Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Forbes AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies

  April 01, 2020    Nikhil Verma

Artificial intelligence is infiltrating every industry, allowing vehicles to navigate without drivers, assisting doctors with medical diagnoses, and mimicking the way humans speak. Forbes and data partner Meritech Capital have put together a list of private, U.S.-based companies that are wielding some subset of artificial intelligence in a meaningful way and demonstrating real business potential from doing so. The list of top 50 companies span categories like human resources, security, insurance, and finance, with healthcare, transportation, and infrastructure. Together the startups touting AI received a record $7.4 billion in funding in just the second quarter of 2019, according to CBInsights.

Read the full Forbes article here https://www.forbes.com/sites/jilliandonfro/2019/09/17/ai-50-americas-most-promising-artificial-intelligence-companies 

Scientists linked artificial and biological neurons in a network

  April 01, 2020    Nikhil Verma

The three labs, scattered across Padova, Italy, Zurich, Switzerland, and Southampton, England, collaborated to create a fully self-controlled, hybrid artificial-biological neural network that communicated using biological principles, but over the internet.

The three-neuron network, linked through artificial synapses that emulate the real thing, was able to reproduce a classic neuroscience experiment that’s considered the basis of learning and memory in the brain. In other words, artificial neuron and synapse “chips” have progressed to the point where they can actually use a biological neuron intermediary to form a circuit that, at least partially, behaves like the real thing.

Read more about it here https://singularityhub.com/2020/03/10/scientists-linked-artificial-and-biological-neurons-in-a-network-and-amazingly-it-worked/

Engineers crack 58-year-old puzzle on way to quantum breakthrough

  April 01, 2020    Nikhil Verma

Another happy accident in the world of science - this time with significant implications for development of quantum computers and sensors. A mishap during an experiment led quantum computing researchers to crack a mystery that had stood since 1961. A team of engineers at University of New South Wales Sydney controlled the nucleus of a single atom using only electric fields. "This discovery means that we now have a pathway to build quantum computers using single-atom spins without the need for any oscillating magnetic field for their operation," says UNSW's Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering Andrea Morello. "Moreover, we can use these nuclei as exquisitely precise sensors of electric and magnetic fields, or to answer fundamental questions in quantum science."

Read more about it at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200311121822.htm

Using AI and big data to estimate economic recovery post covid19

  April 01, 2020    Nikhil Verma

Researchers on WeBank’s AI Moonshot Team have taken a deep learning system developed to detect solar panel installations from satellite imagery and repurposed it to track China’s economic recovery from the novel coronavirus outbreak. The team used its neural network to analyze visible, near-infrared, and short-wave infrared images from various satellites, including the infrared bands from the Sentinel-2 satellite. This allowed the system to look for hot spots indicative of actual steel manufacturing inside a plant.  In the early days of the outbreak, this analysis showed that steel manufacturing had dropped to a low of 29% of capacity. But by 9 February, it had recovered to 76%.

Read more about the finds at https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/satellites-and-ai-monitor-chinese-economys-reaction-to-coronavirus
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