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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

GeekWire

The weeks-long database search was conducted by the Asteroid Institute , a program of the nonprofit B612 Foundation , in partnership with UW’s DiRAC Institute and Google Cloud. The two institutes developed a program called THOR , which stands for “Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery.”

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The West is testing out a lot of shiny new military tech in Ukraine

Vox

Schmidt traveled to Ukraine not just as a former tech CEO, but as a billionaire investor in military technology startups who has served on influential federal boards advising the US government on adapting more artificial intelligence. The use of artificial intelligence in war is incredibly controversial, but undeniably advancing.

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The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

Vox

Generative AI is essentially a more advanced and useful version of the conventional artificial intelligence that already helps power everything from autocomplete to Siri. And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts.

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How unbelievably realistic fake images could take over the internet

Vox

In a more innocent time (2015) Google released “DeepDream,” which used Google’s artificial neural network programs — that is, artificial intelligence that’s been trained to learn in a way that mimics a human brain’s neural networks — to recognize patterns in images and make new images from them.

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GeekWire Awards 2024 revealed: Winners bask in momentum of AI and potential of region

GeekWire

Much like it has been for the past year, artificial intelligence was a recurring buzzword running through the evening, as evidenced by the number of finalists and winners seizing on the technology. A year later, it’s clear that open source models are playing an active role in advancing the research and engineering of AI.”

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. She has a solid understanding of technology and its ability to deliver business outcomes.

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Three takeaways from a visit to TikTok’s new transparency center

The Verge

million to nonprofits and universities using artificial intelligence and data analytics to better understand the coronavirus crisis, and its impact on vulnerable communities. Those systems included PRISM , a broad data collection program that compromised systems at Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook — but not Amazon.

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