#91 - DeepMind Mafia, DishBrain, PRIME, ZooKeeper AI, Instant NeRF

Published: March 31, 2022, 9:09 a.m.

Our 91st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nOutline:\nApplications & Business\nMeet the DeepMind mafia: These 18 alumni from Google's AI research lab are raising millions for their own startups, from climate to crypto\nNvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer\nKroger and Nvidia partner to \u2018reinvent the shopping experience\u2019 with AI and digital twin simulations\nTop AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures\nResearch & Advancements\nResearchers From Cortical Labs Develop DishBrain: A Neural Network With Biological Neurons\nGoogle AI and UC Berkely Researchers Introduce A Deep Learning Approach Called 'PRIME' That Generates AI Chip Architectures By Drawing From Existing Blueprints And Performance Figures\nSeeing an elusive magnetic effect through the lens of machine learning\nAI confirms the obvious: The pandemic bummed people out\nSociety & Ethics\nUS-China collaboration in AI papers drops amid ongoing tech war, Stanford report shows\nBanks Using AI Are Ripe for Russian Sabotage\nAutomation will erase 'knowledge jobs' before most blue collar jobs: Future Today Institute CEO\nUkraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says\nSoftware vendors are pushing "explainable A.I." that often isn't\nFun & Neat\nUbisoft shows off machine learning tool for modelling animals\nNvidia shows off AI model that turns a few dozen snapshots into a 3D-rendered scene