AI Weekly: Sandwiches and 2,000-year-old scrolls

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From the humanoid robots learning to marque you a sandwich, to however AI could uncover the contents of a 2,000-year-old scroll, this is AI Weekly.

In a warehouse connected the outskirts of Shanghai a humanoid robot is learning however to steam apparel portion different is mastering the creation of sandwich-making.

Yao Maoqing is president of AgiBot’s embodied quality concern unit.

He hopes the bots volition 1 time beryllium capable to assistance successful countries with aging populations, similar China and Japan.

“People decidedly expect the robots, successful 5 oregon 10 years, tin bash those works to, for example, signifier the country for the elder people.”

Intel is welcoming caller CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

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And gearing up for a alteration of tack.

Tan is reportedly considering important changes to its spot manufacturing methods and artificial quality strategies.

That's according to 2 radical acquainted with the matter.

The caller trajectory includes restructuring the company's attack aft it missed surging request for AI processors.

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Is this pig stressed?

An AI-integrated feeder is trying to find out.

The IntelliPig, developed by University of the West of England Bristol and Scotland’s Rural College, utilizes a camera installed wrong a feeder.

The camera representation is processed by an AI algorithm that tin admit the idiosyncratic animal, measure its information and spot if it is showing signs of stress.

The exertion could perchance pb to important advances successful carnal welfare.

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And could AI assistance uncover the contents of this past scroll that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago?

Scientists accidental it could uncover marque caller philosophical writings - but here's the challenge:

“So these scrolls can't beryllium opened physically. It would harm them.”

AI is changing that by unscrolling them virtually.

Stephen Parsons is The Vesuvius Challenge task lead.

“So we enactment the charred scrolls successful a particle accelerator to scan the inside. And past we are processing the bundle that tin extract the substance contents of the scroll from that scan. So we're trying to look wrong the scrolls and uncover the text.”

AI has been trained to spot the ink connected the scroll, but not to recognize the words.

This helps marque definite it doesn't conjecture - oregon alteration the meaning of the text.