AI Takes Over CES 2023 With Practical and Innovative Solutions

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👋🏼 The Future of Gesture Recognition - AI Spray-On Skin

☁️ Goodbye Could, Hello Phone

🖥️ CES 2023: The Best of AI Products

🤌🏼 Prompt Of The Day - Part 2

🤣 #WFT - What's Funny Today

The Future of Gesture Recognition - AI Spray-On Skin

The future of gesture recognition is here and it's spray-on! A team of researchers at Seoul National University, Stanford University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a new technology that uses a spray-on smart skin to recognize the movements of human hands. This technology can recognize typing, sign language, and even the shape of simple familiar objects with limited data and minimal training.

The spray-on smart skin is made up of millions of nanowires of silver coated with gold that is embedded in a polyurethane plastic coating. The mesh can be directly printed on the skin using a portable machine and is so thin and lightweight that you'll forget it's there. It's also biocompatible and breathable and can last for a few days of daily use, even if you're a hand-washing fanatic.

The nanowire network senses tiny changes in electrical resistance as the skin stretches, creating unique signal patterns that are wirelessly sent to a computer for processing. A machine-learning system maps the changing patterns in electrical conductivity to specific physical tasks and gestures. The researchers first use random hand and finger motions from three different users to help the AI learn the general correlation between motions.

This new technology has many potential applications such as gaming and virtual reality, allowing people to communicate with others and with machines using gestures. It could also be used by surgeons to remotely control medical devices, and as a new modality for robots and prosthetics to achieve object and motion recognition, which means soon we may see robots that can understand and mimic our hand gestures.

In short, this technology is a game-changer, it's like upgrading from a flip phone to a smartphone, it's gesture recognition on steroids. So, let's all raise a glass to the future and the team of researchers who made this possible. Check out the article HERE

Goodbye Cloud, Hello Phone: AI could be running on your mobile device soon

The AI revolution is about to go mobile! A new study suggests that by mimicking the treelike branches that form the network neurons use to communicate with each other, we could create AI that doesn't need the megawatts of power available in the cloud. That's right, the future of AI could be running on the watts that can be drawn from the battery in your phone. But before you start training your AI assistant to make you a sandwich, let's talk about the current state of the game.

As the brain-imitating AI systems known as neural networks grow in size and power, they're becoming more expensive and energy-hungry. For example, OpenAI spent $4.6 million to run 9,200 GPUs for two weeks just to train GPT-3. That's enough energy to power 1,300 cars for the same amount of time. But fear not, a neuromorphic engineer at Stanford University has a plan to save us from this energy crisis.

He suggests a way for AI systems to boost the amount of information conveyed in each signal they transmit. This could reduce both the energy and space they currently demand. Basically, the idea is to shorten the distances between transistors and to make the systems send fewer signals while conveying more information. To do this, the systems may want to emulate a part of the biological neurons that’s different from the one they currently do. Instead of imitating the synapse, they should mimic structures known as dendrites.

So, what does this mean for us? It means that in the near future, we may be able to train our AI assistants on our phones instead of relying on the cloud. No more waiting for the WiFi to load, no more running out of data. The future is looking bright, and energy-efficient. But, let's not get too excited, it's still a long way to go. So for now, we'll stick to asking Siri to play our favorite song.

Best of CES: AI Edition

It looks like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 was the year of AI. But don't get too excited, we're not talking about any groundbreaking research or mind-blowing new models. No, this year's AI offerings at CES were all about practicality and making everyday consumer devices and services even better.

First off, let's talk about AMD's Ryzen 7040 series of mobile processors. This bad boy packs the first ever dedicated AI processor in an x86 processor, called the Ryzen AI. This means that finally, Windows users have a real alternative to the AI hardware found in Apple Silicon. AMD claims that the Ryzen AI processor is up to 20% quicker and 50% more efficient than the AI hardware on Apple's M2 chip. Now, it's not going to be as powerful as big GPUs like Nvidia's RTX or Intel's Xe, but it's a huge step in the right direction for affordable AI-powered laptops.

Next up, we have a couple of AI speech startups that made a splash at CES 2023. OneMeta AI brought Verbum, a real-time speech translation web app that is already available. It's pretty impressive stuff, and the CEO even showed me a demo of it translating a call between English and Spanish on the show floor. But it's not just about translation, another company called Speechmorphing can modulate a person's voice to sound like someone else, or even create speech from text input. The possibilities are endless, and it could even help people who've lost their ability to speak.

Finally, we have Nvidia's Canvas 360. If you're an artistically challenged person like me, you'll appreciate this one. Nvidia Canvas is a tool that allows you to create 2D landscapes with just a few brushstrokes. It was pretty cool when it was first introduced at CES 2020, but now they've taken it to the next level with Canvas 360. This new version allows you to create 360-degree panoramic images. Now, this might sound like a gimmick, but it's not. This tool is going to be a game-changer for 3D artists who want to quickly create a background for a 3D scene. So there you have it, folks, AI is alive and well at CES 2023, and it's all about making our lives easier and more enjoyable.

Prompt of the Day - Descriptions

From podcast descriptions, listings, youtube descriptions, and more, writing these have never been easier. Watch it take this listing using basic features and information, to a well written listing description that took less than a minute.

This is good, but not great... let's get it to give me more!

This is much better. As always, by pushing it to do a little more and giving it great prompts, you can get amazing results. I literally treat this thing like a borrowed mule.

#WFT

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