Climatologists: July’s Intense Heat Matches Predictions
Widespread summer heatwaves like those currently baking the Northern Hemisphere, with temperatures soaring above 110 degrees Fahrenheit simultaneously in North America, Asia, and Europe, will be common in just a few decades unless greenhouse gas emissions are immediately curtailed, an international team of scientists said Monday. If global warming reaches 2° Celsius above the pre-fossil
MIT’s Liquid Neural Networks: The Solution to AI Problems in Robotics and Self-Driving Cars
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here In the current artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, the buzz around large language models (LLMs) has led to a race toward creating increasingly larger neural networks. However, not every application can support the computational and memory demands of very large deep
A Simple Guide to Understanding the Functioning of AI’s Large Language Models
When ChatGPT was introduced last fall, it sent shockwaves through the technology industry and the larger world. Machine learning researchers had been experimenting with large language models (LLMs) for a few years by that point, but the general public had not been paying close attention and didn’t realize how powerful they had become. Today, almost
DeepMind Introduces RT-2: A Revolutionary AI Enhancing Robot Intelligence
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Google’s DeepMind has announced Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2), a first-of-its-kind vision-language-action (VLA) model that can enable robots to perform novel tasks without specific training. Just like how language models learn general ideas and concepts from web-scale data, RT-2 uses text
Dinosaurs: Unveiling the Evolution of Bone-Based Breathing
Somewhere in Earth’s past, some branches on the tree of life adopted a body plan that made breathing and cooling down considerably more efficient than how mammalian bodies like ours do it. This development might not seem like much on the surface, until you consider that it may have ultimately enabled some of the largest
Itseez3D Unveils Avatar SDK Deep Fake Detector to Enhance User Identity Protection
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Digital identity and 3D graphics company Itseez3D today announced the launch of Avatar SDK, a deep fake detector platform that aims to enable businesses to fortify user security and bolster application integrity. In response to the increasing prevalence of synthetic avatars and deepfake
Adobe Product Leader Assures Employees: AI Will Not Eliminate Graphic Design Concerns
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Scott Belsky, chief product officer of Adobe, told VentureBeat on X-formerly-known-as-Twitter yesterday that while some industries “may not need to exist in the age of AI,” graphic designers will continue to flourish. His comments come following a report by Business
European Satellite Makes Unprecedented Assisted Re-Entry, Plunges Back to Earth
The European Space Agency deftly guided one of its satellites toward a fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere Friday, demonstrating a new method of post-mission disposal to ensure the spacecraft would not fall into any populated areas. The Aeolus satellite was relatively modest in size and mass—about 1.1 metric tons with its fuel tank empty—but ESA
Surge in Tick-Induced Meat Allergy Leaves US Doctors Clueless
A little over a decade ago, researchers discovered that bites from lone star ticks could cause some people to develop a food allergy to meat and meat products—an allergic condition called alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), which can vary from mild to life-threatening. The condition is named after a carbohydrate called galactose-α-1,3-galactose (aka alpha-gal), which is commonly
Protect AI Secures $35M Funding to Scale Up AI and Machine Learning Security Platform
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Protect AI, an AI and machine learning (ML) security company, announced it has successfully raised $35 million in a series A funding round. Evolution Equity Partners led the round and saw participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures
