Last Week in AI DeepMind‘s AlphaFold 2, Voice Cloning, Facial Recognition in Retail Stores
Jul 26, 2021
Discover the future of self-driving technology through the lens of pizza delivery robots! Delve into DeepMind's AlphaFold, making AI-powered protein structure prediction accessible. Explore the ethical dilemmas of voice cloning, sparked by a synthetic version of Anthony Bourdain. Uncover the civil rights concerns around widespread facial recognition in retail spaces. Plus, hear a tech CEO’s bold claims about AI's impact, compared to the invention of fire. Join the conversation on AI’s rapidly evolving landscape!
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Pizza Delivery Robots
- Self-driving delivery robots, like Refraction AI's Rev-1, are operating in Austin and Ann Arbor.
- These robots deliver pizzas from Southside Flying Pizza, offering a potential future for autonomous delivery.
Open-Source Protein Folding
- DeepMind's AlphaFold2, revolutionary for protein structure prediction, is now open-sourced.
- An open-source alternative, Rosetta Fold, offers similar performance and an online service for protein structure analysis.
Hybrid Question Answering
- Combining language models and knowledge graphs improves question answering accuracy.
- This hybrid approach leverages factual knowledge from graphs and language understanding from models.