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Peppercorn AI Interview – Guiding customers through the purchase process
Posted in Business on 3rd Jul, 2023
by Alex Muller
Lombard founded Peppercorn in 2020 and it has gone on to secure £1.8m in seed funding. He previously founded two other insurtech companies: Hedgehog and Drivology.
Researchers can now 3D-model a room just from your eye reflections
Posted in Science, Software on 28th Jun, 2023
by Alex Muller
Researchers demonstrate how they're able to take multiple high-definition images of a person moving around a room, then zoom in to look at reflections in their corneas, flip them, remove color and detail the irises might be adding, treat them to remove the curved-mirror distortion, and use them to create 3D images.
AI Scaling Laws Guide Building to Superhuman Level AI
Posted in Business, Hardware, Science on 26th May, 2023
by Alex Muller
Cerebras has confirmed the transferability of scaling laws to tasks. This enables to determine how much compute and training is needed to achieve human or super human level performance. This also enables to design and load adequate AI performance into an iPhone, a laptop or an edge computing device.
Scans That Are 64 Million Times Clearer Give A New Look At The Brain
Posted in Medicine, Science on 18th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
The researchers believe that this level of detailed imaging will enable greater understanding of how brains change with age, diet and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Surgeons Are Simulating Whole Brains To Pin Down The Source Of Their Patients' Seizures
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 12th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
A decade ago, the Human Brain Project launched with a blue-sky goal: digitizing a human brain. The implications were huge: simulated brains could provide crucial clues to help crack some of the most troubling neurological diseases.