Issue 161 April 13th 2023

Justin Grammens

Greetings Artificial Intelligence and IoT Weekly News Readers!

Dropping another round of interesting Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things articles from the Internet into your INBOX. For reference, you can always visit our website and browse the archives and other useful content. On to the latest news!

The top news is that tickets for the Applied AI 2023 Spring Conference are selling fast. REGISTER TODAY and being a subscriber you can receive a 50% discount! This is an in-person conference to be held in Saint Paul, MN. Use the promo code "iotweeklynews" when checking out or use this link to directly purchase tickets.

Additionally, I'll be speaking at 4 different conferences in the month of May alone! Some are public, and some are private, but here are links to a few of them. Hope you can join me!

Finally, we had our Applied AI Meetup last week. Amazing presentation on how to address the high failure rates of AI projects. Checkout the video on YouTube of the presentation

I hope you enjoy this issue, and please reach out to me anytime to discuss if you would like to present on a topic related to IoT, ML, and AI at a future meetup, conference, or podcast.

News

The A to Z of Artificial Intelligence

As Artificial Intelligence becomes a larger part of our world, it’s easy to get lost in its sea of jargon. But it has never been more important to get your bearings than today. A guide to AI jargon for everyone grappling with the power, promise, and perils of artificial intelligence.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT on Education

The deployment of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) application that can compose grade–passing essays, create detailed art and even engage in philosophical conversations and write computer code for specific tasks, is raising tough questions about the future of AI in education and a variety of industries.

Artificial Intelligence Isn't Always the Best at Picking the Best Job Candidates : The Indicator From Planet Money

Artificial intelligence has been portrayed as a solution to human bias. But, when it comes to finding top job talent, AI can get it just as wrong. So how can that be fixed?For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.

AWS Launches Bedrock Generative AI Service, Titan LLMs

Amazon is introducing a cloud service called Bedrock that developers can use to enhance their software with artificial intelligence systems that can generate text, similar to the engine behind the popular ChatGPT chatbot powered by Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI.

Can AI Answer Your Money Questions? We Put Chatbots to the Test

Both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are dominating headlines recently, for their generative capabilities and vast storehouses of information. Each has far more processing power than, say, any individual personal finance writer (ahem). With that in mind, we asked our AI assistants-slash-overlords these classic personal finance questions!

Foundation Models for Generalist Medical Artificial Intelligence

The exceptionally rapid development of highly flexible, reusable artificial intelligence (AI) models is likely to usher in newfound capabilities in medicine. We propose a new paradigm for medical AI, which we refer to as generalist medical AI (GMAI). GMAI models will be capable of carrying out a diverse set of tasks using very little or no task-specific labeled data.

A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence

Despite the wild success of ChatGPT and other large language models, the artificial neural networks (ANNs) that underpin these systems might be on the wrong track.

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