FocusAI - Edition #83

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Edition #83 - December 3rd 2021

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💻 Amazon launches SageMaker Canvas for no-code AI model development
Using SageMaker Canvas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can run a machine learning workflow with a point-and-click user interface to generate predictions and publish the results.

🙌 Using AI to Successfully Detect Signs of Anxiety
AI could provide a highly reliable measurement for recognizing the signs that someone is anxious, based in a dataset of activities of typical anxiety-displaying behaviors for the sensors to detect, including idle sitting, nail biting, knuckle cracking and hands tapping. Their behaviors were analyzed using deep learning algorithms and computational hybrid models.

📃 UNESCO launches global standard for AI ethics
The standard defines common values and principles that will guide the construction of the necessary legal infrastructure to ensure the healthy development of AI. In a statement, UNESCO said that there are several benefits from the use of AI but also challenges including gender and ethnic bias; significant threats to privacy, dignity, and agency; dangers of mass surveillance; and increased use of unreliable AI technologies in law enforcement.

🔓 AI helps finding potential COVID-19 treatments
With AI, Dr. Artem Cherkasov and researchers took 19 days, not 10 years, to review 40 billion compounds to find potential COVID-19 drugs.

🎭 Ai-Da, the world’s first AI humanoid artist, has now made history as a poet
Ai-Da, the humanoid AI artist who made history in 2019, as the first ever robot who can draw without any human input, is now an AI poet.
She then used her unique algorithms, and a data bank of words and speech pattern analysis, to write her own work in reaction to Dante’s.

🐢 AI goes underground and surveys sewers
A system from California startup SewerAI analyzes videos of underground pipes to prioritize those in need of repair.
SewerAI’s computer vision system classifies defects like cracks, holes, displacements, tree roots, and incursions in videos taken by sewer-crawling robots and human inspectors.

🦜 Google personalizes speech recognition
Google is improving speech recognition for people who have conditions that affect their ability to pronounce words.
Project Relate is an Android app that offers a personalized speech recognition model for people whose speech is impaired or otherwise atypical.

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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