FocusAI - Edition #82
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Edition #82 - November 26th, 2021
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🥤 OpenAI’s API Now Available with No Waitlist
OpenAI’s API is now available to developers in supported countries. The waitlist for GPT-3 has been removed thanks to new safeguards. There is now a free content filter to help developers mitigate abuse.
🌊 Tensorflow - Help Protect the Great Barrier Reef
Australia's stunningly beautiful Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef but it is under threat, in part because of the overpopulation of one particular starfish – the coral-eating Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (or COTS for short).
To scale up video-based surveying systems, Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO has teamed up with Google to develop innovative machine learning technology that can analyze large image datasets accurately, efficiently, and in near real-time.
The goal of this competition is to accurately identify starfish in real-time by building an object detection model trained on underwater videos of coral reefs.
🦟 Facebook builds a giant speech recognition network - plans to analyze all of human speech eventually
Researchers with Facebook, Google, and HuggingFace have trained a large-scale neural net for speech recognition, translation, and language identification. XLS-R uses around 436,000 hours of data, almost a 10X increase from an earlier system built by Facebook last year. XLS-R is based on wav2vec 2.0, covers 128 languages, and the highest-performing network is also the largest, weighing in at 2Billion parameters.
🤦 The government of South Korea is supplying personal data to developers of face recognition algorithms
The South Korean Ministry of Justice has given the data profiles of more than 170 million international and domestic air travelers to unspecified tech companies, the news service Hankyoreh reported. The distribution of personal data without consent may violate the country’s privacy laws.
🍳 A robot cook is frying to order in fast-food restaurants
Flippy 2, a robotic fry station from California-based Miso Robotics, has been newly deployed in a Chicago White Castle location. It operates without a human in the loop to boost throughput, reduce contamination, and perform tasks traditionally allotted to low-paid workers.
🇦🇹 Vienne, première ville au monde certifiée IEEE AI Ethics pour sa stratégie d’humanisme numérique
En ce mois de novembre, la ville de Vienne, en Autriche, a obtenu le label de certification IEEE AI EThics la récompensant pour son engagement en faveur d’une stratégie d’humanisme numérique. L’IEEE, la plus grande organisation professionnelle technique au monde se consacrant à l’avancement de la technologie pour le bien de l’humanité, et l’IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) ont annoncé que la ville de Vienne est la première ville au monde à obtenir la certification IEEE CertifiAIEd AI Ethics (AIE) pour avoir fait progresser la stratégie d’humanisme numérique de la ville.
A big thanks to our sources: https://jack-clark.net/, https://www.actuia.com/, https://thevariable.com/news/, https://techcrunch.com/, https://read.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/
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