information science – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 19 Mar 2023 21:23:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 COQUI : A Generative AI Speech Innovation Will Revolutionize This Market https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/coqui-a-generative-ai-speech-innovation-will-revolutionize-this-market https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/coqui-a-generative-ai-speech-innovation-will-revolutionize-this-market#respond Sun, 19 Mar 2023 21:23:34 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/coqui-a-generative-ai-speech-innovation-will-revolutionize-this-market

Since the recent announcements of OpenView’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Baidu’s ChatBot, the industry has been in a frenzy advancing Generative AI products and solutions. Brainy Insights estimates that the generative AI market will grow from USD $8.65 billion in 2022 and reach USD 4188.62 billion by 2032. This translates to over 36% CAGR making generative AI one of the next hottest areas to elevate AI innovations. The software segment will account for the highest revenue share of 65.0% in 2021 and is expected to retain its position over the forecast period.

What is Generative AI?


Generative AI is a form of AI that produce various types of content including text, imagery, audio and synthetic data. The recent buzz around generative AI has been driven by the simplicity of new user interfaces for creating high-quality text, graphics and videos in a matter of seconds. Although not a new technology, the introduction of generative adversarial networks, or GANs which is a type of machine learning algorithm has advanced the innovations in using this form of AI.

COQUI — Generative AI will Revolutionize Voice

The exciting news is that former Mozillians have just raised $3.3M for Coqui, generative AI speech synthesis for all creatives. Prior to founding COQUI, the CEO Kelly Davis led the Mozilla Machine Learning Group, which focused on speech technology. Before that, he worked at the Max Plank Institute for Gravitational Physics and also did his Ph.D. work in Superstring Theory.

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#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/176-human-organoids-are-new-ai-frontier-listening-to-the-big-bang-through-the-cosmic-microwave-background https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/176-human-organoids-are-new-ai-frontier-listening-to-the-big-bang-through-the-cosmic-microwave-background#respond Sat, 18 Mar 2023 03:22:34 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/176-human-organoids-are-new-ai-frontier-listening-to-the-big-bang-through-the-cosmic-microwave-background

Brainoids — tiny clumps of human brain cells — are being turned into living artificial intelligence machines, capable of carrying out tasks like solving complex equations. The team finds out how these brain organoids compare to normal computer-based AIs, and they explore the ethics of it all.

Sickle cell disease is now curable, thanks to a pioneering trial with CRISPR gene editing. The team shares the story of a woman whose life has been transformed by the treatment.

We can now hear the sound of the afterglow of the big bang, the radiation in the universe known as the cosmic microwave background. The team shares the eerie piece that has been transposed for human ears, named by researchers The Echo of Eternity.

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A soft polymer-based tactile sensor for robotics applications https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/a-soft-polymer-based-tactile-sensor-for-robotics-applications https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/a-soft-polymer-based-tactile-sensor-for-robotics-applications#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2023 19:24:04 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/a-soft-polymer-based-tactile-sensor-for-robotics-applications

To effectively tackle everyday tasks, robots should be able to detect the properties and characteristics of objects in their surroundings, so that they can grasp and manipulate them accordingly. Humans naturally achieve this using their sense of touch and roboticists have thus been trying to provide robots with similar tactile sensing capabilities.

A team of researchers at the University of Hong Kong recently developed a new soft tactile sensor that could allow robots to detect different properties of objects that they are grasping. This sensor, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, is made up of two layers of weaved optical fibers and a self-calibration algorithm.

“Although there exist many soft and conformable tactile sensors on robotic applications able to decouple the normal force and , the impact of the size of object in contact on the force calibration model has been commonly ignored,” Wentao Chen, Youcan Yan, and their colleagues wrote in their paper.

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Sinister Algorithms: The dark side of our future https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/sinister-algorithms-the-dark-side-of-our-future https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/sinister-algorithms-the-dark-side-of-our-future#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:23:39 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/sinister-algorithms-the-dark-side-of-our-future

Algorithms are complex mathematical formulas used to perform tasks in our digital world. They are programmed to process information, make decisions, and take actions. Algorithms are used in various applications, such as search engines, social media, autonomous vehicles, and digital assistants.

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World’s First Ethical Algorithm https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/worlds-first-ethical-algorithm https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/worlds-first-ethical-algorithm#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:22:30 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/worlds-first-ethical-algorithm

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Experts at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have pioneered the world’s first ethical algorithm for autonomous vehicles, which could see autonomous driving become the norm globally.

The researchers’ ethical algorithm is significantly more advanced than its predecessors, as it fairly distributes levels of risks instead of operating on an either/or principle. The algorithm has been tested in 2,000 scenarios of critical conditions in various settings, such as streets in Europe, the US, and China. The innovation could improve the safety and uptake of autonomous vehicles worldwide.

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A Better Production Line for Atom Arrays https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/a-better-production-line-for-atom-arrays https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/a-better-production-line-for-atom-arrays#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:25:37 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/a-better-production-line-for-atom-arrays

A new algorithm can organize hundreds of atoms into pristine patterns—including a honeycomb lattice, a fractal called a Sierpiński triangle, and a lion’s head.

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How Can Meta-Learning, Self-Attention And JAX Power The Next Generation of Evolutionary Optimizers? https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/how-can-meta-learning-self-attention-and-jax-power-the-next-generation-of-evolutionary-optimizers https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/how-can-meta-learning-self-attention-and-jax-power-the-next-generation-of-evolutionary-optimizers#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:25:22 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/how-can-meta-learning-self-attention-and-jax-power-the-next-generation-of-evolutionary-optimizers

Black box optimization methods are used in every domain, from Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to engineering and finance. These methods are used to optimize functions when an algebraic model is absent. Black box optimization looks into the design and analysis of algorithms for those problem statements where the structure of the objective function or the limitations defining the set is not known or explainable. Given a set of input parameters, black box optimization methods are designed to evaluate the optimal value of a function. This is done by iteratively assessing the function at multiple points in the input space so as to find the point that generates the optimal output.

