Introduction
Happy Wednesday everybody! It’s May 03, 2023 and I’m Dean from the Daily AI Podcast. Today’s episode covers industry news from giants Palantir and NVIDIA, innovations in weddings and blindness detection, and business applications in healthcare.
So, sit back, relax, and let’s dive into today’s top stories in AI.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Now Shipping: DGX H100 Systems Bring Advanced AI Capabilities to Industries Worldwide
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The NVIDIA DGX H100, an advanced AI system, is now being used worldwide to bring artificial intelligence capabilities to industries. Customers in Japan, Sweden, and Ecuador are using the AI system to offer AI-driven insights in various industries like finance, healthcare, law, IT/telecom, and manufacturing. With powerful AI models and digital twins, factories and warehouses aim to optimize their components, energy, and CO2 savings. This AI system can also help create dexterous robots that can perform tasks in factories, disaster sites, and even homes. The DGX H100 system is shipping globally and is scalable for AI supercomputer needs, while its software accelerates data science pipelines and streamlines deployment of generative AI and computer vision.
Palantir Launches Artificial Intelligence Platform for Military Decision-Making
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Palantir Technologies, founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, has launched Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) aimed at the military. The platform offers the deployment of large language models (LLMs) and AI across any network the military uses, and connects highly sensitive data to generate real-time military affairs analytics. AIP allows military operators to pose questions to the AI, such as identifying enemy positions and equipment, or drone reconnaissance work. The AI generates an array of attack plans, and after assessment passes to the commander to develop an operation plan for the unit, making better informed military decisions.
INNOVATIONS
Here Comes the Bride, With AI-Generated Wedding Vows
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Wedding planning site Joy has incorporated AI-generated content into its offerings to help relieve stress for soon-to-be-wed couples. The tool utilises ChatGPT to produce everything from pun-filled hashtags to personalised marriage vows, depending on the style desired by the user. The AI tool has been well-received, with vows and speeches proving the most in-demand features since their launch in March. However, some remain sceptical of using AI to produce this sort of content, expressing concern that it removes the truly genuine nature of such important love-related moments.
Revolutionary AI Tool Developed to Diagnose Childhood Blindness
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Researchers at University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital have developed an AI tool that can detect infants in danger of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), the primary cause of childhood blindness. The team used a sample of 7,414 photographs of the eyes of 1,370 babies trained to their AI model, and it was assessed using 200 more photos compared to senior ophthalmologists. The AI tool as proficient as senior pediatric ophthalmologists helped distinguish between retinal pictures with typical ROP and those that might result in blindness. In low-resource areas like sub-Saharan Africa, up to 30% of newborns have some degree of ROP, and while treatments are now readily available, it can result in blindness if not treated quickly.
Bark: The Ultimate Audio Generation Model
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If you’re interested in exploring the latest advancements in text-to-speech models, you’ll want to check out Bark, the ultimate audio generation model. Developed by Suno, Bark is a transformer-based model that generates highly realistic, multilingual speech, music, background noise, sound effects, and even nonverbal communications. With its support for various languages, you can simply input text, and Bark will automatically detect the language and apply the correct native accent. By using high-level semantic tokens, Bark can embed the initial text prompt without relying on phonemes, which allows it to generalize to arbitrary instructions beyond speech, including music lyrics and sound effects. While Bark generates speech and music without differentiation, you can improve its performance when they differ by adding music notes around your lyrics. Additionally, Bark can fully clone voices, accurately replicating a speaker’s tone, pitch, emotion, prosody, and other audio features. Before using cloning, however, you can only choose from a set of synthetic options provided by Suno. Try out Bark’s demo or run your own inference using Google Colab Notebook. You can also install and check it out locally by running Bark’s package code.
BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
AI lessons from healthcare: Overcoming complexity and embracing the cloud
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The healthcare industry has been slow to adopt AI due to the complexities of the applications and the regulatory environment. However, pioneering companies like Elekta have developed ML-powered systems that can be integral for increasing radiotherapy access worldwide in cancer and brain disorder treatments. A dedicated radiotherapy AI center in Amsterdam, the POP-AART lab, has facilitated decision-making within the treatment process resulting in significant time savings. However, Elekta needed a common scalable infrastructure to speed up its AI innovations, as well as access to large volumes of medical data and medical equipment data. To overcome these obstacles, Elekta established a larger-scale pipeline of anonymized medical data and embraced cloud infrastructure to scale AI initiatives. By partnering with trusted third-party companies, Elekta was able to simplify infrastructure and platform integration. Global AI sales in the healthcare sector are predicted to surpass $187 billion by 2030.
Apple to Launch AI-Powered Health App With Emotion Tracking and More
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Apple is launching a new AI-powered health coaching service named Quartz, designed to motivate users to exercise, improve their eating habits and sleep better. The service will carry a monthly fee and be available via Apple Watch and iPhone models. The quartz initiative is similar to LumiHeath that Apple introduced in 2020 with the Singapore government, although the new service has its own app, unlike the former program. Additionally, Apple will roll out an iPad version of its iPhone health app that would see users obtain electrocardiogram results and other related health data in a larger format. The company also plans to extend its health push by introducing a basic form of blood-pressure monitoring to Apple watch in the coming years to make healthcare solutions more personalized.
Daily Feature
Mckay Wrigley on Twitter
Today’s Daily Feature is a tweet from Mckay Wrigley, who’s a prominent AI hobbyist in the community. In this featured tweet, he created an AI vision assistant and hooked it up to its iPhone camera for visual input. To demonstrate its capabilities, he has the assistant go through the process of making him a keto-friendly recipe from the ingredients in his fridge.
First, the agent learns what a Keto diet is, then recognizes keto-friendly ingredients in his fridge, and finally searches the internet to find a recipe using those ingredients. He also shares a lot of his projects and learning resources on his twitter so if you’re a hobbyist, he’s a must follow!
Conclusion
And with that, we wrap up another episode of the Daily AI Podcast. We hope you’re feeling inspired to join the conversation about AI and help shape its future. After all, AI isn’t just a technology, it’s a community of innovators, thinkers, and doers. So keep sharing your ideas, keep exploring new possibilities, and keep listening to the Daily AI Podcast for all the latest updates.
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