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Edition #64- July 23rd 2021
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🤖 Facebook opensources a chatbot
Facebook AI Research has built and open-sourced BlenderBot 2.0, the first chatbot that can simultaneously build long-term memory it can continually access, search the internet for timely information, and have sophisticated conversations on nearly any topic.
🏗️ Detect what can be built from a pile of Legos
With the new iOS app Brickit (brickit.app), building Lego structures becomes easier than ever. The app uses the phone's camera to identify and count Lego bricks in a pile, then figures out what figures can be built.
🤳 Automatically tagging politicians in parliament when they are too distracted by their phones
Every meeting of the Flemish government in Belgium is live streamed to the web. An AI released by Belgian tech artist Dries Depoorter is searching for phones and tries to identify a distracted politician.
📅 When Algorithms Manage Humans
Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email—even when they have done nothing wrong.
✂️ OpenAI disbands its robotics research team
OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team after years of research into machines that can learn to perform tasks like solving a Rubik’s Cube.
Kaggle is launcing a Beginner-Friendly 30 Days of ML Challenge on August 2nd.
Non-coders welcome.
🎒 Microsfot releases an free course about ML on GitHub
Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about Machine Learning.
📱 Nokia and Vodafone harness machine learning on Google Cloud to detect network anomalies
The product quickly detects and troubleshoots irregularities, such as mobile site congestion and interference, and unexpected latency, that can impact customer service quality.
🧠 DeepMind creates ‘transformative’ map of human proteins drawn by artificial intelligence
DeepMind showed it can produce accurate predictions of a protein’s structure using AI software called AlphaFold.
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