Though gradient descent is the most used optimization approach for deep learning models, it is unsuitable for every problem. In cases where gradients cannot be calculated directly or where an objective function’s accurate analytical form is unknown, other approaches like Evolution Strategies (ES) are used. Evolution strategies come from evolutionary algorithms, which refer to a division of population-based optimization algorithms inspired by natural selection. Basically, Evolution Strategies (ES) is a type of Black Box Optimization method that operates by refining a sampling distribution based on the fitness of candidates and updating rules based on equations.

In a new AI paper, researchers from Deepmind, have introduced and developed a new way to use machine learning to learn the update rules from data, called meta-black-box optimization (MetaBBO), to make ES more flexible, adaptable, and scalable. MetaBBO works by meta-learning a neural network parametrization of a BBO update rule. The researchers have used MetaBBO to discover a new type of ES called learned evolution strategy (LES). The learned evolution strategy LES is a type of Set Transformer that updates its solutions based on the fitness of candidates and not depending upon the ordering of candidate solutions within the Black box evaluations. After meta-training, the LES can learn to choose the best-performing solution or update solutions based on a moving average.

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Fundamental constants: Is the universe fine-tuned for life? https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/fundamental-constants-is-the-universe-fine-tuned-for-life https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/fundamental-constants-is-the-universe-fine-tuned-for-life#respond Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:26:46 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/fundamental-constants-is-the-universe-fine-tuned-for-life

Imagine a universe with extremely strong gravity. Stars would be able to form from very little material. They would be smaller than in our universe and live for a much shorter amount of time. But could life evolve there? It took human life billions of years to evolve on Earth under the pleasantly warm rays from the Sun after all.

Now imagine a with extremely weak gravity. Its matter would struggle to clump together to form stars, planets and—ultimately—living beings. It seems we are pretty lucky to have gravity that is just right for life in our universe.

This isn’t just the case for gravity. The values of many forces and in the universe, represented by some 30 so-called fundamental constants, all seem to line up perfectly to enable the evolution of intelligent life. But there’s no theory explaining what values the constants should have—we just have to measure them and plug their numbers into our equations to accurately describe the cosmos.

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Artificial pancreas improves blood sugar control for kids ages 2–6, study finds https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/artificial-pancreas-improves-blood-sugar-control-for-kids-ages-2-6-study-finds https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/artificial-pancreas-improves-blood-sugar-control-for-kids-ages-2-6-study-finds#respond Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:25:58 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/artificial-pancreas-improves-blood-sugar-control-for-kids-ages-2-6-study-finds

An artificial pancreas originally developed at the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology improves blood sugar control in children ages 2 to 6 with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study. Details of the clinical study and its findings have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Trial participants using the artificial pancreas spent approximately three more hours per day in their target blood sugar range compared with participants in a who continued relying on the methods they were already using to manage their .

The Control-IQ system, manufactured by Tandem Diabetes Care, is a diabetes management device that automatically monitors and regulates . The artificial pancreas has an insulin pump that uses advanced control algorithms based on the person’s glucose monitoring information to adjust the insulin dose as needed.

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Quantum causality emerging in a delayed-choice quantum Cheshire Cat experiment with neutrons https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/quantum-causality-emerging-in-a-delayed-choice-quantum-cheshire-cat-experiment-with-neutrons https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/quantum-causality-emerging-in-a-delayed-choice-quantum-cheshire-cat-experiment-with-neutrons#respond Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:24:12 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/03/quantum-causality-emerging-in-a-delayed-choice-quantum-cheshire-cat-experiment-with-neutrons

The Eqs. (3a) and (3b) suggest two important features of the location of neutrons and the spin by switching the choice of the post-selection: (i) The first lines indicate that the neutrons are found to be localized in different paths by switching the choice of the post-selection; they are found in the path I and II by applying the post-selection \({|{\Psi ^{+}_f}\rangle }\) and \({|{\Psi ^{-}_f}\rangle }\), respectively. (ii) The lines of the second part of the equations indicate that the spin in the different paths is found to be affected by switching the choice of the post-selection; the spin in path II and I is affected by applying the post-selection \({|{\Psi ^{+}_f}\rangle }\) and \({|{\Psi ^{-}_f}\rangle }\), respectively. Note that, in both choices of the post-selection, neutron and spin are localized in different paths, i.e., the location of the cat itself and its grin are interchanged by switching the choices of the post-selection. Since measurement of the locations of the neutron and the spin in the interferometer can be carried out independently of the delayed-choice process, the picking of a direction for post-selection, the influence of the delayed-choice on the preceding measurements can be investigated. We would like to point out that the experimental proposal in a recent publication35, contains a delayed choice scenario, too. The difference to the experiment presented in this report is that the authors of35 suggest a setup where two properties of the same system, represented by two non-commuting observables, are separated. In contrast to that, we deal in our experiment with the separation of one property from the system itself, hereby constituting the phenomenon of disembodiment. Further we would like to point out that in their Gedanken-experiment the effect of a change in the pre-selection is discussed that in our view has no retro-causal implications.

The experiment was carried out at the S18 silicon-perfect-crystal interferometer beam line at the high flux reactor at the Institute Laue Langevin. A schematic view of the experimental set-up is shown in Fig. 2.

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