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Birds.ai’s View Solar uses AI to analyze solar plants

January 13, 2021
Birds.ai, a Delft, Netherlands-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that specializes in visual inspections by “converting images into meaningful figures and numbers,” has debuted its newest product, View Solar, at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Solar AI Birds.ai’s unique solar platform creates a bird’s-eye view by analyzing visual and thermal aerial images from…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 12, 2021

January 13, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Watch Rivian’s Amazon van deliver packages, complete with terrible noisemaker

January 13, 2021
Rivian’s upcoming Amazon delivery van has been spotted in the wild in the LA area, seemingly being used in some sort of test capacity in the real world. It looks about as we expected it would, but one surprise stands out: a loud “pedestrian-warning” noisemaker which sounds about as unpleasant as our worst fears. Just last month Rivian’s van was spotted in prototype-form in Irvine, doing…
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Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model

January 13, 2021
Parameters are the key to machine learning algorithms. They’re the part of the model that’s learned from historical training data. Generally speaking, in the language domain, the correlation between the number of parameters and sophistication has held up remarkably well.
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What this bald eagle and neural network depiction have to do with future U.S. AI strategy

January 13, 2021
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today announced the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, an organization that will coordinate and oversee national AI policy initiatives for the United States government. “The Office is charged with overseeing and implementing the United States national AI strategy and will serve as the central hub for…
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GM’s BrightDrop to build delivery EVs, 500 FedEx trucks this year

January 13, 2021
The GM announcements keep coming at CES 2021 this year. Today GM CEO Mary Barra announced a new division called BrightDrop that would be building electric delivery vehicles and the technology to go along with it. Today General Motors announced BrightDrop, a new division and brand, which will offer an “ecosystem of electric first-to-last-mile products” for logistics companies. The first of…
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