Last year, the San Francisco-based research lab released OpenAI Codex, an AI model for translating natural language commands into app code.

https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/02/deepmind-claims-its-new-code-generating-system-is-competitive-with-human-programmers/

Machine learning specialists are among the most in-demand talents in the technology space right now, with big companies like Snap, Zoom, and Microsoft courting engineers.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-land-job-as-machine-learning-engineer-250000-salary-2022-2?IR=T

Typically, traffic lights change color in response to predetermined rules and inductive loop sensors embedded in the road.

https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/artificially-intelligent-traffic-lights/

As AI models become more computationally intensive, engineers are looking for new types of materials and hardware to speed up the model development process.

https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/04/celestial-ai-lands-56m-to-develop-light-based-ai-accelerator-chips/

A project in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is combining sensor-equipped drones with machine learning applications to automate the identification and mapping of marine debris and develop effective methods for their collection and disposal.

https://dronedj.com/2022/02/07/researcher-pair-drones-machine-learning-against-marine-litter/

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Boston Dynamics has won the first customer for its Stretch case handling robot.

https://www.therobotreport.com/boston-dynamics-delivering-fleet-of-stretch-robots-to-dhl/

Elon Musk announced that Tesla will shift its product development to make Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot also known as Optimus, a priority in 2022.

https://electrek.co/2022/01/27/elon-musk-tesla-prioritizing-product-development-optimus-humanoid-robot-2022/

In some places rocks are exposed on the surface.

https://phys.org/news/2022-01-machine-space-antarctica.html

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has proposed a new set of draft regulations to regulate AI-powered synthesis systems, including deepfakes, virtual reality scenes, text generation, audio, and other subfields of AI media synthesis -- an area where China produces a staggering number of academic papers and innovative research projects each month.

https://www.unite.ai/china-proposes-increased-regulation-of-deepfakes-and-other-ai-synthesis-systems/

An Internal Revenue Service contract for online tax returns served by ID.me continues to generate controversy due to its use of facial recognition and biometric authentication, prompting the search for alternative identity verification measures.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202201/us-treasury-considers-alternatives-to-id-me-biometrics-for-irs-online-access

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"What's so unique about the space resource is that we can see, measure and identify things from space that are extremely difficult to measure at ground level," Gore said Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/590663-al-gore-emissions-reductions-hinge-on-ai-measurements-from

Advances in AI are coming out all the time, but they tend to be confined to a single area: For example, a cool new way to generate synthetic speech isn't also a way to recognize facial expressions.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/20/meta-researchers-build-an-ai-that-learns-equally-well-from-visual-written-or-spoken-materials/?guccounter=1

Elon Musk's Neuralink, the company that claims to implant computer chips in human brains, has just taken a major step towards implementation.

https://interestingengineering.com/elon-musks-neuralink-took-one-step-closer-to-implanting-chips-into-human-brains

Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, announced Monday that it has built one of the world's fastest supercomputers, a behemoth called Research SuperCluster, or RSC.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/meta-has-a-giant-new-ai-supercomputer-to-shape-the-metaverse/

SparkCognition, a leading global provider of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions, announced the closing of its $123 million Series D funding round.

https://aithority.com/saas/sparkcognition-announces-123-million-series-d-funding-and-a-unicorn-valuation-to-accelerate-ai-adoption-across-industries/

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The FBI signed a deal with Clearview AI on Dec. 30 for a $18,000 subscription license for the company's facial recognition technology.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/feds-spending-on-facial-recognition-tech-continues-unmitigated-despite-privacy-concerns/

A new survey found that 80% of US firms had problems despite already conducting bias monitoring or algorithm testing.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/guardrail-failure-companies-are-losing-revenue-and-customers-due-to-ai-bias/

IBM announced on Monday that LG Electronics is joining the Quantum Network.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/lg-electronics-joining-ibm-quantum-network-for-research-into-ai-iot-and-more/

Artificial intelligence, microelectronics and "Next-G" will be on a soon-to-be-released list of the Pentagon's top research and development priorities, a senior Defense Department official said Jan. 13.

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/1/13/pentagon-re-chief-to-prioritize-microelectronics-ai

Microsoft founded the Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Coalition (AI3C) to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare by providing recommendations, tools, and best practices.

https://www.technologyrecord.com/Article/microsoft-forms-new-coalition-for-ai-in-healthcare-128027

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DeepBrain AI's industry-first approach to "humanizing" AI assistants provides users with a familiar, insightful, and accessible experience.

https://gadget.co.za/ces-2022-deepbrain-humanises-ai-avatars/

It's amazing what we can do with AI these days.

https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-upgraded-ai-art-tool-turned-my-obscure-squiggles-into-a-masterpiece/

IBM has revived its sale process for IBM Watson Health with hopes of raising more than $1 billion, people familiar with the situation tell Axios.

https://www.axios.com/ibm-tries-to-sell-watson-health-again-82f691a4-ab81-4b2b-a5bb-13a7556c8ef1.html

French drugmaker Sanofi SA (SASY.PA) will partner with British AI company Exscientia Plc (EXAI.O) to develop up to 15 drug candidates in oncology and immunology, under an agreement worth up to $5 $.2 billion in milestone payments, the two companies said on Friday.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/sanofi-partners-with-ai-firm-exscientia-develop-up-15-new-drugs-2022-01-07/

People use AI for a variety of speech recognition and language understanding tasks, from activating smart speakers to building tools for people with hearing or speech disabilities.

