Top Trends in Information: Data News Summary
In the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), researchers and tech companies are making significant strides in various fields. Here's a roundup of some of the latest AI developments from around the world.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Microsoft have collaborated to create an AI system that determines a roof's solar power potential. Utilising satellite imagery, this system can calculate the geometry of roofs and estimate how many solar panels can be fitted, taking solar irradiance data into account. With 91 percent accuracy, this AI system is set to revolutionise the solar energy sector.
Across the Pacific, researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, multiple UK universities, and the Natural History Museum London have developed an AI system that validates the concept of mimicry theory. This system analyses the wing patterns of butterfly species and has proven that they co-evolve for mutual benefit.
In the realm of natural language processing, Facebook, Deepmind, the University of Washington, and New York University have collaborated to create SuperGLUE. This collection of benchmark tasks tests AI systems' abilities to perform complex language processing tasks, moving away from trivia-like questions to require in-depth answers.
Meanwhile, Nvidia has made waves in the AI community by training BERT, one of the world's most advanced natural language processing models, in a record-breaking 53 minutes. Nvidia's AI platform has also improved BERT's ability to make inferences to a record-breaking two milliseconds.
In the fight against drug abuse, researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed DrugTracker, a machine-learning tool. This tool analyses data from platforms such as Twitter and Reddit to monitor where drug abuse is occurring. DrugTracker flags hundreds of relevant posts per day for counsellors and clinicians to decide where and how to best allocate their resources.
Finally, while the company that developed an AI system to analyse drug abuse rates in real-time across platforms like Twitter and Reddit remains unnamed in the provided search results, it's clear that AI is playing an increasingly important role in various aspects of our lives.
These advancements demonstrate the potential of AI to address a wide range of challenges, from renewable energy to public health, and underscore the importance of continued investment in AI research and development.
