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කෘතිම බුද්ධියෙන් පණ ගැන්වෙන නවතම ශීතකරණ

අද වෙනකොට Artificial Intelligence කියන්නෙ හැමෝම වගේ දන්න කතාබහට ලක්වෙන කාරණාවක් බවට පත්වෙලා තියෙන දෙයක්. ඉතින් මේ වෙනකොට Artificial Intelligence විවිධ ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් වලදී විවිධ වූ කාර්යයන් වලට පාවිච්චි වන අංගයක් විදියට අපි එදිනෙදා ගෙදර පාවිච්චි කරන උපකරණ වලටද මේක ආගමනය වෙලා තියෙනවා. අද මම මේ ලිපියෙන් කියන්න යන්නේ ඒ වගේ අලුතෙන්ම එන නිශ්පාදනයක් ගැන. අද ගෙදරකට නැතිවම බැරි අංගයක් වෙලා තියෙන ශීතකරණ තමා මේ විදියට කෘතිම බුද්ධිය සමගින් කරලියට එන්නෙ.

තාක්ෂණික ලොව දැවැන්ත ආයතනයන් වන Samsung සහ LG ආයතන තමා මේ Artificial Intelligence හැකියාවන් සහිතව එන ශීතකරණ ගැන තොරතුරු ඉදිරිපත් කරලා තියෙන්නේ. Samsung Family Hub refrigerator සහ LG InstaView ThinQ fridge කියන නාමයන්ගෙන් එන ශීතකරණ තමා AI හැකියාවන් සමගින් ඉදිරියේදි වෙළදපලට එන්නේ. දැනට සදහන් වන තොරතුරු වලට අනුව මේ ශීතකරණ වලට හැකියාව තියෙනවා කෑම හදුනාගන්න. AI-equipped cameras වලින් තමා ශීතකරණයට මේ හැකියාවන් ලබාදීලා තියෙන්නෙ.

කෘතීම බුද්ධිය සහිත ශීතකරණ වල විශේෂතා

inside of AI-powered fridge

ශීතකරණය ඇතුලෙ තියෙන කෑම වර්ග ගැන විස්තර වගේම මොන මොන කෑම වර්ගද අඩුපාඩු තියෙන්නෙ කියලත් විස්තර ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමේ හැකියාවක් තියෙනවා මේ ශීතකරණ වලට. ඒ වගේම ඇතුලෙ අඩංගු වන ද්‍රව්‍යන්ගෙන් හදාගන්න පුලුවන් කෑම පිළිබදව යෝජනා කරන්නත් මේවාට හැකියාව තියෙනවා. CES2020 කියන Global innovation summit එකේදි තමා මේවා ඉදිරිපත් වීමට නියමිතව තියෙන්නේ. CES (Consumer Technology Association) කියන්නේ ලෝකෙම ඉන්න නව නිර්මාණකරුවන්ට ඔවුන්ගේ නව නිර්මාණ ඉදිරිපත් කරන්න පුලුවන් වේදිකාවක්.

මේ ශීතකරණ පාවිච්චි කරන පරිශීලකයින්ට ඔවුන්ගේ ශීතකරණයේ තියෙන්නෙ මොනාද කියලා තමන්ගේ smartphone එකෙන් බලාගැනීමේ හැකියාව තියෙනවා. මේක වැදගත් වෙන්නෙ සුපිරි වෙළදසැලකට වගේ ගිය වෙලාවට දුරකතනයෙන් බලලා අවශ්‍ය ද්‍රව්‍ය විතරක් ගන්න පුලුවන් වගේ කාරණා නිසා. ඒ වගේම විවිධ නිර්දේශයන්ද සිදු කරන නිසා වැඩේ තවත් ලේසි වෙනවා.

