Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Welcome Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence readers!

As with each issue, I'm here to bring you some of the latest trends and perspectives on the overlap of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, or what is becoming more and more commonly called the AIoT.

Before we get into the articles, I just wanted to share a few things.

First, the latest episode of the Conversations on Applied AI podcast is out! This week, I talked with Jessica Meyer about why diversity and inclusion are important for AI practitioners..

Second, on the topic of AI, our Applied AI Meetup is meeting this Thursday, May 6th! We will be having a presentation on Artificial Intelligence and how it applies to Intellectual Property.

Finally, if you are looking for a job in this field, I did a presentation with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development where I talked about Lab651 and some of the applications we are working on the areas of IoT products and that we are hiring!

Hope you enjoy this issue! I am truly blessed to be working in an area that I'm very passionate about. If you want to continue to stay engaged with me and our community, please reach out and connect with me. I would love to talk with you about your projects at the intersection of AI and IoT.

News

How Will Human Life Change With the Advent of AIoT?

Artificial Intelligence combined with IoT will improve operations, make human-machine interaction better, and provide intelligent data management.

The New Yorker: The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing

Already, what GPT-3 shows is that literary style is an algorithm, a complex series of instructions. The reason a passage from Kafka or Coleridge or Englander doesn’t look like math is because the mind isn’t capable of holding a hundred and seventy-five billion parameters at the same time. Very soon, when you read a text you will not be able to assume a person intended or wrote that language.

AIoT And 5G With Other Technologies Will Enable Fourth Industrial Revolution

Mankind is on the cusp of benefitting from the Fourth Industrial Revolution (or Industry 4.0) that will create synergies between hardware, software, networks, and biology. Unlike its predecessors, it will not be triggered by any single breakthrough. Steam power and water triggered the First Industrial Revolution. Electricity along with the development of means of transportation and communication started the Second one. The growth of electronics and Information Technology catalyzed the Third.

Sponsor

Applied AI & AIoT Community

AppliedAI is a monthly meetup that develops the next generation of experts by educating citizens of all ages in the tools, processes, and applications that are needed to implement solutions that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). The organization runs regular events that involve training, learning, and sharing real-world projects where AI is applied to solve problems that impact our lives.

Security

100 Million More IoT Devices Are Exposed

Over the last few years, researchers have found a shocking number of vulnerabilities in seemingly basic code that underpins how devices communicate with the internet. Now a new set of nine such vulnerabilities are exposing an estimated 100 million devices worldwide, including an array of internet-of-things products and IT management servers. The larger question researchers are scrambling to answer, though, is how to spur substantive changes—and implement effective defenses—as more and more of these types of vulnerabilities pile up.

6 steps to IoT security

IoT devices and systems are designed for ease-of-use rather than for security, and thus they often lack the ability to detect or mitigate malicious activity. The design of these devices and systems, combined with the data that they transmit and share via the internet, make them an easy target.

Business

AIoT - A Powerful Convergence Transforming Businesses in 2021

One of the most trending buzzwords currently in the IT sector is AIoT. As the name indicates, AIoT is a fusion of AI – Artificial Intelligence and IoT – Internet of Things. While both AI and IoT have their individual operations and characteristics, their combination brings out a whole new scope for digital transformation.

Healthcare

First AI Device for Colonoscopy: Extra Set of Expert Eyes

The first artificial intelligence (AI) endoscopy module developed specifically to help detect adenomas during routine colonoscopy is making its debut following approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the system earlier this month.

The GI Genius module is the first and only commercially available computer-aided detection system that uses AI to identify colorectal polyps during a routine colonoscopy.

Consumer

Why Apple AirTags Will Be a Hit: This Is No Ordinary Bluetooth Tracker

With NFC, any iPhone user who finds an AirTag can simply tap the tag with their phone, and they “will be taken to a website that will display a contact phone number for the owner, if they have provided one,” according to Apple.

Development

T95 Plus Android 11 TV Box features Rockchip RK3566 AIoT processor, 8GB RAM

While the Rockchip RK3566 processor has multimedia capabilities with 4K HDR video playback and output, it has many other interfaces such as native PCIe and SATA that would not make it as cost-effective as TV Box SoC’s like Rockchip RK3328 or Amlogic S905X4. But this does not stop companies from making TV boxes with the AIoT processor, and T95 Plus TV box offers another option, again with up to 8GB RAM.