US Defence research agency (DARPA) is underway with innovative projects to test unmanned underwater vehicles - testing if they can operate for extended periods without human support. While typically a defence use case, how navigation, energy management and corrosion is tackled could help accelerate other industrieshttps://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-02-05aimage credit: slashgear.com (march 2020)
Train an AI to complete half-finished images? Mimic how humans use words or predicting what we see? A future where AI models understand text and images and convert between the two, understanding our language and pre-filling our gaps (half finished images - no problem, let the algorithm complete that).
GPT-3/ OpenAI and other deep learning advancements and research continue to drive possibilities for creative industries, manufacturing, education and more.https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/05/1015754/avocado-armchair-future-ai-openai-deep-learning-nlp-gpt3-computer-vision-common-sense/
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Anything you want to count, record, analyse, or store can be obtained by teaching Vision AI to look for it.
Current use cases globally worked through include home-eye assessments (6over6), detecting manufacturing & infrastructure asset defects (preventative maintenance etc),alerting where weapons are carried onto a premise and more.Could Vision.AI help us with sustainability? climate change? ie using algorithms to measure what is difficult for humans – every tree in NSW, very yeast cell in a culture,the change in gait that suggests a medical condition before it presents significantly?https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/29/how-to-tell-if-computer-vision-can-transform-your-business/
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French startup Blobr, is one of many capitalising on the no-code/ low-code movement to empower anyone to build tech-based businesses/ capabilities with little computing and programming expertise. Still, there's a need for computational literacy and a privacy-by-design approach (need more focus here as an industry) as we speed through the data-goldmine (have we moved on from the 'data is the new oil' mantra yet?) This is an interesting take on productisation.https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/22/blobr/
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Did you know that since the first public experiment in France 1783, balloons have been heavily used for science and math research?
Balloon-generated imagery falls from an elevation that is between satellite and aerial imagery - high resolutions at a fraction of the drone cost.
Together with data modelling, maybe balloon imagery can help model insurance risks more closely for property, land, environment?
The recent partnership between Arturo.ai and Nearspacelabs.com thinks this is at least one use case worth exploring.
https://www.arturo.ai/the-skys-the-limit-why-arturo-continues-to-partner-with-new-and-novel-imagery-providers
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