing tires, Jones flung her virtual car around the virtual track at 120 miles per hour—then 140, 150—chasing the fastest Gran Turismo driver in the world.

Built by Sony AI, a research lab launched by the company in 2020, Gran Turismo Sophy is a computer program trained to control racing cars inside the world of Gran Turismo, a video game known for its super-realistic simulations of real vehicles and tracks. In a series of events held behind closed doors last year, Sony put its program up against the best humans on the professional sim-racing circuit.

What they discovered during those racetrack battles—and the ones that followed—could help shape the future of machines that work alongside humans, or join us on the roads. Read More

 Everlaw, the cloud-native investigation and litigation platform, unveiled its Clustering software feature today, delivering an AI breakthrough in terms of its scale, visualization, ease of use and ability to conduct true discovery.

While Technology Assisted Review (TAR) has been sanctioned for legal teams to conduct discovery searches for digital evidence for about a decade, the promise of concept clustering has fallen short. It’s often too hard to use, can’t scale to meet today’s video, audio and text demands, and is restricted to a wheel interface that can’t drill down to single documents.

Everlaw Clustering’s new technical breakthroughs deliver on the promise of AI, allowing legal teams to sort through and understand millions of documents for full review or early case assessment (ECA). Everlaw Clustering presents findings in an intuitive visual format that encompasses both a 30,000-foot snapshot and a granular, down-to-the-document view. It uses unsupervised machine learning to group documents by conceptual similarity and generates insights without requiring any user input.  Read More

LeCun, who is chief scientist at Meta’s AI lab and one of the most influential AI researchers in the world, had been trying to give machines a basic grasp of how the world works—a kind of common sense—by training neural networks to predict what was going to happen next in video clips of everyday events. But guessing future frames of a video pixel by pixel was just too complex. He hit a wall.

Now, after months figuring out what was missing, he has a bold new vision for the next generation of AI. In a draft document shared with MIT Technology Review, LeCun sketches out an approach that he thinks will one day give machines the common sense they need to navigate the world. (Update: LeCun has since posted the document online.) Read More