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ForkLog AI has collected the most important news from the world of AI over the past week.
The IT project storage service GitHub has begun blocking the accounts of Russian developers and companies.
According to media reports, from April 13, 2022, the platform will suspend the accounts of programmers who now or previously worked in organizations that fell under US sanctions without warning .
As of April 15, GitHub blocked dozens of Russian accounts, including Sberbank AI Lab, Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, and individual developers.
When a corporate account is blocked, access to repositories data can be maintained for two hours, when a personal account is stopped, it is limited instantly, Habr noted.
An alliance of IT companies C2PA will develop a standard for verifying the authenticity of images and videos on the Internet. Members of the consortium include Adobe, Microsoft, Intel, Twitter, Sony, Nikon, BBC and ARM.
According to the alliance, the implementation of an open standard will prevent the spread of deepfakes. Many of the authentication mechanisms will appear in 2022, and in a couple of years there will be an ecosystem for controlling the veracity of photos and videos at all stages of their life cycle, Adobe said.
The technical standard will ensure that content is not interfered with using distributed ledger technologies. Adobe says the alliance has a long way to go before all platforms can implement effective content authentication mechanisms.
TSMC will release the first chips based on 2nm process in 2026.
Company CEO Xi Xi Wei said, that N2 manufacturing nodes will rely on insulated gate transistors (GAA). However, he did not provide any specific details about the architecture or technology name.
It is also known that chip fabrication will rely on existing 0.33 numerical aperture ultraviolet photolithography.
TSMC plans to develop test chips in late 2024, and start high-volume production in late 2025. This means that the company's customers will receive the first N2-based chips in 2026.
The Meta Quest headset was taught to recognize complex gestures like high five and clapping.
The company has updated the mixed reality hand tracking system to support more movement. The new version of the Presence Platform API will become publicly available after preliminary testing by several developers. The technology also promises more complex and reliable interactions on the Meta Quest headset.
The Presence Platform update aims to improve gesture tracking using the cameras of the headset itself instead of the default hardware controllers. The system focuses on recognizing movements when part of the user's hand is out of view of the tracker, including clapping, high-five, and crossed arms.
According to The Verge, the company plans to improve identification of a raised thumb in the future, according to The Verge. , pinching, grabbing and poking.
Google Lens visual search service learned how to work with text in images on Chrome PC.
User needs to hover cursor on the picture, right-click, click Find with Google Lens and choose an action in the command bar that opens.
Google Lens in the desktop version of Chrome. Data: Google.
The tool can highlight text in images, copy it, voice it and translate it. It also allows you to find the source of the image.
The function is available in Chrome version 100 for Windows, macOS and Chrome OS users.
Instagram's algorithms have learned to value more original content.
According to the head of the social network, Adam Mosseri, authors who create something from scratch should receive more recognition than users who take posts from other platforms like TikTok. Developers are adjusting content ranking tools to highlight authentic photos and videos.
Mosseri said that the company is already doing everything possible to predict the originality of content by algorithms, but there is no guarantee that the decisions made by the models are correct.
Gesture recognition has been added to the desktop version of Zoom.
The user just needs to raise their hand or thumb up to send the corresponding reaction to the interlocutors in the video conference.
The feature is available in the Zoom app version 5.10.3 on Mac and Windows. The option is disabled by default, but those who wish can activate it for each user, account or the entire group.
The British AI lab DeepMind presented a predictive optimal Chinchilla language model with 70 billion parameters. According to the company, the algorithm outperforms GPT-3, Gopher, Jurassic-1 and Megatron-Turing NLG in a wide range of tasks.
The developers said that Chinchilla has the same computing budget as DeepMind's previously created 280 billion parameter Gopher language model, but has four times the amount of data. The algorithm requires significantly less computation for fine-tuning and inference, which greatly simplifies further use, they added.
According to MMLU testing, Chinchilla achieves 67.5% average accuracy in prediction problems, which is 7% higher than Gopher.
Comparison of the performance of various language models. Data: DeepMind.
South Korean scientists proposed to build an experimental underwater city with its own data center. The $30 million project is designed for 5 years, and 80% of the cost of its creation will be covered by the state.
The concept of an underwater city. Data: KIOST.
The underwater settlement is being implemented by the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) with the support of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, as well as 23 other departments and private companies. The facility is planned to be located near the urban agglomeration of Ulsan.
The project involves the development of technologies and equipment for the analysis of the marine environment, construction using drones, the creation of underwater energy sources and communications, monitoring the health and safety of city residents.
The data center will help develop future underwater energy efficient and sustainable data centers. The researchers will also test the system for early warning of natural disasters and the use of the complex for underwater tourism. The creation of a separate hotel is being considered in the future.
A Lithuanian engineer has developed a drone with a Drone Interceptor network to intercept other drones.
The system is a high power-to-weight ratio quadcopter. The device can overtake a suspicious drone and conduct reconnaissance, transmitting video to the ground operator in real time.
If a potentially dangerous object needs to be shot down, the Drone Interceptor is placed under the target and, at the command of the pilot, disconnects all four propellers from the frame. Moving up, the propellers reveal a Kevlar net between themselves, which entangles and shoots down the enemy drone.
The main part of the quadrocopter, left without propellers, descends to the ground on a parachute, emitting a sound signal to simplify the search for operators.
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