News by Dmytro Spodarets
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What Applied AI Be About in 2022?
AI chips, an advanced creation of hardware designed to run AI-related workloads, continue to experience explosive growth, improvement, and modernization. Nvidia has been controlling the whole market for decades and has managed to create a vast empire around its hardware and software ecosystems. During last year, scientists had tried to explain various areas related to MLOps and found the MLOps domain that includes data version controls and continuous machine learning, as well as implemented the
Feb 10, 2022
An Open-Source Tool Kedro Got a New Owner
Kedro is an original, open-source software tool for data scientists and data engineers. Kedro is a library of code to create data and machine learning pipelines. Furthermore, this tool was donated to the Linux Foundation. [https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/new-at-mckinsey-blog/mckinsey-donates-open-source-tool-kedro-to-the-linux-foundation] The reason why Kedro qualifies as a de-facto “industry standard” is, because it’s a framework that takes best practices of software engineering and brings t
Feb 8, 2022
In 2022, Even Fish Could Drive Vehicles
The researchers from the Ben-Gurion University in Israel has started to use a strangely identical mechanism to identify the position of a goldfish in a tank, and direct the “Fish Operated Vehicle” [https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/03/the-fish-is-driving-again/?guccounter=1] in the direction of the sector it swims to. The scientists then set the goldfish to complete different kinds of tasks that are needed to actively navigate the vehicle around the larger, non-aquatic world. > I am excited to sh
Feb 7, 2022
Mat3ra takes $3M in seed funding to accelerate rise of new era of digitally-engineered materials & chemicals
Mat3ra [https://mat3ra.com/], originally a San Francisco-based startup, has announced that it successfully raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by Draper Associates with participation from Serguei Beloussov, enterprise software guru and founder of Parallels, Acumatica, and Acronis, along with Albert Wenger, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, participating personally. Digital Materials Science is an exciting emerging area helping us solve humanity’s most important challenges. “
Feb 4, 2022
Upgraded Version of Charmed Kubeflow Is LIVE
Canonical has released the latest version of their open-source MLOps platform Charmed Kubeflow [https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/25/canonical-updates-charmed-kubeflow-with-mlflow-integration/] . The announcement of version 1.4 heralds considerable adjustments and improvements made to the platform, including MLFlow assimilation, to increase collaboration level on AI and machine learning modernization during the lifecycle of the project. The browser-based resolution was implemented to gain the abi
Feb 3, 2022
Meta Introduces a Next-Generation AI Supercomputer
Meta has announced that they created the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) [https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-rsc], one of the fastest AI supercomputers existing today. Most importantly, the company claims that it will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world when its development finished in 2022. Scientists are already using the capabilities of RSC to work with large-scale models in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) for research. The team at Meta expects that RSC will h
Feb 3, 2022
NVIDIA Canvas Enhanced with Advanced AI
The free beta application and a part of the NVIDIA Studio suite of creative apps and tools [https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/01/04/studio-canvas-update-gaugan2-ces/] have unveiled a real-time painting instrument, GauGAN, to everyone who has NVIDIA RTX GPU. Creators have designed the tool with advanced AI so that users could instantly turn simple brushstrokes into authentic landscape images, speeding up concept exploration and freeing more time to envision ideas. The instrument enables the cr
Feb 2, 2022
Amazon Modifies Shopping Experience
Amazon Style opened their first-ever physical fashion store [https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-reimagines-in-store-shopping-with-amazon-style] where clients can find collections of women’s and men’s clothing. Company decided to make the best of shopping on Amazon in real life: good prices and selection. While using the Amazon Shopping app, customers can send items to a fitting room, from which they can use a touchscreen to browse more options, and ask for more sizes or styles that
Feb 1, 2022
Music Star in One Click
Mr. Mitchell is the founder of a website and app - Boomy. The idea of the app is assist users in creating their own music applying AI [https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59878572] operating system that does most of the music creation heavy lifting . Look for your favorite music genres and simply tap "create song", and then the program will compose one for you in a sec. The app’s AI is designed to quickly pick the track's key, chords and melody. And, after this step, it gives you tips to help yo
Jan 31, 2022
Human-like AI Avatars by DeepBrain AI
A CES 2022 Innovation Awards Winner DeepBrain AI seems to have successfully hastened us to the reality of “humanising” AI assistants [https://www.deepbrainai.io/en/ces-review/]. The company offered its customers the ability to easily create AI assistants in a familiar, enlightening, and approachable manner. Its video guide explaining how the assistant may work combines solutions, influencing the power of Artificial Intelligence to quickly create realistic human-based AI avatars that educate, res
Jan 27, 2022
Influence of AI on Biotechnology
There are around 15 million distinct species of living organisms on this planet. Out of those, only 2 million have been identified. Furthermore, approximately 80% of the world’s rivers and oceans are unexplored. Basically, this means that freshwater and marine ecosystems may contain the largest number of unknown plant and animal species known to humans. What does this mean? To discover and protect these species, we need to have comprehensive monitoring systems in place. Such systems can and sho
Jan 25, 2022
Advancing Hearing Comprehension
In a research published in the academic journal “Nature Communications”, Josh McDermott explained how he employed computational modeling to analyze factors that affect how humans can hear pitch [https://news.mit.edu/2021/perfecting-pitch-perception-1217]. This kind of model closely simulates that of humans — but only when it is trained using music, voices, or other naturalistic sounds. This study connected an artificial neural network with an actual model of the mammalian ear, combining the pow
Jan 20, 2022