AI powered fridge

ඉදිරියේදී සිදුවන වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම්

තවදුරටත් මේක ගැන සදහන් වෙන කාරණයක් තමා ඉදිරි software upgrades වලදි ආහාර වේල් සැලසුම් කිරීමේ හැකියාව මේකට ඇතුලත් වෙනවා කියන එක. Samsung ආයතනය මෑතකදී මිලදී ගත්ත Whisk කියන food startup එකේ උදවුවෙන් තමා මේක සිදුකරනවා කියලා සදහන් වෙන්නෙ. Whisk මගින් පරිශීලකයන්ට සතියකට ඔවුන්ගේ ආහාර වේල් සැලසුම් කරලා තියන්න පුලුවන් වගේම ඒකට හරියන විදියට විවිධ අහාර වට්ටෝරු වලට අනුව බඩු ලැයිස්තු හදලා දෙන්නත් ඒකට හැකියාව තියෙනවා. ඒ වගේම විශාල built-in touchscreen එක video clips නැරඹීමේ හැකියාව, Samsung TV සහ Phones mirror කිරීමේ හැකියාවෙනුත් සමන්විත වෙනවා.

මේ ශීතකරණ වල මිල ගණන් හරියටම තාම ඉදිරිපත් වෙලා නැතිවුනත් $4,500 – $6,000 අතර මිලවෙයි කියලා තමා අන්තර්ජාලයේ සදහන් වෙන්නේ. ඉතින් මේ සංකල්පය හොදයිද නැද්ද කියලා තීරණය කරන එකේ අයිතිය ඔයාලට තියෙනවා, කොහොම වුනත් ආහාර වට්ටෝරු බලාගැනීමේ හැකියාව, නිර්දේශ කිරීම් හා යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම් වගේ දේවල් වලින් අපේ එදිනෙදා වැඩ තව ටිකක් ලේසි වෙන්නත් පුලුවන් වගේම කාලය ඉතිරි කරගන්න එක සහ අනවශ්‍ය අපතේයාම් අඩුකරගන්නත් පුලුවන්කම ලැබෙයි.මම හිතනවා මේ ලිපියෙන් වැදගත් කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් වුනා කියලා ඉතින් මේ වගේ ලිපියකින් ඉදිරියේදී හමුවෙමු.

Meet Sophia the Robot

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The field of robotics is invading the world, representing the intersection of humanity and technology. Robots can now perform complicated delicate movements with elegance. With the intuitive idea that technology can enhance humanity, this intersection will help to actualize the higher states of being.

Humanoid robots are robots which resemble the human body, possess a great demand nowadays. Sophia; activated on February 14th 2016, is among these well reputed humanoid robots. It is a social humanoid robot developed at a small research and design laboratory by a Hong Kong-based company, Hanson Robotics. “She is a tool for science in studying human to human interaction, and she’s now a platform for allowing AI to express natural-like human emotional state(s), which is something we’re developing. True emotive AI,” says Hanson.

 

One of it’s most significant features is the ability to exhibit more than 50 facial expressions. Not only she can represent a number of emotional states, but she can also see emotional expressions on a human face as well.

The creator of Sophia, Hanson says it has simulations of every major muscle in the human face, which help in generating expressions of joy, grief, curiosity, confusion, contemplation, sorrow, frustration, among other feelings.

Since Sophia’s first public appearance at South by Southwest Festival(SXSW) in mid-March 2016 in Texas, United States, it has become a cultural icon. Sophia has been covered by media around the globe and has participated in many high-profile interviews. She also has made way across late night, graced the covers of magazines, headlined major tech conferences and even delivered a speech to the United Nations, about issues ranging from artificial intelligence to the role of robots. Sophia became the first non-human to be given any United Nations title and was awarded the United Nations Development Programme‘s first-ever Innovation Champion in November 2017. She was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship and became the first robot to have a nationality.

 

 

 

 

“I don’t know what it is about Sophia, that speaks to people, but I hope that we can develop our AI and robots in a way that makes a deep emotional connection,” said Hanson.

 

AI Experts, Elon Musk Want UN Ban On AI Military Weapons

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Now more than ever, with the advancement of technology, life has been given the possibility to flourish or to lead towards self-destruct. It is up to us to make the difference.

CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk and leading many other tech industry figures and researchers have signed an open letter to the United Nations insisting to regulate the use of AI in building autonomous weapons.

The Open Letter by Future of Life Institute backed by 116 signees including Elon Musk and Alphabet’s Mustafa Suleyman raises awareness how Artificial Intelligence and Robotics may be repurposed to develop autonomous weapons causing destruction to life.

