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Solar Panels Can Now Be Printed Like Newspaper

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A futuristic demonstration of emerging renewable energy material – printed solar cells, is being trialled in a public setting for the first time as it nears commercial readiness.

 

Creator of the organic printed solar material, Physicist Professor Paul Dastoor from the Faculty of Science said his team were excited to take their ‘science to the streets’ in what represented significant progress toward commercial availability of the material. “Globally, there’s been so few of these installations, we know very little about how they perform in a public setting. This installation is the next critical step in accelerating the development and commercialization of this technology. It presents a new scenario for us to test performance and durability against a range of new challenges,” said Professor Dastoor.

 

Read the full article at: www.newcastle.edu.au

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Here’s how airlines have started using AI

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“The travel industry is going all in on artificial intelligence. Here’s the latest way airlines are utilizing AI …”

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It’s in your inbox, your dating apps, the wine you drink and now even the cockpit on the aircraft that you fly on.

Sort of. But first, a little context.

In September 2022, Air New Zealand launched its first direct flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to New Zealand’s Auckland International Airport. The new route — 17 hours and 35 minutes long — was to be the third-longest flight in the world.

Read the full article at: www.insidehook.com

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AI-powered EDGE Dance Animator Applies Generative AI to Choreography

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Stanford University researchers have developed a generative AI model that can choreograph human dance animation to match any piece of music. It’s called Editable Dance GEneration (EDGE).

 

“EDGE shows that AI-enabled characters can bring a level of musicality and artistry to dance animation that was not possible before,” says Karen Liu, a professor of computer science who led a team that included two student collaborators, Jonathan Tseng and Rodrigo Castellon, in her lab. The researchers believe that the tool will help choreographers design sequences and communicate their ideas to live dancers by visualizing 3D dance sequences. Key to the program’s advanced capabilities is editability. Liu imagines that EDGE could be used to create computer-animated dance sequences by allowing animators to intuitively edit any parts of dance motion.

 

For example, the animator can design specific leg movements of the character, and EDGE will “auto-complete” the entire body from that positioning in a way that is realistic, seamless, and physically plausible as well — a human could complete the moves. Above all, the moves are consistent with the animator’s choice of music. Like other generative models for images and text — ChatGPT and DALL-E, for instance — EDGE represents a new tool for choreographic idea generation and movement planning.

 

The editability means that dance artists and choreographers can iteratively refine their sequences move by move, position by position, adding specific poses at precise moments. EDGE then incorporates the additional details into the sequence automatically. In the near future, EDGE will allow users to input their own music and even demonstrate the moves themselves in front of a camera. “We think it’s a really a fun and engaging way for everyone, not just dancers, to express themselves through movement and tap into their own creativity,” Liu says.

Read the full article at: hai.stanford.edu

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AI science search engines are exploding in number — are they any good?

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  • 17 April 2023
Several search tools claim to help researchers do science.

 

As large language models (LLMs) gallop ever onwards — including GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest incarnation of the technology behind ChatGPT — scientists are beginning to make use of their power. The explosion of tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) includes several search engines that aim to make it easier for researchers to grasp seminal scientific papers or summarize a field’s major findings. Their developers claim the apps will democratize and streamline access to research.

But some tools need more refinement before researchers can use them to help their studies, say scientists who have experimented with them. Clémentine Fourrier is a Paris-based researcher who evaluates LLMs at Hugging Face, a company in New York City that develops open-source AI platforms. She used an AI search engine called Elicit, which uses an LLM to craft its answers, to help find papers for her PhD thesis. Elicit searches papers in the Semantic Scholar database ad identifies the top studies by comparing the papers’ titles and abstracts with the search question.

Read the full article at: www.nature.com

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Auto-GPT, BabyAGI, and AgentGPT: How to use AI agents

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Have you heard? ChatGPT is yesterday’s news, now it’s all about AI agents.

Applications like Auto-GPT, AgentGPT, BabyAGI, and GodMode are building on OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs) to automate tasks using ChatGPT. Creating a project with ChatGPT requires a prompt for every new step, but with AI agents, all you need to do is give it an overarching goal, and let it get to work.

Read the full article at: mashable.com

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