Today on The AI Revolution:

• Revolutionary AI Technology Detects Lung Cancer Before Doctors Can - Saving Lives.

• Elon Musk's Top Secret AI Project Revealed - Poaching Experts from DeepMind to Join the Team.

• AI Talent War: Tech Giants Raid Stanford, MIT, and Cornell in Search of Top Minds.

• Changing Lives For The Blind: New AI Tool Provides Blind People With Greater Freedom.

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Promising new AI can detect early signs of lung cancer that doctors can’t see.

Artificial intelligence that can spot early indicators of the disease years before clinicians would find it on a CT scan is on the verge of being developed by researchers in Boston, who claim that it will represent a significant leap in the screening for lung cancer. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and the Mass General Cancer Center created Sybil, a novel AI tool. A person's likelihood of developing lung cancer in the upcoming year may be predicted with 86% to 94% accuracy, according to one study.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends that adults at risk for lung cancer get a low-dose CT scan to screen for the disease annually. But even with regular screening, the most skilled radiologist’s eye can’t spot everything — and that’s where Sybil comes in.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/promising-new-ai-can-detect-early-signs-lung-cancer-doctors-cant-see-rcna75982?ssp=1&darkschemeovr=1&setlang=en-US&safesearch=moderate

Tech companies are ransacking university AI programs at Stanford, MIT, and Cornell in search of rare talent.

Leading technology companies are aggressively recruiting talent from the artificial intelligence (AI) programs of top universities such as Stanford, MIT, and Cornell.

Companies are actively recruiting skilled AI workers and paying them highly competitive wages and signing incentives. These businesses use a variety of strategies to entice students, including sponsoring hackathons and providing internships.

In order to properly prepare students for the business, institutions may need to modify their curricula as they struggle to meet the need for AI talent.

• Firms such as Amazon, Apple, and Google are offering millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses to academics in a bid to fill skills gaps.

• This has led to increased concern over the "brain drain" from universities, particularly at a time when they are being urged to play a key role in developing the next generation of AI researchers.

• China and Europe are also hotspots for recruitment.

• AI talent has become a rare, one source told Insider that it's "probably the most competitive field out there" for talent right now.

The tech giants are now searching for talent far and wide, and university campuses have become a major hunting ground.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-raid-top-university-campuses-rare-artificial-intelligence-talent-2023-4

According to CBS News, Be My Eyes app is testing ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to analyze images and explain them to users who are blind

Exploring the unknown can be overwhelming if you are blind.

Danish phone app Be My Eyes is testing using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to analyze images and explain them to customers.

The app sends the photos to ChatGPT's image-to-text generator. Holten demonstrated how it works by taking a picture of a can of sardines. Then the app analyzed it and a voice from his phone described the image, saying, "Virtual volunteer: This is a picture of a can of John West sardines. The label is green and yellow and there is a wrinkle on the top of the can."

Source:

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/new-ai-tool-helping-the-blind/?ssp=1&darkschemeovr=1&setlang=en-US&safesearch=moderate

Elon Musk is secretly working on an artificial intelligence project at Twitter

The tech billionaire has already poached two researchers from leading AI research firm DeepMind, as well as invested in 10,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) for the company, sources told Insider.

The project reportedly involves developing a large language model similar to other generative AI technologies like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The move comes despite Mr Musk recently warning of the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence, claiming that they pose a “profound risk to society and humanity”.

The Twitter boss joined more than 1,000 notable tech figures and academics in signing an open letter calling on the development of AI systems like ChatGPT to be halted until the risks are properly understood.

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