Bots in Society

Cruise and General Motors on Tuesday announced they have entered a long-term strategic relationship with Microsoft to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles. The companies will bring together their software and hardware engineering, cloud computing capabilities, manufacturing know-how and partner ecosystem.

Mount Sinai researchers have published one of the first studies using a machine learning technique called “federated learning” to examine electronic health records to better predict how COVID-19 patients will progress. The study was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research – Medical Informatics on January 18.

Legal tech, according to Jeroen Zweers, vice president of the European Legal Tech Association (ELTA), is about a digital transformation, set in motion by customer demand. A transformation which frees up lawyers for complex cases and delivering self-services to clients. ‘For example, contracts can be automatically scaled from low to high risk. Only the high-risk contracts need to be reviewed by the legal department, which saves you a lot of time.’

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have developed a technique to more quickly analyze extensive data from Arctic ice sheets in order to gain insight and useful knowledge on patterns and trends.

Davantage de surveillance par drones, d’applications de terrain et de processus automatisés rythment les interventions de la Gendarmerie nationale, utilisatrice et contributrice d’outils libres.

Energy Systems Network (ESN) and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), organizers of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), unveiled at CES 2021 the official racecar that will be autonomously driven by scores of university teams in the world’s first high-speed, head-to-head autonomous race at the Racing Capital of the World on Oct. 23, 2021.

NEC has introduced a facial recognition system that identifies people even when they are wearing masks. The Japanese technology firm had already been working on this system to meet the needs of allergy sufferers who wear masks when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

La secrétaire d’État Hollandaise Mona Keijzer, chargée des affaires économiques et du climat, dirigera deux missions d’innovation virtuelle: une mission d’IA numérique en France et une mission au Japon numérique. L’objectif est de «mettre les entrepreneurs et les chercheurs néerlandais en mesure de se développer à l’international grâce à leurs innovations numériques et de capitaliser sur les opportunités économiques du marché mondial».

A Tesla-vlogger has posted a video showing him driving a Tesla Model 3 from San Francisco to Los Angeles on the FSD Autopilot Beta. For most of the trip, the autopilot seems to be in control, although the human in the loop has to intervene at least once because of debris on the road in Los Angeles.  

By unanimous vote of the Heads of Delegations of the Member States, ALLAI was accepted as Observer to the CAHAI, the Council of Europe’s Ad-hoc Committee on AI.