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-that-understands-speech-by-looking-as-well-as-hearing

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Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced that their Advancing American AI Innovation Act came into effect as part of the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

https://www.portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/portman-rosen-bipartisan-legislation-strengthen-americas-artificial-0

Zeekr, the Geely Holding Group's premium electric brand, announced Tuesday that it would make vehicles for Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo One, the company's autonomous driving service in the United States.

https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2021/12/geelys-zeekr-to-build-autonomous-vehicles-for-waymo/

According to John Deere, the 8R tractor has been in the hands of selected customers for "several seasons".

https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/john-deere-self-driving-tractor-203024226.html?guccounter=1

AMD announced a new gaming software feature at CES 2022: Radeon Super Resolution, which promises to bring AI-powered supersampling enhancements to almost any game, even if it hasn't been specifically updated to support AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution .

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22866673/amd-radeon-super-resolution-software-ai-super-sampling-ces-2022

In the midst of a global pandemic, strained health systems around the world have revealed an unmet need for simple and remote monitoring of vital physiological data.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ces-2022-faceheart-corp-launches-visual-recognition-ai-tech-to-measure-vital-signs-301451825.html

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Autonomous weapon systems - commonly known as killer robots - may have killed people for the first time last year, according to a recent UN Security Council report on the Libyan civil war.

https://theconversation.com/un-fails-to-agree-on-killer-robot-ban-as-nations-pour-billions-into-autonomous-weapons-research-173616

As AI penetrates more and more facets of our life, there is also increasing scrutiny of who is developing it.

https://hbr.org/2021/12/50-global-hubs-for-top-ai-talent

The White House AI Initiative office announced on Dec. 17 the creation of a public artificial intelligence (AI) research portal to connect AI researchers with federal funding and relevant funding programs.

https://www.meritalk.com/articles/white-house-ai-initiative-office-launches-public-research-portal/

Expect semiconductor shortages to persist through early 2023, Deloitte said in a new report released on Wednesday.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/deloitte-chip-shortage-will-extend-into-2022/

Malicious content can evolve quickly - be it from current events or from people looking for new ways to bypass our systems - and it is critical that AI systems evolve in parallel.

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/harmful-content-can-evolve-quickly-our-new-ai-system-adapts-to-tackle-it

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By making this pipeline easily accessible, the researchers hope to inspire teachers, students and health care workers to explore how such tools can help them in their respective fields.

https://news.mit.edu/2021/ai-generated-characters-for-good-1216

This may be remembered as the year the world learned that lethal autonomous weapons had moved from a futuristic concern to a reality on the battlefield.

https://www.wired.com/story/autonomous-weapons-here-world-isnt-ready/

Latitude, the startup behind the text game AI Dungeon, is expanding to a new artificial intelligence-based game platform called Voyage.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/19/22836418/latitude-ai-dungeon-voyage-ai-powered-game-platform-launch

"Right after I turned 40 - about three years before I was diagnosed - I got my first mammogram," she said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/21/mammogram-artificial-intelligence-cancer-prediction/

Veeve is a Seattle-based startup that makes smart shopping carts for cashless grocery shopping.

https://www.businessinsider.com/veeve-is-taking-on-amazon-go-with-its-ai-smart-shopping-carts-2021-12?IR=T

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Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous driving company supported by Toyota, can no longer test fully self-driving vehicles in California, at least for the time being.

https://www.engadget.com/california-suspends-ponyai-driverless-testing-permit-122914859.html?guccounter=1

Negotiators at the UN talks have been discussing the limits of lethal autonomous weapons, or LAWS, which are completely machine-controlled and rely on new technologies such as artificial intelligence and facial recognition for eight years.

https://www.reuters.com/world/un-chief-urges-action-killer-robots-geneva-talks-open-2021-12-13/

Artificial intelligence programs that examine medical images for signs of cancer can be fooled by hacks and cyberattacks, according to a new study.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22831966/hackers-mammogram-ai-cancer-fake-images

MI6 needs to become "more open to keep secret" and work with technology companies to counter threats from China and Russia as they seek to gain advantage through mastery of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/30/mi6-will-need-to-be-more-open-to-stay-secret-spy-chief-to-say

Earlier this year, Apple announced a new system to collect potential CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) by scanning the photos of iPhone users.

https://www.macworld.com/article/559731/apple-csam-icloud-photo-scanning-removed.html

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China on Tuesday signed a United Nations pledge to prevent artificial intelligence from wreaking havoc on societies, including banning the use of AI for "social scoring" systems - a practice Beijing itself has for the past Popularized for years and currently used to rate Chinese citizens based on their perceived trustworthiness.

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-artificial-intelligence-ai-ban-social-scoring-united-nations-unesco-ethical-ai/

The analyst firm Gartner has announced that artificial intelligence software will generate sales of US $ 62.5 billion in 2022.

https://www.neowin.net/news/gartner-says-ai-software-market-will-reach-62-billion-next-year/

After Clearview AI scraped billions of photos from the public web - from sites like Instagram, Venmo, and LinkedIn - to create a facial recognition tool for law enforcement, many concerns were raised about the company and its norm-breaking tool.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/technology/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-accuracy.html

Kore.ai, a leader in conversational AI software, announced today that it has extended its Series C funding round with NVIDIA participation.

https://martechseries.com/predictive-ai/ai-platforms-machine-learning/kore-ai-extends-its-financing-to-73-5-million/

Journalists, lawyers, politicians and human rights activists have all been attacked by NSO's Pegasus software, and Apple has now announced that it will be sending security alerts to customers whose devices may have been compromised.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/24/targeted-by-nso-apple-alerts/

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