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• Achieving  Human  Level  Competitive  Robot  Table  Tennis | Sports AI | August 8, 2024

OpenAI introduced a five-tier system to track progress toward AGI, with current AI at Level 1 and nearing Level 2, "Reasoners." This system aims to clarify benchmarks for advancing toward human-level AI capabilities.

• VMP: Versatile Motion Priors for Robustly Tracking Motion on Physical Characters| Disney Research | August 21, 2024

ETH Zurich and Disney Research developed an AI that generates realistic movements for virtual characters and robots from text or images. Using a two-stage approach, it adapts to physical constraints, enhancing natural motion and generalization.

• NVIDIA Releases Small Language Model With State-of-the-Art Accuracy | Nvidia | August 21, 2024

Nvidia and Mistral released Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, a small, efficient language model for laptops and PCs. It uses pruning and distillation for high accuracy, leading benchmarks and enhancing data privacy with local processing.

• Scientists to use AI to analyse 1.6m brain scans to develop tool predicting dementia risk | The Guardian | August 25, 2024

Scientists from Edinburgh and Dundee are using AI to analyze 1.6 million brain scans for early dementia prediction. The NEURii project aims to help radiologists assess dementia risk, potentially transforming early intervention and treatment.

• NEO Beta | 1X Technologies | August 31, 2024

1X Technologies unveiled NEO Beta, a realistic AI-powered humanoid robot for home assistance. Standing 5'5" and able to perform various tasks, it sparked debates about its human-like capabilities on social media.

AI Resources

• PocketPal AI: PocketPal AI lets you run Microsoft's Phi-3.5 language model offline on your iPhone. Download the app from the App Store, add the model from Hugging Face, and start chatting with AI directly on your device.
• LLM Hallucination Index: The LLM Hallucination Index by Galileo ranks 22 AI models for RAG, focusing on accuracy, hallucination rates, and cost-efficiency. It compares open vs. closed-source models and highlights that bigger isn't always better.
• Flux AI: The new Flux AI image model. It’s 3-5x better than any open-source models that came before. No more hands/text issues. The only thing — it’s hard to get the most from it if you're not a developer. Decided to build an app to make training high-quality AI image models easy for everyone.

Update Events

• AI Now and Future Conference | Delta Electronics (Americas) 46101 Fremont Boulevard Fremont, CA 94538 | September 21, 2024

SVCACA is proud to hold this conference for the community to raise awareness of the coming AI era. The half-day conference will provide comprehensive knowledge of Edge AI technology, AI in robotics, and General AI applications. The conference begins with the CTO of California Technology Department's VIP speech on AI for California followed by city mayors’ AI vision talks to open tech discussion sessions. The final session with selected AI startups innovation pitch contest with the winner award will end the conference.

• Augmenting Human Creativity with AI | Online | September 25, 2024

By now we’ve all seen the quote – I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. Dr. Peter Stone, Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin and Chief Scientist of Sony AI, says that could be getting more possible.

• Where Builders Create the AI Future | San Francisco | September 30-October 2, 2024

AI is moving faster than ever in the age of LLMs. Hear from the teams and leaders developing the next generation of AI applications. Learn how to develop and deploy LLM and generative AI applications with our hands-on training and tutorials.

Blog Picks

• Mastering Geospatial Annotation: Techniques, Challenges, and Impactful Applications

Geospatial annotation is transforming industries by providing precise geographic data for urban planning, agriculture, and so on.

• How Terrascope Uses BasicAI‘s Geospatial Data Annotation to Enhance Property Tax Assessments

Terrascope leverages BasicAI's advanced geospatial data annotation to enhance property tax assessment accuracy and efficiency.

Social Media Highlights

• LinkedIn: As the Paris Olympics shine a spotlight on the world of sports, AI is making groundbreaking strides in this arena. DeepMind has unveiled a robotic agent that can hold its own against amateur human players in competitive table tennis.
• Facebook: 84% of gamers believe NPCs greatly impact gameplay, yet 52% find current NPC dialogues boring and repetitive. AI advancements like NVIDIA ACE and Inworld AI's Character Engine could revolutionize NPC development.

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