Autonomous weaponry refers to using Artificial Intelligence to target locations to attack, or avoiding from such an attack.Used in applications such as AI driven, drone weaponry systems that independently analyze the surroundings and attack when seeing a specified target. If such technology is fallen into the hands of wrong people, it will cause a massive destruction.

As stated in the letter:

Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare. Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend. These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways.

In previous instances, professionals have warned that deployment of autonomous weapons will be achievable within years, rather than in decades. Even though with the help of AI, could reduce casualties among human soldiers – at least in the most powerful and advanced nations but the risk to civilians is still high.  

The industry experts and researchers had called for lethal autonomous weapons to be included in the list of banned weapons under the UN’s convention on certain conventional weapons (CCW) brought into force in 1983. It consists of chemical and intentionally blinding laser weapons.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has warned on many occasions about taking proactive measures for regulation of AI :

“ by the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it’s too late ”.

Once he also stated that AI is one of the existential threats to the human race.

Looking at the continuous development achieved by AI, AlphaGo winning against world’s best human Go player, AlphaGo Zero defeating a world champion program, the Sea Hunter US’s autonomous warship built by Vigor Industrial, it is high time for humans to decide on the future of AI.

 

AI creates fictional scenes out of real-life photos

With the advent of AI technology, self-driving cars, facial recognition and speech recognition are some of the adaptations that people make use of, in their day to day life. Presently AI is on its way to build photorealistic worlds on its own.

In the research carried out by Researcher Qifeng Chen of Stanford and Intel, 5000 photos from German streets were fed into the AI system. This was a Tensorflow implementation of cascaded refinement networks. With a small amount of human help AI system was able to build slightly blurry recreated scenes. The video above is a result of the research carried out.

In order to create an image using the AI system, humans have to enter details of what object goes where. For example, place a car there, place a tree here, put a building along to the right. It is sketched in numbers and the system manages to create an utterly unique scene based upon the input. In other words, when a semantic label map is input into the system, AI produces photographic images that conforms to the input layout.

 

Based on the paper “Photographic Image Synthesis with Cascaded Refinement Networks” presented at International Conference on Computer Vision, the system thus behaves as a rendering engine that takes a 2D semantic description and produces a corresponding image.

AI Model is a convolutional network, trained based on supervised learning on pairs of photographs and corresponding semantic layouts. The images that were synthesized, seamlessly scaled up to a resolution of 2 megapixels (1024×2048).

Even though AI is not able to create paintings to approach photorealism as highly trained craftsmen, these experiments have proved that artificial systems have the ability to synthesize an image that looks like a photograph based on a given novel semantic layout.  

iOS 11 – With powerful new features to your iPhone and iPad

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Recently, Apple introduced a major update to their mobile operating system to bring better user experience. This is the biggest software release ever for iPhone and iPad with so many powerful features. iOS 11 brings a better way to access your iPad with Apple pencil.  And It will provide unrivaled augmented reality experience to their users.

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Microsoft aims to make Artificial Intelligence mainstream

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Microsoft went huge on Artificial Intelligence as they revealed the new AI integrated tools at Microsoft Build on Wednesday, the 10th of May.

The Technology Giant unveiled their vision, how AI driven tools can be incorporated into people’s day to day activities to make people’s lives smarter, efficient and improve wellbeing.

Microsoft research runs deep into areas of machine learning, speech recognition, image recognition and hand gesture recognition.

Microsoft executive vice president of artificial intelligence and research Harry Shum stated, “We are infusing AI into every product and service we offer. We’ve been creating the building blocks for the current wave of AI breakthroughs for more than two decades.”He also pointed out that now they are on the verge of using those research breakthroughs.

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AI-equipped Apple Watch can detect the signs of a stroke

Apple AI watch

Apple has initiated the task of saving human lives through its AI-equipped Apple watch. A group of researchers from the University of San Francisco and Heart Health App Cardiogram have identified that the AI-equipped Apple watch can be used to detect unusual heart rhythms (strokes) such as arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation(AF) with 97 percent accuracy and 98 percent sensitivity.

Apple AI watch

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