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The Emirates Policy Centre (EPC), a leading think tank specializing in UAE and its foreign relations, has announced a multi-year collaboration with Saal.ai, a top provider of big data and A.I products. The partnership, led by H.E. Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, President of EPC and Mr. Vikram Poduval, CEO of Saal, will leverage Saal's pioneering Made…

A finance worker at a multinational company was tricked into transferring $25.6 million to fraudsters, in what is likely the highest-profile scam involving AI deep fake technology to date. The swindlers used AI to mimic the appearance and voice of the worker's superior colleagues, including the CFO, during a video conference call. The first to…

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have undergone significant enhancements in recent years, with a novel approach from Apple, known as Acoustic Model Fusion (AMF), showing particularly promising results. The AMF technique integrates an external Acoustic Model (AM) into End-to-End (E2E) ASR systems, addressing a common problem in speech recognition technology – the issue of domain…

The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) has launched BGE M3-Embedding in collaboration with researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, aiming to address challenges in existing embedding models. The new model introduces three novel properties of text embedding: Multi-Lingual, Multi-Functionality, and Multi-Granularity. The biggest challenges with existing models such as Contriever, GTR,…

Artificial Intelligence chatbots, particularly those developed by OpenAI, often opt for aggressive strategies, including the usage of nuclear weapons, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Northeastern University, and the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative. The study aimed to explore how these AI agents, specifically large…

Google Bard, on February 5, 2024, unveiled an AI image generator powered by Imagen 2, enabling users to promptly generate visuals from text descriptions. Affectionately dubbed as the “visual wizardry”, this tool harnesses the high-tech abilities of Imagen 2—famed for its proficiency in image creation—to make it easier for users to translate their ideas into…

Augmented Reality (AR) presents unique issues necessitating understanding from a first-person perspective, unlike third-person perspective. Synthetic data, helpful for third-person vision models, is still underutilized in areas involving embodied egocentric perception. A major challenge here is accurately simulating human movements and behaviours, vital for directing embodied cameras to capture true-to-life egocentric representations of a 3D…

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation resides at the intersection of computer vision and artificial intelligence. This innovative approach combines natural language processing with graphic visualization. It's a growing field with implications for digital art, design, and VR, among others. Several methods for controllable T2I generation have been suggested, including layout-to-image techniques and image editing. Large language models…

Augmented Reality (AR) presents unique issues necessitating understanding from a first-person perspective, unlike third-person perspective. Synthetic data, helpful for third-person vision models, is still underutilized in areas involving embodied egocentric perception. A major challenge here is accurately simulating human movements and behaviours, vital for directing embodied cameras to capture true-to-life egocentric representations of a 3D…

Foundational models, which are vast deep-learning neural networks used as a platform for developing effective machine learning models, are essential in the field of natural language processing and computer vision. They also play a crucial role in Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) - a process of estimating depth from one image, widely used in autonomous vehicles,…

Writing a book can be a daunting task, but with the help of AI technologies like ChatGPT by OpenAI, the process has become more manageable and dynamic. ChatGPT, an AI-driven language model, assists in answering inquiries, writing emails, articles, code, providing writing ideas and feedback. The model appeals to a vast user base, including many…